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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
1
Fragmentary text mentions players, teams, and possible game notes with names like Henry Buxdell and Rosas Vand Wyma. References to baseball, Pacific rail, and a potential captain suggest a sports round up, but many words are garbled.
A damaged OCR fragment provides limited readable facts with scattered letters and symbols. No clear person, place, organization, or event is identifiable from the scrambled text.
Leonard Peterson of Fifty-fourth and Cambridge is listed among the deceased with funeral held Monday officiated by Rev. Johnston. Frank Anderson, Cambridge druggist, died following appendicitis complications after surgery at the city hospital. William Bruner of Rock Island County, known as Uncle Bly, died at his son’s home in Edgington Township. Additional notices cover Mrs. Hilda Johnson, a milliner, who died in Chicago after illness, and Mrs. Amelia Hamblin of Moline dying after a four day illness with survivors including children and siblings.
H L Chapman chairs a Wednesday session at the Moling club to discuss forming a regional bankers association in Henry Bureau Whiteside Rock Island Knox Henderson Mercer and more. Committee tasks include drafting a constitution while inviting 128 banks to participate and weighing a trial group system.
A break in at a Rock Island area store led burglars to steal jewelry and money while the family on the porch heard nothing. Investigators suspect an insider familiar with the premises aided the entry via a cut wire and screen door, with no detection at the time.
A fragmentary note mentions Bix and Count Basie in an organization event. The text hints at an "Ort 1" fret or measure but lacks full context or outcomes. Further readable details are needed to clarify participants and results.
Mrs Blanche Dooley died after an operation revealed an ulcerated liver. Formerly Blanche Arenshield, she married Edward Dooley on July Fourth and died August fifth at age twenty five. She had earlier sought treatment for indigestion at Tri City Sanitarium and remained after the wedding before joining her husband in Chicago. She leaves a husband and her parents and many friends.
Theodore Jurgen moved to New Liberty Iowa to run a stock of goods. H B Yockbeck becomes salesman at R C Letch store after Jurgen’s resignation. Mrs Pierre Olkers hosts her mother Mrs Mattie Veach from St Louis. Funeral of Dollie Hood at Watertown Baptist Church. Various residents and staff changes noted at state hospital and local institutions. Caucus set for Hampton township delegates on August 42 at 2 Solock.
The Rock Island County Pioneers Society invites members to its annual outing and reunion at Black Hawks Watch Tower on Tuesday August 22. Former Minnesota Governor S R Van Sant will speak. Frick will lead the day with a morning program followed by a picnic dinner and band concert. The cane carried from Fort Armstrong will pass to the new president.
Mayor McCaskrin of Rock Island announced city appointments and the council confirmed them. Plumbing Inspector Frank L. Yerbury. Chief of Fire Fred L. Tubbs. Health Officer Virgil Osterman were confirmed by unanimous or favorable votes amid tense city discussions.
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