Organ Recital at Congregational Church Promises Fine Music
The Congregational church hosts an organ recital this Friday night featuring Prof W H Dorsley from Indianapolis noted as a top-itemist. Miss Gertrude Stephens and Miss Crompton Dethler perform vocal and instrumental pieces with a program including Prelude Andante and Symphony works by Vidor Guilmant and others. Donley from London also appears. his card bears the legend W Hz Donley, oO, F 8.8L., London, Eng.
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Moline
W. H Dorsley
Indinapolis
Gertrude Stephens
Don
Indianapolis
Donley
London
Eng
Piano sale winds down with deep discounts
Advertises a closing out sale on pianos and organs at Store Sts Rock Island Wheaths fetut featuring Kimball uprights at reduced prices and cheap used units. Offers cash and monthly payments, with late hours and urging customers to come in before Saturday.
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Beean
Autumn balls and dances listed for October events
Coming events include an Oct 4 bean supper at Me Kinagle hall and a Swedish Olive hall grand ball by the Maccabees. Also a dance by the Versuvius Club at Industrial Hall Moline and an Oct 14 Autumn ball by Court of Honor No 100 at Pierr's Hall.
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The
Maccabees
Versuvius Club
Industrial Hall
Moline
Pierr's Hall
Court of Honor No. 100
Local ads and notices from Rock Island area
Short items advertise trade at U S Hardwood Channel Ice Co and Tri City Tower Supply. Insurance listings for Hirsch Anderson Nason Aleason and F H Kracke. Barn wood for sale from Shallberg Bros. Local life and health insurance options noted. A Rock Island high school football game mention and turner hall events referenced. Also sales and rummage sale at Industrial Home hall October 16 and 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardwood Channel Ice Co
Tri-City Tower Supply Company
Industrial
Davenport
Eastman, Godfrey & Company
Rock Island
English shipbuilders fear European prestige decline
Sir Christopher Furness visits Newark to study U S plants for England’s steel and shipbuilding. He chairs Furness Withy and other firms, notes English labor must raise output per worker to meet German and American competition, and acknowledges a scare among English manufacturers but says they are awake to the challenge.
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Christopher Furness
Newark
Great Britain
England
Furness-Withy Shipbuilding Company
Twing Shipbuilding Company
Northumberland Shipbuilding Company
Sweardale Steel Company
South Durham Steel Company
America
United States
Weathered humor and misheard lines in a city page
A collage of quirky exchanges and headlines from the era includes a weather whimsy about hail and storms, a banter on postal rules, and snatches of jokes about in law and marriage. It captures light chatter and garbled scraps from multiple publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Jmnes
Roosevelt children explore White House and bicycle trip
The Roosevelt children Kermit and Ethel explore their new White House home. They inspect the rooms, admire the view of the Washington Monument, then ride bicycles with Pinckney to Fourteenth Street and across the Mall toward the Smithsonian grounds.
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Kermit
Ethel
The
White House
Roosevelt
White Lot
Washington Monument
Pinckney
Pennsylvania Avenue
Smithsonian Grounds
National Museum
Capitol
Theatrical bills at Wagner and Burns theaters
The Romance of Coon Hollow plays at the Wagner opera house on Saturday night with a strong company including Iola Pomeroy, and features a pickaninny dancing troupe. The Eleventh Hour by Lincoln J Carter comes to the Burns on Sunday Oct 18 with dramatic effects and scenes such as a demolished drawing room and a river sequence. Also a public notice requests patients to settle with Lofgren Olson for bills after Feb 1 1902 and Malmberg’s millinery offers fall styles at 1414 4th Avenue.
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Coon Hollow
Wagner Opera House
New York
South
New York Herald
Iola Pomeroy
Lincoln J Carter
Burns
Carter
John N. Ecklund
18Th Avenue
Lofgren Olson
Not a Climatic Distinction Sparks Grim Banishment
Pretoria reports ten Boer leaners captured since September 15 are permanently banished from the region. The note accompanies a broader tone of unrest as authorities enforce exile for insurgent or suspected collaborators.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Money for all needs and goods at half price Rock Island ad
A promotional notice from the Greater New York Loan Bank offers money advances on valued articles and unre deemed goods for sale at half price. The ad lists office and salesroom at 820 20th street Rock Island and phone number 5727.
