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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1888
Page
6
A deaf-mute woman travels downtown offices selling alphabets. Her calling card asks to arrest her if she misrepresents herself. The Tribune notes crowded peanut stand corners serve as sleeping spaces for thrifty Italian owners, with lodgers packed tight like sardines in a French box.
Vienna scientific societies report verification of a weather foretelling plant found months ago. The Austrian War Department’s marine section plans a shipboard trial to test its forecasting abilities.
Former manager of the City of Glasgow Bank who presided over a failure that cost 33.5 million dollars died after years of obscurity. He served eighteen months in jail for falsifying balance sheets and had since lived in decline.
Enterprising cabmen of Chicago tail the cable cars hoping for a break in service. Their expectation is consistently fulfilled as Yerkes launches his rapid transit burlesque, and the cabmen prosper without complaint about the system’s inefficiency.
A purported cure-all medicine man near Belton USCopper district preys on believers. He coins money through showy diagnoses by eye contact and instant prescriptions without questioning patients, drawing as many as 500 followers around his cabin.
A number of London gentlemen form a Society for Nursing Sick Bachelors in Their Lodgings. The society provides skillful nurses for its celibates to spare them from landladies or ignorant women's attentions, enabling proper care in their own apartments during illness and convalescence.
G W Smattey, London correspondent, notes that George Eliot possessed genius but lacked genuine talk or poetry. He argues her gifts failed in devout company but suit neither society nor public worship, where conversation is not the focus.
Fifty years have passed since John Williams was ordained to the Episcopal ministry making him the oldest Bishop in America. He is praised as a central figure physically intellectu ally and morally with a strong reputation in England as a preacher and envoy of Bishop Seabury. A bachelor admired by many as a father and famed raconteur.
Two Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul visited the Sultan of Turkey to plead for a Mussulman condemned in Constantinople. Moved by his eight children, they urged clemency, were received kindly, and entrusted to a state officer to release the man. The Sultan invited them to return to his palace.
A traveling man was observed in the Palmer House during a hearing in Chicago. The report notes his presence among attendees and suggests interest in the proceedings.
The speaker explains a method to heat a hotel room using a portable gas burner. He describes registering, entering his room, blocking the burner light with cotton, then replacing it with a patent appliance and watching the city gas tank drop as the room warms.
A fragmented 18th to 19th century roll lists United States presidential candidates by party with multiple misspellings and gaps. Names include Washington Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe Polk Taylor Pierce Buchanan Lincoln Garfield Cleveland Harrison and are presented with assorted opponents and dates.
Circus workers trapped the tiger in Tolland forests after tracking its path to a stream. They concealed a trap with a bent sapling and unleashed the animal, which roared while suspended, then bound it with ropes and caged it for return to the circus.
The London Figaro reports a Berlin merchant received 277 marriage offers. Among responders 87 were widows aged 25 to 52, 42 had no children, and 21 controlled fortunes. Four women separated from husbands pursued second marriages, one for a third time. Of the rest 186, only two were over 30, 18 claimed to be just turned 18. Seventy one photographs were enclosed, with 31 described as remarkably pretty.
A Ford Immigration Investigating Committee witness testified that a farm hand earned ten cents daily with food in Italy and was lured to America by promises of one to one and a half dollars per day. He arrived penniless after weeks of work and could survive on a quarter daily. He warned that hundreds of thousands have been placed across the country to compete with American workers, displacing them as immigration surges continue.
A humorous tirade on etiquette as a national concern, lampooning fashionable manners and debates over food, dress, and social behavior. The piece parodies political zeal, suggests cautious rules, and mocks excessive pedantry while urging conventional decorum.
A simple current measuring method uses heating from a coil of fine wire. The heating raises a column indicating current strength.
A stream of air rises and drives a small wheel with inclined vanes. The wheel’s revolutions, proportional to electricity used, are registered by gear wheels like a standard gas meter. Heating and register movement vary with the spray of current.
The Coventry procession opened with guards and St George, then the Coventry arms bearer and two followers. Lady Godiva rode a white horse, with a crier and beadle beside her. Wives wore white dresses and flowing hair. Notable participants included Mr Warton as Edward the Black Prince and Sir Thomas White. The finale featured a sylvan bower, lambs, a dog, and birds in cages, ending at 3 o'clock.
The piece contrasts two melon serving methods. The Atlanta Constitution describes a hands on approach with rind slit and juice dripping while the eater keeps cool. The Boston Transcript suggests chilling and wine soaked flesh with claret then brandy, turning and refrigerating before serving. Prof. Dopner estimates the spring wheat crop at 179000000 bushels.
A GAZETTE essay argues that character is worth real money to employers and workers alike. It cites that management should value virtue as capital, noting many youths waste character and harm others. An illustrative employer refuses to hire a teen for poor character, praising firms that invest in workers and society.
In a travel sketch, Guy B. Seeley describes Nisida Island near Naples as seen from a high plateau, noting its volcanic crater, wooded shores, government buildings, and a prison perched at the crater’s summit. The piece also mentions aluminum’s rise in dental plates, touting its lightness, resistance to elements, and cost relative to silver.
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