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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1875
Page
3
A fragment from a 19th century newspaper mentions a Milwaukee man rushing a front door at midnight after seeing a brick. Police confront the scene as a violent outburst is described in terse notes. The entry also references rain in Illinois and crop observations including currants and gooseberries.
A fragmentary newspaper page mixes a boozy street encounter with a cooky assortment of captions and notices. It includes a drunken man asking the price of whisky, a landlord claiming an unlet house is his last, and a quirky rattlesnake display on a saloon counter alongside funeral clues and mail and church directory items.
The Land Department advertises sale along the line of a road in the Great Neohoe Valley comprising over one million acres of farming fruit and stock lands on ten years credit at low rates. They promise inducements for 1875 for colonies and families, with special transportation rates. Information available from the General Passenger Department Sedalia Missouri.
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