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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
8
An OCR fragment promotes advertising as a modern machine for moving goods and urges readers to try the Journal to move merchandise from shelves. The text repeats garbled phrases about doing the work and transporting items.
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with likely showers and thunderstorms. Cooler Saturday afternoon. A broad area of low pressure covers the nation from the Rocky Mountains to the upper Great Lakes, with showers and thunderstorms in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. Mississippi River level expected to rise slowly between Dubuque and Davenport.
The report lists temperatures at specific times with handwritten notes indicating readings and comparisons to yesterday. It records 9:00 am and 12:00 pm values and notes the day's high and low relative to the prior day.
Special notice states the city will lease on Saturday May 3 at noon. It calls all indebted persons to call at the hotel to settle their accounts before that time, signed H W Sommers.
A collage of brief local ads lists Strawberries at Wilsons and The Fair F H Kracke 614 16th St Prospect Park dancing Freeds orchestra hardwood for sale from Shallberg Bros cabinetmaker Cederberg 1612 2d Ave Oriental Tea Co accounts and settlements.
Disjointed OCR fragment lists streets and businesses such as Deere & Moonsat toothpeany and Williams White & Co. references. Mentions 4th ostreet, sth ave, 11th avenue, 6oth avenue, and Molne Wages with unclear context. No clear event or outcome is discernible.
Community invites attend the Prospect Park opening with Freed’a orchestra this Saturday evening. Journal subscriptions or ad copies can be left at Union News Depot 1508 6th Avenue, open evenings to 10. Also reports Davenport high school baseball beat St Ambrose College, and local business moves and railroad fare notices appear alongside society items and a serial novel promotion.
Elmwood at 2 45 this afternoon winner not announced. Declamatory contest shows top three: Miss Bertha Gullberg Moline, Owen Canfield Galesburg, Miss Marie Gallagher Canton.
Telegraph reaches Washington with news that a new court martial will convene in Samar to try Major Glenn for allegedly ordering water care and other officers as may be designated. President opposes cattle grazing lease proposal on public domain at 2 cents an acre. Fifty-one directors favor delaying St Louis world fair opening by one year.
An advertisement invites customers to inspect a spring footwear line for ladies men and children at Ranke's Shod Stores located at 1618 Third Ave and 503 Fifteenth. It asserts better goods and money value, with a stated motto Your money's worth is our motto and a guarantee on all shoes.
Estate of Eriik Erickson report of administrator filed and approved. Estate insolvent and administrator discharged. Guardianship of Talberg minor report of guardian filed and approved. Ward now of age receipt filed and approved and guardian discharged. Estate of Charles Froberg administrator's report filed and approved. Estate of Francis Batley final report of administratrix filed and approved. Estate closed and administratrix discharged. Estate of John M Detjens report of distribution filed and approved. Estate closed and administrator discharged. Estate of Nels Nelson proof of death filed. Will presented for probate. Petition for probate of will filed. Hearing on petition set for May 22 at 10 oclock a.m. Estate of Charles Deakman final report of administrator filed and order nisi approving same by May 24, administrator to notify heirs by publication.
A jumble of conveyance listings shows transfers of tracts in Cordova Corday Keator subdivisions and Drury ship subdivisions. Names include Harriet Westgate Martha Westgate Patrick Cary Walter Corbin Isabelle Willis Mary Hinesder Peter Blomquist Athert Heal Condee Grove and others with metes and bounds descriptions and prices from 200 to 2750 dollars.
In the Hennepin canal shanty boat settlement Louis Peterson accused his brother Sam of net interference. Sam allegedly drew a pistol but no shooting occurred. Louis issued a warrant for assault with a deadly weapon. At Magistrate Johnson's hearing both were found equally guilty and fined five dollars plus costs for assault and battery.
Lot 3 in W E Bailey's Second add Rock Island sells for 350 dollars. Charles Swanson transfers Lot 1 Block 7 Orlando Childs add Moline for 940. Bartholomew Hellstein to Daniel J Shean Lot 5 Block 58 Chicago or Lower add Rock Island 340. Emil Evers to Rebecca Herbert Lot 6 Block 4 Gen H Rodmans add Rock Island 3100. William Jackson and George M Babcock to Drury A Babcock Lot 4 Block 3 Wheelocks Fifteenth street add Moline 336.40. J Thompson to Alonzo D Thompson Lot 9 Block 11 Milan 100.
Benjamin Dull of Rock Island fell from a moving Davenport bridge car near Turner Hall on Thursday morning. He was found on the pavement with severe arm and hip wounds, an ambulance carried him to Red Cross hospital for treatment. Fresh strawberries at Wilsons.
Ernest Ploog returns to Moline to live with his mother on Thirty first street after living in Baltimore Maryland and winters in Jacksonville Florida. He is an old Moline resident with many friends and will spend the summer in Moline ending his period of roving. He is Gustave Ploog's brother, whose death by his own hand was reported recently.
Articles of incorporation for Rock Island Sand & Gravel Company filed in Circuit Clerk Gamble's office. First directors meeting held electing President Larkin, Vice President Henry Kinner, Secretary and Manager F3 Gall, Treasurer W H McConochie.
County Crop Correspondent Thomas Campbell reports to the department of agriculture for May 1 on meadow lands spring pasture and spring plowing. Meadow lands are 80 percent of normal spring pasture at 49 percent and only 49 percent of spring plowing completed.
Mrs Anna B Fleharty former superintendent of the W O T U headquarters at Galesburg Illinois recalls her life with a busy minister husband and ailing daughter. She says Peruna boosted appetites digestion and sleep improving both her and her daughter's health, and would not be without it. A note offers the free book Summer Catarrh by Dr Hartman.
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