Dixon Civic Notes and Obituaries Highlight Local Affairs
Mrs. Fanny Mallory grieves her seven year old son’s death. Dr. Thomas defends religion’s evolution and local church role. Dixon loans grow, fire alarm, and varied local anecdotes. Union meetings set for March with Mrs. Emmons speaking. Election preview and business boosts noted. Prohibition debates contrast Rockford outcomes. Dr. Thomas speech on social forces emphasizes home schools and moral education. Municipal race details and forthcoming farmers institute covered.
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Fanny McCartney Mallory
Farmers’ Institute
Dixon
Dr. Thomas
Chicago
Universalist
Nazareth
Thomas
Ihe
Ruskin
Land Grants In New Mexico Indict Corporate Land Grab
The article decries railroad land grants covering about a quarter of New Mexico. Grantees hold land at 2.50 per acre with no roads built, blocking immigration and avoiding taxes. It laments congressional denial of relief, labeling Congress as denying self governance to the territory.
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Stern Brothers
Opera Block
Clinton
Iowa
Dixon
Sterling Gazette
Easttern
Whiteside
Lee County
Morrison
Gazette
Whiteside County
Jordan
Montmorency
Hahnaman
S. H. Bethea
Geo. Steel
E. A. Bodwell
F. F. Dixon
G. G. Rosbrook
Frank Simonson
M. C. Weyburn
N. Plein
Holmes
Blaisdell
Rockford
United States
Washington
Lincoln
Denison
God
Man
Church
Luther
Calvin
Wesley
Fox
New Mexico
Congress
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THE
Dixon Sun
Dixon, Illinois
Dixon Loan and Building Association
Sun Office
S. Hanlon
Joy T. Morris
North Dixon
M. E
Morris
J. H. Morris
Heft
John
Union Temperance
R. A. Emmons
Milton
Baptist Church
Opera House
Sterling
C. F. Bristow
Tampico
N. P. Wilson
Penrose
Fred Buell
Rock Falls
Elwood Hughes
J. Irving Pierce
State Board
W. H. Brown
Princeton
C. J. Longsdon
Coleta
D. N. Foster
C. W. Mitchell
Round Grove
Herman Fischer
Prairieville
Giles Green
Lyndon
M. R. Trumbower
W. A. Sanborn
Cleveland Bays
Geo. E. Brown
Aurora
Marshall Lee
Moses Dillon
C. R. Powell
Mead Holmes
E. W. Blaisdell
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