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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1883
Page
9
Local newspaper item notes events in Dixon Illinois dated March 28 1888. Details are fragmentary but indicate civic or community notices typical of late 19th century papers.
A science note explains temperature perception depends on both applied heat and surface area. It describes misperceptions when comparing items of equal temp and shows a penny trick revealing how warming by handling tokens alters judgment. It also notes blindness amplifying misjudgments of touch and taste under altered conditions.
Ostend dealers were caught sending cars to English markets and selling them as rabbits. In a recent case an anatomist examined the subject before identity was confirmed, proving it to be a cat. Stewed cat as diet remains unappealing and unsuitable for the table.
Twenty five Nova Scotia farmers' sons travel 325 miles to Cusihuatchie to work in a Mexican silver mine under promised pay and safety. The site proves deadly and unsanitary. the men are imprisoned, escape, and are pursued by a military company. After a year and a half they are freed and return home.
The Post Office Department disclosed that out of 9,627,922 registered items carried last year, 7 726 were lost.
Reine and her friend Pansy Perkins discuss the plot of Daniel Rochat a play set in Switzerland where a marriage fails after a woman refuses to wed an infidel, prompting the line No American girl would so far forget herself as a relief from the confusion.
The London Pall Mall Gazette reports on Dr. Biddle’s question why four percent more boys die before age five. He proposes two ideas: a tougher male physiology or the lack of male caretakers for boys.
A New York correspondent recounts a 1868 tale of a merchant seeking fortune after reading of a Nevada silver discovery. He steals a few hundred dollars and vanishes. In 1870 a clerk later finds the former employer mule-driving in Nevada, driven mad by dreams of riches, but the man is later restored and brought back to New York with his family.
Experiments in this country compare materials for fire exposed doors and suggest the best design may be wood covered with tin. The door should be solid planks matched and fastened, crossing at right angles or at forty five degrees, with at least two thicknesses and more as opening size requires.
The article notes that artistic house builders are introducing California redwood as a finishing material. It highlights its use in interiors and trims as a stylish option.
By Universal Accord Ayer's Cathartic Pills are touted as the best purgatives for family use. The advertisement emphasizes long chemical investigation, vegetable ingredients, sugar coating, and wide physician and public use. It claims mild, safe cleansing for children and weakened constitutions and urges purchase from all druggists.
An old advertisement proclaims free Pectorial Cough Syrup for those with coughs or colds at B. B. Higgins. If unable to enter, customers can contribute a half dollar to receive a large bottle. Higgins urges people to visit or support the offer with payment.
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