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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1875
Page
2
The article debates a proposed currency plan printed on small seven by nine inch paper. It suggests the plan could enrich newspaper stockholders like the Joliet Courier and Camp bell, noting Cuba notes trade at fifty cents on the dollar and imagining stock purchases upon return home.
A wandering narrator recounts a giant factory chimney misread as a volcanic well casing by a country visitor. Maz Adeler and Old Zachariah Jackson of Rocky Gulch share rough frontier wisdom. A town gathering, a fashion note on collars, a pill for humor in the South, a War Path Indian chief, and a waxed toy anecdote close the fragment.
The table notes trains passing Joliet after May 24 1875 on the C A R R, Michigan Central and related routes. It lists station stops including Lake Station, Lockport, Lemont, Plainfield, Wallingford and Peace with specified departure times such as 6 00 P M and 12 15 P M.
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