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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1889
Page
7
Poem from Oscoop Indiana reflecting on human tendency to delay duties and seek forgiveness for unkept promises. The speaker questions excuses for delayed letters and duties and notes how procrastination harms friendships and trust.
James Drummond, famed Montana cattle king, dines with Col. Lamont and Charles Burrows at the Grand Pacific Hotel. A shady plan to fleece him collapses after he saves Burrows’ daughter from a runaway team, exposing the fraud and ending their scheme. Burrows cuts ties with the Colonel, leaving both with losses and Drummond vindicated.
A Chicago tramp asks Rev. David Swing for twenty five cents claiming dyspepsia and a need to eat at a distant restaurant. Swing offers help while they improvise a long errand on city streets, but the tramp feigns reluctance and finally bids farewell at Central Music Hall after a quip about delivering a temperance sermon.
A reporter notes estimated probabilities of meeting various groups at home after 8 pm. Clergymen and old lawyers differ by night, capitalists, politicians, clerks, physicians, merchants, mechanics, and unmarried versus married women show varying odds. Younger people tend to arrive by eleven.
A Norwich public-school boy in the primary division taunts a parochial-school chum about hijine and phizzerology. He jokes that teachers reveal all about oneself including insisters and mol ers and how one is tied with ligerments, claiming they’ll “dun up” learners like dried apples.
In a local magistrate court Mrs Con Kelly seeks satisfaction rather than damages from Mrs O Toolihan for a bruised face. The exchange questions the causation and the severity of injuries while Kelly asserts she is already sufficiently damaged and wants redress.
A World analysis charges the Republican rise to power as the birth of an American plutocracy. It details how money funded campaigns in Indiana and across states, naming Morton and others, and argues reforms to curb bribery and ensure secret ballots and capped campaign costs.
The Memphis Avalanche and other papers praise Grover Cleveland for twenty years of reform, integrity, and patriotism. They credit him with lifting the Democratic name, healing divides, and setting principled standards for future leadership.
The article criticizes President Harrison's cabinet as largely mediocre except for Mr. Bline, a stronger figure who may not display his skills as Secretary of State. It notes a Philadelphia dry goods merchant as a key spoils distributor, likely a stand‑in for Matt Quay, and labels Noble, Miller, Rusk, and Proctor as nonentities. Windom is seen as a Wall Street broker in disguise. General Tracy is out of place in the Navy Department.
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