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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
2
Land listing notice offering farms and city property for sale or rent in Iowa Minnesota North Missouri and Wisconsin plus Geneseo Illinois parcels. Contact Oron Fletcher Geneseo IL Land Agent at the office near Lowes & Browns store to list lands with reasonable terms.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to mix railway schedules with daily mail routes and unrelated ad copy. It mentions Geneseo East, Express daily, Burlington Crossing, and city notices, then abruptly shifts to an 19th century style medical claim about DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve curing piles. The readable items show transportation notices and an advertising claim without a coherent single event.
A powerful February storm disrupted trains and streetcar lines from Washington to New York, freezing drains and waters. Snowdrifts blocked routes, ships burned, and fires caused major damage across large cities. Congress members spent the night at the Capitol while the poor faced hardship. Fruit trees suffered extensive damage in the Southwest.
A jumble of family notices, medical ads, and local updates recounts praise for a remedy praised as a family doctor. Births, illnesses, visits, shipments, and road meeting notices fill the page with names like Kimball Griffeth Dwyer and Dwyer.
Mrs Rosa Richardson of Laurel Springs NC says consumption left her near death yet seven bottles of Dr King's New Discovery cured her and she now prospers. The advertisement claims the remedy treats consumption pneumonia lagrippe bronchitis stubborn coughs and offers bottles at 50 cents with a free sample at J E Wright's drug store.
Local reports show quarantine lifted for several farms and homes in Woodhull area as the disease wanes. Names of residents and properties once under quarantine include Williams, Anderson, Ericsson, Andreen, Stiers, Eker, Johnson, Tittle, Stickles, Nelson, Thayer, Olson, Gamble, Holus, Cook, Olson, Seuss, and Woodball. State Board of Health disputes claims and notes public services suspended to curb spread while experts weigh diagnosis amid widespread alerts.
A Standard reporter notes Erie in Whiteside county transformed after a devastating fire. The once slow farming town now shows hustle and growth with brick blocks, new post office and hotel, many banks, cement sidewalks, and ongoing paving talks. Citizens remain deeply devoted to Erie.
A loose collection of items notes Erie’s patriotic spirit, town prosperity after a past fire, and Governor Yates declaring “Erie’s all right.” It also covers Rev F G Smith’s news club in Dannine Iowa, Chamberlains Cough Remedy testimonials, Ideal Union resolutions for a death, and Congregational entertainments at Cambridge Armory Hall with dates February 20th to 22nd.
An old roadside genial ad speaks of Dr King’s New Life Pills curing indigestion and bowel troubles for 25 cents at J. & Wright’s drug store. In the fashion world a Buffalo window shows pants at 9 cents a leg and a tailor shop in East London boasts dandy kicksles and a monarch price for clever fittings.
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