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Local Atkinson Geneseo ads and community notes
Sunlit Atkinson and Geneseo dwellers see shop banners for Verbeckmoes and Lager & Co department stores. Newsbriefs cover school events, weddings, store sales, farm machinery, and residents traveling to Davenport and Denver with updates on births and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.F. Brooks
Geneseo
Grant_Grasser
Pasbu
Rock Island
Mapes
Herman Hirschbarger
Annawan
Chas. Humphrey
Henry Pritchard
Samuel
Walter
Lucy Bryant
Hov
J. A. Caskey
John Parker
Dessy Parker
eavor—Society
Atkinson Congregational Church
Chicago
James Whitcomb
Riley
Eugene Field
Kate Douglas Wiggins
Olwer
Henry L. Lyon