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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1872
Page
4
The Dixon Sun lists advertising rates for cards of five lines or less in the Business Mirror at $5 per year with $1 for each additional line. Special local notices cost 15 cents per line for first insertion and 10 cents for each subsequent insertion. Address communications to Tax Dixon Son, Mrs Vittenta Dixom, W. M. Kennepy, Publisher.
A report from Amboy details a large Greeley and Brown Club formation with over 200 signers on August 10, a larger Liberal Republican and Democrat turnout, and a weak Grant and Wilson gathering on August 14. It cites heated speeches, accusations of corruption in Grant's circle, and references to post office corruption and franking abuses in Washington as part of the era's political contention.
The Senate wing of the Capitol is used as Radical Republican headquarters. Officers and clerks from various departments staff the space. Committee rooms and lobbies house the operations while mail documents are prepared and distributed.
Notices show orders received by J. DB. Pomeroy and F. H. Babbitt with unspecified details. The brief item records a distribution or storefront update in a local business section.
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