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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1902
Page
2
Myrtle Peterson shows progress sitting up and taking nourishment. A young man plans marriage. A Colona blacksmith sold property and bought a home in Carbon Cliff. Carbon Cliff plans a July 4 celebration with a bowery dance and related amusements attracting mine residents.
Lizzie Picket of Spring Valley married William A War man of Muscatine last Thursday at the bride’s parents home Mrs and Mrs Clark Corbin. They will reside in Chicago. John Husan of Moline visited. Mrs John Patterson convalescing as Mr and Mrs Thomas Patterson were Moline callers. Roy Carey was taken to Moline hospital for an operation. Miss Bertha Husan visited Moline.
Special to the Journal reports residents visiting Rock Island and Moline for social events. Local gatherings include Green Riser church festival and a memorial service at Rebeccan lodge hall. Additional snippets note shopping trips, showers, and routine travel around town and nearby areas.
An old classified style ad promotes Botanic Blood Balm as a cure for skin diseases and blood conditions. It claims deep cleansing, healthful skin glow, and invites readers to request a free blood sample by mail. The notice lists Hawthorne Pharmacy in Moline as the local seller.
Barbers across the state plan to form a state association to push reforms not achievable through the national body. A convention is set in Peoria on July 21 with Motine represented and Charles Goodwin chosen as delegate for the Journeymen Barbers Union of the city.
About 400 employees at three Purington Paving Brick Company yards in Galesburg were paid two weeks wages with a voluntary raise announced to begin June 1 and run through October 1. The increase, said to be a voluntary gesture, added per cent to regular wages for bricklayers and other workers.
The city council of Moline passes an ordinance for the fiscal year April 1 1902 to April 1 1903. It authorizes appropriations totaling 343 300 for streets alleys waterworks health officers hospital and other corporate needs. The measure was approved June 19 1902, with attestation by the city clerk.
A woman recounts seven years bedridden with headaches nervousness and fainting. She describes doctors and remedies including a tonic claimed to restore health and strength. The piece emphasizes personal improvement and references a drug store guarantee of satisfaction for a 60 cent treatment.
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Estate matters dominate the page with petitions for letters of administration in the Johnson and Lindstrom cases, bond set at 400, and executrix filings for Ebba R. Johnson. Final reports approved for Norton and Anderson estates. estate closed and executrix discharged. Several real estate transfers and deed notices listed in Moline East Moline LeClaire areas with prices from 195 to 360 dollars and larger sums up to 2150 dollars.
A Kirkman Iowa woman suffered a terrible gasoline stove explosion burns that no doctors could heal until Bucklen’s Arica Salve cured the running sore. The ad claims the salve treats cuts corns sores boils bruises skin diseases and piles and costs 26 cents at Clendenin’s.
A brief ad notes cement and silver fillings available at Sperdela Drug Store, located at 1607 Second Avenue Rock Island, with prices listed for various dental services.
A number of bicycles offered cheap at the People's Furniture & Carpet House on Fifth Avenue must be taken at once. The wheels unused but the 140 pattern, a real bargain, are to be sacrificed. Call early.
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