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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
18
Local residents visit kin and friends across Geneseo, Annawan, Atkinson, and nearby towns. Business callers include Abe Bernstein and others. several families prepare for travel, funerals, and religious meetings while noting a ball game fundraiser and a late fall auction.
A fragment from the Saturday Evening Post recalls Sydney Mudd of Mary Washington and a drunken passenger who misidentifies him, then asserts his name Dennis as the exchange unfolds in a tersely described roadside interaction.
A crowded catalog of inexpensive items lists children sweaters and dresses at low prices, women's undergarments and blouses, boys and girls school dresses, black satin bloomers, gray cotton blankets, fleece vests, tennis flannels, men's cotton socks, husking mittens, durable high cut tan shoes, and wide linoleum offered at marked down rates. Prices show frequent 25c to 75c ranges and bulk quantities.
The Congregational Church notes report 1912 events in Annawan with services and topics led by Pastor Ada S Anderson. The Rock River Association met in Moline with Rev Adam Anderson and delegates Mrs O W Lager and Mrs Charles Humphreys. The Ladies Aid Bazaar is set for Saturday Oct 10 at the Town Hall with dinners sales aprons rugs and quilt tops and a Memory Booth for former residents and absent friends.
Local merchants highlight Linoleums rugs and oilcloths at Luger and Co Shoes Barker's wide sweater range and new dress goods at Barker's Langly Elk hats Monarch Arrow Shirts and Edison phonographs at T G Everett's Latest records for Edison machines also sold Lager Co Pancake flour Golden Palace Beacon products and lawn mowers displayed at Lee Wilson's Rock Island King Bee stoves and Riverside heaters promoted An grand October 18 dance in Annawan Seelig's orchestra Princeton to provide music Supper at Watling's restaurant Tickets $1 00 Spectators 50 cents committee Slater Kuhn announces event
Lead lawyer boasts he never took a drop of medicine while claiming vast strength, and the other retorts he never studied law yet is as rich as "two dozen" giants. Buffalo Commercial reflects a heated exchange in a humorous, garbled tongue.
A political appeal from Charles F P Kincheloe of Adams County Illinois to voters across five counties. Kincheloe outlines his background as farmer teacher lawyer legislator and Justice Department attorney in Washington and endorses Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive party seeking support in the upcoming election.
The children of Martha Berge thank those who offered sympathy and aid during her illness and after her passing. They acknowledge the floral tributes and singers at the last service with deep gratitude.
Fragmentary OCR describes a 145 acre parcel near Albany with buildings and income potential. Mentions a Davenport contact and a real estate company offering an acre rate and county dealings. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
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