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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1882
Page
2
A wily freshman, small in stature but bold in resolve, outsmarts and defeats a posse of sophomores who plan a brutal prank. Employing a hired enforcer, he causes a chaotic showdown in darkness, leaving the bruised sophomores battered and humbled.
Cairo correspondent notes Maspero's official report on royal mummies at Thebes and major discoveries near Sakkara and Kom el Hamadra. New stela from Kom el Hamada reveals Canopus Decree and Berenice as deified queen, linking to Rosetta Stone history. Two VI Dynasty tombs show early true arches, and Maydoom pyramid entrance is opened with corridor work ongoing. Demotic writing hailed as key to ancient law alongside hieroglyphic studies.
A Louisville baby, pronounced dead after convulsions, revived when her little brother kissed her lips and blew air into her throat. The infant began breathing again and improved, while doctors and family watched in astonishment.
A colonial-era financial column compares market panic in Paris to Vienna’s crash. It notes Banque de France balances, Suez Canal receipts, and seeks Parisian resilience amid a Krach like Schubert’s Vienna episode. It describes Parisian fears, Lyonnais, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and luxury circles watching stock tides.
The winter of 1548 saw Titian in Augsburg serving Charles V who praised him highly and made him a Count with a pension. Charles later carried nine Titian paintings to Yuste and Philip II continued the patronage in Madrid. Titian faced loss, loneliness, and pride in old age as his family and students gathered around him and he defended his craft with a final stroke on an Annunciation.
A conversation recounts a grandfather whose temperament shifted with every hat he wore. Derby made him ordinary, slouch bred ruffianry, cap with visor low, silk hat raised him to respectability, even drawing charity roles. A knife-edged tale ends with a silk hat misread, delirium tremens, and death.
Demorest's Monthly notes a fraud scam in Dakota Territory where a bogus Douglass County pretended to issue $200,000 in school bonds. The plan exploited investor confidence in Western securities and Wall Street bankers, but the scheme was uncovered before any money was secured.
The article explains tile making across three main types paving roofing and drain tiles. It covers weathering ripening of clay pug milling wire screening moulding splaying and thwacking for hand made tiles and the kiln firing process using coal and six day burning. It also notes machine production with dies and molding pressure for various tile forms.
A forged $3,500 check was found in the office of Kirtland, Humphrey & Co., St. Louis cotton brokers. Clerks were suspected, but the culprit, son of the senior partner, was traced to a restaurant with a young woman and caught at the railroad station as he prepared for an elopement. Money was stolen to cover elopement expenses.
Chicago businessmen selected to construct the Texas Capitol own a land tract in Texas five times the size of Rhode Island, signaling a major scale for the project and its financing.
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