Geneseo News Highlights Arts Trades and Local Life
Geneseo items report the best line of fireworks at The New Fair and stylish oxfords priced at 3 60 and 4 50. Local stores close July 4 for holiday, with painting by Axel Peterson and a large local painting crew available. Community notices include marriages, church events, school activities, property sales, and weather concerns for crops and rain.
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Geneseo
Axel Peterson
Mutual
G. R. Tomlinson
Cambridge
Mattida—Fres
J. C. Hammond City Hospital
Lyon
Mowbray & Lowes
Julius Shultz
Barney Gasser
Chas. Gross
August Egert
William , Pentland
Hooppole
Mr Gasser
Maxwell
Mathis Tonkinson & Co
Union Park Church Notices and Services This Week
The Union Park listings show sermons and events across several churches. Dr Horace Reed speaks on The White Slave Trade at 7:30 pm, with special music by the Methodist choir. multiple denominations schedule 10:45 am services and 7:30 pm Union Park gathering. An editor announces a hospital stay and recovery.
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Union Park
Horace Reed
Ilinois Vigilance Association
Methodist Church
Christian Science
Hosford
Presbyterian
E. E. DeLong
Atholic
Sterling Township Road Funds May Fund Brick Paving
Sterling township road fund will hold 15000 after July 1 for paving projects. Road Commissioner Thomas McCune urges brick paving east of Sterling on Dixon road and west on connections to West Fourth Street, arguing macadam costs rise. Two road commissioners differ. McCune notes other townships have switched to paving to reduce ongoing repairs.
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Sterling Gazette
Sterling Township
Thomas McCune
Osim
McCune
Sterling
Correlation in Page County Rural Schools
The Page county Iowa schools fuse education with daily life in a new rural program. Teachers link classroom work to farming activities from soils to plant breeding and stock care. Home settings join lessons, making schooling a family enterprise and boosting prospects for countryside families.
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Roosevelt
Country Life Commission
Herbert L. Quick
Success Magazine
Page County
Iowa
America
Kewanee Star-Courier
A Bad Lot and the Magistrate’s Ten Day Sentence
A drunken disorderly prisoner implores the magistrate with a quip about humanity. The magistrate quickly orders ten days and to compile a list of names to arrest. The ad notes five dollar Panama hats at Lager Offerle & Co. for hot weather.
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Offerle & Co
Davenport Boys Drown In Mississippi River
Three Davenport lads James Wilson 14 Raymond Wilson 12 Roy McDonald 13 drowned while wading at a shallow river spot near Woodward's Grove two miles north of Port Byron during St Paul's Lutheran Sunday school picnic. Bodies recovered. warning given about the danger.
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Davenport Bors
James Wilson
Raymond Wilson
Roy y_McDonald
Mississippi River
Woodward's Grove
Port Byron
St. Paul’s Lutheran Sunday School
Davenport
Annawan Pigeon Club hosts 190 mile Indiana flight results
The Annawan Pigeon Club held an other flight last Sunday, June 25, from Plymouth to Annawan, a 190 mile race. First prize went to Charles Doubler for 24 birds. Mell Swofs placed second and third, with Chas Pretta fourth and fifth. Birds posted fast times despite bad weather. next flight will run from Columbus City to Annawan over 225 miles.
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Annawan
Rock Island official injured in Kansas derailment
F QO Melcher of Chicago vice president of the Rock Island railway and his family were injured when five rear coaches of train No. 28 derailed near McFarland Kansas. The train moving 45 mph left the track shattering heads and causing internal injuries to several passengers. Others hurt included Byron Cunty secretary to Melcher A E Sweet general manager and G W Rourke Kansas division superintendent with injuries reported.
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F QO Melcher
Chicago
Rock Island Railway
McFarland
Kans
Melcher
Byron Cunty
A. E. Sweet
Topeka
G. W. Rourke
Herington
Kansas Division
Name Options for a Minnesota Farm
A list of proposed farm names from the University of Minnesota includes Airy Knoll Airy Hills Airy Mount Arrowdale Breezy Point Bannerland Branching Brook Clover Crest Cloverdale Cedarcroft Deepdale Daisy Meadow Deer Lodge Dairy Downs Eagle View Excelsior Forest Hill Fountain Home Fair Oaks Glendale Graceland Grand View Hope Station Haycroft Jerseyland Kenilworth The Knolls Lyndale Lakeside Maple Grove Morning Glory Rockwood Robin's Lane Stillwater Sunnyside Sunny Slope Willowdale Willow Copse The Willows.
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University of Minnesota
Airy Knoll
Airy Hills
Airy Mount Arrowdale
Breezy Point
Bannerland
Branching Brook
Clover Crest
Cloverdale
Cedarcroft
Deepdale
Daisy Meadow
Deer Lodge
Dairy Downs
Eagle View
Excelsior
Forest Hill
Fountain Home
Fair Oaks
Glendale
Graceland
Grand View
Hope Station
Haycroft
Jzéqieminot ‘Lodge
Jerseyland
Hazlenook
Kenilworth
the Knolls
Lyndale
Lakeside
Maple Grove
Morning Glory
Rockwood
Robin's Lane
Stillwater
Sunnyside
Sunny Slope
Willowdale
Willow Copse
the Willows
Backed by Rich County Old Man in Poorhouse Remark
An elderly man in a poorhouse tells a visitor that while he has no income, he is "backed" by one of the state's wealthiest counties. He notes his financial cushion comes from strong county backing rather than personal funds.
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D. M Kirkpatrick
Unitarian Church
North Woods
Michigan
Kirkpatrick
Friends
Bertha Stafford
College of Music
Cincinnati
Ohio
Congregational Church
Auction Notice for Power Boiler and Engine
The undersigned offers for sale a stationary fifteen horse power boiler and a twelve horse power engine in sound condition. Contact details and full terms appear in the notice.
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Tversen
Minoie
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