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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1893
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR lists eastbound and local train routes from Council Bluffs to Washington and Kansas City with daily and Sunday notes. Mentions Denver via Council Bluffs and Kansas City, with several time stamps and fare figures, but many items are unreadable.
The writer tours Pisa and Rome, noting Rome travel, the Descent from the Cross at a church, and a remarkable echo in Pisa Cathedral Baptistery. He complains of high local prices and dodgy tourist practices by monks and vendors.
Narrator recalls street vendors in Italy, paying two francs for Lavacurios, and a priest at a crypts cathedral while noting high prices and Sunday decency. Describes Campo Santo frescoes, crusader dirt, Pisa and Naples like conditions, and a pendulum chandelier linked to Galileo. Mentions Toledo fake patents and Hall's Catarrh Cure.
A physician endorses Ballard's Snow Liniment as uniquely penetrating and curative for rheumatism neuralgia and various injuries while warning of counterfeit imitations. Advertisements promote DaVitt's Little Early Risers and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. A local resident faces bond over a neighbor shooting incident and the Jefferson Davis funeral is set for Richmond on April 28.
A testimonial from a Michigan resident at Armands claims Dr Green's Nervora blood and nerve remedy cured her nervous weakness and insomnia after two years of illness. She also says it helped her daughter and urges others to take the medicine from Dr Grasne of New York, with free consultation offered.
A mixed fragments page mentions the Best Line to California from Chicago or St. Louis via the Burlington Route with westbound stops, Pollman sleepers, chair cars and dining cars. It also includes ad mentions for Tutt's Pills Clark's Rock Candy Cordial Ayer's Hall Vigor and a political jab at Governor Altgeld along with a note about John Ryan as Superintendent of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
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