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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1882
Page
4
July 26 1882 edition from Dixon Illinois reports local happenings and community notices. Details include public announcements, upcoming meetings, and brief items on residents and businesses shaping the town's week.
Amboy residents share social items about visitors and engagements including weddings at Walton and a local marriage in the Catholic church. The column notes local moves, travels to Denver and Springfield, and farm advice on cultivation, transplanting, blight prevention, and corn seed quality with Beal's findings.
Rural items discuss using small amounts of sunflowers for bird gloss, barley as a strong crop starter, and cutting before head formation. Burdock control via hoeing and kerosene, timing to prevent seed spread. Strawberries priced high due to drought effects on meat and eggs, plus bottle traps with vinegar water and molasses to catch codling moths in apple trees. Old water cans repurposed for traps.
By Universal Accord Ayrr's Cathartic Pints are praised as the best of purgatives for family use. The sugar coated vegetable pills are described as mild yet effective for the digestive system and safe for children and weakened constitutions. sold by all druggists amid widespread physician endorsement.
A local business note reports the city’s top barbering spot operating out of Chas A. Todd’s hat shop in Dixon. The change highlights how a barber’s shop has begun sharing space with a hat retailer, signaling a practical downtown collaboration.
Notice informs that the Marion town Highways commissioners in Lee County are raising funds to pay outstanding orders. Holders are urged to present their orders for settlement at Josiah Little's bank in Amboy Illinois by August 1, 1892. Lawrence Dewpsy, Andrew Morris, M O Malloy listed.
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