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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
8
Forecast calls for tonight and Friday continued warmth with readings given by standard thermometer. Temperatures appear inconsistent in the text but indicate highs and lows near 6 degrees above normal and a nightly low around 40 degrees.
Damaged OCR fragment shows header SPECIAL NOTICES with unreadable details about names and events. Readable portions include fragmentary phrases Ted Men Werk and Adeption Wattiers but no clear actions or dates. Further text is required for a complete summary.
March 21 to 28 Revisal meetings at First MEF church led by revivalists Charles Smith and 8S Colburn. March 27 Vorwaerts Turnverein ball dance. March 27 Lutertahtmert polio degree staff at Pharshall Appeil 1 Election day April ct Phartis The New World staged by Prof Clenden in April. S-Entertainment by North Star Ledge No Lat Swedish Olique hall April 6 Turner hall benefit dance by B. Hlub. April 11 Turner hall Turners gymnastic exhibition. April 11 Wagner Opera House operetta Little Red Riding Hood by Abide-in-Me circle of King's Daughters. April 18 Industrial hall choral recital by public school pupils directed by Miss Swartz.
The page lists local merchants and services including Mullane's bargains, Hirsch & Anderson fire insurance, Tri-City Tower Supply, Cederberg cabinetmaker, Morning Light cigars, Wardwood Ice, The Fair by Kracke, Shaillberg Bros hardwood, Sundeen & Vander vennett furniture, and notes that Cederberg would make a good assessor. Opening continues all week at Sundeen & Vandervennett's.
Local items announce Sundeen Vanbvvennetts opening week sales and fashion notices at Sanderson Vanerven nets. Community events include a turn hall concert with Prof Ogden, a Ladies of the AR meeting, a Democratic candidate notice, and an emerald park pass note. Also reported: tax book extension, a city paving contract, a bicycle theft, mine repairs, and a tonic ad.
The Republic Steel Company opens its Springfield mill with a $15 000 bonus on $850 000 stock and a hundred workers employed. Nine new names join the Ladies Auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans as muster preparations begin. Gustus school girls show pitching and catching skill while the Kewanee Daily Press debuts with telegraphic scoops. Mrs Wiles faces opposition in Chicago clubs and mission society delegates are named for a Quincy meeting. Le Gaylord shifts to railroad grading with a crew of about thirty to start April first.
Next Saturday Lindaur from Grisfred Company the largest salt house in America will be at our Moline store with a full line of suits jackets and skirts for a one day event You are invited to attend and view the offerings Also Tabler s Buckeye Pile Ointment advertised as a quick safe painless cure priced 50 cents a bottle 45 cents a tube offered by F J Clendenin and Battles Pharmacies.
The jury in Charles Pfaff v. estate of J W Schreiner awarded Pfaff 475 dollars in county court for plastering on the Munro residence on Fifth avenue. Pfaff, a sub-contractor, sought payment after the architect rejected the material and substitute work was used.
A political note from Montgomery County highlights Bliss as author of a partisan verse praising a county candidate. The poem casts the rival as deceptive yet amiable, and cheers the hopeful figure with lines about persistence and stubborn campaigning tactics.
Emil Kilofsky a Rettendorf Axle Company Davenport employee had both hands caught in a stamping machine. Doctors at St Lukes Hospital amputated major portions of both hands. Kilofsky is from Creston Town. An Easter concert is planned at Turner Hall next Sunday evening.
Swift and Company reports Illinois inventors receiving patents this week. Names include George Belden Centralia boiler-tube cutter and Robert Bolles Bloomington window shade and awning, with many others across Peoria Streator Quincy and surrounding towns for various mechanical, electrical, and industrial devices.
Beeford & Company representative Mr Lindaur will attend Saturday all day and evening promoting Jadles tailor-made suits. For the latest styles, customers are urged to visit on Saturday.
A meeting of the contest committee for the Military Tract High School Association will be held in Galesburg on a Saturday in Elmwood May. The ten school principals on the committee include J Burns Aledo F A White Galva R Rennick Macomb J M Martin Elmwood S Aldrich Canton B F Armitage Monmouth A C Isutler Kewanee J H Heil Moline Mr Jones Knoxville and F D Thomson Galesburg.
An advertisement claims Dr King's New Discovery cures consumption asthma pneumonia bronchitis grip croup and whooping cough. It promises health for throat and lung troubles with 50c or $1 bottles and a free trial at Clendening's drug store.
Forsberg and Talty marked a major retail milestone with their first annual Easter opening on Fifteenth Street. The store drew crowds through the afternoon and evening, prompting extra staff to handle demand. organizers promise continued days of shopping with more clerks Saturday to prevent disappointment.
The New York Store advertised go carts with steel wheels and rubber tires priced at $6 values for $5.50. An errant OCR note re-states the offer as $6.50 go carts for only $3.50, claiming a remarkable value for the elegant grade. Channel Ice Company is cited for hardwood stove-length orders.
Galesburg plans a law library larger and more valuable than any outside Chicago and Springfield. Knox County Bar Association lawyers contribute generously to the effort. Webb & Albrecht, insurance and real estate, suggested the plan earlier.
A newspaper notice promises cash loans on furniture pianos horses wagons and other personal property to those who need funds most. It stresses a procession of dollars in the current season but says the money often goes to the least needy.
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