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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1889
Page
3
The Dixon Sun dated October 16 1889 is a weekly Illinois newspaper edited by W M Kennedy. It announces a price of two dollars per year in advance and serves Dixon Illinois with coordinated issues each Wednesday.
The Son reports Mrs. E C Smith's address to the Rock River Farmers Club urging establishment of a township high school. Citing Dr Richard Edwards, the piece argues free public education supports government, with high schools widening opportunity, reducing costs, and stimulating civic duty across townships. It notes existing township high schools in Princeton Evanston Ottawa and calls for local action via a fifty-voter petition for a local election.
In Pittsburg, a common pleas court ruled against a 10 cent cash fare surcharge on Pennsylvania Railroad trains. L. D. B. Reese was expelled for refusing the extra charge, which the judge deemed improper. The jury awarded Reese $250.
A republican journal cites robbers disguising with red bandanas during a Mobile mail rain hold up and recalls the presidential campaign in Dixon where red bandanas were shown. It argues bandana use insults the national banner as much as any flag misuse.
The New York lawyer and Beecher ally argues that current indirect taxes wipe out three fourths of the poor’s savings and concentrate wealth in a tiny elite. He claims about 31,000 of over 60 million would hold the majority of wealth under existing rates.
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