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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1902
Page
8
Local forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Tuesday with a warmer Tuesday. Temperatures logged by the Seéndstrom standard thermometer show 9:00 a m at 31 degrees above, noon at 85 degrees above, and 3:00 p m at 44 degrees above. highest since yesterday 44 degrees above, lowest 28 degrees above.
At the meeting of Moline Post No 4 FA of A Tuesday evening April 8 at Industrial Home hall every member is urged to be present as business of importance is to be transacted to HR Macord district deputy and manager.
The Journal for news trade lists ads and notices from Knocks photos and local vendors. References include insurance firms Hirsch & Anderson Webb & Albrecht and the Tri City Tower Supply Company. Cederberg cabinetmaker 1612 2nd Ave advertises Morning Light cigar hardwoods and channel companies. The item notes trains passing, marriage licenses issued to Charles Riley and Allie Bentley, and local deaths and property sales.
The Tri City Construction Company defers brick paving on Second Avenue for the Moline line until the railway company is ready and will proceed with paving on Sixteenth Street. Some delay in securing stems ads is noted but work is to resume next week.
A boy named Jon Hagelquist visiting relatives was seriously injured yesterday when his bicycle sped out of control near Fourth Avenue. The wheel veered, throwing him to the pavement and causing a concussion. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
The funeral details for Ruth Julie van Tropp are listed with addresses and times. The notice mentions her ties to the News Journal and a past seven year residence in the city. References to McKinley and a Democratic meeting in Milwaukee are included.
In a fragmentary scene a narrator recalls a miser uncle famed for coin collecting. Joyful youths debate fate and weather while a character muses on the uncle's wealth, curiosity, and eccentric ideas as the talk hints at the uncle's possible will.
Theater notices describe the Flints hypnotists at Burtig Opera House April 14 15 and subsequent evenings. Miss Viola Allen’s Palace of a King draws commentary on staged adaptations from a Marten Crawford novel noting changes to sustain dramatic impact.
Clarence Laward Peterson infant son of Hincaard Peterson of Ninth Street and Twenthth Avenue died at midnight after a two weeks illness He was three weeks and two days old Funeral services are set for 3 p m tomorrow at the residence.
A half white half grown Eng near pointer with black ears and face missing. Reward offered for recovery with details left at Journal office. Also a Fox terrier with regular head markings lost or stolen. Return to U S Clothing Co for reward.
Chicago Chronicle notes a Lake View minstrel show featuring Zoe Bernhardt and Carl Bernhard of Rock Island in Sheridan hall to aid Father Denison’s parish building fund. The program includes singing by Loretta McGuire and others, a tamboo performance, bones act, readings, and the farce Our Doc by Russell Barry with Zoe Bernhard and Carl Bernhard in supporting roles.
We are settled in our new location at Five Points corner Fourteenth and Seventh offering popular F corsets in batiste sateens and summer materials. We fit all corsets for better satisfaction. Come see Mrs Meheisman for ladies and children's furnishing goods.
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