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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
5
Local items report court action in a insanity inquest for Ira Porter, aging near ninety, judged not insane. Social news cover visitors, birthdays, neighborhood thefts, bicycle thefts solved in Davenport and Rock Island, and a street fair scene with community figures.
Gon Thos Nowers returned from Cambridge where he attends a Board of Review meeting as a member. The board will meet each Wednesday until its work is completed. At the latest session notice was issued to the executors of the Sturtevant estate for back taxes totalling about 14000 dollars. Sturtevant, a Galva resident who died in 1900, appears not to have paid taxes in the last decade of life. Most of the collected taxes will go to Galva township lands, with a substantial portion accruing to the county treasury.
A Chicago Inter Ocean dispatch warns Prophetstown in Whiteside County may lose its riverfront as Rock River reworks a new channel during floods. The city sits on an oxbow with a wide, turbulent river that carved a fresh bed ten to forty feet deep and 300 to 500 feet wide after past high waters. An extensive dike by landowner Dr. Mosher tried to stabilize the site, but heavy rains have worsened sloughs and unsettled the landscape.
The forecast outlines several storm periods from August 3 to early September. It cites central storm days August 3 4 and 9 11 with warm temperatures, falling barometers, thunder and rain. It warns of violent weather, seismic perturbations, and widespread storms toward month end and into September.
Local advert offers handmade guaranteed single harnesses produced at a factory with fall line horse harnessings advertised at low living prices from W A Port in Atkinson.
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