New York to El Paso Velie trip via Glidden route
Mr and Mrs A B Culver of Aguascalientes Mexico travel in a Velie from New York to El Paso on a cross country tour following the Glidden route through Portland Maine Chicago and Omaha. The car registered 3158 miles and performed with slight repairs before resuming toward Yellowstone Park. Culver notes Diaz’s reelection and comments on political conditions in Mexico while observing growing automobile use there.
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Dispatch
New York
el Paso
Portland
Moline
Yellowstone Park
A B Culver
Aguascalientes
Mexico
Velie
Velie Motor Vehicle Co
New York City
Boston
Mr. Culver
Hartford
Culver
Morrison
Omaha
Yellowstone
Michigan
United States
Mexico City
Mrs. Culver
van Dyke
Republic
Diaz
Nicaragua
Value estimate for Deere local holdings by Milwaukee appraisers
Milwaukee based American Appraisal Company conducts a wide scale inventory of Deere estate offices fixtures rolling stock buildings and other assets in the area. The assignment includes Union Malleable in East Moline and Deere Mansur Co here with ten appraisers on site and completion unlikely before late August or early September.
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Deere & Company
American Appraisal Company of
Milwaukee
Deere
Milwaukee Company
Atlantic Coast
Rocky Mountains
Union
East Moline
Deere & Mansur Co
Moline Wagon Company
Hubbard Nominates for Relection as County Clerk
Henry B. Hubbard seeks another term as Rock Island County Clerk and Probate Clerk with Republican primary Sept 15. Vouched for accuracy and efficiency, he has served five four year terms, handling county records and estates with steady, error free management.
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Daily Dispatch
Henry B. Hubbard
Hubbard
Col. Kohler
Rock Island
Barn Dance Opens Zed Wynn's Fine Coal Valley Barn
Last Thursday evening in Coal Valley Zed Wynn hosted a large barn opening with music by the Coal Valley band. The 40 by 60 foot barn, built to seat sixty horses, hosted three to four hundred attendees celebrating a scene reminiscent of a 1862 Fourth of July Union soldiers tribute.
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Zed Wynn
Coal Valley Band
Wm _ Peters
Blanch
Lester
Cloquet
Minn
Joseph Peters
Tillie Tauby
Geneseo
Emil Nightingale
Pearl Summeragon
Sherrard
Moran
Mesdames West
Martin, Branberg
Spergo
Myers
Betty Lees
Margaret Helen Pryce
Wm. Peters
the Missionary Society
Presbyterian Church
Switchman Killed in Davenport Yard Accident
John Mcdonald of Roe Island switchman for the Rik Island road died instantly at 10:30 p m in Davenport yards. A refrigerator car door swung open as cars were moved, striking the back of his head and crushing his skull. He was 24, survived by his widow and two children.
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Dail
John Mcdonald
Roe Island
Rik Island
Davenport
McDonald
Akull
Fourth of July injury leads to boy’s fatal lockjaw
Clarence Reese, a 13 year old from Davenport, died at his home on the 346th after an injury from a Fourth of July celebration. A revolver blast caused a palm wound that was ignored until Sunday when illness began, and by Monday lockjaw developed, causing death.
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Daily Dispatch
Clarence Reese
Davenport
Reese
Jury Cannot Agree In Strobe Trial
Alidor Strobbe of Moline faced recorder's court on an assault with intent to murder charge after a jealous attack on his wife and DeGraf. He bought a revolver, shot DeGraf three times at a rooming house near police HQ, leaving DeGraf gravely wounded but alive. the jury failed to reach a verdict and Strobbe was remanded to jail until September term.
