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A Remarkable Crime and City Notes From Dixon
The Dixon Sun sketches seven chapters of the Dr Cronin murder saga with portraits of main figures. It covers a Chicago Dispatch rumor on William Cronkrite’s marriage, local fires at Grand Detour Plow and factory improvements, civic work by the Y M C A, and a look at public health and sanitation calls for a regular sanitary officer as Dixon grows. The issue also reports a double suicide in Rock River, a debate on regional emigration, and a light essay on beauty across cultures and Dixon girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cronin
City National Bank
Galena Street
Main Street
Eells
Grand Detour
Nate Becker
John Gilpin
C. H. Hughes
Dr. Wynn
Becker
Hughes
Sun
West
Rock River Valley
Tacoma
Seattle
J. P. Sussmilch
Dixon
Eugene
Will
Water Street
Rockford
Sunday Herald
Chicago
J. P. Sassmitch
Rock River
Will Sussmitch
The
Madamoiselle