Geneseo Chautauqua lecture day closing for local business
Local business houses pledge to close from 3 to 5 pm on lecture afternoon to permit attendance of all patrons. Signatories include Cook & Wood, Curley Peterson & Wiedenhoeft, Brown Engdahl & Frad, Farmers National Bank, Geneseo Savings Bank, The News, and many other merchants and firms in Geneseo.
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William_Jennings—_Bryan
Geneseo Chautauqua
Chas
Pinks & Son
B.ll-Ross
Jos. Dobbs
Henry Hoeft
the Model
I. G. Erdman
M. BE. White
F. L. Smith
L. Rohweder
John Dedrick Co
the Republic
Kidney & Ryan
Hosford & Woehr
Geneseo Gas & Electric Co
John J. Guild
Hedman & Anderson
Harry M. Reid
J. EB. Wright
Arnold
Rappy Wiz Hangas
M Iversen
South
BE. W. King
R. Cherry
W. G Hamilton
John Titus
ZC Tailey
G Raifsnider
G M Wiedenhoett
MéBroom
Blankenfeld
John Eheggs
Jas Warnock
F Sarzent & Co
Theo Becker
Weimer ‘Auto Co
R Carl
Glenn K Tracy
Retiring Photographer Thanks Patrons In Personal Note
John Buell announces retirement from the photographic business after thirty six years in the studio and invites patrons to meet his successors,i Cc Sewell and daughter, who take possession August 1. Buell thanks customers for patronage and looks on them as friends.
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I. Cc. Sewell
John Buell
Bank advertises office rooms for rent
Classified note states office rooms available for rent at Central Trust and Sayings bank. Inquiries directed to the bank for details.
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Central Trust & Sayings Bank
Bank
Death of Mrs Mary Maher Widow of Geneseo Resident
Mrs Mary Maher widow of Edward Maher longtime Geneseo resident died at her home Sunday August 4 after about two weeks illness. Born Mary McAllister in Bellamena Ireland May 30 1834 she came to America at sixteen and later married in Princeton. Surviving children include Timothy Maher Horton Kansas Daniel Maher Chicago Edward Mary and Sadie Maher of Geneseo. sister Miss Eliza McAllister of Warsaw. Funeral Tuesday at St Malachys Church with interment Oakwood cemetery. relatives attended from Horton Chicago Corona and Moline.
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Mary ‘Maher
Mary Maher
Edward Maher
Geneseo_and
Maher
Mary McAllister
Bellamena
County Antrim
Ireland
America
Familly
Warsaw
Princeton
Mary A
Sadie K
Saith
Pather
M. F. Foley
Oakwood Cemetery
Timothy ¥. Maher
Som Francis
Horton, Kansas
Daniel P. Maher
Chicago
John BF. Delaney
Corona
Thomas Hauck
Moline
Community notices from Andover area include visits and church growth
Andover residents hosted and visited neighbors from Orion Moline Rockford Galva and other towns last week. The ME congregation welcomed seven new members in a large church class led by Kes Moberg. John Herberg longtime circuit clerk died in Cambridge with funeral planned Friday at his home and church.
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M E
Kes Moberg
John Herberg
A. Herberg
Cambridge
Anitover
Card of Thanks for Bereavement Support
The Payne family thanks friends and neighbors for assistance in sympathy during their bereavement and for floral expressions of love after the death of their loved one.
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Charles Payne
Free Rand McNally Illinois map for annual subscribers
Republic offers wall maps of Illinois to subscribers who pay one year in advance. The map features census data and a marginal index for locating towns. Add ten cents for mail postage. Geneseo chautauqua runs August 19 to 1. do not book other engagements for those eight days.
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Republic
Illinois
Rand McNally
Geneseo Chautauqua
Obituary: Powelson of Geneseo dies after surgery
Geneseo resident Powelson dies August 1 1912 at Hannemann hospital Chicago following gastric ulcer operation. Former Davenport oil business owner and lunch counter operator left a son Leslie and brother Ortin with many friends mourning his passing. Funeral at Grace United Evangelical church conducted by Rev E O Rife, with I O O F lodge members attending and escorting to Oakwood cemetery. Born December 22 1873 at Brooks Iowa he moved to the state at age six and married Georgia Vickrey in 1905.
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Eneseo
Hannemann
Cicago
Powell Son
Powelson
State Street
Geneseo
Lke
Daven- Dort
Grace United Evangelical Church
E. O. Rife
Prosperity Lodge
No. 704
Davenport
Order
Oakwood Cemetery
John Powelson
Brooks
Iowa
Georgia Vickrey
Leslie
Clara Curtis
Garner, Col
Ortin Powelson
Burlington
Colorado
Illinois rural life congress urges old fashion husking bees and plow contests
At the second annual Illinois Federation for Country Life Progress conference in DeKalb speakers urged rural communities to revive old fashioned husking bees and plow contests to strengthen social life. They cited examples from Wheatland Dupage and Rock Creek, highlighted by school and church partnerships and community programs.
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DeKalb
Illinois
Illinois Federation For Country Life Progress
Northern Illinois Thormal School
Fanny Wheatland
Will
Jimmie Patterson
Plownram
Patnam
Wis
Dy Wilt Mills
Wiere
United States
Orange Hill
Grange Hall
Consolidated School
Milks
Rock Creek
R. E. Bone
Petersburg
John Wy. Cook
Northern Illinois Normal
National Educational_association
Jennie Buell
State Grange
Michigan
Buell
Hadley at Princeton on Roosevelt and party reform
Governor Hadley attacks party control and urges action on progressive principles. He argues for regulation over separation of trusts, cites Standard Oil and Northern Securities, notes the railroad tariff issue, and calls for government ownership of railroads with August 10 to 18 reserved for events.
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Bureau County Republican
Tor Miss ‘Gours
Chicago
Hadley
Washington
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Thorn
Repubblican
Northern Securities
Beef Trust
Standard Oil
Otfers
Wall Street
Bryan
Roosevelt
Gov. Hadley
Geneseo Markets Amid Fundraising Meeting for China
A Genoese style market report notes a Saturday night event in Los Angeles raising $35,000 with pledges to prevent China’s borrowing abroad. Organizers aim to collect $300 million via nationwide meetings to fund aid. Most Chinese donors pledged six months of income. Lager and Offerle advertise four autos wearing apparel.
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Los-Angeles
China
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