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Newspaper
Joliet Daily Sun
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1875
Page
4
Auction notice lists various items including bright and varied cages from Bright & Co and Brooks & Co for sale with prices and conditions. It mentions a residence priced $1,500 less than cash value and references other business names and advertisements.
A fragmented advertisement page listing money loans by T Chase and partners, house and lot sales, monthly payments, and a wide array of goods from stove and ice cream freezers to wire cloth and ice boxes. It promotes various insurance options with foreign and domestic companies and notes price comparisons and savings.
An assortment of notices and short items fill the page. Brooks sells Kedzie Water Filters for purifying rain and river water. The city notes discuss schools, exodus of teachers, a Chicago and Lake Huron railroad engineer’s visit, marriage licenses, local catering, a grasshopper pest, and a new plow shoe invention.
A fragmented Will County page lists Fourth of July events in New Lenox and Joliet region, with names including F Allen, C B Lewis, Dwight Haus, A Francis, Geo Van, J Doxtader, and Caleb Jones. Local ads note fruit yard sales, vegetable liver pills, and a shipment of strawberries. Real estate transfers show buys by Dennis Sullivan, King and Bishop, Wm Blair, and others in Joliet and Plainfield, with prices ranging from 150 to 4000 dollars.
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