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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1902
Page
5
Amanda E. Botsford offers yard beautification tips for small urban lots. She recommends covering fences with vines, resodding or seeding grass with quality seed, and using perennial vines like Hall’s Japan honeysuckle and Clematis paniculata to create year round beauty. For instant impact use annuals first and consider porch coverage with an arch of wire or lath.
A parent watches their child begin school with mixed pride and sorrow. The departure marks a transition from carefree babyhood to the long road of growth, questions, and the search for honor. The scene recalls treasured toys and the ache of saying goodbye.
Ad offers a two day cure for grip using Laxative Bromo Quinine. The box carries E W Groves signature and the price listed as 2 cents.
Hon Ren Cable departs Washington after meetings with Judge Griggs of Georgia. Griggs will convene the sub committee on organization to elect Cable as chairman of the new executive committee. Democrats claim unity and a bright outlook in the coming campaign while Republicans seem overconfident and may misjudge the next legislature’s makeup.
Brooklyn grocer William Behnken faced a mob of young women after a dubious advertisement in a New York paper promised a cashier job at his store. Behnken had no vacancy and told the crowd the offer was a joke, sparking anger, threats, and a chaotic scene before calm returned.
The undersigned offer a full refund on a 50r bottle of Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure cough or cold. A 2h bottle is promised to prove satisfactory or money refunded. Signed by Bottles Pharmacy and H Sandstrom.
Spring hat sale begins Wednesday April 3 for 10 days at 25 percent off cash purchases. Lambert's Tobmery Shop on Second Avenue Rock Island offers spring headwear in a limited time event.
Investment opportunities in Cady’s Addition to Ma line offer lots near town with no streetcar access, priced around four to five hundred dollars with small down payments and low monthly installments. Features include quarry stone foundations and attractive location for homes, with Morgan Skinner Building handling inquiries.
A nearly fatal runaway caused a severe leg ulcer on J B Orner of Franklin Grove for four years. Bucklen's Arnica heal all remedies cured him. Also effective for bolls burns bruises cuts corns and eruptions. 25c at Clendenin's drug store.
A government payroll book lists over 2,700 Smiths employed and many pensions, with about 1,800 Jones, and around 1,000 Browns and Johnsons. Accounting for family members, roughly 10,800 Smiths, 7,200 Jones, and 4,000 Browns and Johnsons are supported.
A digest of reviews and notices on May Sinclair's Two Sides of a Question and Paine's Home Dwellers sequel. Fosdick's Louis LIV and Hugo anecdote noted. Hapgood critiques Revolutionary novels. Duncan and Ransom's ads conclude.
In a memory tour of Moline figures, T. M. Jones the former photographer who once ran a palace car gallery, moved to Grand Junction Colorado where his bank failed after overextending loans to a beet sugar factory. He is left with little but aims to restart in photography with backing hoped.
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney liver and bladder issues. It claims wide testing and offers a free sample bottle and a book by mail to readers who mention the paper, with products available through druggists.
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