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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1882
Page
1
Passenger trains moving east and west listed with departure times 9 18 p m 7 09 a m 1 00 p m and 12 15 p m 3 40 p m 6 05 p m 6 15 a m. The notes present a timetable style without additional context or destinations.
Uriah Stroupe operates hack lines day and night carrying passengers to all city parts. Orders may be left at J C Meads book store or at the Barn where hacks stand ready for departures.
A brief notice notes the New Feed Mill opposite Becker and Underwood's mill with reference to Thomas Baldwin.
For Holiday Goods call on Dodge and Kling they offer the finest assortment in the city including diamond rings pins gold and silver watches and clocks all goods guaranteed or money refunded A fine selection of holiday goods at Men s and Ladies fine shoes best in the city at Fleck and Robinsons Purge out morbid humors with Ayer s Pills for clearer heads and healthier bodies
The piece promotes 1885 National Weather Almanac by Professor Tice of St. Louis with forecasts and meteorology lessons, plus articles on comets and electricity as fuel. It notes useful storms guidance and how to obtain samples, while advertising Mead's holiday goods and toys, and B. B. Higgins trading.
A crowded notice page catalogs holiday offerings from Sussmilch's jeweler Todd's and other shops in Dixon Illinois. Promotions include jewelry watches novelties millinery and piano sales plus an Illinois Central excursion to New Orleans and Florida with low round trip fares and through sleeping car service.
An advertisement column urges Dr Bigelow's Positive Cure from Eberhart & Co for cough relief with a free trial. It promotes a price cut on dress goods at E W Smith Co. and touts the New Aladdin Base Burner at Pircuer's near the depots. It also markets Dr Jones Clover Tonic from Everhart & Co for blood disorders and pimples, priced at fifty cents.
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