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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1882
Page
5
A Harper's Magazine essay examines why men are more prone to fidgeting than women and how moral fidgetiness manifests in households. It argues fidgeting reflects evolution, social pressure, and training, noting women endure pain better and mothers' anxieties shape children, with playful yet pointed critique of domestic tyranny.
A Philadelphia Record tale recounts Moses Blake a Black stable worker for coal dealer Charles J Welsh swapping his wife Rachel for James Green’s yellow and white setter Nellie. Green and Rachel now live together while Blake keeps the dog and holds a curious belief about marriage terms.
A Kentucky advocate who defended McLarens and Ragg on larceny charges was paid 100 and 310 respectively. He ended his appeal with a biblical flourish, praying the jury to see McLarens as innocent and then recalling his ten dollar client Ragg.
A red headed, ragged man travels by freight boiler from New York to San Francisco, surviving on crackers and water. He details setting type in many cities, riding a wheat thrashing engine, hiding in a boiler through stops, and narrowly avoiding exposure near Omaha. He seeks work as a type setter at the Chronicle in San Francisco.
A Milwaukee woman writes the editor asking for the safest excursion location in a disaster. The editor replies that the safest place is about thirty seven miles away from the picnic when she goes up.
It is estimated that the teeth undergo as many as ten changes of temperature in twenty four hours, and the wonder is that anybody over fifteen years old has anything left to chew with.
A widow of a Hoboken hotel keeper pursued her love interest Charles Parker after selling property and advancing him 1700 dollars for a glass lettering business. A March marriage was attempted, thwarted, then officiated after a court scene, with a celebratory wedding party at a local restaurant.
A compilation of practical farming notes and household tips from periodicals. It covers goose care for grass ranges, fattening chickens, a fried chicken recipe, pumpkin preservation methods, changing hog color preferences, and ivy poisoning treatments with cold water.
An amateur salvage firm member stages a false alarm to test his family fire drill. The test triggers a cascade of falling furniture and windows, a water spray, doors and axes, and a chaotic ascent as the fire department arrives, with a servant girl and others injured.
A Brooklyn blacksmith held a hammer aloft for seven minutes to win a twenty five cent bet. Doctors say he will not use that arm again for a year.
Dr Hall argues American feet have grown smaller over time. He cites the 1800 average man’s boot as a No 10 and notes current sizes lean toward smaller numbers, reflecting broader shifts in footwear dimensions and fit.
A farmer reports on the cost and profit of two broods hatched in May, selling eleven cockerels at twenty cents a pound live weight and nine pullets, totaling earnings near nineteen dollars. He notes feed costs, hen egg output, and argues farmers should expand poultry and egg production as a potential wealth mine.
A gentleman visits a dry goods store before Christmas and asks for eight shirts worth of cloth. He calculates four yards per shirt, totaling thirty-two yards, to give his wife a memorable gift. The tale underscores the humorous gift of cloth rather than an actual present.
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