Price of Asphalt Bids Fall Sharply in Moline
Bids opened for the season show asphalt paving costs down nearly 50 cents per yard. Barber Asphalt and J V Duffy bid on 20th and 22nd streets with prices far below city estimates, while a misread column caused bid confusion. The board delays award to review asphalt quality and confirm figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Twenty-Second Street
Conway Company
Duffy Company
Barber Asphalt Company
Barber
Fugene Cox
20Th Street
California
Weenen Yard
6Th Avenue
17Th Street
Illinois City notes list of local visits and events
Special correspondence from Illinois City lists residents visiting relatives in Muscatine and Wapello, shopping trips to Muscatine and Elderton, and various local happenings. It mentions drafts of illness, farming activity, and household visits, with several names including Mrs Chas MacPherson, Miss Vada Brayton, Lulu Moore, and Mrs Elizabeth Thoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Chas. MacPherson
Jevy
At Hoak
Jone
Muscatine
Vada Brayton
Lulu Moore
Powell
Baalo Prattie
Elizabeth Thoms
Twigg
Fen Gates
Wapello
Iowa
Mary June Prewn
Melvin Rounds
Muscatin
E W Harney
Jutte Mont
H Kistler
Buffalo
Sheppard
Martin
Epworth League Hosts Camp Meeting and Local Visits
Special correspondence notes Wood and family attending camp meeting near Ware while Epworth League of Zuni plans a gathering. Families from nearby towns visit, as Mrs Pyareys presides and Theodore Preo4 holds a sectional event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood
Epworth League of
Zuni
Pyareys
Syvy
Silvis Shaft Trouble and Local Accidents Reported
Aug 16 report from Coaltown describes a fight at the Silvis coal shaft sparked by scab taunts leading to a head wound. Also noted is an 8-year-old bowled by an accident with a neighbor’s boy injuring three fingers, along with drought and water shortages affecting crops and pastures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coaltown
Silvis
Satmel
Samuel Bowles
Wetherspoon
Bowles
Rock Island
Electric Bitters Prove a Grand Tonic Says Mrs Brown
Editor S A Brown of Bennettaville SC reports his wife suffered severe dyspepsia with weak stamina and distress from the stomach. After trying Electric Bitters she improved at once and, using four bottles, is entirely well able to eat anything. It is praised as a gentle laxative tonic for torpid liver and digestion. Only 60c at Clendenin's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. A. Brown
Bennettaville
Clendenin's
A Young Lady Saved by Chamberlain's Remedy
Panama Colombia physician Dr Utter recounts a dramatic case of a 16 year old girl with severe intestinal illness. After trying standard treatments, he prescribed Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and the patient recovered within a week, walking again after three days. Sold by F J Connaund and EF Helmbeck druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H Utter
Panama
Colombia
Chamberlain
Onunaund
Helmbeck
Social and Personal News Highlights from Rock Island
W A Meese returns from Chicago and Ottawa visitors stop by St Marys church. Mrs Bert Dailey heads home to Clinton after a visit with Dr Dailey. Dr G A Miller returns from Chicago with Dr Gluesing. Henry Hoffman home from Michilinda with family to stay at summer resort. FE P Stevens of Thomas Moulding Co visits in Rock Island for fire brick and cement. Mr and Mrs Young and Mr and Mrs Fuller plus Miss Brooks visit Benson home in Rock Island. Two couples wed in Rock Island with Justice Schriver officiating Albert Powell and Anna Backus Lyons IA Clara Langdon and Nellie Mulligan Lyons IA. Mrs Kadel and Miss Burgess with Miss Summers of Sterling visit William Kadel. Charles Milam of Rock Island weds Cynthia Hawes of Moline at United Presbyterian parsonage. C B Ream of Hamp shire, a veteran, visits comrades. Rev Herbert Thorpe returns to Bloomington for study at Yale. Father Joseph Kelly marks tenth anniversary of ordination at St Marys with deacon and sub-deacon assisting. congregation presents chair and bookcase desk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Milam
Rock Island
Cynthia M. Hawes
Moline
United Presbyterian Church
D L. McNary
Joseph Kelly
St Mary's Church
Father Conrad
Father Poetken
Father Kelly
Baseball scores and standings across leagues
Summary of multiple games across the American and Western Leagues with Brooklyn and New York results. Fort Wayne and Denver win in Western play. scattered scores include Washington and regional matchups. a manager Sage comment notes mixed outcomes and reflections on the trip.
Cure for Mrs S P Whitaker Prompts Local Curiosity
All Sadieville residents inquire into the dramatic health improvement of Mrs S P Whitaker after using Dr King’s New Discovery. Her husband says it cured her chronic bronchial trouble and a granddaughter’s severe whooping cough. The remedy claims to cure coughs colds grippe bronchitis and throat and lung diseases with guaranteed bottles 50 cents and one dollar. Free sample bottles at Clendon in a drug store.
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Sadieville
P Whittaker
Clendon
Out of the Ordinary and Fashion Trends in Dress
A quirky note on growing trolley networks considering sleeping cars. A Chicago man wakes to a horned monster at his bed as a doctor fears lost toes. The era’s clothing shifts worry about lighter garments as shirt waist and wet waist styles prompt new fashion trends.
