Tragic Rail Crossing Crash Kills Four in Kewanee Area
Early Thursday a fast mail train struck a vacated rig at the Main Street crossing in Kewanee, killing four youths and two horses. Victims Maggie Keesler and Blanche Harding, both from nearby Galva and Kewanee, died at the scene or shortly after. their companions Charles Butters and Rollin Emery perished as well. An inquest followed. witnesses described a horrific scene with mangled bodies and dismembered horses. The four had traveled from Galva to Cambridge to visit family before returning toward Kewanee. Their deaths shocked the local community and prompted coroner and police investigations.
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Fast Mail No
Cone
Frank Bullard
Kewanee
Maggie Keesler
Bertha Harding
Fast Mail
Iives
Blanche Harding
Maggie Skxeesler
Cambridge
Lucinda Barnhart
Galva
Nott’s
Butters
Emery
Main Street
Harding
Tule
Palmer
West Second Street
Jo Mannon
Oo Call
Irwartiers
Hlindie
Maggie
Magele
Galya
Blanche
Cmbridge
Maggie Barnhart
Scott's Emulsion Promises Vitality for School Girls
An advertisement urges improving the health of pale schoolgirls with Scott's Emulsion, claiming it is blood food that restores beauty and vitality during adolescence. It directs readers to send for a free simple and lists the company Scott & Bowne of New York.
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Scott
Train strikes two at Main Street crossing in Kewanee
Coroner's jury in Kewanee Illinois finds victims died after being struck by train No 8 on the C B and Q tracks at the Main street crossing in the early hours of May 1 The jury assigns blame to existing conditions and urges the city council to install protection at street crossings day and night.
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Kewanee
Byrne Brothers Acrobatic Comedy Eight Bells At Burts Opera House
Dramatic notes announce the Byrne Brothers in Eight Bells at Burts Opera House Sunday evening with new acrobatic features. The company has drawn crowds before and this year promises enhanced entertainment. James K Hackett appears next Thursday May 8 in The Crisis, a Churchill novel adaptation, bringing a strong cast and anticipated financial and artistic success.
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Burts Opera House
Byrne Brothers
James K Hackett
Hackett
Burtis Opera House
Winston
Don Caesar
Churchill
Pittsburg
Cleveland
St Louis
New Orleans
Seeds of Life and Love in the Garden of the World
A reflective poem by Abbie Walker Gould dated April 1902 compares life to a garden sown with love, ambition, and hope. It speaks of planting seeds in others to reap growth, patience, and inner truth, noting that every creature bears its own fate and is shaped by what is sown.
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Abbie Walker Gould
Mr and Mrs Sommers to Leave Moline Hotel
Mr and Mrs H S Sommers, longtime Moline hoteliers, depart tonight after two and a half years of service. Sommers built the hotel into a first class establishment and plans a summer relocation. he retires from active business, with many attachments formed in Moline.
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Seers
Moline
Sommers
Sommerst
Oscar Peal
Sominrts
Fuinees
Chicago
Terre Haute
Virginia
Metropole
Kimball
Davenport
N Orief
Series of French Plays to Be Given Next Winter
New York discusses founding a new French theater while Chicago, led by Mrs. M H Knowles of Le Club Francais, plans a winter series of French plays at Steinway Hall. The club, in its 21st season, has grown from 4 members to a sizable group known for literary and artistic French circles with weekly productions and broad cultural impact.
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New York
Chicago
M H Knowles
le Club Francais
Steinway Hall
Let 'Ub Francais
Sm Jety
Club Francaiss
Record- Herald
Remark on a Woman Completing Rocky Mountain Tea Course
A reader notes a woman described as fine and brilliant has completed a course of Rocky Mountain Tea, implying improved manners or charm. The message mentions a name fragment F W and a garbled surname Ubrua, suggesting partial identification.
Beal Acquisition of Walter Corbin Farm Near East Moline
Dr A M Beal through Webb Albrechtsen has purchased the Walter Corbin farm one mile above East Moline. The 75 acre property cost 6000 dollars with Corbin taking the Pettifer house at Ninth Avenue and Twenty fifth Street in part payment totaling 2600 dollars. Corbin plans to move to Dakota to resume farming.
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Webb Albrecht
A. M. Beal
Walter Corbin
East Moline
Mr. Corbin
Pettifer
Dr. Beal
Ninth Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Dakota
A Cheerful Disposition Play and public playgrounds
Tsanoff argues in a recent publication about the educational value of public playgrounds. He states play fosters happiness and the inner life, shaping cheerful adults, and adds that joyful play strengthens and sweetens life. Journal map available for 110 cents at the Journal office.
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Tsanoff
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Wanee
Charles A Butters
Rollin Emery
Keesler
Western
Ryder
15Th Street Square
Grra
Gold Crown Dental Parlors
Adust
Rock Island
Illinois
DR. Crissman
Joyeland
Simnflea
Mre. Sommers
Langbehn’s Bakery
Fifteenth St
Langbehn
M. L. Huntington, M. D
Haiverall
Iiss
Em Krankenhaua
Velgel Austria
Ted
Manante
W. A. Dieroff
Tri-Cities
W.a.dierolf
Third Avenue
J. J. Mitchell Co. Cutting School of
Malmer
C.E. Booker & Co
Pittesnth
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