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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1872
Page
2
A poem depicts a good wife rising to daily chores behind a rain soaked homestead. She wrestles with washing meals and schooling while her farmer husband, bold and tender, blesses her with a kiss and praise. Their life, though hard, brightens with shared labor and love.
Don Roman Peralta, border landowner in Sonora, pursues Apache killers after his daughter Inez is murdered and his homestead burned. He tracks Joseph Provencio through Cajon de Nacosari, vanishes in the ravine, then returns wilder and more determined to avenge the killing.
Don Roman hunts Apache raiders who killed his daughter Inez and burned the homestead. He uses rock and a lever to topple a cavern sealing Joseph Provencio and other murderers alive. Provencio survives ten days before dying with no water or food. Current items follow.
The Chicago Tribune argues steam plows, though long resisted in the United States, offer major gains. England leads with manufacturing and hire, while Scotland Germany and Egypt expand steam culture. Western prairies hold great potential for higher grain yields and lower food prices.
Freddy Arnold, a Harrisburg switch tender about 79, killed by a locomotive in Pennsylvania. A veteran of Napoleon’s campaigns, he served from 1812 to 1814, witnessing Moscow’s fire and the Beresina retreat, and fought in multiple later battles.
Two years ago Oregon had no railroad mileage. Now the state reports more miles of finished railroad in proportion to its population than any other state in the Union, marking rapid infrastructure growth.
In Sweden licenses for liquor sale are auctioned to cash bidders only. Closing hours are set for each beer shop and strictly followed. No sale to minors or drunkards is allowed and credit sales are not recoverable. Bars offer warm food tea and coffee to reduce drink consumption.
A rogue in London deceives doctors by pretending paralysis and feigning will making to stay in hospitals. He lingers about a fortnight in each hospital, securing attention and leaving a $1,000 legacy to the institution. A clinical lecture once featured him and students watched his spasms overnight to study symptoms.
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