Special stockholders meeting at Moline Foundry Company
Notice states a special meeting of stockholders of the Moline Foundry Company will be held at the company's office in Moline Illinois on July 2 1907 at 4 pm to consider and vote on increasing the capital stock to fifteen thousand dollars. Officers have filed action certificates and notices in the county.
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Spuatic Notich
Moline Foundry Company
Moline
Illinois
Agitare
Jo M. Wyland
Peter J. Keil
iGeo
Greim
Bain
Sin Hoeman
Atoe Holdra
Mousse Foprdry J Company
Swedish Singers Banquet Set for July 24 in Athletic Park
Gustav Andreen of Augustana and W. B. McIntyre of Rock Island named to address the Western division Swedish Singers banquet. J B Oakleaf toasts. Event in a monster tent at Athletic park with 600 seats, 400 for visiting singers, 200 for Mor ers. Tickets $2.50 on a first come basis. 5000 souvenir postal cards planned for promotion.
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Gustav Andreen
Augustana
W. B. McIntyre
Rock Island
J. B. Oakleaf
Dr. Andreen
McIntyre
Athletic Park
JB. Oakleaf
Gerting
You are wasting your time Mr Bpoonamore
A haughty beau and Miss Pinkie spar in a sharp exchange. She teases his devotion while he pleads, declaring he is in the soup as he grabs his hat and leaves.
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Walsh
Davenport
Chronic office seeker dispatches by telephone
A Tribune quip recalls a persistent candidate chasing the mayor by phone and the jokey reply about getting the Busse signal. The exchange satirically contrasts busy officials with futile contact attempts.
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Busse
Tribune
Metaphors from Metals in Everyday Speech
A Times-Democrat piece notes how language borrows from metals for figures of speech. Experts cite silver tongues golden mouths iron wills and leaden steps as common metaphors shaping public discourse.
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Euns
New Orleans Times-Demiocrat
Axel Carlson Wins Cooper Contracts for New Buildings
Axel Carlson awarded the contract to erect two new buildings for H W Cooper Hardware Saddlery Co at a cost of 40000 dollars. Construction aims to start immediately with use planned by November 1. The larger 992 by 400 foot foundry building will flank the plant east side, the 80 by 320 foot shipping and sorting complex will house annealing and related operations. Plans by O Z Cervin.
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Axel Carlson
H. W. Cooper Hardware Saddlery Co
Cooper
O. Z. Cervin
Divorce suit cites drunkenness and cruelty in Iowa couple
Elizabeth Myers of Moline files for divorce from George W. Myers through attorney J. F. Witter. Married Jan 20 1897 at Geneseo. Complaint alleges habitual drunkenness and extreme cruelty including threats to kill. Judge Graves issues injunction to restrain molestation and disposal of household effects pending trial.
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Eliabeth Myers
Moline
J. F. Witter
George W. Myers
Geneseo
Myers
Aer
Graves
Looney Charges Deferred In Rock Island Bribery Case
Judge Graves delayed ruling on the motion to quash the indictment against John P Looney on bribery and conspiracy charges. The case involves an alleged $5000 offer to Mayor McCaskrin to influence Rock Island’s status toward a wide open town, tied to funds from Otto Huber of Rock Island Brewing Co. Further hearings set for Monday the 22d as judges rotate counties.
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Graves
Ccircuit
W R Moore
John P Looney
Looney
McCaskrin
Rock Island
Otto Huber
Rock Island Brewing Co
Huber
Geneseo
Gest
Rural wit and vaudeville drollery in clipped snippets
A patchwork of old jokes and anecdotes from American humor columns. It includes a judge questioning a jailed man about bond and poverty, a rural drama plot sketch, a tax gag about a wife portrait, a courtroom quip on a verdict, and a man praising a car while trucked by repairs.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Plans for the Ainsworth Building in Rock Island
Plans show a three story business block on Fifteenth Street with 67 by 100 feet ground, a double storefront 43 by 100 for People’s Furniture and Carpet Co, five two room office suites on the second floor, and copper framed large show windows. Construction to begin after contracts let, with brick from Streator Barr and white stone accents. Nearby news notes Mankato store openings by I L Rice and J B Simon, and health updates report two new diphtheria cases, quarantine removals, and four total infectious cases this week.
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Ainsworth
Fifteenth Street
Streator Barr
New Chase Building
People’s Furniture and Carpet Co
I L. Rice
Rock Island
J B. Simon
Monmouth
Mankato
Minn
Mr Rice
A H
Serving Em Often Washington Herald Snippet
The landlady claims to have a number of undesirable boarders and remarks she is pruning the group. The Washington Herald quotes residents reacting to housing tensions and eviction hints.
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Washington Herald
Uncle Eben
Washington Star
Rock Island Southern delay pushes start to spring
Rock Island Southern officials announce that construction from Monmouth or Burlington to Rock Island will not begin before next spring at the earliest due to financing difficulties. Material collection will continue and the project will proceed in a rush once funds are secured.
