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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
12
Local residents report visits to Davenport and nearby towns, engagements and travels. Obituary notes mark the passing of George A Brown of Clearfield Iowa, with survivor details and post mortem findings. marriage announcements include Ida Marguerite Cozad and Joy Donald Reynolds in Chicago. church election of Rev Leonard Parr proposed for the Congregational church.
The notice lists Sunday services for Christian Science, Lutheran, Unitarian, Swedish Lutheran, Baptist, and Primitive Methodist churches. Topics include Probation After Death, Huss the Bohemian Reformer, Religion and Medicine, and The Revelation at the Bush. Services, times, and special events are noted along with congregational invitations.
The obituary notes the death of Carl Carlson at home on Wrangle Street on October 17th near his eighty ninth year after a long illness. He was a respected, industrious resident of the city, cared for by his daughter Miss Emma Carlson, and survived by four children Emma of the city, Mrs. Mary Fridell of Orion, August and Oscar of Moline. Funeral services were held at the home with Rev. A. T Lorimer officiating. Carlson was a native of Sweden who came to Henry County in 1885.
Congressman Prince toured Galva and Cambridge in the week, meeting Genesee constituents and holding publican meetings. He travels with Theo Boltenstern and George Johnson in Geneseo, expressing broad support and a loyal image as a conscientious representative.
The article recounts a man named Adlai Stevenson and a General Stevenson in Civil War times. It notes Stevenson was 26 in 1861 and initially too young to serve, later drafted in 1864 and sent to the Springfield ammunition depot where he served thirteen days before becoming a General. The piece references a Chicago Tribune report.
The committee expresses deep sympathy for the family of Charles A Coleman a departed comrade and veteran. It notes his upright character patriotism and friendship and pledges a lasting tribute from Cot J Galligan Post and the organization. A memorial page will be presented to the family.
A collage of cheeky observations on family roles and social mores from an ATCHISON GLOBE column. Snippets touch on stepmothers, borrowing umbrellas, gossip, and the quirks of manners, with quips about doctors and cooks and a playful critique of public behavior.
The article describes Hawaiian bathers riding long boards to ride the breakers, Nile natives balancing on logs, and Philippines and other tribes enjoying warm seas. It contrasts Indian and Pueblo sweat-house practices with colonial views on children education and Roosevelt. It notes Mrs. Frederick Schoff meeting President Roosevelt to discuss a children's department and education for immigrant families.
A garbled column lists curious facts and aphorisms including figures on Benares visitors, postal service staff, and materials temperatures. It weaves misquoted quotes about gender, manners, and language amid scattered town and historical notes.
A passage discusses how night vision alters perception. Narrowed pupils and poor focus produce blurred outlines and shifting colors, creating illusory, mobile images. People rely on experience and other senses to interpret these unfamiliar sensorial impressions.
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