Two Rock Island Gears Believed to Be Case
Unclear OCR fragment mentions Rock Island gear in a case. No verifiable names or dates available to confirm specifics.
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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1902
Page
8
Unclear OCR fragment mentions Rock Island gear in a case. No verifiable names or dates available to confirm specifics.
A Rock Island mother, Mrs Beselin, pleads with Moline police for help locating her daughter and another girl allegedly held at a river camp. She fears harm and asks authorities to investigate despite no definite camp location. The case hinges on a reported disappearance and possible detention.
Mrs. Samuel Broomhall died at 4 30 on Friday at the family residence 320 Second street after a years illness with paralysis. Born in 1842 at Newton Staffordshire England she came to the United States with her husband in 1864 and settled in Rock Island in 1872. Survived by husband and children John Jonesboro Indiana William Marion Indiana and daughters Mrs George Burtoft Mrs Fred Pahl Jas Charles Nellie Margaret Sarah and Mable of Rock Island.
A new dressmaking shop named aNew Dressmakers will open at No. 422 Sixteenth Street with services at reasonable prices. Specialties include skirt waists shirts silk and fancy petticoats with shirt waists from 40 cents, summer dresses 32 cents and up, children's dresses under 10 years 75 cents and up. Telephone 2258 White.
Members are urged to gather at Pierr hall Sunday afternoon June 22 at 2 o'clock to participate in Memorial services. Royal Neighbors and Woodmen are invited. By order of Oracle Mrs Rose Salisbury Dans at Central Park tonight.
A lodger at Josebh Meyser's home on Fifth Avenue, Rook Yslard, believed a burglar entered as he returned late Friday night. He alarmed a crowd, police were summoned, but examination showed no evidence of an intruder. No one was hurt and no suspect identified.
Tomorrow afternoon the Woodmen and Rebekahs will hold Memorial Day services for deceased lodge members. Graves of Moline members were decorated today at Rock Island cemetery. Lodges meet at 2 o clock at their hall then march to the cemetery for opening and closing ode, prayer, and the day address by Hon. J. B. Oakleaf.
Magnus, an employee at Moline Furniture Works, drank ice water and collapsed in convulsions. He was taken home by ambulance and is reported doing well. Leonard Fell of Barnard & Leas suffered a severe head wound in a workplace incident on Seventh Avenue between Twenty second and Twenty third Streets. He is hospitalized with a gash to the left side of the skull. The ad promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and Herbine, priced 25 cents and 60 cents respectively, claiming quick relief and renewed vitality.
An old ad promotes Bal lard's Horehound Syrup as a safe swift remedy for bronchial ailments. Available at F. J. Clendenin and Battles Pharmacies with prices 25 and 50 cents.
Deere & Company plans a Friday basket picnic at Woodward's grove on June 27 with free ride lemonade coffee and entertainment. Tickets available from Time-keeper Arthur Kneberg after Tuesday morning. trains depart 7 30 9 30 and 11 00 am and return at 6 00 7 00 and 9 00 pm via Milwaukee railroad.
Ed Demumbrum a boot black of Rock Island was jailed by Officer Mc Carthy on Thursday for writing an impertinent note to a white waitress. Magistrate John son fined him $3 and costs for disorderly conduct. Also an advertisement notes old houses bought and sold and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by H J Strickfaden editor.
Advertisement urges readers to buy Chamberlains Colg Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for family use before summer. Claims it is the most successful medicine for bowel complaints and suitable for both children and adults. Sold by all druggists. Also notes a dance at Central Park tonight.
London June 21 special to the Journal. In the international polo game between the American and English teams at Hurlingham the English defeated the Americans by seven goals to one.
Henry Watterson mocks Cleveland in New York on harmony speech before Til den club. Six hundred guardsmen held at Patterson armory to quell possible riot. Harvard exercises honored Roxcoe Conkling Brifte the sole Black senior. Wisconsin brewers barred from direct wagon deliveries, Deming beaten by whitecaps in Monroe county. Indiana distraught as public figures testify in bribery case. German teaching plan praised. Independent candidates to oppose Lorimer Farnum Nolte to be named Tuesday. St Luke fire inquiry raises management questions at hospital. Lord Beresford criticizes navy policy in Commons. Wilhelm defends Fatherland faith at Aix la Chapelle. United Irish League designs day of mourning on Coronation Day.
In Davenport this morning factory workers walked out after a dispute over the union label and its price list. The incident followed a request for the union label and involved Mrs Shafer’s shirt and shirt waist factory, with past operations noted in Moline and the Gustaf Adolf church location.
A compiled church notices page lists morning and evening services for First Congregational First Methodist Unitarian Swedish and other churches with times and pastors. Also notes Sunday school Y P C U and Epworth League events plus a men’s gospel meeting led by E L Nordgren. An ad for herbal remedy Herbine ends the column.
Alderman G. W. McCaskrin of Rock Island closed a deal Friday to own a seven acre tract forming the southern boundary of Rock Island’s baseball park. The parcel on 12th street and 18th avenue extends about 400 by 600 feet, part of the Bailey Davenport estate, with Connelly & Connelly as agents for Naomi Davenport. McConklin plans platting the land and selling lots but will not disrupt the baseball association’s use this season.
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