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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1882
Page
3
A lank stranger visits a village store and barters oddly for goods. He trades an egg for a needle then a drink, revealing a double yolk in the egg when the shell breaks. The tale ends with the customer claiming he paid for two, seeking another item to be square.
In Harper’s Weekly a first person narrative reveals Frances Halliday, a young heiress with twenty five thousand dollars, choosing banker Stephen Barker over her beloved Norman Strong. The tale follows engagement, a Stamford estate settlement, a quiet elopement to New York, and Stephen’s later public benevolence aided by his own hidden plans.
A man traveled in a securely locked freight car loaded with lumber from Muskegon to Detroit and beyond to Bennington Vermont. After six days on the road and a layover at the Central Vermont freight station his escape went unseen and he departed with a valise of cigars cigarettes bananas oranges a six shooter and razors. The transport was sealed by customs at Detroit and the traveler cut a six inch ventilation hole to observe the scenery.
H. S. Malison writes to the Poultry Monthly that a few sprigs of cedar bush mixed with hay or litter in nests will keep hens free from bea lice, a tip intended for poultry fanciers.
The legislature passes a law apportioning Illinois into twenty districts for U S House seats. It streets out Chicago wards and surrounding towns into districts one through twenty with counties named, and sets the first election for November 1882 followed by biennial elections. The act repeals the prior nineteen-district plan from 1872.
Two horses valued at 400 dollars stolen from Patrick Ward of Decatur last September have been recovered in Indianapolis. The thieves, already convicted for stealing three other horses in Indiana, are now in the state penitentiary. The convicts supplied the information about the Ward team.
A collage of short notices recounts varied scenes from late 19th century America including a Hillsborough man voting through many elections, Allentown silk-works needing workers, a Portland fund for Professor Crouch, social fashions among San Francisco children, a Boston Sabbath dispute, a Weedsport tale of domestic strife ending in ducking, and a Tombstone reception marked by pistol fire and rockets.
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