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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR lists various paper names and issue numbers such as Daily Marl and Express Now Dank St Paul Express No. and Omita No. 18 with references to Sundays and freight. The readable parts show a sequence of railway or newspaper item identifiers rather than a cohesive event.
The City of Geneseo Illinois notifies of an assessment for street widening on State Street from Main to Park including paving with vitrified brick blocks. Assessments apply to frontage of lots in the project and are payable in ten installments five percent annual. Final hearing set September 1 1905 at 10 am. objections may be filed and defenses presented. William Bourne appointed assessor.
Mrs A M Davison of 3 Gifford Ave San Jose California praises Electric Bitters as a superior general family remedy for headaches biliousness and liver and bowel torpor. She claims a bottle provides more digestive health than other remedies. Sold under guarantee at J E Wrights drug store.
Personal memoir by C. D. Knapp of Andover now Greenfield Iowa recounting the Saunders Raid from a Myers Post G A R meeting. He describes crossing the Cumberland mountains and the Tennessee river near London and Knoxville, losing horses and gear, burning depots and factories, and skirmishes with Confederates as they disrupted railroads and telegraph lines while advancing toward Knoxville. He notes hardships, battle dangers, and a dramatic through-line of endurance and peril.
The memoir fragment describes a night retreat by a unit along a railroad, frightening the enemy and exhausting soldiers. Sleep deprivation caused disorientation, strange visions, and erratic behavior, with some men wandering or collapsing.
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