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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1902
Page
2
Commodity quotes show mixed futures with wheat and corn near Friday levels. Cash markets soften slightly while hogs rise, and coal, eggs, and produce list steady domestic prices. Rocky Mountain Tea ad ends the item, noting rising interest in health tonics.
Daily market quotes from Moline listing prices for corn oats timothy mixed upland hay slough oat straw rye straw and rye grain. Grocery dairy eggs potatoes apples onions turnips carrots and other produce. meats including cows heifers steers live calves calves dressed hogs sheep lambs and live chickens. coal pricing for anthracite soft LaSalle Cable and Hocking coal.
An ad proclaims catarrh as a constitutional disease and markets Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It claims internal dosing from 10 drops to a teaspoonful and offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure, urging readers to send for circulars and testimonials.
Fragmentary line shows Dr William Maxie of Eleventh Avenue presenting satisfaction to patrons and mentioning a trial regarding a patient. No further details or dates are provided in readable text.
Fireman C Kofer reports for work on 1421 after a layoff. Fireman H Griffin of engine 1239 returns from Colorado, back for first trip in about a month. Engineer W A Porter of switch 1651 reports after yesterday’s layoff. Tom Dunn, engineer of 1415, departs on engine 561. Engines 350 and 651, both work trains, were here yesterday for repairs. Engineer W T Gilroy returns from 551 and is on the extra board again. Engine 651 begins work this morning after repairs yesterday. Engine 1237 is held for repairs. A note mentions a 3c item about Rocky Mountain Tea and Madison Medicine Co.
Night officials complain of South Chicago conditions as Illinois Steel runs its own employment bureau. Representatives pick workers from the Strand, sending the rest away, using foreign emigrants mainly Italians. Cars detach laborers at Hammond and ship them by streetcar to sites across America. Washington authorities are urged to halt such wholesale foreign labor shipping.
Harry W. Sommers Jr is engaged by Lothar Harms to manage Hotel Harms now near completion in Rock Island. Sommers trained under his father at the Kimball Davenport and led the Kentor House in Moline to become Hotel Sommers before a lease change. The Harms hotel will open to the public in August.
M H Lyon proprietor announces relocation of his laundry to Fourth Avenue near Fifteenth Street and invites patrons to continue patronage at the new site. A grand opening picnic at Concordia Park on May 26 features balloon ascension parachute leap dancing and entertainment for all.
Guardianship reports for Ettie Petit and George Reaugh filed approved. Wards now of age. receipts and releases filed and guardians discharged.
Health ad touting Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney, bladder and urinary issues. Claims sediment on standing indicates disease and promises relief, with free sample bottle and booklet by mail from Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York.
All persons still owing me are informed that any unpaid accounts by Saturday May 24 will be turned over for collection. The Tri City Bottled Milk and Butter Company advertises clarified pasteurized milk and cream with sweetness and cleanliness guaranteed without chemicals. Phone 1241 Rock Island.
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