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Death and social notes from the Dixon Sun
Obituary reports the sudden death of J F Sanford’s wife leaving a husband and three children. funeral at the Methodist church. The campus near the Old Elm hosts events by the Anglo Swiss Milk Condensing Company and St Patrick’s Catholic church picnic. Notes on sugar tariffs, local politics, and a Dixon Republican pole raising in Franklin Grove are included along with obituaries and university announcements.
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J. F. Sanford
Old College
Siler
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Franklin Grove
Dixon
Amboy
Ashton
Harrison
Morton Pole
E. A. Wingert
A. C. Bardwell
R. S. Farrand
C. E. Loomis
Wheaton
Maryland
Good Templar
Noble
Crabtree
Schick
Chicago Journal
Franklin Reporter
Horace Preston
West Third Street
Mr. Preston
New Ipswich
New Hampshire
Lucy Jane Wood
Lee Centre
South Dixon
Ella Grose
Jennie Packard
Clara Preston
Preston
Lee
Whiteside
Sherwood Dixon
Springfield
Epiror Dixon Sue
Old Franklin
Jefferson
Cleveland
Thurman
Morton
Franklin
Ann Arbor
Mr. Wheaton
Republiclcan Party
Prohibition
Juno