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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1888
Page
8
Larry Linnet portrays Amelia a stoutly vain 31 year old private public 23 year old in jaunty hat and curls with a slender purse and a poodle. Augustus a five foot man with five dollars weekly pride. They stroll city parks and joke about marriage with Amelia using him as a cane.
Tommy Gregg recalls a perilous 1867 expedition from St. Louis to Fort Union New Mexico. He faced rattlesnakes siege horse thieves and a survival tent trick as protection. Diamonds and gold dust recovered from deserters funded the venture.
Gen Butler publishes a Chicago letter blasting the Spies case as a political murder. He recalls Giles Corey and colonial witch trials, urging moral reckoning and the end of judicial excess, while Chicago police warn of anarchist regrouping at 703 Milwaukee Ave.
The text outlines four proposed constitutional amendments affecting liquor sales and transport. It calls for statewide control of liquor sales, restricts interstate transport into prohibition states, and seeks an early submission of a constitutional amendment to ban importation or sale of intoxicants except for medicinal or scientific purposes.
Telegram from New York confirms the death of Gen George W. Cass born 1810 in Ohio. He organized Adams Express and led rail ventures including Pittsburgh Fort Wayne and Chicago and Grand Rapids and Indiana. He served as president of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad later as Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago. a Democratic political figure and cousin of Gen Lewis Cass.
In Topeka the State Conference of the Methodist Church under Bishop Walden passed a resolution favoring national prohibition and vowing to support any party standing on temperance. It urged two laws: bar IRS tax permits for liquor in prohibition states to authorized sellers only, and ban liquor sales in the District of Columbia on military reservations.
Washington special reports a heavy storm as lightning hit the Capitol causing telegraphic and telephonic outages. A ball of blue fire reportedly dropped from chandeliers, startling occupants while engineers and horses were knocked down and lights failed in parts of the Senate and House wings.
Henry J. Blake of Paris Kentucky sails for Paris to seek Pasteur inoculation for hydrophobia after a wolf bite in Montana. His head wound from the attack remains severe and he travels with two companions. one helper has a son who died from the disease.
Counterfeit $5 silver certificates are in circulation in Chicago with many found in tills and passed at banks. They mimic genuine notes with better ink and poor lathe scroll work. The key detector is the back silk thread. some genuine notes have two threads while others have one. the counterfeit shows a single straight line. Use a pin or knife to reveal the difference.
An advertisement touts Dr. Greene's Nervura Nerve Tonic as a universal cure for nervous debility and numerous ailments. It claims to restore sleep, appetite, and vitality, reduce heart palpitations, and improve digestion and kidneys. The ad notes a $1 price and lists Dr. Greene of New York as the discoverer.
Dear reader letter dated December 26 reports the foreman at Valley City Mills in Grand Rapids Michigan explaining his return to work after illness. He credits Hibbards Rheumatic Syrup and Plasters with curing stomach and rheumatic trouble. Mother also uses it and praises its efficacy.
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