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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1888
Page
5
A lively baptismal style wedding scene unfolds at the Co'ners with Pa'sun Streak and Chloe Stoad as bride and groom. Nehemiah blows the horn Ebrybody celebrates as Simpkins Polk leaves corn and the Co'ners party turns to joy despite the law's interference.
Nora Creely, a devoted Irish servant in Mrs. Satterlee’s household, learns she has inherited twelve thousand dollars from a generous former patient. A four leaf clover dream signals a fortune tied to purity of heart and selfless acts. Nora later returns to Ireland with Dermot, sharing wealth with family who faced eviction, confirming the tale that only the pure in heart find their fortune.
A New York Sun account describes a Berlin lieutenant with a $180 yearly pay and fourteen coats worth over a thousand dollars. He wears a sky blue jacket with silver embroidery, white corduroy breeches, patent boots, high heels, silver spurs, and white gloves, a garish outfit noted as extravagantly lavish beside a sober military pay.
The piece argues that thin women are dangerous while fat women are tempered and good tempered. It contrasts temper, appearance, and angelic images with male vulnerability, claiming a thin woman’s subtle expression men fear. The voice is candid about societal views on gender and physique.
Rev. Daniel B. Turney of Lincoln Illinois, a noted Prohibitionist, faced a noisy audience and asked how many wanted a blackguard story. When many raised their hands, he refused to tell one and quipped he only wished to know how many blackguards were present. A listener lamented he never told a single tale that night.
A Washington Chronicle quotation tells of a Concord Massachusetts woman amid transcendentalism who resists liberal religious ideas. She declares she cares little for predestination or free will but fears losing total depravity as essential to her religion.
A Baltimore American note describes the Duke of Wellington avoiding moving troops at the sight of a yellow dog, and a Baltimore lawyer starting at midnight to secure a Judge’s pledge to attend a dinner party to prevent thirteen people from sitting at table.
A collage of quotations and snippets from Chicago Sun Life and other papers. Witty quips about love money servants and artists mingle with poems and a cut of literary humor.
A Richmond religious Herald note recalls a tale in which a professor asks a dull student what he would do if he failed as a pastor. The student replies he would seek a professor ship or a theological seminary, though the story’s veracity is doubtful.
The London Electrician records experiments where eggs hatched under magnetic influence produced chickens that were deformed or blind and deaf. The note suggests experimental results and observations on the effects of magnetism on embryonic development.
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