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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1903
Page
9
Geneseo community pages report church revivals, school events, elections, local business updates, and personal notices. Mentions include Gene seo Chapter officers, tax book opening, music teachers, plans for a Cinderella benefit, and various residents’ travels and health.
Property listing reads East Main area with priority yards and a request from the undersigned on East Freer Meuth Avenue. Second brick from arrest A F Murphy noted as reference.
Swedish Lutheran church officials in Geneseo organize a relief drive for Norrland Sweden amid famine. Local collectors Frank Peterson the druggist John Dedrick J H O Bryan grocers Bernard Engdahl Aldeen Boleon and B Woehr will accept subscriptions. Contributions will be acknowledged in local papers.
The ad claims rheumatism sufferers can move joints freely after applying Perry Davis Painkiller. It markets the product as the singular remedy trusted by "grandfathers" and promises easing of stiffness and restored motion.
Obituary notices report Johan H E Bronka born 1830 in Grasdorf Germany died January 31 1908 at his daughter Hattie Mertz home after stomach cancer. Also John Gustaf Johnson born 1818 Oderhog Sweden died January 31 1903 in Geneseo of heart disease. Leopold Erdman born 1851 West Prussia died January 31 1903 after long cancer illness. Funeral services held in local German Lutheran churches with interments in Oak Wood and Edford cemeteries.
Business owner in Geneseo Illinois seeks sale of full or partial interest with or without building and offers building rental. Health issues limit management. harness trade, trunk and satchel trade, surveys, buggy and road wagon sales, and Deering business have produced sizable income. Rare chance for a capable buyer to run a busy shop with work for two men and continued profits.
A dense list of area church notices includes multiple congregations with upcoming services Sunday at morning and evening times, prayer meetings, and special speakers. Notable items feature Miss Maria C. Brehm addressing at the Congregational pulpit and a union temperance service at the Methodist church led by her, plus revival and youth activities across Lutheran, Unitarian, Evangelical, Catholic, Baptist, and Presbyterian communities.
The froiterial activity of the new century is shown by enormous demand for Dr King’s New Life Pills. They help constipation headache biliousness and digestive troubles. Available at J E Wright’s drug store.
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