Mid-Summer State Farmers' Institute At Illinois College
The Illinois College of Agriculture invites 10,000 attendees from city and country for a three day vacation August 16 to 18 at the university. Special rail rates and guides will welcome visitors to a program with test explanations, lectures by notable experts including Governor Deneen and N Kau mans, and excursions across the 450 acre college farm amid the university’s famed Young Men's Christian Association building as the information bureau.
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Illinois College of Agriculture
Illinois
State Farmers’ Institute
Champaign
Urbana
Central and Western
Ali- Moss Traction System
State College of Agriculture
H A McKeene
Noise Farmers’ Institute
Young Men's Christian Association
University of Ilinois
Association
United States
Bureau of Information
College Farm
N Kaumans
H J Webber
New York College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Ithaca
New York
William Butterworth
Moline
Charles 8. Deneen
E. Davenport
Iinois College of Agriculture
O C. Simonds
Chicago
Rock Island Teachers Institute Dates Set at High School
The annual Rock Island County teachers institute will run August 29 to September 2 at Rock Island High School. Speakers include Dr Hubert A. Armstrong president of West Virginia University Professor Fred L. Charles of the University of Illinois and Professor B L Philbrook of Rock Island. County Superintendent S J Ferguson invites all county teachers to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teachers’ Institute
Rock Island County
Roc Island High School
Hubert A. Armstrong
University of West Virginia
Fred L. Charles
University of Ilinois
B. L. Philbrook
Rock Island
J Ferguson
Moline approves big water system upgrade and new pump
City council authorized bids for a 6,000,000 gallon pump and finish fifth filter bed to relieve hot season demand. Current supply over 5,000,000 gallons daily with 1,000,000 gallons unfiltered. New filtration and river main channel source will allow 6,000,000 gallon daily capacity, and sprinkling stands issue to be addressed with Public Utilities head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Fire, Water and Light Committee
Continental Jewel Filtration Co
New York
Ice cream cones lay low mail messengers in town
Three Postal Telegraph messengers Glenn Wold Fred Hunt and Earl Farrand were ordered under a physician care after an attempt to eat pink ice cream cones left the local office short staffed. The illness is not serious and new recruits are being sought at the Manufacturers' hotel office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postal Telegraph Office
Glenn Wold
Fred Hunt
Earl Farrand
Manufacturers
East Moline to buy site for city hall at Second and Ninth
City council authorized purchasing five adjoining lots at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and Ninth Street to form a 120 by 203 foot tract for a two story brick city hall. Plans show first floor for fire and police and second floor for council, clerk, court, and public hall. A $15 000 fund was set aside to open Seventh Street.
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7Th Street
East Moline
Second Avenue
Ninth Street
Seventh Street
Bluff Road
Colona Avenue
Charles Radden
July Ends As Hottest Month In Nine Years
Local meteorologist reports July was the hottest since 1901 with an average 77 degrees, 0.78 inch below normal rainfall totaling 2.86 inches. Deficient rain and intense heat contributed to crop stress, with 19 clear days, 7 cloudy and 5 partly cloudy.
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Shelier
Sherier
Jupiter Pluvius
Two Divorces Sought by Mismated Women in Court
Mrs Blanch Birnstihl files for divorce from Harry R Birnstihl after four months of marriage on August 23 1907 Rock Island. She claims desertion without provocation. Mrs Lucile Mooney seeks divorce from William Mooney alleging desertion since September 38 1905 and unfaithfulness and asks to resume her maiden name Lucile Dunavin. They wed in Rock Island on July 31 1900. The Mussons and Stowell, spending a month at Omens Michigan, left by boat for Chicago heading home tomorrow or Thursday.
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Harry R. Birnstihl
Mra Blanch Birnstihl
Circuit Court
Rock Island
Schriver
Lucile Mooney
Wiam Mooney
Lucile Dunavin
Rock Taland
A G. Musson
Gon Stowell
Omens
Mich
Chicago
Fire destroys farm buildings. only dwelling and log house spared
William Casteline of a farm fifty miles southwest of Cambridge suffered a major blaze yesterday at 4 pm. Spontaneous hay barn fire consumed forty to fifty tons of hay, two cribs of corn, and all implements and vehicles. No stock died. insurance with Henry County Mutual may cover losses. farming interrupted.
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William Casteline
Cambridge
Henry County Mutual Insurance Company
Casteline
Outlook 15 Bright for a Banner Year
Heavy incoming shipments of raw material push June 1910 freight up 20 percent over last year. With July expected to exceed last year, tri city industry anticipates a prosperous season as Moline factories order large raw material consignments. Outgoing freight rises begin September as Deere & Co revives Moline Wagon Co production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E L Goff
Moline
Rock Island
Rock Island Hines
Businese
Tri-City
Moline Manufactories
Moline Plow Co
Deere & Co
Moline Wagon Co
Deere Co
Deere
Cordova Weekend Notes Include Hunters and Pearl Find
Cordova reports a quiet weekend with Mr and Mrs Vere Woodward of Port Byron visiting. Jim Sallows returned from Canada where he operated a steam breaking plow. Dry weather halted work. Simpson Quick found a 16 grain pearl of unusually fine luster Saturday. Early Monday hunters pursued doves now plentiful under the dove law.
