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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1889
Page
5
The passage urges focus on one enterprise, thorough knowledge, personal attention, frugality, and avoidance of luck. It praises labor over luck, encourages self-reliance, disciplined spending, prudent risks, and continuous effort. It warns against bad company, excessive borrowing, and legal disputes, stressing civility, punctuality, clear bargains, and staying productive into age.
In The Nation New York a letter argues for a one cent per pound duty on foreign ice imported in American bottoms and two cents per pound for ice in foreign bottoms to protect native ice men from price collapse. It warns continued warm weather worsens shortages and may force Canadians to export cheaper ice, harming wages and deliveries.
A plan estimates about 2 million dollars is needed to support elemesinary institutions in Illinois for the next two years. The request targets sustaining religious schools and related educational programs amid budget pressures.
Reform-minded Reverend Washington Gladden argues in The Century for narrowing voting rights. He condemns bribery and electoral fraud while proposing graduated disenfranchisement for various offenses and perpetual loss of vote for crimes against the suffrage.
After moral and religious education, nothing yields more lasting benefit than the Scientific American periodical. A visitor in every home, its work aids machinists engineers and all inventive minds, and benefits farmers and merchants. Subscriptions are 100 dollars for four months or 3 dollars yearly from Mann & Co., 361 Broadway, New York.
An advertisement for James Vick seeds offers a revised shrub and flower guide for fifteen cents with an eighteen eighty nine edition. It promises three colored plates a frontispiece and an elegant design, claims certificates will secure the Guide price with seeds.
The article notes a belief in a 111 year cycle starting January 1 with the number 9 guiding years. It adds that occultists anticipate substantial human progress, while also stating that World War I veterans are dying at about 6,000 annually.
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