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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
2
The clipping lists train times and stations including Chicago, Peoria, Galva, Wyoming, and Cambridge with various departure and arrival times. Agents listed are C Brown and JONES with Cambridge and East Hourd offices.
The piece argues rapid appendicitis rise stems from American business stress and constipation. It promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a digestive aid, claiming it strengthens digestion, relieves constipation, and improves appetite with a guaranteed bottle offer.
S Haynes writes from the Red River Valley detailing travel from Geneseo to Grand Forks and Arvilla. He notes 10,000 residents at Grand Forks, a strong university presence, water works, and emerging diversified farming with large acreages and many Geneseo investors.
Mrs Henry Carter of Nashville urges use of Kodol to aid indigestion and growth in children claiming her baby improved after one pattie. The ad claims ninety nine of a hundred diseases in children arise from stomach distress and promotes Kodol as a universal stomach remedy sold by J E Wright.
Emeretta Robinson Kilmer died August 17 1903 in Prophetstown of stomach cancer at age 57 after two months illness. She lived in Henry County, married to E B Kilmer in 1866, with one child who died in infancy. Survived by four siblings, active in church work and local charities, funeral held at Leon M E Church.
A letter from J A Gatt describes travel from Cam bridge to Lewiston Idaho and Riparia to Heppner visiting relatives, planning to return home by October. He reports the Heppner flood with about 2445 houses washed away plus many barns and buildings lost or missing, water depths up to twenty five feet, and tolling through the city core. Heppner is Warren county seat with a newly built $850,000 courthouse, flour mill, furniture factory, many stores and an electric light plant and water system.
A Galva resident argues in the Kewanee Star-Courier that withdrawing after moon trains harms local travel and commerce. The letter praises Rock Island and urges public ownership, noting past four daily passenger trains and calls for freight routing via Burlington with Santa Fe connections.
A Missouri reader from Puxico Wayne County reports using White's Cream Vermifuge to remove worms from two thin girls. Four worms appeared after two doses then twelve after four doses, one worm twelve inches long. He praises the medicine as excellent for children and growth. 2 cents at Clouse Summ.
A fragment describes a spider spinning its web with swift precision and intelligence, comparing its planning and execution to that of a skilled geometrician. The piece then shifts to a medical ad for Electric Bitters praising its benefits for digestive and nervous debility, followed by municipal notes on licenses and bonds and a council vote with names and results.
Mr T A Pinner of Drummond Teun reports being cured of dysentery after taking one bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He praises it as the best cholera medicine and says none is better for bowel complaints for children or adults. Sold by J E Wright and F A Peterson. Descartes quote ends the piece.
In a dated allegory a girl fears a grasshopper while a man spends on a cyclone cellar yet omits Chamberlain's remedy for bowel complaints. The ad claims the remedy is the prompt and reliable cure for cholera and diarrhoea and notes sale by J Wright and F A Peterson.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets claiming a cure in one day with a money back guarantee. The notice bears a signature from E. W. Groye and urges purchase from all druggists.
Cambridge residents report social visits by Nr and Mrs Holmberg of Washington and their daughter Lillie Holmberg. Lillie recently returned from a California pleasure trip. Britt Crane came back from Nebraska where he tended wheat and other business amid heavy rainfall endangering the crop. William Robinson of Joy, longtime Genesen resident and farmer in Monson township, made a cordial office call in Cambridge.
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