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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
8
Generally fair tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures. A standard thermometer shows temperatures around 42 degrees outside with 30s to 50s highs and nights near freezing. Highest temperature likely today reached 59 degrees above normal while the low stood 3d degrees above.
The Ladies' Aid of the S. of V will meet this evening at Masonichall parlors to elect officers and close the charter. Members should bring an application blank and provide ancestors company regiment length of service and discharge date. Muster fee is $100. Sons and comrades have priority.
The page reads a collage of local business promotions and notices. It lists insurance agencies, a cabinetmaker at 1612 2nd Ave, grocers Wilson and Chase, a bicycle for sale, a charity dance at Turner Hall, a First National Bank rent notice, and various health and household product claims alongside tantalizing street ads and brief obituaries.
The St Julien bowling team defeated the Flying Dutchman 2 343 to 2 170 at Deere alleys in Moline on Thursday evening. The Dutchmen have four losses this season, three to St Julien, highlighting a tough rivalry this year.
London dispatch reports Gen Delarey forces repulsed after a full day battle on March 31 in the South western Transvaal. Both sides suffer heavy losses according to Special to the Journal.
A dispatch from Columbia reports government troops winning overwhelming victories. The success is expected to end the revolution, with reverses signaling the government gain and probable conclusion of the conflict.
Washington April 4 Special to the Journal President Sargent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has accepted the position of commissioner of immigration Roosevelt will grant him time to close his business affairs before taking charge of the office of immigration commissioner
W P England of the Illinois YMCA committee visited Macomb from Quincy last Friday. He says the state organization is in better condition than ever with educational departments tripling in size over three years. Five new associations have formed in Illinois and Illinois Central Railway plans a $16 million building for its men at Bloomington.
Final report of administratrix filed and approved and estate closed and administratrix discharged. Inventory filed and approved. Order authorizing administrator to sell hay and corn on the place where deceased died. Insolvent and turning property over to wider on her award. Tract by metes and bounds, Gallups subdiv.
In Rock Island County Illinois May term 1902 Moritz Handel is notified to answer complainant Moritz Handel's bill. A summons issued and returnable January 5 1902 with May term starting May 1902 at Rock Island Court House. Failure to appear may lead to decree by default. George W. Gamble Clerk W C Allen Complainant's Solicitor.
The vestry of Trinity Episcopal church in Rock Island met at the rectory on Thursday evening. Officers were elected including Secretary Lucia Adams, Treasurer George Hennett, Assistant Treasurer H A Miles, and Organist Mrs A T Johnson. They set regular meeting dates and discussed diocesan missionary funds, repairs, and preparations for the Quincy convention.
The unsightly billcards at the corner of Fifteenth Street and Twelfth Avenue have been torn down as have those at Twenty third Street and Fifth Avenue.
Help wanted posting seeks a dining room girl for a private boarding house run by Mrs I Shaah at 1229 Second Avenue, Hock Island. Good wages and a pleasant living arrangement offered. Phone 1399 to apply.
Rev Harriet R Edwards from Mt Pleasant Park Clinton 1s extols Peruna as a wonderful medicine for diseases peculiar to women claiming quick and permanent restoration of health and vigor. Congressman Jos B Crowley notes Peruna as a strong tonic aiding nervous troubles and lasting cure.
Advertisements claim Peruna and Manalin cure a range of female weakness heart cough and nerve disorders. Letters from Barbara Alberty of Appleton Wisconsin and Mrs. D W Mason of New Orleans praise dramatic improvements after taking the remedies. Readers urged to write to Dr Hartman for free advice.
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