From the December 31, 2014, Mid Week (Sycamore, Illinois) "Looking Back."
Some interesting items from 125 years ago.
JANUARY 1, 1890:
** No one gave Fred Davis a Christmas present last week, so he helped himself to one. he entered the house of John Gray, north of Genoa, while the family was at supper, and stole a gold watch and some money.
** There is an epidemic of sore throats, boneaches, headaches and fever in DeKalb.
** Mr. I. L. Ellwood, while in Washington, D.C., last week had a personal interaction with President Harrison at the White House. (Ellwood was prominent in the production of barbed wire and quite wealthy.)
**Arch Miller of Hinckley gave land for the city water tank and will be supplied with free water for 99 years.
** The Army reports for November show 158 desertions out of 24,000 enlisted men. Desertion from colored regiments was less than from white ones.
--Cooter
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