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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1883
Page
3
Poem reflects on a long awaited guest who never arrives while memories of May youth and changing joys fill the house. The speaker recalls love romance hope and sorrow as life passes and the divine guest remains a sign of arrival to come. Mrs J C BR Lorr Harper's Magazine is noted.
Ned Girard and I endure a scorching Bloemfontein to Wellington stage journey with a rough crew. A diamond heist ends in a swift shootout by a mysterious spectacled colporteur who reveals himself as a detective aiding our return of the rose diamond and capture of two road agents.
On the steamship Germanic a baby girl was born to Mrs Augusta Nilsson Lundberg during the voyage to New York. A. 8. Hewitt collected sixty dollars for the mother, Captain Kennedy christened the infant, and the name Mary Kennedy Hewitt German Lundberg was given. Hewitt later helped upgrade the emigrant ticket to Osceola Nebraska where the husband awaited the family.
A Norwich New York woman died after eating burnt bread, doctors attributing the death to perforation of the stomach caused by the charred bread. The claim is reported by the Buffalo Evening Express.
The New Orleans Picayune invites its correspondents to contribute pieces on both sides of the paper. This policy aims to balance coverage and provide a fuller view of events.
Richard A. Proctor argues that planetary life is real though non conscious and non progressive. He describes earth as in a mid life stage favorable to life yet continually shaped by subterranean forces and volcanic activity that both threaten and sustain life for hundreds of thousands of years to come.
In a downstate town, the Old Settler narrates a tale of temptations and a lie to his wife. After snatching chestnuts during a drinking bout, he returns home to a stern rebuke as his wife exposes his deception and berates him for being drunk.
A collage of brief notes on Edith Jeffrey and other public figures, including Miss Jeffrey a wealthy poet and donor, George D. Robinson linked to Dolor Davis, Ah Yank King a Yale graduate returning home, Bessie Jones editor in Athens, Agnes May Fleming name use, William Evarts wealth and work, Cabinet descriptions of Brewster Frelinghuysen Lincoln Gresham Teller Chandler, Judge Drummond’s long service, and a critique from the American Register on modern novelists lacking plot and real flesh.
A collage of quips and humorous exchanges from various papers. Jests touch on art loans, beggars reading, tiled houses, jail birds, inn bed bugs, and quips about editors and thieves set in old city papers. Names of papers include New York Sun, Boston Courier, Chicago Herald, Bismarck Tribune, Arkansaw Traveller, Norristown Herald, Atlanta Constitution, and Arkansaw Traceder4.
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