Strike Ends for Machinists at Major Tri City Shops
A largely attended meeting of the Tri City Union at Industrial Home Rock Island announced an end to the machinists strike at Williams White & Co Moline Elevator Works and Barnard Leas. Workers return at old wage scale with Barnard Leas giving overtime pay after 10 hours. Many shops may resume once contracts are not demanded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tate
Ativasi
SAE
Rock Island
Tri-City
Williams, White & Company
Moline Elevator Works
Barnard & Leas Manufacturing Company
Barnard & Leas’s
Journal
C. A. Barnard
Barnard’s
Barnard
How the Strike Was Lost
A Machinists Union member says the strike failed due to weakkneed non members and some union workers, with 60 percent union participation. He notes Barnard & Leas' shop had 23 of 26 machinists in the union when the strike began and cites endurance as the decisive factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deere & Company
Holtz Brothers
Machinists’ Union
Barnard & Leas
Berry
Bargain Waists and Hosiery Sale at Low Prices
Readable fragment shows a clearance style list: ladies waists in Percales and Ginghams below cost. seamless and ribbed hose bargains. children's hose at deep discounts. handkerchiefs and toiletries. men's socks and shirts priced well under typical values. muslin remnants and table linen offered at cut rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Lonsdale
Rock Island to Prosecute Water Ordinance Violators
Rock Island city officials will prosecute violators of water ordinances after warnings failed to curb waste. Daily average pumped water last week reached 4.2 million gallons, exceeding Davenport and straining the filter plant. Sprinkling restrictions from 6 to 8 a.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. will be enforced, with fines from $1 to $540 for each offense.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Kick Island
Bancroft
Law Department
Robbery at West End Shoe Store Ends in Cash Heist
Peter Foline, the west end shoe dealer, was robbed of 150 dollars in his shop when two men, a white man in a gray coat and a Negro in a straw hat, demanded cash and fled toward Rock Island after the counter was cut. Foline pursued briefly before notifying police.
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Peter Foline
West End
Double Tracking Planned for Chicago Rock Island Line West Liberty Iowa City
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway aims to double track the line from West Liberty to Iowa City with work starting this year and finishing early in 1902. The project mirrors Flick Johnson’s earlier double tracking between Davenport and West Liberty, with most new work to the west already using steel girders and box bridges. Engineer R W Davy examined the Beplee cut off as subcontracting and yard reconstructions continue in Iowa City and Davenport areas.
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Chicago Bock Island & Pacific Railway Company
West Liberty
Lowa City
Flick & Johnson
Davenport
Don Py
Tder
Iowa River
Towncity
Iowa City
Dabucqiue Street
Electric Bitters and Various Remedies Featured
Friends in Lexington Ky recount A M Hogarty suffering jaundice then claim two bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. The piece touts remedies for stomach liver kidney blood complexion and aches, listing Doxas Ointment Fowler’s Extract Wild Strawberry and Journal value for Northwestern Illinois subscribers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A M Hogarty
Lexington
F J Clendenin
Fowler
Village Postmaster dramatic note recalls rehearsal risk
A theater article recalls the Village Postmaster stage fall as a dangerous nightly stunt, detailing cast hesitations and one actress avoiding the risky fall after a rehearsal. It notes the show’s 100th Chicago performance and a planned September run with a New York run previously. It also mentions medicine and a local pharmacy ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meriowes
Ite
Chhagwo
Ita
New York
Chicago
Barstow Sells Windsor Hotel Meanwhile New Cigar Firm Emerges
Barstow investor Ward has sold the Windsor hotel business to Adelbert D Appleby of Barstow who will take possession and remodel the annex while Ward leases back the property for five years. Appleby plans immediate improvements and will operate the hotel and restaurant next door. A separate note announces Moores Hoesterta’s sale of a tobacco shop and Swanson cigar factory move to Medway with Swanson joining the new owners in the venture. Ward’s furniture and tea shop transfer to Appleby completes the initial business changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swanson
Ross
Chargo
Oat Crop Burned Near Watertown Farm
At 11 o'clock this morning a sun blaze scorched a 40 acre stand of oats on a Watertown area farm near the asylum station. Farmers fought the fire in a desperate effort but the flames utterly devastated the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown Asylum Station
Othe Field
Daily Journal subscription and health ad sweep
An old classified style notice promotes the Daily Journal home delivery for 10 cents a week with national forwarding, urges business men to use Herbine for blood purification and vigor, and advertises Ballard's Snow Liniment for farm injuries with price details.
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J Clendenin
Battles Pharmacy
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Tachigi
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Fddle
Cornplanter, Deere & Company’s
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King Machine Co
King Machine Company
King
Williams & White's
Wiliams, White & Company
Lambert
Toggery Shop
Shoond Ave
Railroad News
RT & Wos
Trinda
Pita
St Johet
Bureau Junction
Morris
Ottawa
Nesierant
R W Davy
Reigetr
Trolley Party
JT Club
Black Hawk Watch Tower
Burdock
Ritters
Monarch
Tone
Northwestern
Ilinois
Clendenin
Jounal
Ed Ward
Hotel Busines
Mr. Appleby
Barstow
Moses Ross
Fel Ward
Windsor Hotel
Adelbert D Apple
Byoof Barstow
Apple
la Crouse Wis Oundoof
Boarstow Ht
Wares Furnniture
Ward
Appleby
Moores Hoestertas
Eng
Pat Dy
4Th Avenue
Reo Swatsen
Medway
Helmbeck
Whiuaer Morted
Ta Crosse
Cronen
Otte T
Watertown
Daily Journal
United States
Ballard
J. Clendenin
Watt
Cc. E. Booker
Coa
Tolee Es Forest
Ioan
C. E. Booker & CO
Harper House Breck
T. Loptien St Cash Grocers
3D Ave
Market Square
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