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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1901
Page
4
The Board of Education refuses to pay for meters ordered and installed by the City Council, triggering a standoff over responsibility and funding. The fracas centers on who should cover costs for metering technology already in place and affecting school utilities.
Regular board meeting records enrollment by school for the first week of fall term led by Supt. Cox. Transfers from Ericsson to Irving address overcrowding as city meters dispute payment and bids for gym equipment and textbooks are approved or referred for adjustment.
Brooklyn over Chicago 8 to 4 and Philadelphia 6 to 8 with Pittsburg in a separate loss. Boston 6 Cincinnati 2. New York 3 St Louis 3 called at night. Milwaukee 3 Chicago 6. Cleveland won 7 0 then 1 4 against Philadelphia. Columbus 1 Teledo 2. Omaha 4 Kansas City 1. St Joseph 4 Des Moines. Minneapolis forfeit 9 0 against Denver. St Paul 12 Colorado Springs 0.
A Bradford County note recounts F L Taylor from New Albany praising Chamberline Colle Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He credits two doses with enabling a long bicycle trip and says a later dysentery attack was cured by a single dose. The testimonial is bolded by F J Clendenin and E Heimbeck.
A widow of General Burnham suffers pneumonia but is saved by King’s New Discovery after doctors fear she will die. Mrs Lincoln records the night and notes the remedy cured her throat chest and lungs. Trial bottles available from F J Clendinins, Moline Illinois. If not in the Journal, it is not worth much.
Social and personal notices list Miss Eva Wood and mother visiting Moline, several trips to Kansas City, Colorado Springs, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Davenport. Marriages include William Elder and Pauline Thompson. Gustaf Hedberg and Amelia Johnson. Numerous residents depart for travel, residence changes, or visits, including Dr. Bernhardi family, Horton, Godfrey, and Cackler unions.
A list of hotel arrivals includes Summers A Fe Reaney Chicago Illinois W oF Rush Chicago Il W K Sutliff Chicago G F F Jordan Chicago A Helker Chicago J OP Carrigan Milwaukee Harwood Boston Schneider Rock Island J 1 Hilderbrand Kansas City Windsor Wm M Schmidt Clinton Iowa D V Robertson Bonaparte Th A W Keefer Atkinson N A Lindburge Geneseo Dimock Gould & Company's lumber raftmen were laid off due to rain. Charles Spiiet of 156th Avenue injured a cast at Deere & Company but transported home with slight injuries. Surveyors continue laying out additional storage tracks at Hawthorn yards.
The annual Illinois Conference of Charities convenes in Lincoln October 23 24 inviting public and private charities and officials to participate. The program covers visits to the state asylum for feeble minded children and the Odd Fellows Orphans home with discussions on cooperation between public and private charities and care of epileptics.
The theatrical manager Taylor books Valley Forge for September 30 at the Wagner Opera House. It’s billed as one of the most interesting road plays and expected to draw a full house.
Buzzing claim extols Dr King s New Life Pills as the busiest invention promising to turn weakness into strength and listlessness into energy. Each box costs 25 cents and is sold by Fr Clendenin, Druggist, Moline, IL.
A dramatic early morning incident in Rock Island centers on John E. Jaynes owner of the Delmonico restaurant Rastus the porter and a New York youth. A silver purse bearing $16 disappeared from Rastus as the youth was injured by a churn-knife injury during attempted theft. The blood trail from the closet to Jaynes room led to the culprit and likely ended the scheme.
On Monday night in Rock Island police arrested Charles Hawkins and Bert Chesley after a street clash on 20th street. Hawkins left with a swollen jaw and Chesley was fined along with Hawkins. Officers also detained three women Lille Skyes Jessie Wells and Mary Davis and a tall man who gave his name as F E Welcome for disorderly conduct at a house on 3d avenue and 23d street.
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