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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
17
A note reports several individuals gathered at the local post office in Genesac HL. The event centers on a Mall Matter of the Second Class, with details and participants not fully specified.
Western Iowa listings show farms for sale from $? to 135 by owners with improved terms. Also BFA homes for sale near Sedgley, Storin Lake, and nearby areas in Iowa.
Donald Lathrop aged 19 won a 10500 settlement against Oglesby Coal company for injuries from a February 1 1910 mine cage accident at the company shaft. Attorneys A J O Connor and T F Doyle led the case in Ottawa circuit court. Lathrops fracture may require amputation or ambulatory splint in future as doctors warned.
Officials report a 64 percent rise in insane and feeble minded inmates over the past ten years with hospitals jammed to capacity. Leaders from the board of administration and state charities commission urge a multi year plan, including moving patients to state hospitals, acquiring land for a new hospital, and creating a colony for epileptics.
An analysis shows 9 000 horses used by rural carriers would stretch 2350 miles, with carriers averaging one new horse yearly at 3 million dollars in value. Farmers gain 12 million, horse shoers 2 million, merchants 1 million, and overall equipment costs total 18 million annually, yielding about 440 dollars per carrier per year in net wages.
The government fleet from Peoria resumes dredging the Lake Depue to Illinois River channel after a fall halt. The squadron includes Pearl Fox dredge three mud scows two coal barges and an office boat under Captain Sturtevant and Secretary Gormley with Junior Engineer James R Fuller supervising._completion will allow river steamers to reach Depue from the Illinois River ending the town’s isolation from deep water navigation.
Mary Ann finally goes to vote after years of dreaming. She adjusts wardrobe and nerves, asks the watchman how to vote, and discovers the polls are closed. The piece satirizes early voting imagery and social expectations for women.
Grafton launched his 26 foot cabin boat Liberty on Rock River. A gasoline fire started after a test run, the tank exploded, ripping the hull apart. There was no insurance, and the entire craft was a total loss.
The Moline Dispatch reports railroads aim to obtain government land at the foot of Arsenal Island between Fort Armstrong Avenue and Nineteenth Street to build switching yards. A separate plan seeks permission to lay a railroad track from the government bridge area along the riverbank to Rock River, crossing near the Rock River mouth behind the Hennepin Canal.
Clover Leaf Land Co of Magle Bend Minnesota advertises Todd County lands in Eagle Bend with rich black loam soil, good climate, cheap lumber, strong markets, rail access, and creameries paying over 500000 in 1910. Inquiries invite a partial farm list.
A hotel guest left an umbrella with a card claiming the owner can deliver a 250 pound blow and will return in ten minutes. In the same scene a second card appeared saying the card was left by a man who can run 12 miles an hour and will not return. Dundee Advertiser reports.
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