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Dixon Sun 1889 August notes many local items
Local notes include weather aiding corn ripening, social events at C A Todds, Judge Farrand covering duties in Ogle county, travel vignettes, visits, and community concerns. Reports of thefts, accidents, and a railroad fatality mix with religious revival plans, weed control pleas, Pearl fishing folly, and fire disaster at Rockford Union Furniture Company with death of Ralph Emerson Jr. plus civic notes on oakwood cemetery vandalism and the Amboy old settlers reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amboy
Ryan
S. H. Bethea
Dixon
Rockford
Union Furniture Company
Ralph Emerson, Jr
Emerson & Co