Entire House Unsettled as Plaster Cracks and Chimney Falls
A house shows extreme structural damage when plaster loosens and cracks, the chimney is blown down, and bricks crash through a bedroom window onto the occupant’s bed. No injuries reported.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
2
Cyclone like storm sweeps city causing widespread damage
A cyclone like storm last week Thursday night ripped through the city from southwest to northeast. Daniel C. Mitchell and others suffered major damage to homes and barns with the Okerberg barn carried across an alley and blocked a rear door at 1121 Fourteenth Street. Two hundred phones went out of service and many trees and windows were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel C. Mitchell
Fifteenth Street
Mr Mitchell
Twelfth Street
Twelfth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Healy
Oakleaf
Eric Okerberg
Fourteenth Street
William Peterson
G. H Lohrbeck
J. W Good
C . A. Carlson, Deere & Co
Seventh Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Allendale
F G Allen
Library board names standing committees Friday
The library board president Harry Ainsworth announced the standing committees on Friday. Executive committee members include Edward Coryn Dick A Edlen W R Moore and H F Vtertech. Library committee members are O E Child F A Herbst Fred Rank and Loula H R Karwath. Promotion committee members are Fred Rank W R Moore and F A Herbst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Ainsworth
Library Board
Edward Coryn
A Edlen
W R. Moore
Vtertech
O E. Child
Herbst
Fred Rank
Loula
Miss Gruenberg to Remain in America
Word reached here that Mile Rosa Gruenberg the delightful soloist who sang at the Western Division Swedish Singers convention in Voltne in July has decided to stay permanently in the United States. She cancelled her contract with the Oscar theatre of Stockholm sacrificing about 1000 krones. She won many friends here and may return for a recital. Mme Emma Meissner has already returned to Sweden to resume operatic work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mile Rosa Gruenberg
Voltne
United States
Oscar Theatre
Stockholm
Mme Emma Meissner
Sweden
Laborers Wife Questioning Doctor About Husband
A laborer's wife asks the doctor to diagnose her husband who lies ill. The physician warns he will explain the condition shortly and she fears costly treatment. The scene centers on a medical consultation with anxious tones.
Peace of Death to Joseph Rank in Moline 1855
The obituary notes Joseph Rank came to Moline in 1855 from modest beginnings and built extensive business interests over a half century in the city. It records his arrival year and emphasizes his long enterprise footprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Rank
Moline
Widow and five children mourn pioneer shoe merchant Rank
Joseph Francis Rank, 1838 German immigrant and Moline shoe dealer, died at 150 a m Saturday after a long illness. Survived by widow Lena and five children Fred W George T Mrs F W McIntosh and Robert W, plus one brother and sister. He built a thriving retail and manufacturing shoe business, helped Moline grow, and invested in city property. He married Lena Leysen in 1868 and lived at 1624 Ninth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Francis Rank
Ninth Avenue
Mr Rank
St. Paul
Fred W
John L. Gasnow
George T
F W McIntosh
Robert W
Chris van Rank
Mary Brockhammer
Moline
Middle West
Rank
Lena Leysen
Muscaroe
Parcels Post System Favored by Meyer
Postmaster General Meyer backs a parcels post system and a postal savings bank with stamp vending machines in many areas. He will not seek rate increases for any mail class. He also urges reducing the first class rate to foreign countries and reviving postal notes and money orders, plus sorting foreign mail on ocean liners into New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer
New York
Cunard
Woman Held to Grand Jury in Bigamy Case
Magistrate Eliott in Rock Island Friday held Mrs. Cora George Hicks to the grand jury under $500 bonds on a charge of bigamy. The complainant was Henry George, her first husband, from whom she failed to secure a divorce before she married Hicks last January. George says he corresponded with his wife regularly, but she denied receiving letters and was led to believe he was dead. The parties formerly lived in Kewanee. George returned from Minnesota to learn his wife had married Hicks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliott
Rock Island
Cora George Hicks
Henry George
Hicks
George
Minnesota
Kewanee
Coming Fans Question Baseball in Heaven
Excerpt shows Johnny asking if baseball is played in heaven and a reply about umpires, with unrelated ad copy about teething syrup and infant relief linked in the same fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Chicago Tribunal
Law Scholarship Prize Forged By Chicago Night College
County Judge Olmsted announces a Lincoln state scholarship drive funded by former senator William Mason. One hundred two Illinois youths may win a one year law tuition at Chicago Night University. Essays up to 2000 words due by September 10, 1907. subjects set by judges in Rock Island County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William ¥. Mason
Chicago
Illinois
Chicago Night University
R. W. Olmsted
Rock Inland County
Olmsted
Chas. J Searle
Rock Island
Law Department
L. D. Rogers
National Medical College
Wells Street
City of
Coyne Buildings Sold to Hageness on Fifth Avenue
O H Hageness purchased the Coyne building west of the drugstore on Fifth Avenue east of Twenty third Street from C C Coyne for 6000 dollars. Hageness will stock ready-made clothing and furnishings and continue the tailoring business. He will repaint and redecorate and take possession at once. The sale leaves only a hardware and shoe store outside the group. A vacant room is hoped to be filled by a merchant. Trade has grown rapidly over the past five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rank
