Burglary Report Stuns Harwood Family Near Seventeenth Street
Henry Harwood residence on Seventeenth Street was broken into by a burglar who entered through a window at 3:90 Sunday morning. Grace Harwood aided by her mother and aunt frightened the intruder away after he appeared unmasked, while August Coleberg’s Fourteenth Street store suffered a gun theft from a display window during the night.
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Seventeenth Street
Dickison
Harwood
Grace
Misa Grace
Gearoe
John
Miss Grace
Clara
Coleberg
Fourteenth Street
Colberg
Mr. Colberg
Memorial Day Exercises to Be Led by Graham Post on Island
Graham Post will head the Decoration Day ceremonies on the island this year. A arrangements committee will meet next week to finalize details. Speaker Hon. S. A. Whitfield, first assistant postmaster general, has been secured. Whitfield served in the Civil War with the New Hampshire regiment and rose from private to lieutenant colonel. After the war he worked in revenue service in Kentucky and Tennessee and later became Cincinnati postmaster before earning successive promotions.
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Ihe
A. Whitfield
Whitfield
Whitefield
New Hampshire
Army of the Potomac
Bull Run
Appomatox
Internal Revenue Service
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Carfield
Cleveland
United States
Harriscc
Chirst
Clarkson
LeClaire Couple in Domestic Tragedy Ends With Self Inflicted Harm
Newton Nesbit and his wife of Le Claire had a troubled marriage. Friday morning the wife drew a revolver at breakfast and shot Nesbit in the neck, then turned the weapon on herself, firing twice. The first shot struck the neck. the second caused a scalp wound. Neither is fatally injured. Mayor Wessel weighs in on street paving, favoring selective macadamization due to cost, with broader paving limited by expense.
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Newton Nesbit
le Claire
Nesbit
Wessel
Tonyer
Largest School Election Vote Records Set in Winter County
The school election in Moline drew 1497 votes the smallest yet most interesting result with the entire ticket led by W. C. Bennett winning. Candidates on the ticket included M. Donahey and F. Hemenway among others as the Board of Education reorganizes with terms expiring in April and a shift to a president plus three members elected annually.
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Moline
W. C. Bennett
B. B. Keator
W. A. McBeth
F. Hemenway
Daggett
Laughrey
Board of Education
Yo. Pentatt
Wanews
M. Donahey
Guntar Swensson
E Grantz
Homonway
WG Gould
Trial Week schedule and judicial convention call
The May term docket lists trials for each weekday from Monday to Friday including cases such as Gorton vs Kennedy Co and Whiterton vs O'Brien with attachments and replevins. A separate entry notes a Republican judicial committee meeting at Galesburg calling a Monmouth convention on May 12 to nominate judges for the tenth Illinois circuit.
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William F. Gorton
Kennedy& Co
Michael MacMannus
Michael O
Willem Whiterton
Mishael O'Brien
Clemans & Salzmann
Robert L Skiles
W. W. Kimball Co
Rovert L Skiles
Republican Judicial Committee
Galesburg
Monmouth
Tenth Judicial Circuit
Illinois
Republican County Committee
Pleasanta
Glenn
Smith
Furniture Co. May Locate Plant in Water Power Offer
Maline Furniture Co stockholders met to choose a factory site among several bids. Water Power Co offered 24 acres between First and Second streets for 4500 with five year term and track privileges, winning preference after evaluating options from East Moline Improvement Co, O B Q railway, R A Smith land on Fourth Avenue, and Rock Island land gifts. East Moline and Rock Island proposals were generous but the Water Power bid secured the contract.
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O., B. &Q. Railway
R. A. Smith
Fourth Avenue
Lovejoy’s
Water Power Company
Rock Island
Water Power Co’s
Hast Moline Improvement Co
Avalanche Crushes Kendall Mountain Slide Near Silverton
The Kendall mountain avalanche on February 23 unleashed a million tons of snow from the summit, blasting Idaho Gulch and the Silverton river road. It carried telegraph poles and debris across the railroad, burying the town site within 200 yards of Main Street and leaving six feet of snow on the tracks.
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Kendall Mountain
Animas
Old Kendall
Idaho Gulch
Silverton
San
Ayer's Pills Praised for Liver and Stomach Cure
Abilene Texas resident John B. Bel endorses Ayer's Pills as the most satisfactory remedy after trying various cathartic options. He relies exclusively on these pills for liver and stomach complaints in his testimonial.
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Ayer
John 3B. Bel, Sr
Abilene, Texas
American Industry and Farm Welfare in Tariff Debate
An Illinois iron works report argues tariffs protect workers and farmers, noting 1890 steel production supported about 10,000 workers with average earnings near 700 dollars. It contrasts domestic demand with Britain and Ireland exports, urging manufacturing of raw cotton and warning of freight and duty effects on farmers.
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Illinois
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Atlantic
Bureau of Statistics
United States
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England
Continental
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Illinois Stocl Cvompany
India
Diinois Iron Works
Not the Girl for Him and an Elopement Consideration
A suitor and Nellie discuss parental consent and potential elopement to escape a wealth driven engagement. Percy questions Nellie about leaving comfort for poverty while she signals willingness if love endures despite family disapproval. The Chicago News notes a cold day for him and a light hearted aside on dressing to read.
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Nellie
Chicago News
Griggs
Miss Sandstone
Briggs
Clothier
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