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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1882
Page
6
A Western Rural column argues for decisive action to protect flocks from dogs without broad collateral harm. It endorses keeping dogs at home, cites failed or weak laws, and suggests bells, goats, and enforcement as remedies while urging legislative improvement.
The article notes that poultry breeders overlook bone meal benefits for fowls. It argues birds in confinement especially need bones and that most households have kitchen scraps to provide a regular bone treat, improving flock health.
A collage of items includes acorn alcohol, a cucumber exhibit, a bank cashier acquittal, singing courts, a spring gun death, an opera romance, a Chinese kidnapping recovered, barometer jokes, Southern women and teeth, arsenic water, and a Texas needle swallowed by a child with no recall.
The German Emperor elevates Dr. Von Langenbeck, pathologist and surgeon, to actual Privy Councillor with the title Excellency. Only Lauer among Galen’s heirs in Prussia shares this top honor, bestowed on his eightyeth birthday with a 7000 guinea private banker draft.
The Lancet reports on Prince Leopold suffering from a constitutional weakness labeled hematophilia with tendencies to spontaneous hemorrhage joint swelling and congenital heritable factors. It notes three joint-ailment varieties and discusses blood coagulation, hereditary transmission, and the need for cautious activity as the Duke of Albany recovers under careful care.
In an Austin Avenue shanty, Uncle Nace and Aunt Lakey, a colored couple married over forty years, recall the prewar "good old days." They lament dwindling finances and lost comforts while reminiscing about china cups, new boots, and a torn silk dress from happier times.
A group of fifty French gourmets, praising earthworms after Darwin, tested eating them. They prepared the worms in vinegar then butter fried them and finally consumed multiple plates, all demanding more.
The butler in Queen Victoria's household earns 5500 dollars annually. The gold and silver service is valued at 15000000 dollars and is tended by three dedicated servants. In total the Queen's household maintains ninety four servants.
A devotional meditation on faith and perseverance through doubt. The speaker wrestles with a steepled road, thorny and dark, seeking guidance and the promised rest found in spiritual fidelity. The poem closes with hopeful assurance that the journey ends in homeward rest through Thee the way.
A sermon urges Christians to view work as a religious duty and an avenue for grace. It warns against letting commerce dominate life, emphasizes guarding devotion, and urges using wealth to honor God while remaining free of worldlyism.
Noah Porter argues that belief in God uplifts individual intellect and rights, while atheism devalues the person and reduces humanity to a moving foam on a harsh and impersonal ocean. He warns that materialistic theories erode self-respect and social justice, stressing faith as source of true liberty.
The passage warns against enlarging a business through corruption and starving the soul, urging that true gain comes when commerce is done in the name of Jesus. It emphasizes prayer baptized ventures and business judged by worldly and spiritual standards, citing a preacher who asks if a man is diligent in such godly commerce.
A collection of devotional excerpts cites Kempis Froude Paxton and Johnston on daily life discipline belief and prayer. The passages urge self mastery humility and separation from unproductive ties while condemning infidelity and urging steady holiness.
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