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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1883
Page
3
A poet recalls a bundle of love letters in pink covers sent to a former lover. The piece muses on postman's whistle anticipation, the reader’s intimate parsing of words, and the autograph on a parting note. It ends noting the separation remains, framed as a brief century magazine vignette by Frank Demputer Sherman.
Myra Sydney helps Cary Thomas, a Snow & Asher’s worker, rethink clothing cost and presentation. Cary adapts from ragged blue outfits to neat attire, inspired by Myra’s talk on simplicity and economy. Cary later marries Mark after changing her look and outlook, showing how small acts can alter lives.
A Louisville photographer, Thomas Evans, believed drowned after Arkansas floods, survives and returns home on crutches to reunite with his widow wife and children. Misled by a rumor of his death, Mrs Evans mourned for months before recognizing him at their door, ending a long, sorrowful ordeal.
A mix of social notes and anecdotes from Cleveland to Newbern Alabama and New York including Miss Mollie Garfield and Miss Fanny Hayes at a Cleveland school. Mrs Isabella Weeden of Colusa nurtures a first tooth. Thurlow Weed recounts cigar devotion. Tom Thumb’s true name Charles Stratton and his Mountbridge burial monument. Eliza Gracie Halsey, daughter of Charles King, dies in New Jersey. Lafayette greeted in 1824. Colonel William E Curtis credited as ballad author. Miss Murphy’s San Francisco nuptials to Baronet Wolseley reveal a noble lineage and a multimillion bank balance.
A collage of light vignettes and quips from multiple dailies. Comic exchanges involve a teasing grandmother, a boy and a mother, and a noisy banquet of remarks about etiquette and slang. Several lines hint at obituaries or notices though readable text is fragmentary and humorous in tone.
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