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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1872
Page
3
The Dixon Sun lists column and business rates with varied costs for different lengths and insertions. It notes special local notices priced at fifteen cents per line for the first insertion and ten cents for subsequent insertions, and directs communications to The Dixon Sun, Newan Illinois, W. M. Kennepy, Publisher.
Estimates put the bulkhead and raceway cost at 12000 dollars with a 25000 dollar stock plan. Water power owners take 19000 of stock. surplus power and north side privileges deeded to the company. Citizens may subscribe about 7000 dollars, half the capital, payable in installments. The fund will only be used for construction, to prevent Sterling and other towns from competing. Act now before it is too late.
The piece cites Horace Greeley’s advice to create a stagnant town. It urges limiting new buildings, charging high rents, shunning merchants, frowning on newcomers, avoiding advertising, and withholding support for local papers. The aim is to consider such selfish habits as damaging to growth.
The Rock Falls Progress recounts Alice Zigler of Harmon Lee county who swallowed lye two years ago. She nearly could not eat, lived on limited nourishment, yet now Laughs talks and plays like other children. Dr Chas Hunt treated her. The paper also notes issues from The Chicago Balance editors and praises Mrs. Chas Wright of Rock Falls as a regular contributor.
A letter defends a Palmyra Sunday School Institute report amid criticism from Mr. M. It argues notice was sufficient and officials acted officially. The piece also promotes Burlington Route travel to Omaha Lincoln and St. Louis Kansas City with train features. An executor’s notice for Andrew Scallan’s estate in Lee County Illinois concludes the page.
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