This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Personal Items for Sale and Local Notes
Local shopper notices include ads for sale of a Purebred Jersey hog a New Royal sewing machine and Oil of Gladness at Smiths Pharmacy. Also listed are visitors from Dixon Rockford Beloit and Chicago with Thanksgiving reports and multiple family and bird related ads. Community events include road work on Lincoln Highway and minor accidents in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deering
Deere
Keystone
McCormick Mower
Mendota
Nisco
M. J. Paddock
Rochelle
Henry C. Smith
M. M! Evens
Hess
John M. Krug
Hattie Bowers
Rockford
Bernice Brunsgold
Beloit
Wisconsin
Frank S. Hart
Emerich Weishaar
Chicago
Hymen Levin
Tanlac
George R. Charters & Son
Muriel Fee
J. B. Farver
Miss Farrer
Nachusa
George
Casper Krug
Guy Taylor
Ted
Ashton
Ilinois
Andrew Russell
Bloomington
Bridgeport
August Klingebiel
Martin Witzel
de Kalb
Willison A. Jakks
Lincoln Highway
Mary Schumaker
A. S. Hodges
Scumaker
Roberts
Amboy
Bible