Plant in three cities Would Contract for Crop from 5000 Acres
Under the Moline Business Men's association thirty or more farmers met at the Moline club to discuss contracting 5000 acres of sugar beets for the coming season. M H Mueller of Davenport Sugar Co. urged action with contracts due by March 5. R B Lourie outlined beet-farming profits and factory practices. An organizing group was named to canvass farmers, with meetings set for next Monday at 2 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline Business Men's Association
Moline Club Rooms
M H Mueller
Bay City
Michigan
Davenport Sugar Co
Mueller
R. B Lourie
Deere & Mansur Co
Colorado
China
Christopher
Rock River Bottom
E Morgan
H J Gripp
John Sherer
E T Greim
Charles Zahn
Charles King
John Bahnka
William Oltmann
Frank Warren
Architects Feast and Start a Tri City Architectural Association
The architects of the three cities met socially at the Hotel Harms in Rock Island for a supper. Most Moline architects attended with Hammath presiding as toastmaster. A plan to form a tri city chapter of the American Institute of Architects emerged, with a permanent Tri-City Architectural Association organized. Hammath elected president and Milton J Whitson secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harms
Rock Island
Moline
Hammath
American Institute of Architects
Tri-City Architectural Association
Milton J Whitson
Biblical Law and the Fight Against Consumption
Dr Arnold C Klebs, speaking at the Institute of Social Science, argues Moses' hygienic laws protected Jews from consumption by promoting house living. He notes Jews who followed Moses avoided the disease longer, while Indians once immune lose ground as they adopt white man habits and housing. He deems modern life as inherently house dwelling and calls for proper living to prevent disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Arnold C Klebs
Tuberculosis Committee
Institute of Social Science
Fine Arts
Oklahoma Liquor Sale Prohibition Extended for Twenty-One Years
The senate resumed consideration of statehood bills and passed an amendment prohibiting liquor sales in Oklahoma for twenty one years. An additional amendment left to voters in New Mexico and Arizona the question of joining them into one state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Apesal
Washington
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Burlington Officials Gift Opera House Fund Support
New evidence shows Burlington road officials promising twenty seats for the opening at the new opera house in Moline and donating 100 toward the fund. The gift came through F G Allen of the Moline Plow Co after appeals by M J McEniry of the Business Men's Association. Officials expressed cordial response and a desire to set a precedent of good will and reciprocal cooperation with Moline.
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Burlington Road
Moline
Opera House
Burlington
F G Allen
Moline Plow Co
M J McEniry
Business Men's Association
Rock Island
Milwaukee
Juries Drawn for Circuit Court Two Panels Selected
Two panels of jurors for service in the circuit court were drawn on Monday. The first panel reports Monday Feb 20 for the criminal docket, the second panel reports two weeks later. Jurors listed include Andelusia M Boney Elmer E Simpson Bowling James Hynes Canoe Creek William Pearsall and many others from Rock Island and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andelusia
M M. Boney
Elmer E. Simpson
James Hynes
Canoe Creek
William Pearsall Drury
E. H Kranz
Thomas Gar
Turkey Tales At a Boarding House
Nonsense from a fragmented item hints at a boarding house story. A woman claims she left due to frequent turkey meals and quips about being “fax off” and “demented” in a humorous, scattered note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dix
Two $25 Additions For Theatre Fund
Two further contributions bolster the opera house fund with $25 gifts. The Cleveland Varnish Co. sends a five seat donation from Cleveland Ohio, aided by Rockford traveler Mr. Bingham and Mo line supporters. A second $25 comes from H. W. Horst of Rock Island in an order for five seats, recognizing his ties to Greater Moline backers.
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Cleveland Varnish Co
Cleveland
Ohio
Moline
Bingham
Rockford
Rock Island
H. W. Horst
Horst
First steamboats on Mississippi banks in 1834 era
The Jo Daviess launched in 1834 at Galena owned by Captain D. Smith Harris with his brother R Scribe Harris piloting for a time. St Louis Oak followed for the upper river. Virginia ran Pittsburgh to north, and its first voyage to Fort Snelling in June 1823 welcomed by forests near future cities. Minnesota Packet Co began upper Mississippi service later merged into Keokuk Northern Line. A St Paul to St Louis trip by J L Carver logged two days twenty hours eleven minutes, a record unmatched in the era.
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Mississippi
Jo Daviess
Galena
D. Smith Harris
R. Scribe Harris
Upper
Ohio River
Virginia
Pittsburg
New York
Clinton
Fort Snelling
Minnesota Packet Co
Keokuk
St Paul
St Louis
Haight
Charlie Manning
Billy Woods
Dedication of Swedish Olive Hall Draws Large Crowd
Almost a thousand people attended the dedication of the Swedish Olive hall of Odd Fellows Saturday evening. The event filled the Pierz building and overflowed into the Rosenstein hall, with Livingston's orchestra providing dancing as the program capped the night. About $400 was cleared for the building fund.
