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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1911
Page
3
A crowded page notes social visits across Lynn Cambridge and Colona including Johnson, Wongstrom, Nelson, Bloombergs and Swansons. People travel to Cambridge New Windsor Davenport and Moline for calls and schooling. Also mentions Dr O Ringwell, Chamberlains remedies and local health notes.
Monday residents and visitors are listed including Mrs. John Billings in Davenport, Miss Wier-ct Rio visiting friends, and John L. Peterson in Little York. Several towns recur with relatives in Galesburg and Rock Island as social calls and Sunday visits fill the week.
George Walker completes fifty years of continuous blacksmith service in Princeton. He first came to the town in 1847 with his father Rev O A Walker a Methodist minister. After an apprenticeship of four years in 1861 he opened a blacksmith shop on the present site and rebuilt the old cabin on the same ground. He will retire from business, ending a long life as an artisan in the community.
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