Deere Picnic Draws Record Crowd to Campbell island
The 1910 Deere picnic on Campbell's Island attracted an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 visitors, with about 20,000 fares collected by the Moline Meline and Water Town Railway Co. The interurban service ran smoothly despite heavy crowds, and the day featured a large crowd at the sham battle dedication, a Crescant band concert, and a shop versus office baseball game ending 14 to 8 in favor of the office team.
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Moline, Meline and Watertown Railway Co
Deere
Campbell's Island
Campbell's Island Monument
Campbell's
Old Sol
Moline
Mr. Dale
Dia
East Moline sewer extension plan and Watertown funding vote
East Moline council urges the city engineer H G Pad to estimate the cost of ending sewer service south of the Rock Island and Burlington tracks between Tenth and Thirteenth streets. The Watertown village board meets to finalize the annual appropriation ordinance setting a $2000 budget with allocations for officers, printing, street work, sidewalks, and miscellaneous items.
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Dispatch
East Moline
H. G. Pad
Rock Island and
Burlington
Watertown Village Board
Ceesee Sennee
Insane Fourth Celebration Ends in Rock Island Tragedy
Samuel Sampson a Clinton Illinois carpenter was killed by a Burlington train on Fifteenth Street Rock Island. He celebrated the Fourth by spending his money and drinking. his head was severed in the fatal accident.
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Samuel] Sampson
Clinton
Burlington
Fifteenth Street
Rock Island
Sampson
Swedish American Singers Arrive in Malmö Welcomed by Thousands
The Swedish American singers aboard the Gylfe landed at Malmö after crossing from Copenhagen. Crowds cheered as flags waved and the mayor welcomed the delegation led by Mr Nelson. The reception highlighted Svea and Olive chorus members among the touring group.
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Copenhagen
Malmé
Sweden
Mr Nelson
Sydsvenska Dagbladet
Charles X
Court House
Custom House
Malmo
Alfred Berg
Helena gas department chief promoted to Helena Gas Co
H J Read of 2624 Fourth avenue succeeds Samonth Charlies Johnson as superintendent of the gas department in Helena Monts People's Power Co system. Johnson received a limousine sendoff at the station and was presented a diamond set Odd Fellow watch charm by gas department employees. Melin, formerly head fitter, becomes gas meter inspector.
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Charlies Johnson
People’s Power Co
Helena Gas Co
Helena
Mont
Johnson
Gas
H. J Reed
Fourth Avenue
M. Melin
Reed
Swedish Singers Parade to Carl Gustaf Statue
Swedish American choir led by Prof Ortengren and Musical Director Berg marched through a flag lined harbor street to the Carl Gustaf statue. They sang Hér oss Svea and cheered Sweden before a city banquet invitation in Kungsparken. To be continued.
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Malmé
Prof
Ortengren
Berg
Lindahl
Harbor
Carl Gustaf
Svea
Sweden
Bjérneborgarnes Marsch
Kungsparken
Paving Objections Sustained by Court in Moline
County court sustains objections to two proposed paving projects in Moline. Fourth avenue from Thirty fourth to Fifty fifth street and Third avenue from Twenty second to Twenty sixth street faced bid and cost-division challenges. City plans granitoid paving for five alley blocks between Fifth and Sixth avenues, costing about seven thousand dollars with Ed Construction Co. contracted. Granite samples show unusually hard, rocklike surface.
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Daily Dispatch
Moline
Fourth Avenue
Thirty Fourth
Fifty-fifth Street
Third Avenue
Twenty Second
Twenty-sixth Street
Thirty Fourth Street
Board of Local Improvements
Fifteenth Street
Twentieth Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Louis
Ed Construction Co
Emil Bengston Dies by Suicide in Rockford
Emil Bengston, formerly of this city and living in Rockford for four years, took his own life yesterday by stepping in front of a passenger train. He had previously attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife.
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Emil Bengston
Rockford
Bengston
Flyleaf page highlights Columbia Jester in encyclopedia
A new encyclopedia features an entire page devoted to us the Columbia Jester. The excerpt mentions the publication and its focus on our group.
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Columbia
Hears That Old Soldiers Never Die in Seattle Visit
A writer from Seattle describes the city as the Queen City of the west, noting clean streets, soft snow water, and extensive waterfront. He recalls the Minnesota ship, trade with China Japan and Alaska, Mount Rainier, and encounters at Fort Lawton and a Masonic lodge with Canadian Grand Master officials.
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G. A. R. Post
Masonic Lodge
Seattle
Minnesota
China
Japan
Alaska
Scotland
Fort Lawton
Brownaribe
Tex
Mount Rainier
Alx
John Gamble
Deck hand drowns after jump from Helen Blair in Muscatine
James LaGrange of Rock Island jumped from the railing of the lower deck of the steamer Helen Blair as it neared Muscatine. Though boats were lowered and a searchlight used, his body had not been recovered by 3 pm. LaGrange, a polisher turned deckhand for a week, had drunk heavily and brooded over family troubles.
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James LaGrange
Forty-fifth Street
Rock Island
Helen Blair
Muscatine
la Grange
Divers locate body of Plein in J S wreck era
Divers yesterday recovered the body of Jack Plein found wedged beneath the wreckage of the steamer J and S destroyed by fire near Victory on Saturday night. Plein was reported to have panicked and moved toward the ship's hold amid the blaze.
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J. S. Wreck
Jack Plein
Victory
Plein
Is Run Down by Automobile in Rocksland
Mrs. EK Miedke of 107 Eighteenth Avenue was struck at the corner of Second Avenue and Nineteenth Street Rocksland by a car driven by Dr. Alfred Stocker. One wheel passed over her right foot but she was not seriously hurt and rested at home thereafter. Her hearing impairment contributed to not hearing the horn warning.
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Daily Dispatch
EK. Miedke
Moline
Eighteenth Avenue
Alfred Stocker
Second Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Rocksland
Pioneer Martha Hunter of Rock Island County Dies
Martha Griffin Hunter a long time Rock Island County resident and widow of Horace J. Hunter died in her son Carl M Hunters home at 5 am after a two week pneumonia illness. She was born May 20 1829 in Indiana and moved to this county in 1832 residing seventy eight years. She leaves six children twenty grandchildren and nine great grandchildren along with several siblings. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Daily Dispatch
Martha Hunter
Rock Island County
Horace J. Hunter
Carl M Hunter
Sixteenth Street
South Moline Township
Carl Mr Hunter
Frick’s Hill
Carl Hunter
Coaltown
Bathing Without Suit Costs Three Men 2.80
Three young men paid 2.80 each for a dip in the Mississippi river yesterday afternoon. Police were summoned at the foot of Twenty-ninth street to a complaint of undressed bathers, who were taken to the ice station.
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Mississippi River
Twenty-ninth Street
Count of children shows gain in 1910 Moline school tally
The 1910 school report to the Board of Education details under 21 populations in Moline with 3998 males and 3879 females in district totals. It notes 34 vacant houses and the need to address unfinished or dilapidated dwellings.
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Board of Education
Moline
Shegg
Ericsaon
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