The Smoke Sprite Dream and the Cigar
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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1888
Page
7
Cat-Tails and Courtship in a Country Parlor
Dick Harrington, shy of women, pursues Dora Harrington with rustic adventures and a field diary of cat tails, dippers, and woodland exploits. Dora’s charm and homemade knitting spark a slow, comic pursuit ending in engagement plans as Kate guides the romance.
Clock Repair Tales From a Texas Listing
A country man enters an Austin watch shop and asks to fix the clock hands claiming they lose time. The German proprietor questions the clock, and the man demands the hands back, insisting he will repair the clock himself. The scene ends with the man leaving to find another shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Injun Creek
Texas
Wonder-Worker: Teacher Guides Pupils Through Blizzard
A Western school ma'am gained fame for evacuating all her pupils from the schoolhouse during a blizzard. The note humorously speculates she may someday keep them in class while a circus procession passes, ensuring her name endures in history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ma’am
Blizard
New York Blizzard Paralyzes City and Benches Millions
A special New York report details a historic blizzard isolating New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Streets and elevated trains halted. telegraph and milk supply disrupted. coal, bread, and fuel scarce. funerals delayed. ex-Senator Roscoe Conkling among those marching home through snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New-York
America
Fourteenth Street
Western Union
Brooklyn Bridge
Jersey City
Alaska
Guion Line
Bowery
Broadway
Grand Central Hotel
Roscoe Conkling
Wall Street
Union Square
New York Club
Twenty-fifth Street
August Belmont
Boston
London
Boston Herald
Perished in the Blizzard
Elizabethport men Alexander Bennett John Lee and another Singer Sewing Machine Co employee left for Staten Island in a small rowboat. The empty craft was found adrift in ice. they likely reached Staten Island shore but perished crossing the meadow. Newark special notes three frost deaths and shortages of milk meat and coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth
N. J
Alexander Bennett
John Lee
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Elizabethport
Staten Island
Watertown
N. Y
James A. Fitzgerald
Lorraine
Itzgerald
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Ananias
Sapphira
Katie
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Ponto
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Crusoe
Friday
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Hercules
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Erin
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Hannibal
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Sonny
Sambo
Vick
Gee
Molly
Howard
Ariadne
Bacchus
Mazeppa
Adam
Eve
Goose
Papa
Blizzard
Metropolis
Newark
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