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Chicago
Botanic Blood Balm advertised for blood and skin cures
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a universal remedy for ulcers eczema scrofula and other blood and skin diseases. It claims deep seated cures and offers a free trial by writing Dr Gillam Atlanta. Also promotes Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents and a medicine sold in Iowa by Hawthorne Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eure
Gillam
Mitchell Street
Atlanta
Hawthorne
6Th Avenue
Hints on Making City Beautiful in Seventh Ward
The improvement league of the seventh ward reports cleaner alleys, provided garbage cans, and a plan to place litter boxes at key corners. Despite heat and summer limits, the ward shows progress with sidewalks under construction and calls for a public park on Davenport pastur e east of the saw mill. Anna Wright drives school grounds beautification and the Ericsson school lawn is highlighted as a model for wider adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Improvement League
Theucue
League
W C Bennett
Davenport
Crazy Man's Castle Fascinates River Voyage Narrator
On board the St Paul a voyage up the Mississippi describes stops at river towns and the striking Crazy Man's Lodge near Winona. The narrator notes rocky hills, river scenery, a blight storm, and the beauty at sunset as the trip nears the tri cities.
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Mona
Minn
St. Paul
Dubuque
St Paul
Rock Island Arsenal
Tri-Cities
Gimcracks
Crusoe
Winona
Minnesota
Geo
BE. Holt
Unclaimed Letters at Moline Post Office Week Ends
List of names and initials of residents with unclaimed letters at the Moline post office for the week ending August 16. Billings B L Carlson F Crawford Mrs Frank Dally Charles Farnum L F Grundy Mrs Charles Kershner Henry Kurr Mrs Nora McGraw Mrs Carrie Monroe F H Myer Mrs Tillie Peterson Harry Peterson O J Phelps Geo R Stump A Geo H McKinley P M It follows the flag Manila P L The soldiers request Rocky Mountain Tea via steamer Tea gross Mixeliaux Co urges readers to ask their druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Billings
B. L. Carlson
F Crawford
Frank
Dally
Charles. Farnum
L. F Grundy
Charles. Kershner
Henry Kurr
Nora
McGraw
Carrie Monroe
F H Myer
Tillie. Peterson
Harry Peterson O J Phelps
Geo
R. Stump
Geo. H McKinley
P M
Manila
Mixeliaux Co
Cake Walk at Wagner Opera House Aug 16
The FD Club announces a grand cake walk and dance at the Wagner opera house next Friday evening August 16. The cream of the three cities will appear and proceeds will help pay debts from their August 1 picnic. Admission 10 and 20 cents.
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Wagner Opera House
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Praises From La Grange Mother
Mrs. Nannie Galleger of La Grange Florida used Bucklen’s Arnica Salve on severe head and facial sores after frightful disfigurement. She reports a quick cure beyond all hopes. The remedy claims to heal sores bruises eruptions cuts burns and piles. Cure guaranteed by Clendenin druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie Galleger
la Grange
Fla
Bucklen
Clendenin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Twentieth Street
R. F. Conway Company
Gx Barber Asphalt Company
J. V. Duffy Company
RBG
Tri-City
Second Avenue
McCarthy Stone Co
Walsh Construction Company
16Th and
16Th Streets
Sth
Walsh Company
McCarthy
12Th
11Th Streets
Tri- City Company
Walshes Ind
McCcarthy
Stewarts Tile Water Omain
Moline Heating & Construction Company
Plambeck & Berglund
Mamie Beal
Althea
S. Beal
Nellie Genung
Coe
Katie Mead
Illinois City
JoMelvin
Otte Schutte
MacPherson
William Brayton
Lowa
Beadle
Tindall
Theo Moorehead
County Beat
James Nusworth
Matilda Reeves
Nusworth
Theodore
Chamberlains Colic
Purenize Journal
New York
Tadd
Rem Mber
W. A. Meese
Ed Kelly
Ottawa
St. Mary‘s Church
Bert Dailey
Dr. Dailey
Clinton
Mr. Dalley
Deere & Mansur Company
A. P. Kneberg
Henry Hoffman
Michillinda
Mich
FE P Stevens
Thomas Moulding Company
Huaniel Young
Stantel Fuller
Erie
Miss Brooks
Senesco
B.C Benson
O- Justice Schriver
Albert Powell
Anna Backus
Peoria
Clarence Langdon
Nellie Mulligan
Lyons
Adam Kadel
Etta Burgess
Mary Summers
Sterling
William Kadel
C. B. Ream
Company F
ING
Hampshire T
Herbert Thorpe
M. E
Bloomington
Thorpe
Yale Universality
National League
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Boston
American League
Washington
Washington Harti- Toore
Western Association
Fort Wayne
Dayton
Wheeling- Wheeling
Denver Denver
St Joseph
St Paul- St Paul
Evansville
Terre Haute
Rockford
SAGE
Madison Medicine Co
Journal
Josephson
Third Avenue
Co. E. Booker & Co
C.E. Booker & CO
Walsis
Contress
Harper House
First Street
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