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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1910
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes mention notable people and attendance plans. Names such as Dalen and Amado appear in garbled form with reference to a prior event and future timing.
The largest Flemish gathering in U.S. history brings 800 to 1000 visitors from the east and Midwest to Moline for a federation of Belgian societies. Count de Buisseret, Belgian minister to the U.S., arrives amid a formal program with city leaders, consuls, and notable Belgian figures.
Journeymen barbers and union officials clash after Gus Peacock kept his shop open on Sunday defying a union rule. The executive committee removed Peacock’s card as other shops consider joining him, with a special meeting set for Tuesday to decide fines and future actions.
Crop Corespondent Thomas Campbell reports staple farm crops fair to good. Corn 85 percent of normal, potatoes 90, winter wheat 75, oats 90, hay 90, timothy 75, clover 85, spring pastures 80. Fruit yields poor with apples peaches pears failed. berries and grapes low. Prices: corn 55 cents, wheat 95, oats 40, potatoes 40, hay 12, butter 25 cents, eggs 70 cents, live chickens 134 percent.
A Davenport art exhibit by F A Lundahl at the public library drew Chicago dealers who bought four paintings The Primeval Forest The Willows The Home of the Quail and The Hayfield shipped to Chicago It was noted Lundahl excels in subtleness The Blizzard also drew attention and was bought by C A Ficke of Davenport.
A Sunday sermon by Rev. Thomas Doney urges Christians to vote for incorruptible leaders. He argues for strict jury service, removal of bribers, and reforms to keep legislation pure while stressing constitutional rights and the dangers of bought offices in conservation policy.
The month of June yielded 108 marriage licenses, well below last June’s 124. The total hints at a market slowdown amid higher living costs, despite June usually seeing about sixty licenses.
An advertisement promoting Dr Caldwell's Syrup of Laxative to cleanse the purity of ingredients with a 6¢ to 1 price and a bottle sold by druggists. The ad highlights its notoriety as a famous laxative tonic and lists price details.
The Rock Island District Epworth League met at Viola June 28 29 with 133 registered delegates. Leaders spoke on mission work temperance and league relations as the group voted to raise 200 for home and 200 for foreign missions for the coming year.
Diedrick White is held at the police station on a warrant charging him with the theft of a watch and a few trinkets. The charge was preferred by Earl Clark.
A railroad officer reports more hobos on the road than in years with 200 tramps per day at Bureau Junction. In Bureau one night last week twenty hobos were rounded up. five or six revolvers and several silverware items stolen from a hotel in Oxford, Colo were found on their persons.
East Moline prepares for a record building year with $85,000 invested in new commercial and residential blocks. Six new business blocks cost $27,000 and twenty homes at about $3,000 each rise in the New Shops addition, while a $54,000 housing project expands the city’s housing stock. Mayors and clerks announce plans for new two story brick and frame structures, with residents like Victor Palmgren and Adolph Vandebeke undertaking multiple projects including a $7,000 brick corner building and a $5,000 state corner brick. The Purington plant at Galesburg resumes work to supply bricks for paving First Avenue and bluff road upgrades.
The board of education ordered redecorating interiors of the Grant school and its annex. Charles Kneberg works in the new building while Fred Woodruff handles the old. All rooms are being tinted and Ericsson school may also be tinted this summer.
Water low conditions boost clam shell harvest with 100 men near here exchanging shells worth 25 to 35 dollars per ton. Diggers scoop shells by hand from beds, hoping for pearls. Reports from Port Byron and LeClaire cite pearls sold for 40 to 50 dollars, with a young man in Port Byron earning 26 dollars in four days.
The Rock Island Presbytery held a two day convention at the United Presbyterian Church in Rock Island with twelve congregations and sixty to seventy visitors. Notable talks covered missionary work and temperance, led by Rev R A Paul, Rev A C Douglas, Rev J J L Vance, and Dr Douglas. Visitors toured the two cities by auto and many reports showed active involvement from Moline and surrounding delegates.
At the Rock Island presbytery United Presbyterian Church annual convention officers were elected. President was W of Aster, Rock Island. Vice President Miss Helen Story, Matine. Treasurer Hugh Mills, Hanover. Secretary of Memorial Fund Rery, French North Henderson. Tithe Secretary Miss Bird Ramsas, North Henderson. The 1911 convention will be held at Sunbeam.
Concord area Turnverein holds semi annual election of officers with reelects. Oscar Lohmann and Louis Wiedemank serve as first and second speaker. August Ebeling and William Dodra Jr. named first and second turnwart. Fred Peters and Cait Hintz as recording and corresponding secretaries. Peter Ketthey as financial secretary. Hana Windt and John Langhehr named trustees. Mrs Howard and Mrs Coward referenced in chatter.
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