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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1882
Page
3
A reflective lament poem by Caroline St. Orne presented in Youth's Companion. The speaker mourns a lost loved one, recalls shared days, and searches for guidance from angel voices. Themes of memory, faith, and longing frame the bereavement atmosphere.
Mamie Wells guards four thousand five hundred dollars for minor heirs after Harry sails to Scranton. A nocturnal intruder seeks the money, but Mamie and servant Sarah trap him in the attic. Masked riders arrive. the tramp reveals Harry Wells is the killer.
A humorous sketch describing Iceland's location in the Arctic, population, honesty, volcanoes, and geysers. It jokes about scurvy, polar voyages, hamlet misquotes, reindeer sled travel, skating, and Icelandic women, ending with a Saturday Night note.
A collage of remarks on books and critics, financiers, and society figures. Thomas McElrath marks his golden wedding at the New York Tribune. Mrs. Vanderbilt, the wealthiest unmarried woman, receives dozens to thousands of proposals.
Jehiel Jasper visits a rural store and Post Office to read the newspaper but clashes with a postmaster over subscriber access. He rails at government orders that bar non-subscribers from reading papers, claiming a conspiracy to keep the public ignorant. He resents subscription costs and departs claiming oppression.
A collage of lighthearted lines from Philadelphia to Norristown recounts exam gags about coal dealers sons, icy sidewalks stumps, and paper‑dynamite jokes. Eyewitnesses describe mishaps at a Paris wedding dinner, a stern Paris courtroom exchange, and a New York clergyman’s marriage quip drawing mixed reactions.
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