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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1901
Page
4
Union leaders from every craft in Moline meet to oppose employer demanded contracts for factory work. About 500 members from the Moline Trades and Labor Council vow to resist, aiming to avoid a shop deadlock while awaiting possible compromise talks with Deere & Company officials.
A detailed description of a stage production titled The Capture of Pekin. It previews a grand reenactment of the Battle of Tren Taine with realistic costumes and formations. Buffalo Bill’s organization promotes a historically styled exhibit featuring uniforms, arms, banners, and the personnel from multiple cities.
Barstow items note visits and calls including Miss Hunt with tri clues, Anna Ranks with Minnie Swansen in Moline, and Starman returning to Abingdon to stay with Starman's mother. Franki Ranks and son head to Black Hills for vacation. Mentions of A D Appleby buying Mondser Hotel at Motinga and W J Swisher attending Mrs Weatherhead’s funeral. local pharmacy ads conclude.
At the ball park yesterday a confrontation arose between William Neth and Jack Parker amid a day of unrest. Earlier, Chief Hastings confronted a store clerk over rubbish removal, leading to a feud when Oscar Hildebrandt penned a hostile letter. Hastings and Hildebrandt exchanged insults and then nearly fought before bystanders intervened.
Henry W Hokinson of Moline was declared insane by a county court jury after acting strangely on a Sunday visit. Judge Adams ordered his commitment to Watertown hospital, with reports noting his insanity stemmed from religious brooding or extreme heat.
Narrative describes a person injuring himself while hiking and seeking relief with Perry Oasis Pain Killer rubbed on bruises. A caregiver instructs using a bottle with energetic frequency depending on injury severity to ease stress and restore stiffness.
Social items recount a Retail Clerks Union trolley party with Marine band music at the tower, then Miss Etta Young visit, Mrs Ferguson’s Arkansas trip, and several Rock Island residents returning from Buffalo Pan-American exposition. Lawn festivals at St Joseph's church, typhoid cases, and local store plans share the social calendar with a flurry of visits, trips, and upcoming weddings in the area.
Capt J M Beardsley as administrator of the George Sutcliffe estate sold Sutcliffe’s stock of wall papers paints and related items on Tuesday. P J Lee will continue the business at the corner of 2d avenue and 15th street in Rock Island, the former Sutcliffe location.
A Rough worker at Barntd & Lease in Moline had a hand caught in a can and underwent thumb amputation at Rock Island sanitarium. Other injuries were severe but may heal. The account notes medical treatment and mentions Bucklin's Arnica Salve marketed locally.
Frank Y Keator rejects claims that the new trolley road will be used for freighting. He states the line is intended for public transit only, denying any plan to extend to Rock Tal or carry freight. He asserts no such freight project has ever been considered.
A wreck two miles south of Kremogh on the Rock Island line occurred after a culvert washout derailed a baggage car and overturned smoker and passenger cars. McLaron Enid died, 24 injured including S. Schmidt Ru... and H Kelsey Mad, Cavier Jamesport, Laughman Joplin, Smith Mile Iowa. George J Gould denies financial stake in Park coast extension.
The Grand Trunk Railway system allows a ten day stopover at Niagara Falls or Buffalo under certain conditions to enable borders of tickets to eastern destinations to visit the Pan American exposition. Full information may be obtained from city passenger and ticket agent 249 Clerk Street Chicago. The expressions of grateful women who have experienced wonderful blessings using Rocky Mountain Tea compensate us for our efforts in their behalf 385¢ Ask your druggist.
The Moline fire department, praised for saving the U N Roberts Company factory during Thursday night’s fire, received a $100 donation from Horace Roberts of the U N Roberts Co as relief fund support and recognition of their heroic work.
A jury in the county court on Tuesday heard the case of Don Allars versus C W Smith, the Moline inventor who claims a method to convert garbage into hard coal and illuminating gas. The jury deliberated and returned a verdict for Allars for $300, as claimed. Weld & Lmster represented Allars, while W E Cd Atlen appeared for Smith.
Port Byron residents learn an heir to Sir Francis Drake’s vast English fortune is Mrs H Pierce of Fairrocks near town. Drake’s estate reportedly totals 3 billion dollars and legal steps to claim it will begin soon with Pierce linked as his great granddaughter.
The emancipation celebration led by Jerry M Busey will be held at Concordia Park in Moline, not Huber's garden. A parade precedes speeches by prominent locals at the park, with float makers including Skinner & Company Hull Bros Wilsons Grocery Dewend Kusachmann Plambeck Berglund W A Dierodf and the Moline Electric Foundry among participants.
Uniform Rank Knights of Maccabees plan a trolley party and dance at the Tower Tuesday evening with good music and a band concert. Tickets available from members or Carle sons book stores and Ed Eyer's hacker shop, or from committee members F T Hall and W T Clark.
An ad asserts Pain Killer has cured millions for over fifty years and warns against imitations, urging readers to choose only the genuine Perry Davis product for severe ailments like diarrhoea and dysentery.
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