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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1872
Page
5
A lively poem describes a spirited child’s antics from table top mischief to baby bed, with vivid actions like kicking doors, smashing cups, and jumping on furniture. The speaker laments the constant energy while cherishing the child as sunshine and heart’s delight.
A pink clover awakens in a country garden among blooming companions and learns flowers serve human delight. Plucked by a girl for a sick servant, the clover hopes to gladden hearts, but fate drops her in a dirty city street where she withers unseen. A stray boy notices the fading blossom as time runs out.
A sick city girl longs for pure air and revival. A boy finds a clover blossom in the street, places it in water, and the scent revives her. She breathes easier, eyes brighten, and she feels God sent country air through the flowers to heal.
Practical guidance on spring field work including water drainage, oats and peas sowing mixed with grains, and evaluating stock profitability. Advice urges upgrading cattle and hog stock via county societies, plus strawberry, blackberry, currant and gooseberry planting tips and trenching readiness.
A newspaper fragment introduces Apple Dumplings and notes the reader should have a steamer. The line hints at preparation steps and practical kitchen guidance. No further readable details are available in the text.
An old kitchen guide outlines making apple dumplings with biscuit dough sized as small oranges, wrapped in a floured linen cloth and steamed thirty five minutes while water remains boiling. It also covers meat pies with biscuit crust, and a Portuguese method to keep fish fresh using sugar.
A stark critique of New York rum shops shows two sides of the counter menacing vice and ruin. One side fosters wealth without work while the other drives poverty and degradation. The speaker contrasts a wealthy, cruel merchant with a ruined drinker and his neglected family, ending in a bleak prophecy of mutual destruction.
A Liverpool widow whose husband died five months ago has recently given birth to four children, three boys and a girl, in a remarkable family event.
A letter to the Philadelphia Press describes Paris after reconstruction using a new electric gas for street lighting. The Boulevards along the Seine are illuminated brightly at low cost with no explosion risk, though domestic use indoors may be objectionable.
The English Parliament clock is the largest in the world with four dials each twenty two feet wide. The minute hand advances seven inches every half minute and the clock runs eight and a half days though it strikes only seven and a half due to windings. Winding the striking mechanism takes two hours. The pendulum reaches fifteen feet, the hour bell stands eight feet high and nine feet across weighing about fifteen tons, and its hammer weighs over 400 pounds.
Connecticut tobacco firms adopt a new curing plan for the 1871 crop by shipping green tobacco to a warm climate near Havana to mimic June August heat during December February. The venture involves early purchases of top green crop valued around $100,000, reported to be curing finely.
D W A Keith and Co importers and jobbers of hosiery and dry goods have moved to a new brick storefront at 14 and 16 Madison Street Chicago. They announce they are opening the largest spring lines of White Goods Linens Hosiery and Gloves with enterprise and fair dealing placing them at the head of the Nation Trade of Chicago.
The Chicago Enterprise notes rapid post fire growth with Fiery Leiter & Co expanding to a mammoth six story brick warehouse at Madison and Market. The piece praises western support, lower prices, and Chicago’s ascent as a distributing hub.
The Chicago firm Clement, Morton & Co. rebuilt after the 1870 fire loss of about 100000 and the 1871 blaze wiping out over 200000 in stock. They resumed quickly, employing 400 workers in winter and now offer near half a million dollars in stock with daily trade far above prior years.
A claim that Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Cauisaya by Caswell Hazard & Co New York is the best tonic for indigestion depression debility and prevention of fever and intermittent fevers and that Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies blood and improves complexion with rosy cheeks and freedom from pimples blotches and eruptions. both sold by druggists.
An 1890s style advertisement explains hair health decline from nutrient loss to scalp. It touts Lyon's Kathairon as the sole product to nourish hair fibers, prevent whitening and shedding, and requires morning and evening friction to refresh unfed roots.
D B Fisk & Co, major West millinery importers, have built a new brick store at 27 and 29 South Clinton Street. The three floor complex offers extensive floor space and elegant offices, with stock from imports and manufacturers. The location near major depots and hotels positions them at the city’s trade focus, promising continued success and contributing to Chicago’s prosperity.
An Extenpep Popularity. Each year finds Brown's Bronchial Troches in new localities worldwide for relief of coughs colds and throat diseases. The troches have been proved reliable.
The American Consul at Bankok presented the King with medicines from Dr. J. C. Ayer of Lowell Massachusetts. He explained their origin and uses noting Cherry Pectoral Sarsaparilla and Ague Cure for fevers eruptions and coughs. The King showed special interest due to a palace illness affecting a favorite wife and the products’ safety.
An advertisement proclaims Phalon's Chemical Hair Invigorator as the sole product capable of stopping hair loss, growing new hair from roots, strengthening fibers, halting decay, and preserving color and elasticity through life, challenging rivals to prove otherwise and promising availability through any pharmacist.
A 19th century advertisement urges readers to send 50 cents for the Journal HTMTFP Chambersburg Pennsylvania. It touts Vinegar Bitters as a vegetable restorative capable of reviving the nervous system and alleviating dyspepsia biliousness and constitutional debility with persuasive copy reflecting period health claims.
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