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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1903
Page
2
Eight room house on over one acre with fruit trees and barn. Includes office building and total premises amenities. Colona Illinois offered by WEED.
Train options from Geneseo area list daily and express services to El Paso Kansas City and Cambridge. A California travel letter describes Pomona orange groves from North Pomona Lordsburg Govern San Dimas and packing houses with details on packing and shipping fruit. Community notices cover local elections births weddings and business trips with several personal updates.
A national ruling prohibits minors from renting mail boxes without parental written consent. The policy aims to curb teen flirtations and potential misuses while outlining a new rural free delivery procedure for registered mail, with storekeepers on routes handling and delivering mail by written orders.
Probate court proceedings show John J. Sweeney proving Johanna Sweeney as administratrix of Walter J. Whalen estate and seeking appointment as administrator de bonis non with bond $1,400. Executors Hultgren Oliver Nowers Lindstrom Francis Johnson guardians appointed with bonds and final reports approved, including real estate sale and household disbursements, and multiple guardians for Eric H Johnson’s heirs.
A Kewanee Woodmen official reported in Henry County that strong opposition to the readjustment plan exists statewide. Local Woodmen largely agree, opposing the proposal and favoring a continuation of current arrangements with hopes for new officers and reforms to restore the order.
A damaged notice hints at a device or remedy that prevents death by self harm. The vague text mentions despondency and a product called Electric Bitters II as a regulator, offered at 50 cents by J E Wright, a druggist, with guarantee of satisfaction.
Clement Van Den Brook was found unconscious in an alley off O'Dea street in west Kewanee. He woke briefly before daylight and claimed someone had stolen his watch. Doctors concluded he was drugged and robbed while seven men passed by around one o'clock returning from work.
Panic in Wall Street overruns the scene with fears of a vast loss affecting millions. The text pivots to a medical ad urging Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a guaranteed cure for stomach and bowel troubles, framed beside the economic distress.
Statistics by Adjutant General Charles E. Partridge show the Civil War veteran death rate in Illinois is increasing. For the year just closed 7.5 deaths among 41,725 members produced a rate of about 0.18 percent, with 190 deaths reported overall and a twelve year rise from 1 to 3.08 percent. The article notes many veterans were very young at enlistment and projects the last members may remain for several decades more.
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