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Dixon News Briefs On Canal, Elections And Local Pride
Local items discuss a county election date of a Tuesday the 21st with mailed tickets. A Sterling Gazette weather record for March 1881 is summarized, noting many blizzards and clear days. Articles praise Major Hawk as soldier ally and discuss pension agent politics and wounded veterans’ needs. Dixon building boom includes new college plans, courthouse improvements, and multiple residences plus remarks on local businesses and a canals initiative in Washington.
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Sterling Gazette
Sterling
Clear
Hyde
Dixon
Adam. Sweet
Mr. Hyde
Congressman Hawk
Congress
Washington
Hawk
Captain Hyde
Chicago
Ada Sweet
Carroll County
Miss Sweet
Mr. Carroll Herald
Miles O’rilley
College
Dille
Second Street
C. Gonnerman
Peoria Street
Kerne
DeWolf
Frank Arant
A. C. Warner
I. Morgan
E. B. Stiles
Eastwood
Palmyra
Hollister
South Dixon
Hagsett
Arch
Morgan
Anderson
Alexander’s
Howell’s
Cumins
Corliss
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakota
Manitoba
Theron Cumins
Col
H. I. Noble
WU. B. Dodge
C. H. Noble
Pennsylvania Avenue
Greenbacker
J. ‘F. Little
Treasury Department
Tom Eustace
Land Department of the Interior
Florence
W. W. Curtis
Lands and Patents
Burnt Cork
J. C. Ayres
H. T. Noble
Jerome Hollenbeck
John Welty
Judge Welty
Georgetown College
Ferris Finch
House
Hennepin
Gen. Henderson
Major Hawk
Logan