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Greater
Dr King’s New Life Pills Advertised At Clendenin Drug
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for liver trouble and sallow skin. It promises a clear complexion and rosy cheeks for 25 cents at Clendenin’s drug store.
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Dr. King
Clendenin
List of firms and individuals in a historic agreement
A long roster lists numerous firms and individuals including Stange Brothers John Swanson Bluff Cash Grocery Forsberg Talty Guy Darling and U S Clothing Company among others, indicating a wide commercial association or agreement. The names cover furniture, hardware, clothing, shoe stores, and various partnerships, reflecting a dense business community roster.
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Miss Stephens
Tal
Dethier Hollins
Baldwin
Dudley Buck
Phens
Miss Crompton
Hollins Dethler
Gautter Galcott
Smart William Cathey Stephens
Vidor
Guilmant
Botting
Bartlett
Oxford
Forsberg & Talty
Fifteenth Street
Moline, Ill
Bowlby
Semel
Sts
Second Avenue
Roy Bowlby
MeKinntle Hall
Knox
U .S
Hirsch & Anderson, Fire Insurance
Bard
Shallberg Bros
Sarah (Hall Om Nas
RTM
Redthofer
Alping Yousters
Turner
Adaa Mission
Abe Lincoln
Fredo Ro
Young Suz
16Th Street
Meanie Heating & Construction Company
Cali
Rock Island High Shoal
Bers Te Lyons
Plas
High School
Lesen
Attampton
7Th Avenue
Phe Foeek
Eeumetlcom Witter
Worthames Tech Ty
Adleta
Apt McCaffery
Duke
Credit Island
John M Hanna
Orion
Squire Hanna
Victor Samuelson
Herbert Butler
Hanna Samuelson
Augustana Hospital
Chicago
Sign OF the Times
Tanes
Trust Daily News
Lucky
Ida
Chicur Daily New
Guensa
Washington Star
Bartis
Malmberg
4Th Avenue
Virginia
Nevada
Arizona
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Hushand
John Bull
Iowa
J. B. Walsh
Sorpoun
Anthony's Hospital
Chicago Medicae Institute
Wrrge
Lbtrent
McCullough Bidz
Ill
William Carstens
Carlson Brothers
F A
Landee
Howe & Burgston
Hull Brothers
J Hemmingson, J
Oh Effiandt
Fred Peters
Loptien & Son
H T Moss
Rank & Coryn
Patrick Mullane
A. P Fisk
Charles T. Shellberg
Axel Sorling
Hoffman
Bumberg Brothers
Martin McCall
J A Wahlstrand
E. Heimbeck
Stange
C. E. Batules
R. Froeter
T van Horbeck
G J. Aldene
el Josephson
Charles H. Mangold, August Rydback
N J. Nelson
Watters & Anderson
Chr
Mueller & Sona
Frank L. Natt
J A. Schmidt & Sona
Owen Murphy
W. A. Reed
B. Larson
P. J. Lundberg
Gunther & Day
Bluff Cash Grocery
Parks
C. W. Sandstrom
M. H. Lyon
Charles F. Pruessing
F. H. Kracke
A. C. Woodyatt
Lundeen & Nelson
Peter Langbehn
Guy H Darling
George H. Chase
John O. Thompson
Simon Hirsch
W.C Thede
Frank J Clendenin
Frank Wm Uhrus
H. R. Mahon
E. J. Hester
Lal
Gus Lindvall
Plambeck & Berglund
C. E. Swanson
Dewend-Kuschmann Furniture Co
Holmgren, Anderson & Company
Peters, Day & Company
Henry Sandstrom
Lohrbeck Brothers
Eric Okerberg
August Schultz
J. A. Sederholm
Reimer Reimers, B. H. Quick, R.W. Hamilton
Peter G. Stange
L. R.gaylord
W. A. Dieroff
Joseph Rank
George L. Benson
H. §. Peters
L. T. Egle
Sig Goldstein, Peter Kneberg
E. B. Knox
A W. Fisk
Fones & Erickson
Tolenaere & Martens
H. Schneckroth
D. H. Hinrichsen
Seattles
Hans Wind & Son
DeRue Brothers
Thomas Dunn & Sona
A. E. Froyd & Company
U 8. Clothing Company
Herbert Oak Shoe Store
Wright
J. Ramsdr
Manily -Fqand
Harper
Pase
Rock, Island
RAMSERL_ oy eens
C.H. Mangold
Pastosrapace
5Th Ave
Motine
Reed
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