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Newspaper

Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 02, 1888

Page

8

Fragment from a poems on lost love and memory

A reflective verse laments lost romance as spring and music awaken the world. The speaker wanders familiar places with a lingering ache, recalling shared moments and a yearning heart that cannot be appeased despite faith.

Not A Gossiping Nurse in a Room Over Caleb Marks

Sairey Weaver, a nurse living above Caleb Marks' grocery and meat market on Dingy alley, recounts life in a rough neighborhood. She details Hardiwick's misdeeds, a drunken visit by friends, and her brave, non gossiping stance while protecting Mrs. Hardiwick and baby, ending with a humorous scene of a cat dressed as a baby. The piece closes with Paris fashion notes and a historical quiz on Lincoln's famous phrase.

Caleb Marks Sairey Sairey Weaver Nursin John Tarline Mr. Hardiwick Mrs. Hardiwick Hardiwick’s Kittie Baby Harris Seymour Hardiwick Paris Times Pall Mall Gazette

The Pine Tree Diet

A Washington waiter recites a humorous exchange with a Maine born customer about bread milk and pie as a light moment in a Windsor style restaurant note from the Omaha World.

Washington Congress Maine Omaha

A pessimist and idle chit chat on chance encounters

A collection of brief quips and sketches with sharp witticisms about aging romance awkward recruits and dull dinners. It features lines about Issa Elderly Miss Schmidt and Baron von Geizig plus a joke about a birthday pawn and dinner invitations.

Schultz Miller Issa Scott Miss Schmidt Yaas Baron von Geizig Smith Jones

Doubtful Verdict Quip From Detroit Free Press

A well known thief on trial faced a jury instructed to give him the benefit of any doubt. The jury disagreed as a result. One doubter explained I am certain the fellow was guilty but I had a doubt whether the court wanted him convicted. The moral: The court probably didn't.

Bimeby Hardiwick Detroit Free Press

Paper houses and rails promise a future of paper

PareR timber offers many advantages over wood and costs less. The author foresees living in paper houses and using paper furniture and utensils with paper pipes for gas water and sewage. Paper car wheels are used. experiments in Germany have produced a paper rail suggesting railways may adopt paper rails and cars.

Germany

Coys Defeats Alaric at Vougle Uniting Frankish Realms

Coys, founder of the French monarchy, slain Alaric the Goth at Vougle near Poictiers. He united conquests from the Loire to the Pyrenees and made Paris the capital in 587.

Coys Alaric the Goth Vougle Poictiers Loire Pyrenees Paris

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