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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1898
Page
7
A birthday gathering for Tad Leh featured several classmates at his home. They enjoyed a fine dinner and shared pleasant reminders of the day. A celebrated salve advertisement accompanies the notice touting cures for bruises sores and skin eruptions, priced at 25 cents per box and sold by local shops.
Community gossip lists residents and visitors with short notes on illness visits school activities and social calls. It notes shifts in grocery coffee substitutes and local paper changes including the Kewanee Labor Advocate ceasing and joining the Evening News with the Kewanee Star.
Personally conducted trips depart Chicago every Wednesday using the SBurlington Route to Denver then via Denver and Rio Grande Ry described as the scenic line of the world. Tours travel in Pullman tourist sleeping cars with full conveniences under experienced special agents. For details contact T. A. Grady Excar sion Manager C B and Q R R 211 Clark St Chicago Illinois.
Advertisement offers Gexat Rock Isuaxa Route Map of Alaska with gold mine locations costs routes and tips on gear travel wages living expenses and best travel times. Promises free copy titled The Gold Folder and lists addresses in Chicago for requests and railroad travel tips to downtown stores via Rock Island Route.
Mrs Goldsmith suffered deep burns after her clothing caught fire near a red hot stove. Her son, about twelve, said her skirt touched the stove, flames enveloped her, she rushed outside and tripped on the step, hitting her face on the frozen ground. She later died from injuries. The family faces poverty and squalor. Mr Goldsmith is bedridden. Mrs Goldsmith’s death is reported in the Kewanee Star regional notices.
In Cleveland on December 7, reports note Rock River ice forming and teams crossing. Jacobson visited Geneseo with chickens. farmers have gathered corn. Jas W McGovern rents his corn stalks for winter. Forecasts predict a cold winter for 1898 99. Chas E Knorr acted as postmaster. postmaster attended business in Moline. M E church revival continues with Rev Sheppard assisting Rev Thompson. Our postmaster remains ill but improving. Wm C Dennison visited Hampton Ill to aid his ailing sister. Vic Norton threshes corn and moves buildings. he offers services to thread corn move wood logs sawed and buildings moved.
The Galesburg Business Men's Association debates a $400,000 sugar factory plan to produce 7,000,000 pounds a year. Water supply is a bigger hurdle than financing, with ideas ranging from securing local water to piping from a creek as a potential solution.
John Crompton visits Port Byron last Sunday while Ben Payne holds a permanent telegraph post at Bigston. Farmers slow to pick St Corn due to wind damage. John Eartheart needs help with a large corn field as his children recover from typhoid fever. Western Tube Co builds new offices in Kewanee. Hon Thomas Pairce and wife visit Mineral Springs. Tid the neal resorts noted for its mad baths.
Syracuse resident Joseph N Chenet believed he had weeks to live with four years of diabetes. After strong weakness, a Winnipeg sister sent a paper on Dr E A Rose’s cure and Dodd's Kidney Pills. He credits the pills with restoring his health before a planned operation.
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