Ye Olde Hotel Nachusa

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Written by G. W. CONN, Jr., after having read the list of names of famous people who have been enter- tained at the NACHUSA HOTEL, Dixon, Illinois. YE OLDE HOTEL NACHUSA Erected in 1838-Rebuilt in 1858, 1871, 1914, 1936 THEI HERE'S a haven in a tavern famous as the tourist's joy, on a river swirling, curling, through the plains of Illinois. There the drummer finds his solace in a modern hotel palace, rich, luxurious, antique, curious, marked with fame and ancient lore, holding history in store for its great men by the score. On the pages of the past, we find great men from first to last, who have made our country known throughout every land and zone. There stood Lincoln, grand and great, when he tussled in debate with the "little giant" Stephen, with the honors almost even. Here the name of poet Holmes, down the list is Jenkin Jones, higher up the name of Grant, Madam Patti with her chant. Here they supped and dined of old, guarded in the landlord's fold. Five score wearing years deface, but the tavern, keeping pace, does the modern modes embrace. Art has worked its wondrous change, science brings convenience strange, till the spirits of the dead, should they now engage a bed at this tavern of tradition, would succumb to superstition. Neatness, comfort, food and beauty, given from a sense of duty, to the worn and weary farer, no place like it, nothing rarer. Up-to-date, with all things nice, furnished by the landlord, Rice.

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A partial list of names of famous people who have registered at the Nachusa Abraham Lincoln U. S. Grant Theodore Roosevelt Wm. Howard Taft Gen. Leonard Wood Medill McCormick Robt. LaFollette, Sr. Eugene V. Debs Sam Jones Stephen A. Douglas John A. Logan Cassius M. Clay Bayard Taylor Horace Greeley Jefferson Davis Pres. Conf.States Amer. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan Adelina Patti Carlotta Patti Emma Abbott Ole Bull Galli Curci Helen Keller and Mrs. Macy Camilla Urso Elbert Hubbard John M. Palmer Governor and Senator William (Boss) Tweed Judge Kenesaw Landis Marquis of Queensbury Lady McCormick Lady Somerfield Tennessee Claflin Lady Cook Mme. Schumann-Heink Anna Dickinson Will Carlton Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Ward Beecher Lieutenant Hobson George Ade Carter Harrison, Sr. Dwight Moody Richard Oglesby (Gov.) Gen. John D. Gordon Wm. J. Bryan Billy Sunday Dr. Cook Arctic Explorer Maude Ballington Booth Jenkins Lloyd Jones Schuyler Colfax Vice-Pres. E. B. Washburne U.S. Min. to France HERE