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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
13
Republic subscribers paying a year in advance receive a Rand McNally Illinois wall map showing census data and an easy locator index. Free while supply lasts. mailed map adds ten cents postage. Local items note coal prices, births, deaths, and community notices from Geneseo region.
A collage of small items including a horse drawn carriage sale at seventeen dollars per ton, Mrs. Arnett Sr. ill with pneumonia, Frank Weston visiting Chicago for holidays, William Clark Sr. of Munson township injured in a fall, a buggy sale offer, names Swan Stranberg and Dodges Center travel notes, changes in postal service adding a third mail carrier Ed Blankenfeldt appointed to two daily deliveries citywide.
Mrs L N Woodruff died January 8 at her Moline home after cancer and long illness. Funeral at Colona M E church with interment in Dayton cemetery. Born March 28 1872 in Independence Iowa she moved to Colona as a child. Survived by husband L L Woods daughters Mrs Emil Colberg and Mabel, two sisters and two brothers.
A hundred dollars hidden in the re hard at the home of the late Theodore Ennes at Walnut was found during preparations for a public sale. A Princeton man connected to the deceased used the method of hiding savings in a candy bar.
Charles E Sturtz will retire from the Henry county State’s Attorney post at term end and will not seek renomination. He cites Senate Bill 841, his growing private practice, and nine years in public service as factors, and says he may consider future public service in a broader role.
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