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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1883
Page
3
A rural courtship tale told by the gay young man from town who flirts with Susy of the piney font. He explains his estrangement from family and his search for love beyond his father’s plan. Susy deceives none and the couple ultimately defy old folk to choose their own fate.
A detailed tale from a Russian revolutionary circle follows Andre Franjoli and his wife Eugenie, devoted Nihilists who fail to escape persecution. Despite illness and constant danger, they aid the movement, plan bombings, and ultimately die together in Geneva after a life of crisis and sacrifice.
The report cites President Arthur paying New York taxes on 285000 in property and notes Paris fashion king Worth at age fifty five. It mentions John L. Stoddard earning 22000 yearly, Rosa Bonheur at sixty one offering a lecture, and editorials debating the value of novels in moral reflection. The mixture includes court action with six cent verdict and humorist Ditty Fast Bill Nye’s postmastership.
A Yazoo County incident reports a deer killed by a party of punters that bore a human skull impaled on a horn prong. The skull, described as a negro’s, was found entering the eye socket with bone surrounding it. Theories vary, but one holds the animal wounded and driven by a negro, who was slain in the ensuing chase. The deer was large, about the size of a two year old calf. Memphis Scimeter.
A Washington War Department clerk died recently leaving 33,000 in Government bonds and a house and lot.
A collage of quips and jokes from multiple newspapers mocks editors, social manners, and public figures. It features satirical lines about newspaper men, a bride’s etiquette, a marching parade of personalities, and a punchline about a music student peers at a neighbor.
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