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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1882
Page
1
The long list outlines multiple sections across pages from local news to advertisements. Headlines reference varied topics including the Jeannette tragedy Illinois items and agricultural notes.
Dixon and Amboy ads offer piano sales repairs and bargains plus furniture stock expansion. Lee county Drill invites teachers and students. auction on wall paper. public sale at Harmon with steam engine and wagon. carpet sweeper offered. Mutual Life Insurance agent listed. Dr Bigelow’s cure advertised for coughs and lung diseases at Eberhart & Co's drug store.
A cryptic time sequence is presented with scattered times including 10 33 a m 3 15 a m 5 15 p m 4 31 a m 6 46 p m 405 p m suggesting a diary style note or timetable fragment from a transit page. The fragment hints at daily travel or schedule entries with no clear events or destinations.
Train times listed for routes through Sterling Pass include Atlantic Express at 10 33 a m and Pacific Express at 3 13 p m with eastbound and westbound departures. Several stops are noted for dinner and passenger requests with times aligning to Mar town and Iowa Pass.
Uriah Stroupe runs hacks to and from all trains day and night. Passengers can arrange rides at J. C. Mead's book store or at the Keystone House where a hack regularly waits on the street.
Local notices announce candidates for Lee County offices. J N Hills seeks Sheriff in November 1582 and thanks supporters. Walter Little and W H Woodyatt announce re election bids as Sheriff, pending Republican convention. Abram Swartwout vies for County Clerk, subject to convention in Amboy. Walter J Wingert plans sheriff bid before the county convention.
Doctor David H. Law announces office in the Hine Building on Galena street opposite Tillaon's and above Dr. Everett's office with residence on North Side.
If you want a new roof, choose the Soap Stone Roof praised for water proofing and elasticity. It claims no cracking or peeling and costs no more than inferior roofs. For details contact John Bensoll in Amboy. Also promoted Cole's Veterinary Carboni salve for horse wounds and cracked heel with color restoration, sold by Eberhart & Co in small and large can sizes.
Marsh Harvester and the Royce Reaper, both top machines, are offered at their lowest prices in Dixon by L. D. Pitcues. A heavy salt reduction is noted with a call to see before buying.
Mowers five kinds and Sulky hay rakes seven kinds offered at lowest prices in Dixon by L. D. Pircuer. Great crossine out of hats at Mrs C M Swygart's Millinery Store two doors west of Austin Bros. Call to close out stock and offer hats below cost.
Masury’s Railroad Paint now sold at six fifty per hundred, advertised as the cheapest durable option when mixed with linseed oil costing about a dollar six per gallon. Also promoted Griggs Glycerine Salve at twenty five cents and Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic at fifty cents a bottle through Eberhart and Co.
Rockford reports hammock thieves should swing when caught. Sterling forms Orpheus club with Prof Mountz directing and the Weber quartet praised as excellent. Prof A A Griffith to start an elocutionary school at Des Moines. A young settlers organization forms at Sterling showing greater capacity than the old. The state Republican convention proceedings and platform appear on another page.
Reports cover a blown bridge near Moline causing 16000 loss, Sterling iron works daily iron use, Dixon visitors, water concerns in Galesburg, hangings and political shifts, local burglaries, tornado and fire damage, notable deaths and court actions, and evolving sheriff candidacies with election notes.
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