Twin Cities urged to merge under one Farnam charter
East Moline Herald editorials by Mayor George F Johnson call for amalgamation of Rock Island Moline East Moline Silvis and Watertown under a single charter while preserving individual identities. The plan would centralize government to economize expenses and honor founder Farnam across the unified community.
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Daily Dispatch
East Moline
George F Johnson
Twin Cities
Rock Island
Moline
Silvis
Watertown
Cil
New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Farnam
Davenport
Mississippi
West
East Moline Dairymen Face $5 License Tag Requirement
East Moline dairymen must pay a five dollar annual license and display a metallic tag on cans and labeling must indicate the milk has been partially deprived of a nourishing element. The license charge applies per year.
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East Moline
City approves cement walk contract for Thirteenth Street
Fast Moline board of local improvements sets a contract for 11,4970 lineal feet of cement walk five feet wide at 7? to Ante Swenson exclusive of Warner's and Shops additions. The work costs $16,367.49 and completes the city sidewalk on Thirteenth Street.
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Fast Moline Board of Local
Swenson
Waner’s
Vlen
Thirteenth Street
Humiliating Rejection Cited in Old Verse Exchange
A fragment announces a dramatic exchange where the speaker scorns Miss Alina and claims to humble her pride. The line implies a pattern of prior rejections and a mocking tone by the speaker. The text reads as a marginal note or excerpt from a longer verse with a Germanic phrase included.
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Alina
Fliegends Hinette
New Graham Post R. A. R. elects officers at annual meeting
An unidentified Civil War veteran joined the R. H. Graham post G A R at last evening’s officer election. Commander J C Reddington and others were chosen with installation set for January first in a joint ceremony with the W R C.
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R. H. Graham Post
Grand Army
Republic Organization
W. Rbc
Narrow Escapes for Truckmen at Depot
A foggy early hour at the downtown railroad yards saw an eastbound freight train pass near the Thirteenth street crossing as passenger trains moved. U S express baggage men barely escaped a collision when their truck was struck by the speeding freight, demolishing a block signal and injuring the crew.
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Thirteenth Street
Kansas City
U.S
Debria
Siateenth Crossing
Uust
Tom
Om Hovex
Finish Thirty Houses in New Shops Addition
Thirty new houses in the New Shops addition Fast Moline have been completed. Eighty houses remain under construction in the same project.
County borrows $65,000 to cover next year’s bills
Rock Island banks approved a $65,000 loan at five percent to the county, aimed at funding anticipated 1911 taxes and outstanding expenses near $40,000 including election costs. The board adjourned until Tuesday after briefly meeting in December and arranging probate and sheriff staff changes.
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Rock Island
Daily Dispatch
Lipton
Finance Committee
Board of Supervisors
Moline
Whiteside
Eight-Hour Day Implemented at Moving Scale Works
Superintendent John A. Kittimhen returns to Moline after a New England business trip as the Moving Scale Works adopt an eight hour day in all departments except the foundry. The change affects forty men in machine shop and woodworking, with December usually dull and the shift likely to January 1. The foundry remains on ten hours due to warehouse capacity limits and full storage space.
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Tuily Dlapatioh
John A. Kittimhen
Moline
New England
Slender of White Slavery Bookseller Named in Chicago Suit
Jennie Sandusky sues Clifford G Roe an assistant states attorney in Cook County Chicago for slander alleging damages of 50000. The suit also names Fleming H Revell Co publishers of Panders and Their White Slaves as defendants. Roe once gave a lecture on white slavery in Moline.
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Chicago
Clifford G Roe
Cook County
Moline
Abel
Fleming H Revell & Co
Davenport Weather Report Sees Cold November
November in Davenport averaged 34 degrees, four below the long term mean. Record highs reached 68, with 14 degrees on the coldest day, and 22 of an inch of precipitation including a trace of snow, while moisture deficiency for the year rose to 9.80 inches.
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J. M. Sherier
U .S
Davenport
Red Men of Silvis Plan Big Annual Celebration
The Modoc tribe No 119 of Silvis nominated officers at Crowder's hall with installation planned for January and a February banquet. The event aims to attract regional Red Men from Geneseo to Moline, with invitations to Wittson Brooks and other state and national keepers of records.
