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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
14
Sunday visitors include Sir and Mrs Frank Elim in Orion and Chas Anderson from Osco in Cambridge. Several residents travel for business, illness, and family visits. a birth is reported at the Oberg home near Osco and many attend meetings, sales, and church events.
Theodore Deh Diesch, a longtime resident near Cambridge after marriages in 1882 to Mary Schmoll Geneseo, left a wide circle of family and friends. He died December 6 aged nearly fifty years, with funeral services conducted near Cambridge and interment in Cambridge cemetery.
A fragmentary quote shows a playful scene where a suitor professes love while contrasting prior focus on pleasure with affection for a beloved, hinting at a romantic shift in tone. The snippet reflects a lighthearted dialogue labeled as Puck style.
Isabella Miller Martin born Ohio March 25 1888 died Rock Island December 9 1911. She moved with her parents to Peoria county at age 1 and married John Martin. later wed Samuel Martin in Cambridge 1870. She had three children with John and three with Samuel. Widowed twice, she lived with George Talbot in Rock Island before interment at Cambridge alongside her second husband.
Dee 4 Earl M Price of Galesburg and Miss Effie Sall of Galva. George E Johnson and Miss Minnie O Samuelson both of Opheim. Dee 6 Jess LeRoy Harlan of Greenville and Miss Esther Hier of Ulah. Dee 7 Arthur John Lundgren of Lindsborg and Miss Melicent Eleanor Krastenberg of Smalan. Dec 8 S W Pierce of Davenport and Mrs Allie Gray of Geneseo.
We thank friends for help and sympathy after the passing of our beloved mother. We appreciate comforting words and the expressions of love and regard. Children of Mrs. I M Martin.
Kind friends and neighbors offered help during illness and after the passing of our husband and father. We thank everyone for sympathy, acts of love, floral tokens, and assistance at the last rites. Mrs. Theo. Diesch and Children.
A dairy cow fell through a Pennsylvanian field into a coal mine, illustrating a rare modern downward movement case. The Washington Post reports on the animal's fall and the unusual route from pasture to subterranean space.
A fragment hints at a discussion of social norms and the idea of being “normal” versus unusually normal. The brief text appears as a reflective aside on self perception and conformity without specific events or names.
Henry B Poppy respected resident of Weller township died after a long life on the homestead farm established there. He was born in Bees ver Germany in 1838 and lived in Red Oakey Kewanee before settling in the family farm. Surviving are Valley J and Julius on the homestead, with funeral services held Monday at the Swedish church and burial in the Poppy cemetery.
A brief feature notes an Atchison girl who walks to keep pace with the average young man in town, reflecting a lighthearted social observation from the era.
The undersigned offers a 4 percent good bred Chester White box pig for sale. Location is farm six miles southeast of Geteseo. Contact Dennis Collins for details.
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