This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 23 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1872
Page
4
A cautionary tale shows three artless boys rolling a snowball from a hill, crushing fences and crops as it grows ever larger. The ball careens toward the ocean, leaving the boys lost and their cottage empty, yielding the moral that mischief ends sadly.
A doll wedding invites a dozen girls and their dolls to a cold outdoor ceremony. The wax Bride wears Swiss muslin and a lace veil while the Groom, in black velvet, sits propped and partially footless. guests wear varied outfits as a doll doctor repairs a smashed face with muslin and ink.
A playful tale describes a cat named Dot who obediently followed commands, contrasting the animal’s responsiveness with the behavior of the children in the family.
Around a winter fire Dot the cat sits with her master. She grows dirty in frosty weather and is washed with her paw. She resists then returns to wash thoroughly except her face. After being gently wiped, Dot covers her face and sleepends.
On the 29th of last July Charles Pitman a ten year old boy from Skowhegan Maine later North Beverly Massachusetts attempted to blow a cherry stone through a hollow elder stick. The pin pierced the stone and sucked into his lung causing a long cough and eventual whisper through a neck tube after surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He pulled the pin and stone from the tube last Monday night and his health has improved since.
Gossip in Lippincott's Magazine narrates Pat Lyon of Philadelphia, the cheerful blacksmith who inspired Neagle’s early success with a full length portrait painted in 1826 after his marriage. Lyon’s arrest for alleged robbery is noted, and he requested a Bastille view to appear in the painting.
Des Moines reports Mr. Strong of the Irwin troupe narrowly escaped disaster during a Shelbar Missouri ascent. A misstep by rope handlers left him hanging by his legs and tethered to a woman he grabbed to steady the rising balloon. He stabilized, completed the descent, and Safely landed with cheers.
In Pittsburgh a street car ignored warnings at the Try crossing with the Pittsburg Cincinnati and St. Louis railway. The Columbus mail train approached from the West and struck the car, lifting it on the cow catcher and dragging it about a hundred feet. The car was crushed into fragments. eight passengers, seven men and one woman, were aboard with only two slightly injured. The train was moving four miles an hour at impact. horse teams bolted after the crash.
A jovial Dutch grocer Hans Von Shrimpenifiel keeps chalk ledgers on his bed headboard for customers who buy on credit. His wife wipes the chalk away, wiping out debts. he rebuts that he has restored the figures but added better names for the unpaid accounts.
An experienced New York street car conductor writes an exposé on widespread theft among street car employees. Conductors earn about $2 daily and divide weekly $15 with driver and others or be disadvantaged. paying $20 to $50 to the supervisor secures a position. Foremen skim wages from drivers. honest conductors are quickly ousted. Holidays bring higher theft, but overall main lines yield large dividends with no stock available.
Twenty two clergymen met for a political convocation on the Isle of Man at century's end. Forty four bottles of claret were consumed as they debated a dry subject. Parson Jack claimed the bishop meant two bottles per man, insisting he was a six bottle man.
Charles Scribner & Co. of New York issue a new volume titled The Wonders of Vegetation in the Illustrated Library of Wonders. The nearly three hundred page book aims to introduce botany with selections on remarkable plants and phenomena, claiming scientific accuracy and up to date content.
A gigantic sea creature discovered off Brazil reportedly measures over fifty feet long with a seven foot diameter. Its mouth could fit a person, and its description fits the legendary fish that swallowed the prophet Jonah though no authentic dating or memos accompany the claim. It is described as neither a shark nor a whale.
Hiram Bacon sold his century farm four miles northeast of Indianapolis for 43700 dollars after fifty years of labor. He transformed 340 acres from green timber with no markets for decades, hauling grain to the Ohio River and driving hogs to Cincinnati or Detroit. He now plans to enjoy a comfortable competency from his life work.
Andrew Avuison a 60 year old bachelor residing near Ma comb Illinois committed death by own action by cutting his throat on Monday last. He held property valued at 125000 dollars.
A massive London celebration for the Prince of Wales recovery drew millions, with a royal procession from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul’s. The day featured a 30,000-strong choir, Te Deum by the Archbishop, grand arches, American flags, miles of decorations, and substantial crowds, though some accidents and fatalities occurred along the route.
The Gen Banks sails from Boston to Savannah laden with guano. A fierce gale from Feb 19 to 20 tears the ship. mate Silas S. Stokes is washed overboard. Crew pumps frantically as decks flood. ship sinks. They are saved by the brig Sarah Crowell from Nova Scotia. Gen Banks owned by Latham Loud & Co. of Boston.
A London study compares drinking water from major suppliers with sewage infiltrated ground and with water from fifty condemned shallow wells. Only ten wells exceed the impurity level of three principal companies, and two firms provide nearly pure water, while the worst sources serve the most consumers.
A lobster described as as scarlet as a lobster was recently caught in a tunnel at Dayton Nevada with bold coloring and unusual location noted in a brief local report.
A collage of brief items from across the era includes a Petersburg woman’s lottery distress, almond blossoms in California signaling good crops, a prowling lion near San Jose, a New York postmaster denying posting papers, and Louisville’s city debt totaling 6,153,500 dollars. Other notes cover steamship fares, a moss tombstone in St. Louis, a Philadelphia rowing bet, a Geneva comet promise, a Lawrence canary seeking its mistress, a Springfield marriage of a seventh husband, Astor wealth claims, Fatty Harris jailed, a Michigan murder inquiry, a boy’s theft and self harm, a Erie woman’s fraud attempt, a congressional relief bill, and a tale of vanished bonds ruined by rats.
At a conference meeting in Canada several Methodist ministers debated William Steer's preaching. Pastor Scott rested on a sofa and quipped that Steer will never become a Knox, implying he lacks strong preaching authority.
A Tennessee woman's paper specifies annual terms with three dollars for men, one fifty for unmar ried workingwomen, and seventy five cents for women with lazy husbands to support.
Colonel Warner of New Orleans shows an egg with three yolks laid on an editor’s table. The egg measures seven and a quarter inches long and six inches in circumference.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.