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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1901
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names like Yates and a possible meeting at a city site. The garbled lines reference letters, numbers, and organizational codes, with unclear date or place details. No clear event or outcome is discernible beyond a partial meeting note.
The Illinois Infirmary in the Mitchell and Lynde building Rock Island offers a free five dollar X Ray examination for patients who call before October 12. The exam is described as gentle with no pain and aims to diagnose illnesses to aid treatment.
An Illinois Infirmary notice urges people with various symptoms to seek free examination and possible X ray. Out of town residents and farming folks are invited to visit doctors Alvin Horme in Rock Island for a medical screening before October 12.
Lucinda A. Robertson, born 1830 in Indiana, has spent 40 years delivering mail in Pleasantville Iowa. She and her late husband ran the route after 1879, while raising a family and caring for neighbors. Now aging and with a modest home, she continues with quiet dignity despite fatigue.
Ten years after starting in San Francisco, Chicago girl Kuehne Beveridge is commissioned by King Edward to sculpt his portrait in marble. A Paris Salon exhibitor and Rodin favorite, Beveridge is hailed as a leading woman sculptor with Chicago grit. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ad copy follows, promoting a constitutional remedy.
The Chicago Record Herald showcases a wide range of sections and services including William E. Curtis letters, New York dispatches, an extensive foreign news service, market and financial intelligence, sports, editorials, humor pieces, railroad and insurance news, and drama coverage.
A Texas lawyer touts Electric Bitters as life saving after curing his brother of malaria and jaundice. The ad promotes multiple tonics and patent medicines including Rocky Mountain Tea, Burdock Blood Bitters, Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil, Doan’s Ointment and Wild Strawberry extract, with prices and pharmacy names in Moline Illinois.
Promotion of Bailard s Horehound Byrup for coughs with 25 and 60 cent pricing. Herbine liver tonic 50 cents to restore health and buoyancy. Ballard s Snow Ointment for sprains and cuts priced at 26 and 60 cents. Sold by F J Clendenin and Battles pharmacy in Moline Illinois.
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointments offered for blind bleeding or protruding piles with stated cures, price 60c per bottle and 75c per tube. White's Cream Vermifuge marketed as a child’s tonic to aid digestion and nervous strength, price 25c. Rocky Mountain Tea by Madison Medicine Co. touted to improve appearance and self esteem, price 3c. Sold by local pharmacies in Moline.
The Burlington offers Home seekers tickets on Oct 11 and 15 to many northern western and southern points at reduced round trip rates. Home visitors excursion runs Sept 24 Oct 8 to Ohio Indiana with low fares. San Francisco sale ends Sept 27 final Nov 15 with stopovers near Denver. Rock Island and Peoria tickets to Springfield Illinois for Illinois state fair $4.65 Sept 28 Oct 7 final. Special Oct 3 train to Springfield $2.00. Eight daily trains to Chicago via Rock Island.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad operates the finest passenger service in the South with up-to-date equipment and the fastest time. Through trains serve Louisville Evansville St Louis Nashville Memphis Birmingham New Orleans Pensacola Jacksonville and Mobile. Descriptive matter time-tables and maps available from L Stone G P A.
Train numbers 883 8 4 6 8 32 and others run from Dubuque LaCrosse Freeport Savanna Clinton Davenport Savanna via East Moline Moline Sabula through stations. Some services carry passengers for Dubuque division changing cars at Sabula and Savanna. Timings include morning and evening departures and arrivals with Milwaukee and Savanna connections.
Rock Island and Peoria rail timetable lists arrival and departure numbers with origin and destination cities including Peoria Bloomington Springfield Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati and connections at Union Depot Peoria. Main line trains run daily except Sunday with several daily services and specific connections at Barstow for Sterling.
The timetable lists trains serving Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Denver, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St Paul, South Dakota, Chicago, Omaha, Davenport and other points. It notes daily operations with specific runs and exceptions such as No 1 ending at Des Moines daily except Sunday and No 3 reaching Davenport on Thursdays. It also mentions the Rocky Mountain Limited and various local passenger services with times and routes.
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