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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
8
A neighbor recalls a love affair ending in a death by poisoning after the girl sought a best method by her own action. She blames her mother in dying words as the deed appears premeditated and a neighbor questions the motive.
Dying words accused mother as Miss Jennie Wolstencroft of Fifth Avenue took poison after troubled relations with a suitor Martin Carlson. A coroner’s inquest noted she confessed to taking cat poison while doctors and relatives described her final hours and the family dispute over her company.
Miss Wolstencroft aged 25, employed in the folding department at Desaulniers & Co, had two years of close companionship with Carlson who works as a stockman there. The mother says Carlson abused her daughter and would not let him call at the house, causing local talk. She was born September 11 1884 in the city and survives her mother sister Mrs Bertha Sills two brothers Harry and George and two half brothers Everett and Charles. Funeral arrangements not yet made.
Julius Weibo of this city fell from a moving Blue Line car near the Tri City Railway barn in Rock Island at 1030 Sunday evening and sustained a severe scalp wound. He was rushed to St Anthony's hospital where surgeons treated him and he was reported greatly improved and moved to his home the next day.
James Katsioulis sues Republic Iron and Steel Co. for 10000 in circuit court claiming his brother George Katastoulis was killed at the Sylvan mill when a gang hoisting machinery failed a block and tackle. He alleges lack of proper precautions to safeguard employees.
Coal Valley residents welcomed visitors from Canton Farmington Geneseo and Rock Island. A burglary attempt at a Coal Valley home was thwarted by Mr Gregg after a window screen was cut. multiple families shared visits in Coal Valley and surrounding areas with trips to Chicago Denver and Campbell Island noted.
The Moline Retail Merchants Association held its annual picnic aboard the steamer Columbia and at Petersen’s Island, with 200 attendees enjoying races, a baseball game, and prizes. Winners included Edna Moll in a girls’ race and Carl Anderson in the boys 100 yard dash, while a traveling men vs merchants indoor game ended 25 to 10.
Zuma Aug 9 There will be a quarterly meeting at Zuma Methodist church next Sunday at 4 PM Superintendent Wiley will be present and conduct the closing service of the year Misa Pear. Many residents and relatives are listed with visits from Iowa Michigan Nebraska and Illinois as the community reports on family events shopping travel and a local interurban survey by eight men along the bluff road.
Cyprian Van Order of Chicago visited Mrs Flora Trent in Port Byron last week. Mrs Julius Huntley hosts a picnic Tuesday evening at 1 park for her sister Miss Louise Biglow of Owantona Minnesota. Local residents Vera Henley and Eliza Richards are mentioned amid various visits and an upcoming farmers picnic scheduled for Thursday August 18.
George C. Shoop of Rock Island filed a praecipe for $10,000 damages against the Tri-City Railway Company through his attorneys. He alleges he was put off a moving car May 26 by a conductor error and fell, sustaining injuries.
The Velie Carriage Co reports a record 1910 season with many orders carried over into the new year. While the plant shut briefly for inventory and repairs, each department resumed to enable a 20 to 30 percent output increase and plans for thirty five new styles of pleasure vehicles.
A sequence of quit claim and trust deed transfers across Rock Island Moline Davenport and coal valley areas. Names include Katella Fallis J Gingles Albert Horton Frank E Rogers Ella F Bryan Charles Mixter Wm Zie gler Gustav Holz Gustavus Stromer and others with amounts from $1 to $9500. Transactions cover lots blocks sub divs and tracts in multiple additons and townships during the period.
A list of real estate transfers across Moline East Moline Watertown and Rock Island includes Charl H Melvin paying 226 for lot 7 Campbell island and numerous other buyers paying sums from 1 to 5650 for various lots and blocks in Moline East Moline Rock Island and surrounding additions with trust deeds quit claims and agreement for deed noted.
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The copy includes testimonials from Hall's distributors in Toledo and claims the remedy works via internal blood and mucous surfaces. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and adds a satirical prisoner exchange quip from a Women’s Daily clipping.
The Rock Island County Medical Society and County Druggists plan a joint hearing with republican and democratic hopefuls for the next Illinois legislature. Candidates will answer yea or no on medical practice laws and a possible state board of health reform. An auxiliary county association and a medical library at Augustana College were also discussed.
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