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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1883
Page
1
A collage of shop promos from Dixon Illinois merchants. Smith & Ballou's advertises cheap blankets cigars gloves handkerchiefs and cloaks while Hobart's promotes violins monicas watches eye glasses and jewelry. Real estate and stoves offered by L D Prieuer and J C Ayres with easy terms. Also health ads tout Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure and Dr Jones' Red Clover Tonic with trial bottles and testimonials.
The Dixon Illinois page lists numerous shop notices including shawls and table linen at Smith & Ballou’s, elegant toilets at Sliggins and Higgins, lamps and parfumery at A H Tillson and Higgins, Christmas card discounts at Maxwell Bros, writing desks and mirrors at Tillson, and dressmaking by Mrs M E Tusany. Also Hagerstown almanacs and assorted gift items appear across Maxwell Bros and Tillson.
An advertisement lists items for sale at A. H. Tillson's including toiletries and decorative bottles. The Rochelle Register decries life insurance as a fraudulent industry that harms the poor and labels it a colossal theft against society.
A collage of holiday hints and local notices runs through the column. It mentions Christmas next Tuesday and Omaha Sunday, a note about Friday as the year's shortest day, Santa and the tax collector, and sunrise at 7 25 with 4 30 sunset.
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