Debate Over 16th Street Grade Paving In Moline
City discussions focus on whether paving the 9 percent grade on 16th Street would ruin an important bluff and downtown outlet. Ex Mayor Knox urges cautious action, noting future traffic growth and potential to regrade for easier traffic while preserving the street’s value. Some favor damages to property owners to lower the grade, hoping for a safer bluff street and reduced trolley and traffic congestion.
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16Th Street
Moline
Speuase
Brady Street
Davenport
Bluff
15Th Street
B. B. Knox
Knox
The Celtic Voids Atlantic Bound on Greatest Ship Ever
The Celtic, a nine story White Star Line steamship, towed into New York harbor last Sunday. It displaces 20,000 tons, carries 2,859 passengers, and aims for an average speed of 17 knots. Steerage accommodations are unusually luxurious with a social room, piano, baths, and full fifth deck access.
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New York Harbor
White Star Line
Celtic
Windsor Hotel
Market Square
Deutchland
Europe
Mississippi River
Great Lakes
Tax dodgers branded as flag lovers in Chicago uproar
Chicago board of review faces a public climate of scrutiny as critics including Gov Altgeld and lawyers Darrow and Thompson offer to prosecute tax evaders. The piece denounces millionaires who harm school funding while praising agitators for exposing perceived tax abuses and urging reform of the taxation system.
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Chicago
Board of Review
Altgeld
Messrs
Darrow and
Thompson
Moneybags
Sevarat
Coleen Iy
Wisconsin Passes Bird Plumage Law to Aid Audubon
The Wisconsin legislature enacted a bird protection law empowering game wardens to seize bird skins and plumage used for millinery. It bars killing or possessing any wild bird part protected by the section and sets fines of five dollars per part or up to ten days in jail. The law targets millinery trade and fashion driven plumes.
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Wisconsin
Friends of the Birds
Wisconsin Audubon Society
Tuberculosis Treatments Evolve Toward Cure in Some Cases
The article notes tuberculosis now has understood treatments and suggests cures are almost certain when applicable. It cautions that advanced cases remain incurable, but foresees rapid progress and mentions new consumptives wards in hospitals and state measures toward eradicating the disease.
New Orleans Port Hits Record Exports in Fiscal Year
New Orleans celebrates a record port year with exports totaling 151 771 638 dollars over 12 months, up more than 80 percent from 1900. Cotton and cotton seed products wheat and horses plus mules led gains as the city notes celestial chatter and a civic dinner for college men.
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New Orleans
Unclear Medical Remedy Advertises Internal Injection
An advertisement claims a remedy for male and female ailments including various infections and ulcers of a paneolus membrane. It describes an internal injection stated to permeate and cure severe cases with a stated price and receipt requirements, mentioning events and suppliers in vague terms.
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Sr Gonova
Speedy Americanization and Thornycroft Sculptor Highlights
A National Review essay extols Americanizing public schools and predicts English dominance in former colonies, while praising Hamo Thornycroft as a leading sculptor of British heroes. It notes his statues of Gladstone Cromwell Gordon Granville Bright and others across the empire, with works also in Melbourne and Calcutta.
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Spain
Sydney Brooks
National Review
Hamo Thornycro
Mr. Gladstone
London
Cromwell
Westminster
Gen
Gordon
Trafalgar Square
Mr. Thornycroft
Kingdom
Empire
Melbourne
Sir Steuart Bayley
Calcatta
United Kingdom
Chicago
Hecord-Herald
Law Students Urged to Study John Marshall Decisions
A historical notice praises young men in law schools and offices for reading John Marshall opinions, arguing the judge’s plain English style is worth study. It notes future judges cannot be foreseen and urges deliberate reading of early decisions for substance and form.
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Lawson
Boston
John Marshall
Orston
Sught
Har’ford Courant
Sadieville Woman Cured by New Discovery
In Sadieville Kentucky Mrs Whitaker long endured chronic bronchial trouble before relief came from Dr King s New Discovery. Her husband credits the remedy with curing her cough and her granddaughter s severe whooping cough. The medicine claims to cure coughs colds influenza bronchitis and lung troubles. Bottles 60 cents and 1.00. Free trial at Clendenins drug store.
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Sadieville
Mra
P Whittaker
Clendenin S Drug Store
Editor's Dilemma on Lacking Action in Brooklyn Life
A terse note from Brooklyn Life quotes a reader accusing a piece of lacking action. The editor retorts that the story ought to reflect the realities of a columnist watching twins grow, implying a domestic or human interest focus.
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Brooklyn Life
Love or Money Motive Shocks Chicago Times Herald
In a terse Chicago Times Herald snip a woman questions a marriage motive. She asks if the wedding was for love or for wealth while noting a rival group of suitors. The brief item hints at social gossip and personal motives within a city page.
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Chicago ‘Times- Herald
Forehead kiss sign in Yonkers quibble
A fragment from the Chicago Tribune features a quirky exchange about what a man kissing a girl on the forehead might signify. The dialogue includes lines about being rattled and expecting the unexpected, with a joking tone from characters Yonkers States man Quibble and Gloomicus.
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Patience
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Queercus
Gloomicus
Chicago Tribune
Railroad Timetable Highlights and Route Details
The schedule lists trains to Des Moines Oskaloosa Council Bluffs Kansas City Denver and more with times for eastbound and westbound routes. It notes daily operation except certain numbered trains and connections at Rock Island Peoria and Barstow for Sterling and other lines. Trains run to and from Peoria Chicago St Louis Dubuque Denver and Sterling with suburban link to East Moline.
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Council Bluffs
Minneapolis
Kan City
Denver
Ft Worth
Watertown
Sioux Falls
St Paul
Davenport
Des Moines
Rock Island
Chicago
Cable
Sherrard
Union Depot
Peoria
East Moline
St. Paul
Dubuque
Savanna
Clinton
St. Louis
Burlington
Quintey
Sterling
Frorta
Beardstown
Quincy
Lincoln
Kansas City
Barstow
Clnton
Savanna Dubuque
Suvanna Dubuque
Pee
Trains Schedules for Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Lines
Train arrivals from Dubuque Savanna Moline and La Crosse via Freeport Sabula Clinton Davenport and Savanna listed with arrival times 11 26 a m 00 0 p m 11 65 a m and 9 30 a m. Departures show Milwaukee via Davenport Clinton Savanna and East Moline with times 8 10 p m 4 05 p m 7 40 a m 4 15 p m and notes on car changes at Sabula Savanna and Clinton for Dubuque and R 8 W divisions. Sunday trains noted with morning and evening arrivals and departures.
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Dubnaque
Iowa
Savanna
Moline
LaCrosse
Wis
Freeport
Clinton
Davenport
Milwaukee
Freeport Sabula
Taenport
Davenne
East Moline
Dubuque
Sabula
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Thomas I. Stanley
George E. Holt
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Neptune
Uranus
Luna
Howiver
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Henley
Tiastas
WO Orocter & Gaat Amare
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DesMoines and Oskaloosa
St. Jo
Omaha
South Dakota
Rocky Mountain
Rock Island and
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Springfield
St Louis
South
Bloomington
Fpeoria
Mercer County Line
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