Arsenal Requests and Water Power Extending Dam
The article details Arsenal and district funding in Washington for hospital expansion at Rock Island Arsenal, siege carriages, rock and timber manufacture, and electric lighting. It also covers a proposed $45,000 two mile extension of the Wing Dam to improve water power for the Arsenal and Moline Water Power Co. with engineer Capt Blunt urging the plan to improve headwater, reduce winter ice dam effects, and maintain river access for steamboats.
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Promeridas
Evening
Washington, DC. C
Senate
Bock
Stand Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal
Watkout
Ap Gulavance
Edo
Allison
Iowa
Coittee
Blunt
Peouony
Setot
Waelsmuth
Blont
Eheu A
Blant
Sabe
Arsenal
Moline Water Power Co
Capt. Blunt
Duck Creek
Por Creek
Hlindis
Lang & Point tWo
Niles
Disratou
Bel
Engineer Corps
Rock Island area ads and notices clutter local pages
A collage of ads and notices shows druggists selling Hall’s Family Pills, Rock Island and Moline retail lines, and mail order pitches. Mentions of Myra Carson returning to the city, Pat Carey seeking the national convention, and clothing sales at Famous McKinnie Block with all wool suits at five dollars. Also notes W H Chase leaving for Segregansett, Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat J. Carey
Rock Island
Tragic Colona Train Fatalities End Live of Two Colona Youths
A late night rail tragedy near Colona claimed the lives of Wespi Wendt, 23, and Berit Kennedy, 21, members of a party returning from an entertainment. Fahlstrom, 14, survived with shock and memory loss. Witnesses described a west bound freight striking the trio as they tried to clear the tracks. Coroner’s inquest found death by train, with Fahlstrom unable to recount the events. Portions of the party and families await official updates and burial arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon Cliff
Wespi
Wirrravu
Kessepy
Berit
Sarah Kennedy
Furnstheony
Shiva
Tian
Buhlstrom
Calona
Wenlt
Colona
Wendt
Miss Kennedy
Jain Fahlstrom
Nels Berquist
CRT
Eckhart
Richard C. O'Ponnell
Rudolph Shultz
Florence Corbin
Colono
Burned to the Ground in East Maline House
A residence owned by George W. Walker in East Maline, known as the Swede brewery location, burned after a defective kitchen flue sparked timber. Edward Forber and his Deere & Co. family occupied the home. Forber faced about 100 dollars in losses, with two stoves and some furniture saved. The one-and-a-half story building, insured, was fully destroyed within hours. Lou Mizer and family had resided there previously.
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East Maline
Edward Forber
George W. Walker
Deere & Co
Forber
Walker
Lou Mizer
Unsuccessful Burglars at Erie Post Office
From Friday evening's Dispatch the Erie post office in Whiteside county was burglarized Tuesday night by tramps who tried to blow the safe with dynamite. A hole was bored near the lock, the handle wrenched off, and the dynamite filled socket jammed the lock mechanism, but the door remained closed. Rock Island safe expert Charles Fielag opened the safe Friday and found the books damaged but not destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Whiteside County
Ftrass
Charles Fielag
Rock Island
Captain Mitcham Leaves for Switzerland for Wife’s Illness
Capt O B Mitcham of Rock Island Arsenal has left for New York and then to Switzerland to reach Mrs Mitcham who is ill with typhoid. He has a two months leave of absence and was reluctant to go but urgent cables from his daughter compelled him to depart at this time.
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O. B. Mitcham
Rock Island Arsenal
New York
Switzerland
Mitcham
Capt. Mitcham
Tie
Steel works prepare puddling furnace and molds
The Sylvain steel works crew builds a puddling furnace to melt steel and iron for casting billets. Two large crucibles for transferring the molten iron into billet molds are being fabricated at Williams White and Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvain Steel Works
Williams, White & Clo
Directors elected and new Moline Furniture works planned
The new Moline Furniture Co. subscribed full 25000 stock and chose directors Oliver Stevenson George W Johnson Swan Shopp F L Natt Gust Ed F A Landee J A Johnson. Operations start at the old Second Street works with contracts for Moline city hospital interior woodwork. A divorce suit in circuit court and Davenport election results are also reported along with a local trade note at Noahs Ark in Moline.
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Moline Furniture Works
Moline Furniture Co
J. B.oakleaf
Oliver Stevenson
George W. Johnson
Swan ‘Shopp
F.L. Natt
Gust Ed
F. A. Landee
J. A. Johnson
Build
Real estate deal shifts Third Avenue jeweler store
C I Josephson buys the George Herbst brick property on Third Avenue extending to Library Street for about 6090 dollars. The purchase includes the shop leased by the Herbst shoe store and signals Josephson’s rapid rise in Moline business circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Avenue
Evening Dispatch
C. I. Pas Hson
Herbst
Frank A. Herbst
Josephson
Library Street
George Herbst
Moline
Thinl Avenue
Doan's Kidney Pills Publicized As Kidney Care
An advertisement extols Doan's Kidney Pills as kidney specialists curing various kidney ailments. It cites a testimonial from G M Gould of 1516 Second Avenue praising relief from backache and kidney pain after using the product, with a note that the pills are available locally and by mail from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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G. M. Gould
Second Avenue
Dean
Wim
Clendenin
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
U.S
Before You Enlist Photo Studio Promises Portrait Options
Mangpaid's Studio advertises professional photography for servicemen and their wives prior to enlistment. It touts affordable portraits for potential veterans or grieving families and notes hours daily from 7 to 12 30 and 1 30 to 6 with Sunday hours 9 to 1.
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Mangpaid
Wes Cago
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Ryver Baark
Cena
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Aaeaar Keke
Kd Rana
F. J. Carney
Hall's Family
John Sebastian
Call
Toledo
O. Foe
Lowe Wall
Chicago
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Myra Carson
California
Alaska
Pacific Coast
Rock Tslargs
McKinnie Black
North Pacific
Puget Sound
McKinnie Block
Carbon Cliff Horror
Wm. Wendt
Belle Kennedy
Selina Fahlistrom
Ball
Edward A. Quinlan
Jennie Jane Quinlan
Blanch
Margaret
New Moline Furniture Co
Eliza Bimonts
Circuit Court
McCuskrin & McCnaskrin
Robert Edmonds
Jhek
Post Office
Jac
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Davenport
Geortie T. Baker
Albert J. Smith
C.J. Hageman
Wm. Bischoff
M. J. Glorman
Wm. Klein
Wm. Reese
D. B. Torna
Joseph Bierring
C. J. Schutter
G. W. Bawdoin
M. &. Parkhurst
Noah* 'S Ark
Josepheoy
Clinton
Albany
Jin
Cordeya
Verte Swaine
Commergial
Augustana College
C. A. Swensson
Lindsborg
Kas
G. Rost
Theological Seminary
Slfeas
Twin-City
Frank T. Reynolds
Rome
S.S.S
Swift Specific Company
Fred R. Young
Insuran Real Estate
Olin
E. E. Man
Saund
Gineee
Florida Air
Agme Point
Southern Railway
Ashpylile
Tryon
Aiken
Usta
Brunswick Iga
Florida
Pullman
St. Louis
Jacksonvillea
Louisvie
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