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Crowder's Hall
Wal
Rock Island County
Wittson Brooks
United States
Willo Bluedorn
The
Ols
Gregt
Sachem
FoWo Jones
Wot Colby
Ilinaw
Kewanee Sherrard
Orion Matherville
Milamen Reeo
Moline
Geneseo Red Men
Jerome Santor
Sagamore
Fuller Junior
Crawford
James Nickels
Wampum
Glen Arnett
H F Kirkpatrick
F J. Ball
November payroll totals and resumed work at Sivis shops
The Sivis shops payroll for November amounts to $67,000, down $11,500 from last month due to shorter hours and a late shutdown. Eight hundred workers returned to duty today after a twelve day layoff, with distribution of pay by rounds: Roundhouse $6,000, car department $4,000, locomotive shops $55,030.
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Sivis
Masonic officers elected and Royal Arch masonic and planters council notes
John S Bolton advanced to worshipful master at Doric lodge No 319 replacing H S Ransom who declined reelection W L Straw named senior warden Thomas J Marshall junior warden J J Gillmore re elected treasurer George E Carlson named secretary for two years at the lodge Royal Arborum No 2009 chosen officers for the year with installation January 6 and oyster supper Anthonys Hamm and other officers listed Planter council No 643 National Union met with officers elected led by C W O Johnson and Herman Meserser along with other officers and trustees
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J 3. Gillmore
George E. Carlson
Thomas A B Hurtchnell
Moline Council
Royal Arcanum
Lodge
J Donegan
Henry Sundell
A_ Holt
FE Pingel
Fred Graflund
G A Watt
Lowe
O B. Davis
H Doelhrn
Charles Mueller
Thomas Welch
J J. Brown
WM Kale
Dgnegan
Charles Seitz
W Ro Speer
Planter Council No 643
National Union
Peter Newser
Kittilsen Chosen to Lead Rock Island Football Team
John Kittilsen will lead the Rock Island high school football squad after teammates chose him unanimously. He was captain earlier this year but had to resign due to inability to play. his leadership and experience are highlighted as key assets.
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John Kittisen
Rock Island
John Wrs
Hittiisen
Hold Bradbury for John Brunk's Death
Henry H Bradbury, a Black man, appeared before Magistrate Hoddewig in Davenport at 2 pm and waived examination. He was held to the grand jury in $2500 bond. Bradbury admitted pushing John Brunk down a flight of stairs, causing fatal injuries.
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Henry H Bradbury
Hoddewig
Dolvenport
WR Mott
Davenport
Hradbury Bradbury
John Ho Brunk
Moline
Hradbury
Brunk
Labor Federation Rejects Boy Scout Movement Proposals
The Tri City Federation of Labor unanimously condemns Colonel Whistler’s militia service franchise plan and Colonel Green’s standing army proposal in Ujinots. The federation also disapproves of the Boy Scout movement, deeming it militaristic in tendency.
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Tri-City
After-Dinner Club Will Hear Prof Starr on Mexico
Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago, renowned anthropologist, will speak on Mexico at the After-Dinner club December dinner on Monday the 12th. Starr has led sixteen expeditions in southern Mexico and authored In Indian Mexico and The Truth About the Congo. He departs December 22 for Korea to study Nie culture and reforms in the Japanese province.
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Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Mexico
Congo
Africa
Starr
Prof Starr
Korea
Upper River Work Prospects Brightened by Congress Hope
Major Charles Keller states that congress may grant the $1,250,000 appropriation for upper Mississippi River dredging in 1928. If approved, this would be the largest single grant for the Rock Island district and dwarf prior authorizations. The report notes potential committee edits but aims to include the proposed dredging bill in the rivers and harbors act.
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Congress
WH Bixby
Mississippi River
Rock Island
Dedeck
Advertising fund urged to attract workers to Moline
Major Elmer S. B. Morgan proposes a four thousand dollar advertising fund to lure skilled employees from Patchogue New York to Moline for housing. He cites two earnest applicants with cash totaling six thousand five hundred dollars and plans to back mortgage loans, boosting local banks and labor quality. He argues middle western cities benefit from house building investments and urges factory leaders to invest earnings to fuel growth. A newspaper note remarks a wife may heed her minister or doctor before her husband.
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Daily Dispatch
Elmer SB. Morgan
Moline
Patchogue
Major Morgan
Therg
Saya
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