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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1888
Page
3
The Sun appeals to readers to boost its subscriber base for the upcoming campaign year. It offers to pay $1.50 for each new subscriber who also signs a new subscriber with cash, granting a free year of Cottage Hearth to the subscriber at $2.00.
A Colfax Illinois coal vein six feet two inches thick is reported. Wisconsin records 68 degrees below zero at Chippewa Falls. Fort Keogh Montana shows 65 below zero in a blizzard with a 195 degree summer-winter range. The piece notes quinine prices fell from four dollars to fifty cents an ounce after tariff repeal and questions tariff effects on coal prices.
At the Lee County Farmers Club meeting John McKinstry argues against high tariffs, contending they fail to raise farm prices and that free trade opens foreign markets. He cites Hawaii reciprocity and argues a larger home market benefits fewer farmers than broad production. He notes price determinants in Liverpool and global grain supply.
A Midwest column argues tariffs harm farmers by raising costs and taxes while domestic workers see little wage gain. It cites a pacesetting Ames tale where spade duty hikes failed to boost government revenue, enriching manufacturers instead. The piece cites geographic free trade views from Mr. Labouchere and urges tariff reform in the West.
Trustee Abram K Trusdell will auction the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section fifteen township twenty range eleven east of the fourth principal meridian Lee County Illinois on Saturday January 28 1888 at the north door of the courthouse Dixon for cash to satisfy eight hundred eighty one dollars plus twenty five dollars expenses on three promissory notes dated March 30 1576 bearing ten percent interest.
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