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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
7
A sermon arguing that people mistake their inner ideals for reality. It urges objectivity, living in the actual world, and balancing subjectivity to reduce marital unhappiness. It warns against religious exclusivism and calls for understanding other faiths through externalizing thought and shared humanity.
The piece argues the pastor should mirror Christ the good shepherd by feeding the flock and knowing the people. It laments overemphasis on ministry authority and stresses pastoral feeding over crowd-pleasing sermons. The author urges intimate knowledge of congregants and faithful guidance.
Rev G R Wallace argues the Bible is essential for a moral code. He cites Greece philosophy and modern skeptics and notes Huxley urged Bible use in education. He also mentions Saxony's forestry profits threaten to rise to $2,000,000 annually.
The piece traces Chicago’s founding from Fort Dearborn’s 1804 establishment and the 1812 massacre to the 1871 fire, noting population milestones from 1840 onward and highlighting a planned city centennial celebration with illuminated fronts and Mardi Gras style attractions. The narrative cites Baptiste Saible Saningo, John Kinzie, and Captain Whistler as early figures.
Lt. K Edens warns September will bring disasters worldwide with cyclones and earthquakes. He claims his astro-barometer predicts the most ominous period Sept 19 to 26, threatening lands and seas from West Indies to the United States and beyond.
A national deal unites twenty western Pennsylvania breweries under a $20 million merger backed by Philadelphia and Pittsburg financiers. In Syracuse North Carolina a wall at the L C Smith and Wrothers typewriter factory under construction collapsed injuring five workers, all rescued with severe injuries. The U S Post Office reports 2455 rural free delivery routes started in July with total routes for the year ending June 30 1903 reaching 5664. Dr Alden A Kuip of New York sues University of Iowa president for 000 balance of salary over last year’s evacuees of the Iowa eleven. The Trooper planing mill in San Francisco burned, with adjacent lumber yard burning as well, loss 150 000.
State Board of Agriculture reports 1903 wheat output at 16,118,000 bushels and corn area down over 250,000 acres due to spring delays and June floods. Wheat price averages 70 cents per bushel, highest since 1891, with total value about 11.8 million dollars. Oats yield at 29 bushels per acre, 3.0 million acres harvested, value around 3.0 million dollars. corn condition in August only 74 percent of normal after bad spring and floods.
The Newton Illinois monument to Hale Johnson is a fine Barre granite statue funded by Prohibitionists across the United States. Johnson, at his death, served as chairman of the Prohibition party group in the United States.
The event featured Robert H Watton of Springfield John G Woolley of Chicago National Chairman Oliver W Stewart and ex-Congressman George W Yithian among the notable figures addressing the gathering.
The Illinois commission’s building committee says revised plans for the Illinois building at the St Louis Exposition cut costs to 75000 dollars from about 120000. The dome is lowered the state room is omitted and the third story center pavilion removed. The project aims for a ninety day erection after work starts while preserving the French renaissance style.
Two Chicago Milwaukee St Paul passenger trains met head on near Long Lake at nine in the morning. One killed and six injured including Express Messenger Northway of Chicago. Engines demolished baggage car crushed and rolled into a ditch. Most injured are railroad men from Chicago.
A tramp visiting a ranch near Los Angeles was shot and fatally wounded by Mrs. S. D. Davis, wife of the ranch owner. The assailant identified himself as John Stuck from Peoria and claimed no men were at home when approached.
OCR summary lists multiple violent incidents and criminal acts including near Rockdale Mills a robbery injuring Robert Kerr. Vernon murder of painter Charles Lee. a fatal accident at a Chicago elevator and a hospital area shooting in Troy New York. Also noted are public notices forming banks, factory fires, and a curfew enforcement in Peoria.
Bowman farmer Manstile near Sidney was captured by Sheriff Clark and a 300 man posse a mile from Stdosend after forcing his wife from their home in night clothes at pistol point. Mrs Manstile, cowed and exhausted, was found in an Osage hedge. Layman posted 350 reward for capture alive or dead. Manstile jailed in Urbana.
Stephen E. Hall aged 27 of 106 Seale Street Aurora shot himself in the left side at his boarding house 1103 13th Street N W Washington dying instantly. Hall a protege of Senator Hopkins was appointed to the census office three years ago and recently transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor. He had suffered catarrhal trouble for a year and, after failing to receive medical help, obtained a revolver from a bureau drawer and ended his life while facing a portrait of President Roosevelt.
Floyd Gardner of Thornton remorse over slapping his sister Cort at a village picnic led to his suicide. After rebuking her for dancing following their mother's death, he drank carbolic acid and died before help could arrive. Cort survived the incident.
18 month old son of Mr and Mrs William Steindorf died after wandering onto a truck as Fireman Robert Nye of a Chicago and Northwestern train attempted a rescue. Nye reached to grab the child but a sudden engine lurch caused a fatal crushing. Other deaths that day included Alvin Kray 10 accidental gunshot and Dennis 21 killed by a train near Poplar Grove while returning from a dance.
Chicago and Northwestern Railway pays 1 010 613 for 30 000 acres of coal land south of Springfield. Deeds filed in Macoupin County recorders office with J F Glove land commissioner noting the transaction. Dorseys of Gillespie listed as purchasers connected to the Macoupin rail project through Alton and Macoupin counties.
Two Chicago youths Jesso Parkson age 16 and Montgomery a company executive's son died when their sailboat wrecked in Green Bay near Fish Creek after leaving Sturgeon Bay a week earlier. The lighthouse keeper at Eggers Point sighted them days later and the boat drifted ashore bearing their clothing and a ship from Parkson's father as searchers worked to locate them.
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