Moline City Council votes on ordinances and street railway
The Moline council passes measures regulating bulldozing, amendments to a liquor section, and authorization for street railway locations on Fourth avenue. It accepts a city printing bid, approves several street and utility motions, and adjourns after approving a right of way payment for Fifteenth Street and related actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gluesing
Moline
Wederman Johnson
Consid
Bleight
Erman Gluesing
Perrin
Arcae France
Bennett
Christison
Ilinois
Moline City Council. Messrs. IA
Journal Printing CO
T. S. Stanley
MAY & M’keever
J. H. McKeever
Moline Dispatch Pub. CO
W. F. Eastman
Sec
Rylander
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Central Union Telephone Co
New Street Railway Company
Aderman Gustafson
Jacob Brefft
16Th Street
Alderman Herbst
Stofft
Fifteenth Street
Gustafson
Schneider
Coryn
Herbst
Johnson
Welle
Fourteenth Street
Twenty-third Avenue
Chas. G Carlson
Rocky Mountain Tea Ad Promises Nighttime Relief
An old advertisement copy touts Rocky Mountain Tea with a seal brown taste described as a canton flannel tongue from the liver urging nocturnal use, priced at 35 cents, attributed to F W Uhrus.
Didnt Marry for Money Turns Health With New Life Pills
A Boston man who married a ailing rich woman uses Dr Kings New Life Pills to restore her to health. The ad touts Blood Balm for skin and blood diseases, claims cures for jaundice malaria and more, offering free samples and low prices through Hawthorne drugstore and Blood Balm Co Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Dr King
Clendenin
Balin
Blood Balm. Co
Atlanta
Moine
Hawthorne Acy
Sh Avenue
DR. Mott's Chemical CO
Cleveland
Ohio
F. J. Clendenin
New Orion Church Corner Stone Laid at Onion
This afternoon at two o'clock the corner stone of the new Lutheran church in Onion was laid with ceremonies. Dr Ewald, president of the conference, delivered the dedication address and Rev Victor Letterdahl of Anover delivered an address.
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Ewald
Victor Letterdahl
Townsend Invents Sounding Boat for River Depths
Maj. C. M. D. Townsend unveils a newly built sounding boat at the Keokuk dry docks to measure Mississippi channel depth. The craft features an 18 by 60 foot hull, a central well, a 36 foot iron pole with a pulley system, and a recording drum that traces the river bottom on paper. Trials show promising results and officials press for river improvement funding to deploy the instrument widely.
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Keokuk
Mississippi River
Maj. C. McD. Townsend
Corps of Engineers
U 8. A
St. Paul
Missouri
Maj. M. Meigs
U Ss. A
Paint on Burlington trains fails in hurry says Galva News
The Galva News notes the Burlington's speed limit of 76 mph will curb fast runs but criticizes persistent throttle jerking by Sam Dove and others on the main line. It recalls past track work and grade improvements, claiming Burlington fast mail cars need frequent repairs as faster service returns.
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Galva News
Burlington
Council Bluffs
Sam Dove
Chicago
Princeton
Buda
Altona
Burlington Fast Mail
Labor wage gains and union actions across U S and Canada
Reports from Sheboygan, Petersburg, Toronto Junction, Salt Lake City and Washington detail wage hikes and union recognitions. Builders offer 22 to 26 cents hourly rises. painters strike resolved in Petersburg. CPR Hallway shops raise daily wages. Suburban Street Railway cites higher living costs with $3 monthly increases. AFL grants charter to Post Office Chop Union in DC. Bricklayers, plumbers, tinners, carpenters and stonecutters see daily or weekly increases. cooks earn weekly pay.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Salt Lake City
Utah
Knights at Galva unveil new lodge rooms
The Knights of Pythias of Galva spent about 4000 fitting up their new lodge rooms over Yuorums bank. The ante room is papered with red grain paper and one door opens into the lodge room while another leads to a large blue finished reception room. The large lodge room has blue finishing and four stations, making it one of the neatest lodge rooms in towns of this size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kni
Ita
Pythias
Galva
Master or Slave Vision in a 1903 Verse
Abbie Walker Gould poses a moral verse urging readers to choose mastery over servility in daily life. The poem contrasts power and restraint, warning that self will can lead to anger and ruin true love, asking the reader to decide between Heaven or Hell by their deeds today.
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Abbie Walker Gould
Heaven
Hell
Promised Free X Ray Fulmination Treatment Ad
An advertisement touts a ten dollar X Ray fulmination therapy offering a free trial. It describes a “wonderful electric oscillator” emitting gentle, barely perceptible impulses that travel through medicated air to energize nerves, enrich blood, expel toxins, and restore healthy bodily function.
New Scientific Treatment Claims Miraculous Nervous Cure
Ad touts a new treatment advertised as a universal cure for nervous debility weakness insomnia and related diseases claiming success without operation and offering free consultation. It asserts rapid results for consumptives and invalids and credits Dr Horne's expertise and modern equipment as the basis of its claimed prowess.
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Horne
Asa
Railroad Time Schedule Reflects City to City Connections
Train and steamer timetable shows CB&Q routes south and east from Rock Island to Moline and Davenport, and west to Clinton Savanna Dubuque via Davenport. Includes slow and fast trains, notable connections at Barstow, Savanna, and connection to Omaha Des Moines routes, plus steamer services Helen Blair and W J Young Jr. to Muscatine Burlington and Clinton daily lines.
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E. Moline
St P
Dubuque
Ravania
Clinton
Davenport
St Louis
Rock Island
Peoria
Beardstown
Quincy
Burlington
Lincoln
Denver
Savanna
J. L
Barstow
Sterling
Des Moines
Kansas City
Topeka
Texas
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Fort Worth
St Paul
Minneapolis
Sioux Fall
Paul
Minneapolia
Avanport
Omaha
Los Angeles
San Francisco
el Paso
California
Moline
LaCrosse
Freeport
Ill
Sabula
Milwaukee
Iowa
Illinois Side
Sherrard & Cabe
Sherrard & Cable
Sherrard
Hne
RI & P
Union Depot
Muscatine
Helen Blair
W. J. Young
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NEW Orion Church
Maj. C. M.D. Townsend
Petersburg
Canadian Pacific
Toronto Junction
Apada
Stailway Company
Thar
American Federation of Labor
Hae
Post Office Chika Union
Washington, DC
Washington
Central Labor Union
District of Columbia
K. P
J.alvin Horne
Mitchell & Lynde Ridg
Mott’s
Keone Tinea PI
Simon Lewis
7Th Street
Third Ave
Duncan & Ransom’s
Third Avenue
Louis H. Rieck Ladies’ Tailor
Harrison Street
Lael
ABC
Bohemia
Gare Pers
Freeon Feave O
American Mo Brewing Co
St. Louis, Mo
Dee
C. Ke
E. J. Bronson
The
Journal
Craille
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Rock Island & Pacific
Fort
Milwaukee & Saint Paul
East Moline
Latrosse
R. R
Springfield
Indianapols
Bloomington
Louisa
Indianapolis
Carnival City Packet Company
New Boston
Keliihsburg Oquawka
W J Young, JR
Winona
C'Cieek
Lamont & Som
Apts
Besk Island
John H. Mueller
Secon Avenue
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