Notable Summer Events In Davenport Area
A list of upcoming gatherings including a Trotting Association event at Kimetin and Davenport mile track, Prospect Park picnics for Swedish Lutheran Sunday school, a July 9 trolley park benefit for Moline telephone girls, the annual Majine Chautauqua Assembly at Prospect Park, and a Rock Island district Methodist Episcopal camp meeting at Tindall's Grove scheduled for August 18-19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Trotting Association
Prospect Park
Swedish Lutheran Sunday School
Moline Telephone
Majine Chautauqua Assembly
Tindall's Grove
Rock Island
Local Advertisements and Event Previews Spark Weekend Activity
A collage of local notices highlights grocery and clothing promotions at Gaylors and Lloyds Hardwood, insurance from Nason & Gleason, and new shirt waists at Miller. Mentions of baptist church preaching by Rev McDowell, the Moline Chautauqua lineup, free moving pictures at Watch Tower, and a grand exhibition. Also notes a drowning funeral for Peter Vate Hoyste and a vagran cy case against John Powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knox Rights Pictures
U. B
Gaylors
F. H. Kracke
16Th St
Lloyds Hardwood
Schallberg Bros. Nason & Gleason
Reliable Insurance
Haley
House-Menjor
Galesburg
Moline Hellu Ginly
Ott Bey
Lloyd
Hatyer
Lloyds, Hock Island
Ourth Street
15Th Asticet
Uhius Drug
Miler
Lhrus
McDowell
Moline
Bethel AM Bb Church
Thayenport
Hautauguia
Prospect Park
Chautauqua House
Telephone Exchange
Peter Vate Hoyste
Stern
St Marys Church
Picures
Watch Tower
Patterson
Cont Vates
John Powers
Farmer Strays Prom Prom Tis Home
An elderly man, Markee, wandered from Fulton and was detained by Marshal Kittissen after a failing memory and cash shortage prompted family alert. He rode about town, attracted attention in Western attire, and was later claimed by his daughter-in-law to ride home, with deputies assisting as the case unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Kittissen
Fulton
Db 1
Markee
Hedan
Mieline
Saturn Fay
Petoupe
Nelsons Bern
Mito
Tome Bad Beet
Mars Wolstenetotts
Katte
Tate
Marke
Toone
Subscriptions drive and trolley party details in Journal
The Daily Journal urges subscribers to report delivery issues and advertises a Moline trolley party with Tower dancing tickets to Peoria at reduced rates July 2 to 11 for the Peoria Chautauqua. Also promotes Herbine tonic and notes a City of Winona steamer round trip from Rock Island to LeClaire at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tant Noutey
Keek Jaland
Peoria
Checin
Fig Marshall Shentz
First Congregational Church
Shentz
Chicago
Amelia Feeley
Ising Brothers
Tov
Rurege
Amer
Ringlingthera
Hock Island
Hook Island
Winon
LeClaire
The Farmer's Wife and the Rise of Modern Farm Comfort
The Chicago Record Herald argues modern machinery and creamery systems lift drudgery from the farmer's wife by mechanizing buttermaking and laundry while expanding farmers profits. It notes telephone, mail delivery, and work on the plow, while predicting further machines to husk corn and dig potatoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moeert Civeutin
Dave Steete
Faivedy
Bustandis
Tabor
Frost
Chicago Record Herald
Hydrogen Liquid and Solid Form Demonstrated in London Lecture
Prof. James Dewar presented liquid hydrogen in a jar carried through London streets to his lecture room. He showed hydrogen solid as snow in a test tube and described achieving temperatures eight to ten degrees below zero, nearly reaching aero car levels. He discussed liquefying helium and the challenges of producing ultra low temperatures with volatile gases and vacuum vessels, noting burns from a nearby flame during the demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Dewar
London
Trunk Explosion Injures Baggagemaster at Atlantic Highlands
