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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1875
Page
4
The column lists local events and ads from Newell's dining options to musical notices at Baptist sociables and Brooks & Co selling cages and ice cream freezers. It mentions real estate prices, a purse reward, and building plans near the St Nicholas Hotel. A jail escape and railway crossing notes close the roundup.
Four weeks past the A. and St. Louis Railway removed the old wrought steel and wood crossing at Van Buren street where the road crosses the Rock Island and installed a new one on the same track. They then replaced the crossing on the adjacent track, in use about a year. The cost of the old crossing was about seven hundred dollars. The two new crossings just laid down cost five hundred dollars each, replacing a crossing that had been in service only a year.
The Joliet Stone Company forms with George M. Campbell Daniel C. Hayes and George H. Munroe leading the venture. They boast large quarries top quality flagging stone and a capable team. Keokuk Iowa mayor and bridge committee study potential bridge sites during the week.
An ad page highlights Continental and Hartford Fire insurance assets and agents Hoss Knowlton and E T Chase while promoting Brooks Co as a source for wire cloth water filters water coolers and cooking stoves. It touts Wests Pulmonary Balsam and Newell’s strawberry offering with shopping for linen suits and 413rd Day board.
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