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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
3
A poem from the Hartford Times laments a mother longing for her son. It reflects rural life and wartime separation with imagery of a family at home, the garden, and a mother’s vigil for her boy, urging duty and remembrance.
Courtland defends his plantation against a gun ambush aimed at Cato and leads him to the freedmen’s quarters. Pursuers, including masked riders, tail them, but Courtland confronts the intruders and asserts federal protection, while planning a night escape and safety for the enslaved.
A London optician uses a penny in the slot machine to display a stereoscope style page reader. Users insert a penny, turn a knob to view readable text through numbered glasses, and mail a 6d note with an order form to receive spectacles by post.
A garbled OCR passage presents disjointed dialogue about telling a story. It features a child’s prompts urging someone to "tell more story" and phrases about resting, a sailor suit, and a request for a tale. The text is fragmentary with unclear context or attribution.
The piece explains how the 1893 Columbian stamps are miniature steel engravings with fine detail and limited sale, compares them to earlier issues, and describes the meticulous hand process from engraving on steel to pressing and gumming. It covers the 1847 to 1848 shift to adhesive stamps and notes public reactions and costs.
George HB Westley describes Septiliser a mystifying parlor game using seven books arranged in a row. A player outside guesses the chosen book by a coded touching sequence, with the secret lying in touching the correct nth book in order. The article notes deception tricks and expanding the number of books to raise difficulty.
A Crocus asks a tiny spray when it blooms. The spray replies it never blooms but is the garden’s champion sprinter, claiming twenty feet in eight weeks as a running vine, per Harper's Young People.
A fragmentary piece reflects on a Red Lizard near a spring learning to sing and contrasts ancient orators with modern voices. It muses that Demosthenes Cicero Patrick Henry would still persuade with enduring eloquence if alive today, noting the lasting power of gifted speech.
A garbled exchange references temperature and weather as characters speak of illness remedies and marriage. The fragment hints at a comedic or absurd dialogue with clergyman, wind, and thermometer voices, implying a literary or humorous vignette.
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