A trunk exploded on a train baggage car at Atlantic Highlands after unloading from the steamer Monmouth of the Sandy Hook line. Baggagemaster Andrew Keener was badly burned and struck by a stray rifle bullet from loose cartridges in the trunk. Two other baggage handlers suffered severe burns and singeing from the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monmouth
Sandy Hook
Atlantic Highlands
Seabright
Andrew Keener
Romeo and his sheep roam Broadway in curious parade
A young man with a full grown sheep named Romeo walked Broadway from Forty second to Thirty four th Street. The animal wore a collar and moved through crowds with canine calm as the man praised his loyal pet. A Paris auction displayed bizarre medical monstrosities with high prices, including an $80,000 collection and a lion chandelier at $1,560, underscoring rising curiosity and value in oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
New York City
Thirty-fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
Romeo
Paris
The Thials Of Wealth And Wit Across Papers
A collage notes unequal talk and fashion in early wit with snippets from The Journal and Daily News. It contrasts a line about talking and expression with a remark on a thief asking for the right word. It ends with a historic note that North Carolina shifted from third to fifteenth in state population from 1790 to now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ago Daily News
Wabsley
Chicago Tribune
North Carolina
Cuba set to join United States as Gome declares plan
A jumble of reports notes Gome's claim Cuba will become part of the United States, France assembling a strong Mediterranean fleet, and U S Navy movements. Other items include tragedies, political shifts, and economic data from 1900 to 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gome
Cuba
United States
France
Mediterranean
Newark
Hong Kong
New York
South Africa
Herman Hauser
Brooklyn Bridge
Red Gwynne VanderdHt
Sagamore Lodge
William Branschback
Morrisonville
Porto Rico
Guam
Rio del Pilar
Boston newspaper sale halted over Uncle Sam flag image
Police ordered Boston and Massachusetts dealers to withdraw the Irish World from circulation after a Detroit paper printed a picture of Uncle Sam holding an American flag with a political inscription. The paper was suppressed under state law prohibiting contempt for the national flag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts
New York
Detroit
Uncle Sam
Constitution Wins Bateman's Point Race in Rhode Island
The Constitution finished first at Bateman's Point, RI, around 5 45, nine minutes ahead of the Columbia as the time limit of 6 10 elapsed with Independence about six miles behind. Ice cream flavors offered at the Richelieu. Rock Island Line schedules and ticket offers to Cincinnati Ohio July 5 and 6 at low rates. Annual convention of the Christian cleaver society. Tickets extendable to August 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cromwell
Chicago
Samuel W Allerton
Allegheny River
Pittsburgh
Convention of the
Baptist Young Peoples Union
Coliseum
Bunker & Mark Atair
Davenport
Great Britain
United States
Emperor
Germany
Siemens & Halske
Hamburg
Bertlydward Luthy
New York
Ohio
Atolumbus
James Kilbourne
House of Lords
Bloomington II
Lake Miller
Amalgamated Association
Combined Capital Federal
William A Clark
Daly
Montana
Jim Johns
Turner Ark
Johne
Bateman
Rock Island & Peaks
Cinalinat
Oho
Christian Cleaver Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
N. H. Cederberg
2D Avenue
Farmer
Prom Tis
Farmer Markee
Ino
Che Teagan
Ted Patron
Btbany
Wnestigatio Dd
Hia
Amedawated
Chdef Kittileen
Bose
Daily Journal
W Rundquist
Northwestern
Illinois
Journal
Viiscoomib
Legialnter
Dageagee
Vis
Tuscany
Italy
Misericordia
Florence
Lucca
Pisa
Strange Order
Constitution Winn
Rocky Mountain Limited
Colorado Points
Aes Azo
Ane
Maebing Pei
Xa Ee
Ben
Ours
Chicago Medical Institute
Zusastisss Ocean Mac
Cook
Ripley Street
Iowa
J. W. Warr
Plowman Publishing Company
Job ‘Printing Department
Third Avenue
Yeasecote
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