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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1911
Page
19
Hooppole residents host visits from Geneseo and Genesee neighbors. Local tradesmen advertise goods from hardware to dairy equipment while the band tours nearby towns. A fatal horse accident touches the community and church leaders relocate work to Mendota.
General Grant's birthday was celebrated in Galena on April 27 with Bishop Y H Vincent of New York as orator. The event marked the 50th anniversary of Jo Daviess county guards, the first company west of the Alleghenies to answer Lincoln's call. Surviving members received gold medals as G A R and civic groups joined the tribute.
An Oquawka physician treated a boy who was thrown by a dog tied to its owner's leg. The animal dragged the boy, breaking the leg in two places when the father called the dog. The incident was reported by the Aledo Times Record.
The Northwestern railway tested a steel gasoline motor car on the Galena division passing Sterling last week. The car features a rear motor, front driver’s cab, and resembles a Pullman car in size and interior. It promises high speed with no smoke or noise and is aimed at suburban passenger service. executives assume C N W will adopt this motor car for regular service first.
Workers Sprike Hard Ostlan Erle James and Reisebigler drilled on the R C Burchell place in town and hit a vein of hard coal rivaling eastern anthracite. Burchell, cashier of the First National Bank, urged continuing work and water attainment before deciding on coal plans or sale to a coal trust. News from Erie Independent.
Aledo and Mercer county plan a $200000 permanent endowment for William and Vashti college with a canvass set for June 1 commencement day. A Chicago firm reportedly plans a large factory at the Keokuk area due to the dam and power development.
Fragments quote Lord Clarendon on how guests warmth shapes a feast. A line from a Globe column cites Timothy Titcomb praising restraint and humility rather than confidence as the measure of a great soul.
Fred Gottsche born April 25 1849 in Holstein Germany died April 28 1911 at his home in Coon Rapids Iowa after a stroke of paralysis. He moved from Illinois to Iowa in 1880 before Coon Rapids was established and built a farm later living with his wife Laura Larson whom he married in 1889. He leaves a wife two brothers Henry and Hans a sister Gretchen and a niece Alice Gottsche. Funeral services were held at the home and burial followed at Willow Township cemetery conducted by Elder Miller Bayard.
Willie Reimann a 16 year old Peru resident was found asleep in the doorway of the United Highland Power building by Officer Fred Schluter after fleeing home due to his father making him unload coal. He said he rode a freight from Penn to Shefield then a passenger engine to Davenport and East Moline before being found with a loaf of bread for sustenance. Chris Reimann, a Peru coal yard laborer and the boy’s father, was notified of the finding on Tuesday.
La Salle Lincoln Park announces it will quit the Illinois Valley Racing Circuit this season due to poor prospects. The La Salle meeting has been a losing proposition for years and reports say the 1910 event would be final, with preliminary arrangements already in place.
A Springfield Republican description of an Icelandic turf farm house. The host shows rooms with narrow corridors a round table an organ from Brattleboro and a box of cigars. Walls and roof are turf with driftwood framing and steep stairs to a sleeping annexe.
The last Tree of Liberty planted in Paris to honor the 1848 revolution has died. What began as a ceremony grew into a towering, imprisoned tree amid surrounding buildings. Its roots threatened a neighboring eight‑storey house, and the tree was felled to end its stubborn battle with height.
The Hickory Grove Camp Meeting Association executive committee met in Galva at Swedish M E Church and outlined August plans. The event runs August 10 to 20 with leaders John W Swanson J A Nystrom and A J Peterson. Organists are Esther Peterson Bishop Hill and Gertrude Nelson Victoria. Rev Theo Moberg Andover leads the Pworth League meetings. Wuss Man Bishop Hill conducts Junior League sessions. Rev J H Johnson Geneva oversees Bible readings.
A court room debate notes that stylish hats hinder sight lines and demean the dignity of proceedings. Lawyers urge milliners to design upable court hats so judges and witnesses can look into the eyes of a woman under oath without disruption.
An old note outlines nail shapes and traits linking long nails to self confidence, broad nails to gentleness, round nails to irritability, fleshy nails to calm and ease loving, pale nails to melancholy but scientific pursuits, and Albert nails to refined artistic sensibilities and sociable tastes.
A Bacon quotation asserts that revenge mirrors wild justice and emphasizes the necessity for law to curb such impulses. It contrasts natural inclinations with legal restraint, suggesting justice should restrain vengeance.
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