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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1901
Page
7
The service touts up to date equipment and unmatched road bed with the fastest times. Magnificent coaches and growing room sleeping cars link Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Evansville St Louis Nashville Memphis Birmingham New Orleans Pensacola Jacksonville and Mobile.
The Moline East Moline and Watertown Railway Company requests a twenty year franchise to construct operate and maintain a street railway in Moline Illinois. The petition seeks authority to build crossovers switches wiring and underground conduits and to use electricity or other power except steam along specified streets. Written by president C H Deere and secretary B W Rank with a public council hearing set for August 18 1901.
A brief poetic exchange recalls a playful romance by the sea. The verse frames a pair who meet where blue water and sloping hills set a backdrop. They toy with each other’s hearts, fooling themselves about the worth of their affection. EB Kiser. Chicago Record-Herald
Two expatriates on the old wall at Manila discuss oil rumors and a possible gold rush in Luzon. Ford doubts abundant gold while Cranmere plans an eastward move and contemplates desertion for riches, amid insinuations of a risky future for both.
Corporal Cranmere joins a perilous plan to dive an underground river beneath Bombon Island seeking gold. He pursues the venture to marry his sweetheart, returning from a hazardous voyage that spares him death by volcano.
A Georgetown neighbor quarrel escalates in a storm when a major’s chimney collapses and bricks crash through the judge’s house. The two men, a prominent lawyer and a retired major, are longtime rivals known for feuds and irritability. The incident worsens their feud as chimney debris damages multiple floors.
A collection of brief comic scenes from school and home life, including a kindergarten exchange where a child declares she is mad, and a narration about family tensions at breakfast. Also notes on Rocky Mountain Tea and a Grand Trunk Railway vestibuled train schedule to Buffalo via Detroit and Niagara Falls.
In the city a full stock of school and college texts encyclopedias and dictionaries. Wall paper in twentieth century styles. Blank books and records. Juvenile and toy books old favorites and new. Testaments Bibles prayer books hymnals wedding invitations and presents. Art department with engravings water colors and pastels. Prices moderate and inspection invited.
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