Dispute Delays Second Avenue Paving For East Moline Rail Plan
Promoters of new street railways fail to agree on right of way costs with the Tri-City Construction Company delaying paving on Second avenue. Property owners face a large rebate as the street railway covers its share and work proceeds on Sixteenth street grading from Fifth avenue.
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East Moline v
Tri-City
Fhava
Second Avenue
Wessel
Tri-City Construction Company
Sixteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Wagon Company to Resume Full Operations Monday
The Moline Wagon Company completed repairs and will start the factory with a full force of men Monday morning. The shops will run ten hours daily and at full capacity. The outlook for the wagon business is very bright with many orders ahead.
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Moline Wagon Company
Friday sale at Pierr & Company New York Store
A sale notice announces new shirt waists and ginghams with 12 1/2 cents per yard pricing, 50 tana and white shirt waists, and 2000 yards of calico remnants priced 8 1/2 cents per yard. Includes Journal map sale at Journal office.
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Pierr & Company
New York
Massive Hennepin canal cut planned near Colona
A vast trench in the Hennepin canal near Colona will be 84 feet deep and up to 250 feet wide at the top in the last three miles of the big ditch. The work will take two and a half years using steam shovels and wheel scrapers with dirt hauled away for bottom land filling. Engineer Bassett plans to move to Colona for a new house while survey teams finish fence lines and levels.
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Hennepin Canal
Colona
Rock River
Bassett
J Fred Duis
Atkinson
Stone
Des Moines
Frank Wilson
Hawthorn Firehouse Staffing Changes Reported
Hawthorn May 1 Fire department notes show several transfers and duty shifts. Fireman PB Kelly laid off. G L Larkin reports for duty replacing George Fisher on 659. DeRBeorcy takes Griffins 2239 fireman role. Engineer Channon and Trevillyan lay off. Tromer fills in for H Griffin. Leonards and McAughan new or shifted personnel.
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Hawthorn
PB. Kelly
G L. Larkin
George Fisher
G. Derbeorcy
H J. Dunn
F. Channon
J. Tromer
H Griffin
McAughan
Leonards
Trevillyan
Battles Pharmacy Promise Refund Guarantees Tar Syrup
The Battles Pharmacy offers a refund on a 50 cent bottle of Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure a cough or cold and a 25 cent bottle option to prove satisfaction, or money refunded. H Sandstrom signs for the assurance.
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Battles Pharmacy
H. Sandstrom
Bicycles For Sale Cheap At Local Furniture Store
A number of bicycles are offered for sale cheap at the Peoples Furniture and Carpet House on Fifth Avenue. The wheels are unused 1900 pattern and must be sacrificed. Includes ladies Eldridge Rugby Westminster and gent s Columbia chains. Call early.
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People's Furniture & Carpet House
Fifth Avenue
Eldridge
Rugby
Westminster
Columbia Chainness
Bettendorf axle works fire alarms Davenport
At eight o clock this afternoon an alarm of fire was turned in from the Bettendorf axle works in Davenport. Indications are the fire will spread with good headway gained when discovered. Great volumes of smoke issue from many windows and messages say the fire may develop into a serious one.
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Bettendorf Axle Works
Davenport
Embezzler Kremer Traced From Milwaukee to Davenport
Sheriff Reinhard of Eau Claire Wisconsin joins Davenport search for H J Kremer wanted for about $2000 embezzlement from a Milwaukee soap and spice firm. Kremer cooperates and is escorted to Rock Island then to Eau Claire. investigation ties to mall letters sent to Pekin relatives.
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Charles Reinhardt
Eau Claire
Wis
Rock Island
H. J. Kremer
Milwaukee
Cralle
Reinhard
Andrews
Davenport
Kremer
Eaulake
Mall
Peoria
Pekin
Haulaire
Local notes from South Moline and area
Mrs Agnes Chapman returns from Princeton Iowa while Mr and Mrs L Johnson depart for Canton Ohio. The Ladies Missionary Society hosts a tea at John Kisor's home. Rhoda Huck entertains friends at a pre social. Frank Brown buys the McCann property on Fourteenth Street. Arthur Biggs buys John Pierce property for 1050 dollars. Seth Hicks acquires the Stewart property at 1535 Twenty fifth avenue. Andrew Christopher travels to California. Emerson Shoft suffers pneumonia while John Lyona is ill with pneumonia.
