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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
13
Community notes from Hoop Pole and surrounding towns record funerals and departures, school elections, chores, and social visits. Rev Gasser's Zion church farewell, Hartweg family losses, and local attainments mark a period of change and motion through April.
A fragmented list assigns each figure a dish from venison to beef and poultry. Mentions include Sir Walter Scott, John the Evangelist, Mohamed, Napoleon, and Lord Macaulay with items like venison, beef, fish, pork, and locusts in a curious historical menu.
The excerpt notes Canada starting tin plate production and Cuban postal telegraph and state offices being reorganized. It cites shifts in per capita consumption in the United Kingdom and mentions attractions of foreign lodging with specific charges and inadequate accommodations.
A lengthy social note discusses the rise of imitation diamonds and artificial flowers among fashionable women influenced by opera culture. It cites jewelers noting that complete real stones are not always necessary for impact, with occasional real stones used to anchor visible pieces. The piece also touches on fashion trends like large artificial dahlias and a casual mention of novelty items and products, ending with a drug ad for Dr Kings New Life Pills.
Miss Florentce Spath hosted a birthday party for friends on Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Spath and family visited relatives near Yorktown on Sunday. Mrs. R. Smith of Ranniwan spent Easter Sunday with her parents. Otto Johnson of near New Bedford visited Mr and Mrs Henry Dunge on Sunday.
Frank A. Peterson filed bonds and petition with the City Clerk for a Druggist permit to sell intoxicating liquors for medicinal mechanical chemical and sacramental uses in Ironesco Geneseo Henry County Illinois. The permit runs from May 1, 1908 to May 1, 1909.
Notice announces J E Wright filed in Geneseo City Clerk's office for a druggist permit to sell intoxicating liquors for medicinal mechanical chemical or sacramental purposes. The building parcels shown are lots 1 and 2 of blocks 20 and 30 in Humphrey Turner's addition, second Ward, Geneseo, Henry county Illinois. Permit would run from May 1, 1908 to May 1, 1909.
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