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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1883
Page
3
A poetic sketch of railroad engineers and their sweethearts as whistle calls echo through New Britain and Berlin. It recounts names, lovers, and timings from local trains and freight to the village celebrations and nightly whistles. The piece ends with a playful lilt on romance amid iron rails.
A shy city professor recalls a country childhood party at Mrs Edwards where he was teased for bashfulness and a kiss sparked by a postage joke. Years later in Switzerland he reunites with Mabel Byrne, now an artist, and their bond grows as he finally confesses love during a twilight visit at an inn parlor.
A man with yellow hair visits a weapon shop and orders an astonishing array of arms from swords to cannons and dynamite. The clerk catalogs a surreal bill while the customer insists on COD delivery to a Texas hotel, revealing a curious fiction-like sales spree.
A collage of witty lines and satirical snippets from 19th century newspapers. Jests about cooks, chiefs, legal fees, dyspepsia, masquerades, and teachers mix with quips on manners and daily life, featuring voices from Boston to Detroit and beyond.
A Philadelphia Press correspondent notes rapid town growth along the Northern Pacific railroad in Dakota. He observes settlers arriving by rail rather than as first pioneers, with women in present fashions, refined chinaware and silver forks, and pianos arriving as culture spreads from the East.
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