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Moline
Detroit
Daily Dispatch
Moline Dispatch
Alidor Strobbe
Recorder’s Court
Strobbe
Charles DeGraf
Thin City
DeGraf
Verzaele Strobbe
McDonnell
Wind topples corn crib. Oliver Ong hospitalized after incident
In Cordova a windstorm toppled a new corn crib on Joe Kay’s farm Saturday night. Oliver Ong, detained by a Rock Island deputy and Constable Charley Reynolds, was placed in Watertown hospital for the second time. Farmers report rye nearly finished and yielding a fair, well filled crop. E M Wakeman has purchased Hirshel Scott’s business and runs the Scott’s Landing summer resort. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup promotes teething relief and diarrhea cure at twenty five cents a bottle.
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Joe Kay
Rock Island
Charley Reynolds
Oliver Ong
Watertown Hospital
Spear
Rock Falls
E. M. Wakeman
E. M Wakeman
Hirshel Scott
Scott's Landing
Humphrey
Formal Complaint Made by Attorney Wood Louden Church Asset Case
Attorney Wood files a formal complaint for the Congregational Church seeks condemnation of city property over an assessment deemed too large. The issue centers on whether the city can condemn its own property and how the appraisal value affects the case.
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Wood
Legal Objections Delay Fifth Avenue Widening Hearing
In county court Browning interests and the First Congregational church filed objections to the assessment for the Fifth Avenue widening. Attorney G W Wood argues the church should not pay as their benefit is small and condemning library ground may be improper. Dietz for Browning is to file a formal complaint by next Wednesday morning as other objections time has expired.
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G. W Wood
First Congregational Church
4 Corporation
G. O. Dietz
J T Browning
W R. Moore
Wood
McKinney Speaks at Orange Men’s Picnic Near Preemption
Congressman James McKinney was among speakers at the Orange men's picnic in Little’s Grove near Preemption. Nearly 7000 attended the event praised as the best in years with many politicians from Rock Island and Mercer counties present. The Rev Dawton gave the opening prayer followed by speeches from the revs Hawyer and Gidding and McKinney, a reelection candidate.
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Daily Dispatch
James McKinney
Little's Grove
Rock Island
Mercer
Mr. Dawton
H. L. Hawyer
Sherrard
Rock Island Man Seriously Injured Falling From Lumber Pile
Hubbard Dooley of Rock Island was seriously injured at the Moline Plow Co. lumber yards yesterday afternoon when he fell from a lumber pile dislocating his left elbow and fracturing the bone above the joint. Dr. A H Arp dressed the injury and Dooley, living at 2402 Seventh Avenue with his parents, was taken home. He had been attending the University of Havana and had outdoor summer work.
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Daily Dispatch
Hubbard Dooley
Rock Island
Moline Plow Co
A. H. Arp
Seventh Avenue
H. L. Dooley
University of Honofa
Ditch Contract Let for Four-Mmile Hampton Drain
Hamp ton township drainage commissioners awarded Matthews Bros. & Co. of Erie the four mile long Hampton district No. 4 ditch contract. Work begins soon, with digging at about 799 100 cents per cubic yard for 124 000 cubic yards estimated, totaling roughly 15000 dollars. The ditch starts northeast of Barstow, crosses railroad rights of way, and empties into Rock River near the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific tracks.
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Dispatch Drainage Commissioners
Hampton Township
Barstow
Matthews Bros. & Co
Erie
Hampton District No. 4
Matthews Company
Carter Bros
Danville
R. N McWilliams
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Rock River
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Identity of Man Killed by Train Identified
Coroner confirms the man killed Sunday by a Rock Island Peoria train near Milan is Alex White not Roger Justie. Friends in Fort Smith Ark provide a description including front teeth spacing and a forehead scar. White and Allan Harmon had recently left Fort Smith for the region. Harmon’s whereabouts are unknown.
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Alex White
Roger Justie
Fort Smith, Ark
Rock Island
Brick Mason Breaks Arm in Scaffold Fall
Charles Edwards of Princeton, brick mason with G. H. Jordan, fell from a nine foot scaffold at the Pole and Shaft works yesterday afternoon and broke both bones of his left arm near the wrist. He was removed to the city hospital.
