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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1883
Page
5
A merchant’s wife awoke to a burglar’s night visit. The intruder halted when a note revealed by a ring Exposed the burglar as Henry, a repentant ex-convict who once courted Maria. Her husband, unaware of the thief’s identity, never pursued arrest.
A St Clair River boat trip with a wife and five children erupts in mishaps as a child falls, a watch goes missing, and the father laments theft and bad luck. The scene turns to a sombre lookout as a stranger on deck stares toward the water, prompting desperate hope for reason.
Detroit Free Press reports a tense scene as a man coerces a companion toward a fatal plunge in a lake. Amid threats and bribes he declares doom, then survives to recount his luck as his household counts ten children.
An Indianapolis druggist describes flavored cigars and reveals a crude recipe mixing opium tincture, valerian, and other substances to mimic flavors. The piece warns of health risks, noting opium and valerian can harm heart, kidneys, and nervous system, and links this practice to smoking culture in tenement houses.
A young woman visits a drug store and teases a clerk with witty threats about being sold as color to shawls if she grows angry. The clerk mutters a warning while the woman departs, leaving him unsettled by the exchange.
Rev. Hamilton of Boston declares self emancipation from itinerant system by funding a private enterprise church named the People’s Church. The structure aims to seat 4 000 people and will not be bound by the law governing the regular Methodist Church.
A Brittany and Poitou essay contrasts wolf myths with facts from Lt. Col. Dodge and others. It notes wolves’ cowardice, their predilection for dogs over sheep, and dramatic nocturnal attacks on livestock, including a Breton tale of wolves invading a hut after a storm.
A reverend Overton of McNutt Georgia censures courting on Sundays. Yale’s 1832 class shows 51 alive after 50 years. Harvard longevity statistics impress. Moscow trials of seven Tartars for renouncing Orthodoxy. Lightning damages a Richfield Springs lecture. Vienna Jews run an industrial school training 1,500 skilled workers. Ireland leads world education with 20 percent in school, US at 19.6, Germany 15.9.
The shad, once rare on the coast, has multiplied greatly since its introduction and now spans the coast northward. Market demand is weak in the city due to salmon competition and a season-limiting act that restricts winter fishing. In San Francisco Bay the run lasts October to May, with exceptionally large counts this year and prices as low as twenty five cents per hundred.
Omaha spends about 100000 dollars annually on public schools with a larger share of funding coming from liquor license revenues.
A letter advises aspiring proofreaders to test their eye by marking errors in publications, learn typesetting, read mechanically, and gain broad language and literary knowledge. It stresses accuracy, politics awareness, and steady work potential, ending with a promise of ten dollars weekly for twelve hours daily.
The Massachusetts Ploughman advises placing shade trees in permanent pastures and controlling their spread. Oaks maples and pines have different impacts on grass. red cedar tolerates wind and salt, while evergreen trees can kill grass. Favor apple trees and avoid grey birch poplar black cherry and pitch pine to prevent overgrowth.
The London Telegraph imagines a playful future where Galapagos predators and livestock clash in a “vice versa archipelago.” Donkeys, cows, and dogs roam free while birds and cats adapt to a wild island dominance, offering a novel hunting fantasy with no damages.
A remedy guide from American Agriculturist notes lice plague hens May to frost and spread to pig sties, carriages, and stables. It suggests kerosene as a cheap, effective treatment by saturating boxes perches and beams, with careful jam filler use to reduce effort.
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