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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
12
Ex Harvard president Charles W Eliot urges schools to expose children to various trades through early lab work. He argues costly but necessary for broad mental development and cites Benjamin Franklin starting in printers. Nature quote follows.
Various church services listed for several denominations including Christian Science Trinity Episcopal Presbyterian and Union Park events. The Fortnight includes sermons musical offerings and union services plus a village marshal campaign in Wetherfield and a critique of Rock Island rail service and street lighting impacts on local travel and access.
The notice offers free sharpening of dull scissors at the New Fair general distributing agency serving Henry Knox and Rock Inland counties. It invites agents to join and asks readers to call or write for details.
Miss Helen C. Lane reports a busy summer term at G C I with rising enrollment and active attendance from Mercer Knox Rock Island Bureau Stark and Henry counties. Teachers seek positions, several return for advanced studies, and the college invites applications for a main building janitor to support students.
I J Dunlap and W H Remick called at George Chamberlains farm in West Jersey to view a massive seven year old steer weighing 3000 pounds and standing six feet high. Chamberlain plans to take the animal to a Chicago shock show hoping it gains appetite and could reach 4000 pounds before winter.
A poetic piece by Boss Carman in the Reader laments modern life’s malaise and health woes while evoking a rugged voyage. It contrasts grim daily grind with escape to a vast, truthful landscape where travel by horse and campfire under stars offers renewal and freedom.
In a lighthearted social note from the Danville Banner, one guest in a dinner party with a few friends over the first of the week asks for another plate of pork and beans. The family quips Ma’s won as the boy bets on hoggish behavior.
On the sixth day of creation Miss Frances Hartz reads from Genesis to her Sabbath school class. A sidelong remark from a child asks if God dried man in the sun like mud pies. The teacher continues with the lesson in Cleveland.
The new Swedish Methodist church at Twelfth Avenue and Thirteenth Street in Moline will be dedicated next Sunday June 25. Bishop Robert WreIntyre of St Paul will deliver the dedication address. The item ends with a household tip about boiling a cracked egg with salt.
A health advisory notes sickness may strike suddenly yet the underlying cause has often crept in over time. It praises a doctor for diagnosing first causes while promising the public they can compound medicines for maximum cooperation and patient satisfaction.
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