Letter on Grain and Hogs Purchases Ties Illinois and Georgia Granges
A Dixon Illinois paper republishes a Georgia State Grange letter seeking terms for Illinois to supply bacon pork and related farm goods by carload to Georgia. It urges cooperative purchase to cut middlemen costs amid crop shortages. Also included are local notices and a long moralistic anecdote about a Dixon romance and regional manufacturing chatter.
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W. M. Kennedy
Lee County
Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Georgia
Lee Co
E. Taylor
Sec
St. Grange
Polo Press
Dixon
Mind your p s and q s and cheek by jowl explained
Readers ask about expressions in Tug Sun era explanations for mind your p s and q s from wigs and bows to feet and queues. Another inquiry defines cheek by jowl from Saxon chole to Irish jowl while colophon origins are traced to end pages and Greek city Colophon.
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Louis XLV
the Sun
Kentner Sheldon Lynn marriage and social notes
In Lynn Pennsylvania on the 14th inst by Rev R B Rose Mr C W Kentner of Dixon wed Miss Lucinda M Sheldon Lynn. Kentner reports a joyful family reunion and requests warm local reception for the bride. Also Petrie Robert wed Jane Ropert at M F Parsonage Stuart Station on December 10 by Rev John Williamson.
Obituary notices for James M. Santee and Norval Cuamazin
James M. Santee died at 70 years in Nachusa township after moving to Rock River valley in 1837. He led a blameless life and was respected by many friends and relatives. Norval Cuamazin died of lung disease at his brother T H B Chamblin’s residence in Galesburg on December 11 1873 at age 25.
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Norval Chamblin
Galesburg
Jas
Norval
California
Sandwich Gazette
L. C. Chamblin
John Philips
John Jones
Abram Brown
Lee Center
Chamberlin
Ping
Nachusa Township
James M. Santee
Lee
Ilinois
Board of Trustees
Geo. Keith
Boa
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Dixon Sun
Dixon, Illinois
Orrick
Taylor
Georgia State Grange
Colaparchee
Amboy Journal
D Xon
Colophon
Tonia
Imes
Prin Ei
Osled
Scoott
C. M. Smith
WM. Shilcock
Court House
Amboy
Ilinois Central Rail Road
State OF Illinois
Circuit Court
A. D
David J. Ely
John Scullen
Sarah Scullen
Isaac R. Hitt
Mary W. Rockwell
Alfred P. Rockwell
Katherine V. Rockwell
John A. Rockwell
Martha Rockwell
Joseph P. Rockwell
Bill
J. N. Hype
Clerk
Eustace
Banck & Dixon, Dixon
Ill
Alexander Frothingham & Company
Broadway
New York
United States
Europe
Eugene Pinkney
Mlinots
the Holiday Coods
Egin
F. A. Truman
Prest
J. W. Cracy
Dixon National Bank
Samuel Shaw
A. Truman
Avery Johnson, J. B. Pomeroy
Josiah Little
Illinois
Chicago
New York Exchange
Duncan Sherman & Co
N.Y
Union National Bank
Lee County National Bank
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Fiotels
Keystone
Main and
Galena Streets
Dixon, Ils
Brautigam
Washington House
Corner Main
Ottawa Streets
H. Remmens
Illinois Central Hotel
Hughes
Ar Hoy
Ills
James B. Charters
Dixon Nationa Bank
U-8
Edsall & Bardwell
Union Stock
Main Street
Charters & Truesdell
Exchange Block
J. W. Eustace
Wm. Barce
Sherwood Dix Eustace
Barge & Dixon
Attorneys At Law
Dixon, Hs
Daniel B
McKenney Justice of the Peace
Roserthal
MH. Williams
Main
Dixon, Ill
Moraceros
Weibzahn & Moeller
Dixon, Sils
A. U. Hazen
Galena Street
West Side
P. R. Kelley
Ellis I. Williams
Dixon, Ills
First Street
John Reilly
Dixon Bazaar
A. M. Dixon
J. H. Reynard
Fry's Yards
Illinois Central Depot
Josiah Fry
Doc
Business Mirror
Dilencine
A. H. Tillson
Pruggist
E. R. Travers
O.B. Blackman
Pathic Physican
Stevens
Chas. Hunt
Dillon’s
Hennepin Streets
W. W. Wyn
H. E. Payne
J. Millard
D. W. McKenney
J. F. Marrh
Tochelle
Ogle County
Longnecker and Shinkle’s
Everett & Law, Physicians and Surgeons
Hls
Las
Daniel Curran
William J. Curran
Parnach D. Haradon
George Probst
Jason C. Ayres
Sylvanus K. Upham
Charles F. Emerson
Parnici D. Haradon
Said
J.N. Hype
Barce
Real Estate and Insurance
Eugene Pinckney
Law and Loan Office
J. N. Hyde
Banks
LEE County National Bank OF
Jos, Crawford
8.C. Bettis
C. H. Keyes
W. L. Davis
Henenpin Street
Boston
Dixon, Sinvis
Alexander & Howell
Leeds
River
First Streets
Ils
Jacob Erinder
Masonic
Galena
Lee Sherman
Hennepen Street
Due
Reynard Bros
K. Trestrail
J. J. Dauntler
Hennepin Street
F. F. Dixon
Camp & Hasenplug
H. J. Drew
Adao
Galena St
Watertreet, Dixon, Il
Isaac Means & CO
Arch Dixon
Dixon Bindery
Emel Weber
John Kaiser
Baker's Building
Adam Krug
Ims
Valentine Thorman
Cement Town
Valsmtlne
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