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Dixon Sun in Dixon, Illinois

27 Jun 1888

Page 6

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Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 27, 1888

Page

6

Third Day Devotion to Nominees at National Republican Convention

The June 22 1888 Chicago session of the National Republican Convention featured a full roll call of states for presidential candidates. Walter Q. Gresham, Gen. Benjamin Harrison, William B Allison and others drew cheers as Indiana and Iowa allies argued for their preferred leaders. Delegates urged unity and named Gen. Russell A Alger, Chauncey M Depew, and others as contenders while the platform was adopted amid applause.

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Chicago Estee Thomas E. Green McKinley Committee On Resolutions United States Republican Party Democratic Party Congress Cleveland Democratic House of Representatives Marine Maryland Alabama Arkansas California Creed Haymond Col. Haymond Colorado Connecticut Warner Joseph R. Hawley Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Leonard Swett Walter Q. Gresham Davis Minnesota Gresham Messrs. Lynch Mississippi McCall Massachusetts Rector Texas Judge Gresham Indiana Harrison Dick Thompson Republican Party of Albert G. Porter Porter Roscoe Conkling New York Benjamin Harrison Terrill Gallinger New Hampshire Iowa Henderson Gen. Henderson Hepburn Owa Allison William B. Allison Bosworth Rhode Island Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Michigan Alger Harr Robert E. Frazer Detroit Frazier Russell A. Alger Gen. Alger Nebraska Estes North Carolina Gen Eggers Arizona Territory Hiscock Chauncey M. Depew Empire State Iigowonet D. H. Hastings Pennsylvania John Shermen Ohio Langston Virginia Anson Sherman Chas. E. Smith Edwin H. Hitler Philadelphia South Nigery Vermont Wisconsin Spooner Guv, Rusk Warner Miller
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Stories of Scotch Miners and Superstitions

Tales from Scottish mines recount eerie beliefs and accidents. A miner recalls a blast causing a burned worker and a rescuer carrying him home. Families feared a banshee called Uncle Harry, while a goat's burial by a windlass sparked ghost rumors. Superstitions extended to encounters with injured miners and barefoot women.

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Shettleston Harry Burgh Rodgers Barney Johnnie
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Republican Party Platform on Liberty and Union

A comprehensive Republican platform pledges loyalty to Lincoln and later leaders, supports emancipation abroad, home rule in Ireland, and strong constitutional rights. It defends free ballots, calls for protective tariffs, opposes foreign labor, endorses coinage with gold and silver, and urges navy funding, internal improvements, and a robust merchant marine. It criticizes Democratic policy and champion’s American sovereignty and education.

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Ono Abraham Lincoln Grant Garfield Arthur Logan Conkling The Republic Philip H. Sheridan Republican Party Brazil Ireland Congress United States Europe America Whisky Ring Party New Mexico Wyoming Idaho Arizona Mormon Church Atlantic Gulf and Pacific States Senate Central America Nicaragua Canal Central South America Pacific Pacific Ocean
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Finger Tip Reform at Washington Manicurists

Report from the Washington scene notes a high fashion for manicures among French Legation staff and other men. An Armenian critic recalls the French art of care for hands as a patriotic preference with a thriving, masculine clientele and a salon smoking room宴.

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A Child's Dream of a Star

A Louisville lady explains astronomy to children describing star distances and sizes. A boy wishes to live on a star and imagines perched on a star’s point tilting as if aboard a teetering world.

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Decadence of Poetry in American Magazine View

The piece argues the age’s spirit may or may not be capturable in poetry. It blames poets if representation fails and questions whether life can be rendered poetically. The piece calls for recognizing limitations and ceasing unavailing rhymes.

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