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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1883
Page
3
Local Dixon Illinois issue dated September 26 1883 reports community updates and notices typical of a small town newspaper. Details include notices, classifieds, and brief items reflecting daily life and events.
The October North American Review presents articles by Senator N P Hills on gold and silver standards and currency uniformity, A V Dicey on democracy in Britain, Dr R Heber Newton on cooperative distribution, W Boyd Dawkins on Early Man in America, Moncure D Conway on the Saint Patrick Myth, and Van Buren Denslow defending Board of Trade morality against Henry D Lloyd.
The October Century presents Longfellow portraits and Stedman essay, Luther study by Fisher, Cranach woodcut, and White on Old New York. It also highlights Popular Science Monthly with varied scientific articles, portraits, and practical papers, priced at 50 cents per issue and five dollars yearly.
A review highlights The Singer's Welcome a new 192 page sacred and secular song collection with about 150 pieces. It praises its suitability for choirs and elementary practice and notes the Modern Age October issue features Proctor on Draw-poker and Lytton on Bulwer Richelieu with correspondence.
The October issue of Harper's Magazine showcases unusual attractions and features a remarkable abundance and quality of illustrations.
A number of gas wells have been sunk at Tolon for illuminating gas. The depth is typically about 100 feet.
Research at Michigan Agricultural College shows Rough on Rats is white arsenic oxide tinted with lampblack. The antidote and packaging cost about a cent and a half per box.
In Springfield Massachusetts Higham rode 20 miles in 66 minutes 2 seconds to break the buckle record by 72 seconds. He won a $1,000 purse and the title of world champion.
The fall election in Illinois will occur only in counties not governed by township organization. In those counties one county commissioner will be elected, while Cook county voters will choose a supreme court judge and five commissioners.
A state exchange quips that home is a place where hats clutter window panes and children resemble young pigs the wife appears savage and the husband wears a shirt bosom stained with tobacco juice in a bleak image of domestic life.
During the Knights Templar parade in San Francisco Theodore Relser misplaced a pocket book containing $25. A Chinese man found it and returned it to a nearby policeman friend of Relser. The officer gave the finder 50 cents. Relser later concluded the Chinaman had taken all the money before returning the bag.
The article notes Mrs Langtry’s shift from English courtly society to American public life. It highlights her being presented at court in England, while in the United States she is viewed as an actress separated from her husband and attracting attention from a different man.
After the Northern Pacific Railway opening two cities, Minneapolis and St Paul, could form a single metropolis of about 175000. Both sides show willingness to unite but dispute a common name with Minneapolis resisting loss of its name and St Paul citing priority and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul rights.
John Deere Company of Moline plans a two day train excursion over the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line for over five hundred employees and families to visit the Chicago fair. A workmen bands will accompany the trip. The article also comments on new beer reporting laws and a gloomy La Salle coal outlook with miners demanding higher wages.
The United Kingdom Mutual Life Insurance Company of England split its business into two sections a total abstinence division and a regular life policy division. In fifteen years the abstinence section saved 28 percent and refunded that amount to policy holders. The forty second report shows a net gain of 32 percent over normal tabular mortality, meaning abstainers insured pay about one third less than mixed risk groups.
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