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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1893
Page
3
The Brooklyn pastor describes midnight in cities as a scene of poverty crime and vice. He urges pity for the innocent and condemns the vicious poor, gambling, saloons, gambling dens, and street crime, urging mercy toward victims and vigilance against darkness.
A collection of sermon snippets and anecdotes covers moral reform, a conversion story of a dissolute friend, reflections on whiskers shaping character, a Guatemala betrothal custom, Greek eye lore, and a vivid tale of Rose Underwood and Fanny nicking through a burglary night. The speaker recalls a rescued life and the impact of faith, with vivid portraits of social vice, repentance, and the trial of a child.
A fragment quotes Hankinson mocking Mrs Strongmind for asserting rights while not living up to privileges. The joke claims Weyl, her husband, has a razor and she never uses it, noting he grows more beard than she does.
Incoherent OCR like line shows a student named Gempe Cooper quoted in October with garbled phrases about being good and a room’s silence. No clear event, person, or place emerges beyond stray schoolyard chatter.
Rose Underwood recounts how Mr Lincoln and his four sons crept to the house late at night seeking entry. The would be burglars were mistaken for a rescue by Rosa Mary E Wilkins and the tale ends with the revelation that the burglar was her own father.
A family tale describes a satin-backed spider weaving a wheel like web to catch prey, a mud-dubber wasp preying on the spider, and the wasp nest found in a garret. The professor explains mud and egg cells, larval development, and the life cycle of the blue wasps in this nature study.
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