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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1912
Page
19
A Petersburg Tennessee man touts elderberry leaf folk remedy claiming dried leaves, gathered in clean condition and slept upon nightly for about three months, cure the worst asthma cases. He cites several self cures via inhaling the leaves odor.
Illinois wheat production for the year is the smallest since 1860 with a total yield of 6,815,705 bushels, down from 22,722,361 bushels last year. The 1912 acreage was 1,296,657 with only 598,126 acres harvested due to winter kill, while spring wheat is included in the totals.
The piece quarrels with Governor Wilson and Champ Clark over tariff theory, arguing protection benefits farmers mainly through the home market and condemning Democratic revision as blind and misleading. It recalls 1890 and 1894 laws, warns of foreign retaliation, and questions Clark's claims about a bill saving $5 million a year.
Summary of Governor Deneen era achievements including direct primaries state civil service merit based appointments major public utility regulation education funding labor and child welfare laws conservation of resources and a wide range of administrative reforms. Notable items cover auditing public accounts statewide funds interest payments, unification of charitable institutions, prison reform, creation of geological survey and fire marshal, highway commission and pure food laws. Chicago reforms include abolition of justice courts township governments longer mayoral term wheel vehicle tax and city control of gas and electricity rates.
Joseph L. Haas, after receiving a strong bar endorsement with 21 votes of 28, announces he will run in the Oct. 5 primaries to fill Judge W. H. Gest’s vacancy. Haas, long a Rock Island lawyer and master in chancery, is praised for honesty, ability, and public service.
Rex Beach author of The Spoilers and The Ne er Do Well receives 15000 for first publication of The Net. Chicago Record Herald secures the story and will publish next Sunday. The Net is a romance of love power and intrigue involving Italian Black Hand murders in the United States. Beach calls it his best work.
Illinois postmasters elected at a Bloomington convention last Friday with Charles H. Jones as president H F Wiesenborn as vice president H B Edelman as secretary and John A Brown as treasurer. Resolutions supported ending back stamping of envelopes a graduated pay raise and abolition of Sunday deliveries including third and fourth class offices.
Fred C. Harris 22, first quartermaster of the Moline naval reserves, died Wednesday September 4 after a three week illness. He was born to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Harris of Moline and leaves a widow formerly Miss M. Gardner of Davenport. Harris was active in local social circles and a member of the King Philip tribe of the Red Men.
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