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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1872
Page
6
A nostalgic verse recalling a bashful boy and his childhood playmate as spring blossoms, birdsong, and memories of days when she left home to join others. The speaker longs for the girl who shared her father's kine and wonders if she remembers him.
A rural column offers seasonal advice on orchard care with soap washes, repairs, and pruning. It discusses duck growth, economical barn baskets, winter manure spreading benefits, and top-dressing. It highlights women at farmers clubs in Damascus and notes farming fluctuations and the advantage of a steady, diversified approach.
A period guide provides household tips on glove cleaning with milk and soap, potato cooking method, warm plant watering, and recipes for wild duck, mutton pot pie, and general kitchen practices. It covers glove restoration, proper boiling, and slow cook processes to tenderize meat and enhance flavor.
The Prairie Farmer notes a farmer who balances gains from hops with the welfare of others. For twenty years he has cultivated hops and, in good years, has earned a small fortune while also benefiting the poor, who gain little loss from his bounty.
Dr. John Rae recounts a striking vaccination example from forty years ago. Smallpox spread across prairie regions via horse stealing raiders, yet the Cree people largely escaped with only two deaths after vaccination by the Hudson's Bay Company officer.
A Tur 1871 death record from Pennsylvania coal country shows 272 miners killed and 622 seriously injured. Schuylkill County bears the heaviest losses with one death per 50 000 tons mined, highlighting weak enforcement of ventilation safeguards.
Hartford Times recounts a long case in which a misused hotel safe led to a $560 deposit being mistaken for $15,000. A forged check and a confederate swindled the depositor, with the pair likely sharing the stolen funds. The return of the original package from Boston exposed the scam and the note signed "Howard" calls the culprit a conscientious scoundrel.
In a Washington letter from Miss Grundy of the New York Word, Mrs Carl Schurz fondly recalls her husband’s journey from not speaking English in 186? to standing on the Senate floor. She notes his early struggle and later pride as he fulfilled the dream with eloquence.
Report details a sophisticated confidence scheme where two dressed women rent rooms in elite areas to target stores. They buy lace or costly goods and have them sent to their rooms. One woman distracts the porter while the other escapes, sometimes using a male disguise to vanish, leaving the porter with nothing to deliver.
Judge C Tastings of San Francisco owned land at Maine Prairie with many stock pastures. He trusted Storm Signal Bureau predictions and sent orders to his son to move stock to high ground hours before a severe storm. The evacuation succeeded just as Sacramento waters burst over the marsh to depths of five to six feet.
The Swiss Times reports a Nice to Grasse line crash near Antibes when a bridge over the Brague collapsed after flood. Twelve people died on site including the engine driver and fireman. the engine and several cars plunged into the torrent, with one carriage hanging over the abyss and a drowning woman seen at sea.
In Port Logan Wigtonshire a rock amphitheatre pond houses tame codfish owned by McDougall. Buckland describes daily feeding with muscles and fish willingly letting him stroke and even have a muscle as bait. The proprietor uses the pond as a steady source of superior table fare from stocked codfish.
A Petersburg firm ships affordable English classics including Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, and Trollope with Russian titles. Translations appear with odd names such as Bleak House as A Cold Lodging and Peveril of the Peak as The Puritans, while Bob Roy is altered to Bob the King due to translator quirks.
A Vermont youth who read in bed by kerosene light ignored warnings and tipped the lamp onto the bed. His mother found the scene next morning, the lamp destroying a patchwork quilt she made at eleven weeks old while the boy slept.
On Thursday Mr Bringham of Baltimore street unearthed a buried wooden box of gold and silver coins worth 7000 while digging up vegetables in his cellar. The discovery follows his recent inheritance and a lottery prize. he owns the house, bought last May.
Last spring a cornice from a new Fort Wayne building crushed William Grove's skull. Grove sues the city for 20000 dollars in damages claiming unsafe construction and maintenance led to the injury.
A compilation of brief items from diverse places and times. Notes include editors in Paris, a small Vicksburg steamboat, flying squirrels in Wisconsin, a schoolteacher in Maryland, a printer from Iowa, a mysterious half crop peach nut, twins and triplets in Wisconsin, a pig with eight feet in Des Moines, and engineers surveying a bridge over the Ohio at Jeffersonville. Additional tidbits cover a $800 lost diamond pin in New York, Yale’s Chinese student hopes, a whiskey diet death in Dubuque, Pompeii’s reception for Sherman, a tobacco-chewing dog in Portsmouth, a self-sacrificing journalist in Indianapolis, a giant cave in Wisconsin, a Boston whiskey theft method, a railroad pass photo safeguard, and a Kalamazoo church collection riddle.
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