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South Moline
Agnes Chapman
Princeton
Iowa
L. Johnson
Sixth Avenue
Canton
Ohio
Ladies’ Missionary Society
M E
John Kisor
Rhoda Huck
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Frank Brown
McCann
Fourteenth Street
Arthur Biggs
John Pierce
Twenty-Fourth Avenue
Seth Hicks
Stewart
Andrew Christopher
Rock River Bottom
California
Emerson
John Lyona
U 8 Clothing Company Sets Limit on Handkerchief Sale
After school tomorrow the U 8 Clothing Company will offer exactly 12 school handkerchiefs for a low price. No more than 12 handkerchiefs can be purchased by a single customer.
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U 8. Clothing Company
Prospect Park Opening and May Musical Events Listed
A sequence of spring events includes the May 6 opening of Prospect Park, May 7 Crest Club dance at Watch Tower Turner Hall, May 10 anniversary by Thorlodge No 9 I O O V, May 12 and May 19 recitals at Augustana College by Frank Frientat and by Misses Alice Anderson and Minnie Paulson.
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Prospect Park
Augustana College
Crescent
Watch Tower
Turner Hall
Thorlodge
I. Oo. Vv
Frank Frientat
Alice Anderson
Minnie Paulson
Delarey Not Surrendered Amid Boer Claims
London reports deny a widely circulated US claim that General Delarey has surrendered to British forces in South Africa. Also note J Pierpont Morgan is said to receive 2 1/2 million pounds in stock of the shipping combine for organizing and financing it. Get a Journal map ten cents each.
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Morgan
London
J. Pierpont Morgan
Shipping Combine
Clergy Parsonage Upgrades Reveal 1851 Missouri Republican Find
During interior work at Sacred Heart church parsonage in Rock Island Rev. J F Lockneys notes interior updates with new oak floors replacing old pine. Beneath a fireplace stone workers uncover a well preserved June 3 1851 Daily Missouri Republican from St Louis in a four page blanket sheet showing 10 columns and ads like a mid 19th century metropolitan paper.
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J. F. Lockneys
Sacred Heart Church
Rock Island
Daily
Missouri Republican
St. Louis
James Warwick
Washington
Pennsylvania
Metropolitan Press
Dawes Buttons Appearing in Moline
Dawes buttons have been received in Moline and display a portrait-like image of the man who hopes to be senator. Republicans in the city wear them on coats or in pockets, and many remain undecided. The buttons come in two styles: a photo-like likeness with the caption candidate for US senator and a plain white button with Dawes printed boldly.
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Dawes
Moline
Mr. Dawes
Elmwood to host Military Trace High School contest
Tomorrow morning Elmwood will host a Military Trace High School Association declamatory and athletic meet. Moline sends Miss Bertha Gullberg as the declaimer with John Lindberg as alternate. Judging uses three graders with rankings combined to determine prizes and awards.
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Moline
Military Tract Association
OLINE
Elmwood
Military Trace High School
Bertha Gullberg
John Lindberg
Davenport High School
George Noth
Amy la Venture
Ernest Oberholtzer
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Josephson
Hennepin
Hawthorn News
W. B. Corsets
W. B
Hilbert
15Th Street
5Th Avenue
Ierks - x
Davenenport
Sacred Heart
Ara
Caesar
Venetti
Velanius
Silius
Ralph Ottesen
Ben Gurtside
Henry Eckhardt
James Lamb
Dimmie Goodwin
Luella Enszeroth
Julia Potter
Mary Marks
Adah Peck
Anna van Evera
Helen Marks
Ida Haller
May Short
Agnes Paar
Thos. McCullough
Ralph Kelly
Ed Raguet
George Sheets
Dorothy Brutus
Ethel Hitchcock
Jenhle Mickelwright
Adella Balluff
Elst Booth
Edith Leonard
Blanche Lewis
Ruby Pringle
Gunn
Dewend-Kuschmann
Third Avenue
Sundeen & Vander Vennet
E. Mayer
Moder Clothiers
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