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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1873
Page
5
Old Dixon Illinois paper lists business card rates per line and notice charges for the Business Mirror section. It notes 85 year status, 15 cents first line, 10 cents each additional line, and directs communications to Tug Dixon Box Dixon Illinois with publisher W. M. Kennedy.
Amboy records a Christmas dance hosted by A W West and a Sunday sermon by Rev J Wardle on proper conduct of dancing. Letters between West and Wardle show requests to invite ministers and choirs, with conditions limiting prayers to twenty minutes and ensuring posters and invitations are distributed.
A reverend guest at a January ball witnesses dancing and misadventure as constables and townsfolk collide with revelers. The clergyman reflects on dancing and pledges not to attend further dances while Bro. Wardle plans a lecture on Dancing. Mead and Browns wed as the Light Guard Band serenades afterward.
A long list of farm and garden works offered by mail postpaid on receipt of price. Titles include Barry's Fruit Garden new edition, Bement's RabbitPainter, Bridgeman's Gardener's Assistant, American Cattle Doctor, Downing's Fruit and Garden books, and many others on horticulture husbandry chemistry architecture and rural economy. Readers can order through Rock River Forward Office, Dixon Illinois.
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