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Odd Fellows
Pierz Building
Rosenstein Building
Plerr
Rosenstein Hall
Livingston
Bad Boys and Pollys: Davie Hill and Fellow Youngsters
A fragment from a poem recounts Davie Hill of Wolfert's Roost as once bad and moody after pollywogs, a Democrat shift, and playful mischief among boys. It also references Tommy Lawson and older peers affecting toy outcomes, with lines about John Rockefeller and a lamp in a cellar and two pennies given to Sunday school.
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Davie Hill
Wolfert
Tommy Lawson
Tommie
Bincape
Johnnie Rockefeller
Johnnie
Kaffir Boy Choir to Play at Chautauqua Program
Chautauqua in Meridg e announces the Kaffir Boy choir from Africa as a headline act for an July evening. The lineup includes the Allen Family band Midland Opera quintet Imperial Saxophone quintet and Madrigal Ladies with lectures by Father Vaughan Earl Douglass Holtz and Col George W Bain among others. Daily programs feature sacred concerts dramatic lectures and multiple children oriented activities with Miss Ning Lamkin directing a Children's Club.
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Chautauqua
Sam Jones
Africa
Prof
Balmer
Father Vaughan
Earl Douglass Holtz
East
Joseph G. Camp
South
Bob Taylor
Jno
Temple Graves
G. A. Gearhart
George W. Bain
Lexington
Ocean Grove
Kaffir Boya
Allen Family
Midland ‘Opera
Imperial Saxophone Quintet
Madrigal Ladies’ Quartet
Round Table
Count Tolstoi
Charles Dicken
A. Lincoln Shute
Ingleside Avenue Methodist Church
Chicago
Moline Automobile Co to Output 300 Cars Next Season
The Moline Automobile Co announces planned production of two to three hundred automobiles for the coming season with substantial output and experimental work. The plant has already begun and shows strong interest in the companys machine designs which have gained public favor after a brief test period.
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Moline Automobile Co
Calmthea
Club Members Discuss Expansion at Moline Meeting
Members of the Moline club gathered February 2 to debate expanding to 360 or 400 members and modern facilities. Plans proposed include a 15,000 dollar clubhouse funded by fifty members at 300 dollars each, with dues as interest, plus a bid to secure fifty more names tomorrow.
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Tthe
M. Bechler
Itd
Rock Teiaid
Seohler
Sechler
Les
H. Sleight
George W. Ross
Moline Club
P M. Price
Clyde King
E. H. Sleight
T M Lechier
R. B. Laurie
M. D. Rosenfield
F W Bank
Wayland Brown
W. R. Moore
Sol Hirthh
C. F. Hemenway
Fred Abraham
al Kneberg
Prof
Dennis
Ogden
Bufiard
Toatmanien
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GAGES
Down South
Miss Shapeleigh
Dalyas Nuwa
Davenport
Klebs
State OF
Moline National Bank
National Bank
Gallen
H.A. Ainsworth
Sol Hirsch
15Th Street
F. G. Allen
Vin
Andrew Donaldson
South Moline
Charles Hawley
E. Bomberg
J D. Sill
Henry Nicholson
Charles Nelson
Gannon Zuma
WIT
Mumma
C F. Waline
Black Hawk
John Cox
Milton Bingham
John Ash
Coal Valley
Henry F Long Cordova
August Dorst Drury
Samuel Boruff
William Danner
Bulgington
Adolph Dunlap
C W Gleason
Joe Pdaebellehn
Fred Gripp
Andrew Bauer
F F Cline
John Goodmanson
Emil Pahthe
W Olson
Swan G Nelson
John Kiatterhoff
Byron
Mandoff Wassell
William Baker
John Leston
William Bleuer
Johnny
Johnny Sackett
Record-Herald
New Opera
Swedish Olive Lodge
Rosenstein Block
Qutcine
Start Children's Club
Kaffir Choir
Fine Music
Prospect
Children’s Club
Forenoon
Chaecantes
Las
Fhatonks
Allee Familly
Shy Socks
Vaughan Se “Igh
Rowerby
Magert
Allen
Ralph Bingham
Children’s Exgressek
Paychie Jacture
J. H. Bowerby
Lonely Labrador
Edgar
Midland Opere A
Herbert G. Hoffman
A. B. Shipley
Midland Oper Quintet
Col
Midland Opera Quintet
Gospel of ‘Count Tolstoi
A. EK. Shipley
Guy Dickens
A.B Shipley
Kaffi Boy Choir
Lincoln Shute
Moving Pictures
Belture
the Magician
Madrigal Ladies
Nina Lamkin
Madrigal
A Lincoln Shute
Rihsra’s, Haney
Seasor
Moline Company
Ite
Sietek Ental Ue
Atibarerat Malin
Club-ene ‘Wael Batategs Fund
Eubjecripe Tone Pt
Plan
Tropesied
T. Mißsechier
Perli
Evirne
Uae
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