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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
2
Railroad timetable fragment lists departures including No 3 Daily Kansas City California Ex and No 2 Daily Mail and Express at 7 57am. Other services include Omaha Exp 1 29am and Destoines Local 6 30 PM with Freight Accommodation Sunday exceptions.
A garbled OCR list shows multiple rail and express services including California Express, Govsha and Kansas City Express, Des Moines Local, Minneapolis St Paul Express, and freight services with nonsensical timings. Key items include daily operations with Sunday exceptions and multiple destinations.
A long field letter from Mrs Florence Minch Stauffacher of Henry County describes life at a mission station in Africa. She details garden work, irrigation plans, teaching arrangements, student interruptions, local staff movement, and daily routines amid wildlife threats and river floods. She mentions Mulungi, Mulungu, and John, notes gifts from home, and hopes for a future building to improve order and schooling.
Reader Gives account of a motor journey from Portland into interior Oregon. The writer details a Cadillac Model G owned by Howard M Cover of Portland and describes routes via the O R & X KR AK to Biggs and Shaniko, noting Shaniko as a major wool shipping center on the Columbia Southern.
An explorer describes a westward auto trip from Prov besides Crook County to Harney Valley. The text notes Harney County's 470,000 acres, a shift from pastoral to agricultural potential, and highlights beef, horses, sheep, and abundant waterfowl. It mentions McGowan and Nichols selling land, rail-line delays, and a lake with many ducks.
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