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Cordova
Vere Woodward
Port Byron
Jim Sallows
Canada
Simpson Quick
Rock Island County Gains Two New Offices After Census
The 1910 census puts Rock Island County population at 70 404 which creates two new offices Probate Judge and Probate Clerk to be filled this fall The county clerk Henry B Hubbard received official census certification from E Dana Durand director of the census and Ben S Cable acting secretary of commerce and labor
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Henry B. Hubbard
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Rock Island
Hubbard
Department
Ben 8.Cable
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
E. Dana Durand
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
United States
Illinois
Ben S Cable
Swedish Methodists plan church for August 23 bid opening
Revised plans for the Swedish Methodist church edifice were adopted by the building committee. Architect Henry Eckland of Kewanee prepares duplicate blueprints to be forwarded to bidders. Bids open August 23 with a target not to exceed 18000 dollars. The lot is at Thirteenth Street and Twelfth Avenue. The basement auditorium remains 400 seats with gallery, and the first floor Sunday school room is reduced to a primary room West of the auditorium. Remodeling of the old parsonage is done and the new parsonage on Twelfth Avenue will be plastered next week.
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Thirteenth Street
Twelfth Avenue
Too Precumptuous Head Waiter Scene
Despairing patron recalls ordering a porterhouse steak half an hour ago and seeks to withdraw it as an order to renew it as a suggestion in a Chicago Tribune vignette about dining pretension.
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Chicago Tribune
Universal peace urged to avert war with Japan
A Louisville Courier Journal note quotes a yellow journal claiming universal peace would prevent conflict with Japan. It argues that lacking such peace, practical prudence on both sides of the Pacific is needed to avert harm.
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Japan
Yellow Journal
Pacific
Louisville CourierJour
Moline Lamp Co. executive goes east for three weeks
J. M. Smith sales manager departs for the east for a three week vacation. He says incandescent people will vacate the Dimock and Goeld factory August 31, with John F. Rose's grave and mitten works to take possession. Miss Leota Bligh runs the business office in Skinner block room 18.
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J. M. Smith
Moline Incandescent Lamp Co
East
Dimock & Goeld
John F. Rose
Mitten
Mr. Smith
Incandescent Concern
Skinner Block
Webbs Fire Apparatus Visit Sparks City Council Plans
A Moline city committee will visit St Louis to inspect Webb Motor Fire Apparatus Co. trucks for a potential fleet update. The council also approved paving on Fourth Avenue and Fifteenth Street and passed an ordinance banning fight films that debauch morals with fines from ten to one hundred dollars. A voter canvass on a city court shows 773 in favor and 276 against.
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St Louis
Moline
Ed Brown
Fire, Water and Light
Webb Motor Fire Apparatus Co
Central Station
East End
Board of Local Improvements
Fourth Avenue
Thirty-Fourth
Fifty-ffth Street
Fifteenth Street
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Prospect Park
Day
Anderson
Algerman Day
Grand Trunk pamphlet showcases Montreal and Quebec
A deluxe Grand Trunk railway brochure promotes the cities of Montreal and Quebec to travelers. It highlights artistic printing, descriptions, and numerous photographs, shipped free to any address. Apply to H G Elliott, 917 Merchants Loan and Trust building, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Trunk Railway System
Montreal
Quebec
Canada
H. G. Elliott
Merchants Loan and Trust Building
Chicaso
Weighed In by a Quirky Customer at the Meat Stand
A customer offers a butcher a knife and demands payment for a wand he claims was weighed with a roast. The astonished shopkeeper asks what to cut off, while the customer insists he will take the wand anyway. Life magazine reports this odd exchange.
Bethany Home Board Unsure on Admitting Infants Under One Year
The Bethany Home board in Rock Island debated admitting infants under one year, noting space and care limits and the need for future expansion. They approved a resolution stating it is impracticable now to admit under ones but plan to enlarge to serve all ages as soon as possible.
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Bethany Home Board
New Harper
Rock Island
Bethany Home
Johns
Smith
Jahns
Jahna
Gest
Deere
Baxter
Campbell's Island
Thee
Tri-City Street Car Co
House-in-the-Woods
W. C. Bennett
H. B. Ludlow
W. H. Gest
House
Larson & Larson
C. L. Eth
Help Chapel
Moline
Elizabeth Sharpe
Catherine Marshall
Anna Taylor
Egyptian Candidate for Russell's Seat Emerges in Cairo
Edward B. Mitchell of Carbondale Illinois is named as a Republican candidate for state treasurer. Southern Illinois leaders endorsed him at a Cairo meeting with delegates from the twenty second through twenty fifth districts. The Carbondale Free Press notes the party loyalty and proven candidates among the endorsing body.
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Edward B. Mitchell
Carbondale
Divorce Bill Filed by Mrs Rohwer in Circuit Court
A bill for divorce was filed yesterday in the circuit court by Mrs Dora Rohwer of East Moline. John Rohwer of Portland Oregon is named the defendant. He is charged with desertion.
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Rohwer
Doro Rohwer
East Moline
John Rohwer
Portland, Ore
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Morine Man
Thomas
Dunning
Carroll Black
Central Union Telephone Co
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Lucille Burtchaell
Mise
Lucille
T A Burtchaell
Durant
Frank Kelly
P H Wessel
Miesacilie
Harriet
Katherine Larkin
New Orleans
Ilinois
Council
Tri City Railway Co
J F Porter
Public Utilities
Mr Porter
Fire and Police
Iren
eMac
Gloys
Mitten Fantery
Lamp “Guartere—Smith
Offter
Webb
St. Louis
Russel
Willis
Gest Gillis
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