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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1883
Page
4
The Peoria special election approved bonds of 70 000 to build a free Illinois river bridge. Meanwhile floodwaters threaten 200 miles of bottom lands from Alton to Cairo, submerging villages and vast farmlands across the Mississippi region.
Fire on the 26th at the Rubenstein brewery in Ottawa caused $20,000 in losses with $5,500 insured. An explosion of millers dust in the malt room is listed as the cause. Governor Butler again shocks Boston society by nominating Everett A. Stephens, a Fitchburg railroad locomotive engineer, as railroad commissioner. The New York Sun prints harsh platform lines calling for ousting corrupt officials.
Capt Webb plans a swim through the Niagara rapids and maelstrom below the falls, a feat no one has survived. The Chicago railway exposition failed financially with 4000 daily attendees and 25000 on final day, expenses exceeding receipts by about 50000.
A Peoria Sunday school invited rough youths on an excursion hoping for reform. The day saw seven fist fights, one pupil among the injured, and three offenders sent to jail.
Brown, a Boston resident, has spent nineteen years researching perpetual motion and says he has a working machine. He refuses to demonstrate it but offers to sell shares in the invention.
A poor wheat harvest drags on in Southern Illinois as flies, cold weather, and rain sap yields. Reaper sounds fail to cheer, prompting farmers to shift to other crops and livestock for relief and hope.
A Michigan governor sent a message to the legislature that was so poorly written the clerk could barely read it. The piece drew comparisons to Washington and Napoleon, though the resemblance ends with the poor handwriting.
A California judge puzzled by a witness saying he saw in the plaintiff's field "a right smart chance" of hogs learns the phrase means fourteen in local vernacular. The Mississippi River at St Louis is higher than in twenty five years with high water marks seven feet above the current flood line due to broken dykes.
Centralia pushes to become the leading strawberry shipping hub in the state amid a lively rivalry with Cobden. About 35 000 bushels have been shipped, delivering roughly 100 000 dollars to the city. 25 000 dollars went to pickers, mostly children, with the rest as profit.
The piece notes Canada halting northwest land giveaways to colonization firms and previews a New York City planned national exposition with Waterside Park grounds on Harlem shore. It compares high liquor license fees in Illinois Nebraska and Iowa, then analyzes Navy manpower and budget figures from the New York Sun, and outlines Illinois road-law reforms pushing permanent, funded highway construction.
The Chicago Journal describes best-known methods for road building by contract including weed prevention, tile drainage, and draining adjacent lands with landowner contracts sharing costs. All road taxes including poll taxes must be paid in money with a possible levy up to 1 dollar per 100 dollars with town board consent. The township supervisor serves as ex-officio treasurer and the town clerk as clerk.
A Washington dispatch in the Chicago Tribune describes the jury in the star route thieves trial as swayed by sympathy and prejudice. Colored jurors showed little interest except when Dor sey and Brady were praised to the Republican party.
A newspaper notice urges buyers to action with dry goods in short supply. Summer Silks drop from 65 cents to 50 cents and Parasols from $1.25 to $1.00 in a seasonal sale.
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