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Charles Edwards
Princeton
G. H. Jordan
Coroner Rose denies sheriff bid in Rock Island county
John F. Rose, Rock Island county coroner, states he has no plan to run for sheriff and rejects rumors of a Republican nomination. He notes his current term remains and he intends to serve full time. The race appears open with O. L. Bruner as the main Republican contender.
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Daily Dispatch
John F. Rose
Rock Island County
Rose
O. L. Bruner
Rock Island
Moline
Fragmentary poem line about a shot aero
A fragmented verse fragment speaks of shooting an aero in the air and its fall to earth with indifference, ending without a clear destination or further context.
Birthday Wish Note From Mary to Uncle Charlie
A child, Mary aged six, sends a playful birthday wish to Uncle Charlie. She adds a cheeky request that if he gives a dollar, he should not lose it, mentioning a family phrase “mamma said” about the gift.
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Mary
Charlie
Mamma
Lippin
Eight Feet of Water Drowning at Mississippi River
Harl Russell 11 of East Moline drowned while clamming in eight feet of water near the Mississippi. Witness Sheldon Van Norman told the coroner’s jury he warned Russell not to go far from shore. Foreign bystanders fled when Russell cried for help. the body was found at 4 15 by Everett Cosner and brought to the surface by Rollo Schlueter. Funeral arrangements pending. survivors include mother Amanda Russell, Tampico father James Russell, sister Mrs J Burke of Peoria, and brothers Warren and George.
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Harl Russell
East Moline
Mississippi River
Sheldon van Norman
van Norman
Earl Russell
Russell
Everett Cosner
Rollo Schlueter
Amanda Russell
Fifteenth Street
James Russell
Tampico
J. Burke
Peoria
Warren
George
New Territory Sees Next Improvement In Public Utilities
President J F Porter returns from New York to inspect Moline properties for a merger in the Tri-City area. Engineers map the Twenty-seventh street extension of the Fourth avenue car line, grading to begin soon, with completion before year end. A half hour service will launch on a single track from Sixth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, through private rights of way to Sev enth and Fifteenth avenues, then to Eleventh and Twenty-seventh streets. Double tracks extend west of Fifteenth Street and the Fifth avenue Thirteenth street loop will be built upon project completion.
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Daily Dispatch
New York
Tri-Cities
J. F. Porter
Moline
Twenty-seventh Street
Fourth Avenue
Tri-City
City
G. Anderson
Porter
Sixth Avenue
Riverside Cemetery
Seventh Avenue
Eleventh Avenue
Fifteenth Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Fourteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Thirteenth Street
Wilmette Man Succeeds Brown as Rock Island Principal
A. J. Burton, from Wilmette Illinois near Chicago, was elected principal of Rock Island High School to succeed H. B. Brown who resigned. The board of education organized by electing H L. Hull president.
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A. J. Burton
Rock Island High School
H. B. Brown
Mr. Burton
Wilmette, Ill
Chicago
Board of Education
HL. H. Hull
Farms and Lands Offer Near Aberdeen
Take notice to farmers seeking to move near Aberdeen that this is a strong wheat district. Purchase options include farms of crop or cash terms with direct dealings to owners. A fifty cent per acre commission is paid at sale time by the agent G L Hutcheon Aberdeen.
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Aberdeen
Teher
G.'L. Hutcheon
Cdenmission Agt
Seak, Panatee Wethten
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Elpaso Invelse Automobile
A.B. Culver
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Beach Moline
South End
Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
F. G. Allen
C. I. Joseruson
Sor Hirscu
IS County Encyclopedia
Henry
Coal Valley
Switchman Meets Death
John M’donald San
Davee Port
Mra. Strobbe
Cordova
Dietz
Browning
Deere Estate
le Surprise
C. I Josephson
B. A
J. N. Pierr
Lundell
Josephson
Matthews Brothers & Co
Hampton
Big Ditch
Brick Mason
Bruner
Requiescat
Lees
Attar
East
Wilmette Man
Brown
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