Moline
Third Avenue
Fifteenth Street
George T Rank
Fred W Rank
Robert W Rank
Germany
O. H. Hageness
C. C Coyne
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Death of Bethiah White mother of Mrs Jones
Telegram from W A Jones informs of the death of Bethiah White in Kansas City Friday. In her 89th year she was mother to Mrs Jones and longtime Moling resident admired for a strong yet quiet personality. She spent fourteen years there with her daughter and the last three years with her son in Kansas City. Only four of thirteen siblings survive the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr Rank
Neuheusen
Wurtemburg
Germany
Andrew
Magdalena Rank
Peter
Christian
Mary
Joseph
America
New York City
New York
Hartford
Bedfalo
Bys Leke
W. A. Jones
Bethiah White
Kansas City
Jones
Moling
Mre. Jonés
Surgi Ui Boy
Ill
Mra
Featermax
Mis
Sane Sa
Divorce case over desertion of husband in circuit court
A divorce suit against Bakara C. Woyen alleges desertion of SWillems Bi. Chatteat of Meline hae es & Dill. The court will determine if the will transfers property to Mrs. Trittie or her heirs, as she is dead, with heirs residing in Germany. Estate valued at about $4000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chaka
Nerve Ben
Germany
Davenport and Manchester Railway Co Incorporation Filed
Attorneys Schmidt and Vollmer filed with County Recorder Holms in Davenport the articles of incorporation for the Davenport and Manchester Railway Co to connect Davenport with Manchester and Monticello by electric line. The initial board includes L Matthews J A Voorhees F H Miller F W Rank Geo T Baker T F Halligan and Henry Vollmer with Baker as president Voorhees as vice president Bank as secretary and Halligan as treasurer. The company may acquire rights of way franchises and property to operate an interurban railway under Iowa law. This marks a step toward construction aided by local growth advocates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schmidt & Vollmer
Holms
Davenport
Davenport & Manchester Railway Co
Manchester
Monticello
L. Matthews
J. A. Voorhees
F. H. Miller
F. W. Rank
Geo. T. Baker
T. F. Halligan
Henry Vollmer
F W. Bank
Towa
Davanport
Will of Mrs. Robinson of Cordova Probated
The Cordova will of Cordelia Robinson admitted to probate August 15 by Judge R W Olmsted. It dates December 22 1908 and directs sale of property with proceeds shared among eight children and Florence Quick as executrix. A second will of Marietta Marshall admitted Wednesday names her niece Hile L Marshall. The Marshall will bears a March 10 1800 date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordelia Robinson
Cordova
R. W Olmsted
Florence Quick
Marietta
Eagles Carnival Set for Central Park August 24 to 31
Arrangements completed for the Eagles carnival at Central Park spanning August 24 to 31 includes nightly band concerts led by Alderman V. Ed. Brown, vaudeville in the big hall, dancing in the pavilion, a cafe in the long hall under Eli DeRey, and a four sided park booth layout with a country store for miscellaneous goods. Committees named: Entertainment W. Ed. Brown, Refreshments Eli DeRey, Advertising T. W. Fogelstrom, Purchasing Charles Goldstein, Order Axel Christopher, Decorations Sidney Hammerquist, power dial Mrs A O Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagles
Central Park
Alderman V. Ed. Brown
Eli DeRey
Africa
Wntertainment
W. Ed. Brown
T. W. Fogelstrom
Charles Goldstein
Axel Christopher
Sidney Hammerqulst
Johnson
Annual Teachers Institute Program At Rock Island High
County Superintendent Ferguson announces the Rock Island county annual teachers institute at Rock Island High School August 26. Dr. Charles A Shaver and Dr Charles A McMurry lecture on education reading and history with music by Professor Philbrook. A beginners class and district teachers meeting are scheduled, urging teachers to attend for professional vitality and inspiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A.shaver
Charles A. McMurry
Charles A McMurry
Charles A. Shaver
Ferguson
Confessed Thief Doctor Held on Rock Island Charges
Dr. Archie Goldstone of East Moline is jailed in Rock Island on charges of stealing a wallet containing $40 from contractor Peter Peterson and short changing clerks at Williamson secondhand store and T. H. Thomas drugstore. He confessed to all three crimes and is held on $1000 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Goldstone
East McHine
Rock Island
Peter Peterson
Williamson
T. H. Thomas
Goldstone
East Moline
Bennett
Williamson and Tuomas
Philanthropist Question Draws Laughs In Family Exchange
In a humorous exchange, Pa asks what a philanthropist is while his wife corrects him, describing a philanthropist as a man who spends his time persuading others to give to charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Also Mentioned on This Page
D. G. Mitchell
Okerberg
Wm. Peterson House
Mitchell Place
Mra Mitchell
Mitchell
Will Luther
Achvoeyv
Metzgar
Tenth Avenue
M. R. Metzgar
J. D. Metzgar
Library
O. E. Child
FW Bank of Promotion
Miss Gruenberg
Lahborer
Rock Island County
Daily Saving
State Savings Bank& Trust Co
Pioneer Shoe Merchant
Seale
Blick Hills
Montana
Hang
Raskegeln
Brigham City
Utah
Postmaster General
Vest Eerie
Hearle
Connelly
Das Tis
County
RIZE
Olmeted
Offar
Senator Mason
Citoa
Arey
Fark Keela
San
F. W. Bank
Manchester, Lo
Testatrix
Reek-telend ‘High School
Evans & Leach
Sixteenth Street
Peterson
Mr. Peterson
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