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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1911
Page
19
January 1911 sale notices for Henry Sands, Harvey Holzinger, and D J Holzinger list on farm properties at Geneseo area. Assets include hundreds of livestock heads, cattle, horses, milch cows, hogs, poultry, wagons, farm machinery, hay, corn, and household items. Prices recorded as cash or 12 month credit with 5 to 12 percent interest conditions. Lunch served. sales held near Annawan Mineral and other local farms.
Multiple farm sale notices detail 10 January to 14 January auctions at various farms 714 miles northeast of Geneseo and nearby towns. The listings include horses cattle hogs hay corn wagons plows harness and farming implements with cash or 10 month credits and 5 percent cash discounts. Lunch served on the ground and clocks note sale times and clerks.
Multiple farm sales list 18 head of horses and carts, 60 head cattle, hogs, corn and hay, machinery including Deering mower and binder, manure spreader, corn planter, harrow, and wagons. Auctions held near Geneseo and surrounding towns with 10 to 19 dollar terms, cash or short credit, lunches provided.
A detailed sale catalog itemizes draft horses including ages 11 and 5 to 6 years and various colors, 32 head of cattle with Angus cows and calves, 80 hogs, plows, wagons, gear, grain elevator, shelter, harness, posts, hay, and about 6000 bushels of corn. Terms offer cash under 310, credit over 310 with security, 7 percent interest from due date, 4 percent discount over 10 dollars. Auctioneers Warren Lester Henry W. Sand L. R. Arthens announce January 27.
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The article recounts William Penn's proposed colony name and the Blathwayt commissioner's objection leading to Penn's name for Pennsylvania. It notes Blathwayt preserved Penn letters, auctioned with Charles I draft copies for nearly $18,000, and traces the Blathwayt family name extinction and Winter family succession linked to Penn’s legacy.
A washerwoman explains makeshift safety for a child using a clothesline fastened near a wall. A new customer asks about the setup and learns the line is meant to catch a baby from tumbling out of a window.
A murky exchange follows a father scolding his young son who uses fingers as utensils. The reminiscence shifts to a troubled motorist recalling sea voyage anxieties while an inspection along a ship rail evokes tire imagery resembling automobiles.
Judge Bancroft Cox delivered a Cleveland speech against universal suffrage ending with a jovial peroration praising “woman-woman” as the morning star of youth, the day star of maturity, and the evening star of old age asking blessings for their proper sphere.
The Pittsburg evangelistic committee plans to take the Gospel hundreds of feet underground to miners in the district. More than twenty prominent business and professional figures back the effort which will see workers enter mines during mining hours, distribute pamphlets, and hold an open air meeting at noon with multilingual evangelists addressing miners in their own tongues.
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