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Galesburg
Monmouth
Rock Island
Burlington
Children Placed Under Care After Dependency Hearing
The county court halted a dependency case against Rudolph Carlson 16 and his sister Mildred Carlson 8. Their father Carl A Carlson agreed to admit the children as dependent and charged Miss Dina Ramser Rock Island police matron with arranging a suitable placement and covering court costs.
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Rudolph Carlson
Mildred Carlson
Carl A. Carlson
Dina Ramser
Rock Island
Carlson
F H Kelly
J F Witter
A. H. Kohler
58 Men in Division for Annual Cruise
Moline's Naval Reserves unit numbers fifty eight sailors and plans a Friday evening departure on the Dorothea for Lake Michigan training. They will travel by Milwaukee road at 10:63 pm, with Sunday sailing likely after Saturday prep. Drills will continue nightly on the old ship as state delays a seagoing craft. Roster follows.
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Moline
Division of Naval Reserves
U. S
Dorothea
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee Road
Sixth Regiment Band Discharged Then Reformed in Sterling
An order from Adjutant General Scott requires the mustering out of the Sixth Regiment band in this city with honorable discharges. Colonel Kutttlsen plans to reestablish the band in Sterling using two excellent quality bands to select from.
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Kittilsen
Scott
Ilinois
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Ends Teething Pain
A vintage ad claims Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup soothes teething pain and diarrhea, softens gums, and calms babies. Priced at twenty five cents per bottle. Promoted as a heat remedy and marketed as guaranteed under the food and drugs act with serial number 1098.
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Mrs. Winslow E
Illinois School Law Notes on Elections and Districts
A summary of Illinois school law provisions covers voting restrictions for building schoolhouses, bond elections, and supervisor rulings. pupil counts for funds. bond purchases by township treasurers. high school formation by adjacent districts. delinquent loans handling. appeal routes to county superintendents. teacher certification requirements. certificate renewals. distribution of distributive funds. institute instructor appointments. ten family minimum for new districts. petition timelines. fund distribution under state rules. definitions of civil and congressional townships. and notes on potential discrepancies in township delineations.
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Board of Education
Boards of Education
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Board of Trustees
Rost Promoted To Chief Clerk Of Danville Shops
C H Rost rises from Silvis to become storekeeper of the C and E I shops at Danville. Harry Murrin to accompany as chief clerk. William Hunker named Rost’s Silvis successor. June payroll hits $81,000 with most funds in motive power. 45 engines overhauled in month. Several readers note a wave of internal promotions within the Rock Island offices.
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Motive Power Department
C H Rost
Chicago
F D. Reed
Silvis
Rock Island Road
Danville
Harry Murrin
William Hunker
Stores Department
Mr Rost
Messrs
Rost
Murrin
Slms
Cherry Sundae Heist Hits Postmaster Store
A marauder broke into Postmaster V H Dumbeck’s store in St ing coolly stealing a hunting case gold watch and fob rings a fountain pen and knives. Responding to the crime the thief used a box and hatchet to pry the tran som screen and sash while Dumbeck left cash unrecovered after the break in.
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H Dumbeck
Sting
Mr Dumbeck
Dumbeck
Real Estate Transfers Across Rock Island Area
July 10 12 listings show transfers in Rock Island Silvis Moline and East Moline. buyers include Belfs Sundberg Cleveland Krejl and Woodburn Bennett etc with amounts from 150 to 850 dollars and properties in Smalley Additions Stewart Subdivisions and Hunt Second Additions. Names include Esther Belfs John Gault Elizabeth Senn H H Stafford and Annie Hall among others.
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Guyer & Lee
Rock Taland
Chas
A Wetsell
Mary Wetsell
Browning & Ryder
South Moline
Gust A. Anderson
J L. Oakleaf
Third Wheelock
Fifteenth-street
Moline
B. Ward
Harry M. McCaskrin
Wm Payne
H. L. Angell
E H Stafford
Patrick C Brien
Silvis
B. Holmes
Albert Fox
Andalusia
Lawrence P Strayer
Emilel Dowrow
East Moline
Chas P Bahman
Hattie Johngeon
John Deere
Joseph Hellstern
Ed C Mueller
R I Woodburn
Arthur B Chapman
Chas F Pruessing
Candee
Rove
George F Wagner Jr
Wilhelmine Wagner
Old Town of
Rock Island
Connelly
Elizabeth Journy
Velie
Nester L. Anderson
Emma D Welles
Tl. Oakleaf
Chas P Bohman
John Deeres
Caroline J Paul
Jos J . Scholes
Babbitts Addition
Jos G Sholes
Caroline Jo Paul
Ester E Belfs
Carl EB. Sundberg
Smalley
Harry H Cleveland
Henry E Krejl
Spencer & Case
Elmore H Stafford
Li Fan Ireland
Woodburn
Alfred E. Bleuer
H W Litten
John J Metzger
Alma Day
Wheelocks
Henry A. Nelson
John A F. Peterson
Sweeney & Jackson
South Rock Island
Abnie B. Schlecter
Sam’l
Saloonkeeper fined for Sunday closing violation
Ed Van Daele, at Fourteenth Street and Seventh Avenue, was fined 50 plus costs in police court for violating the Sunday closing ordinance. The case arose during a trial for assault and battery after Henry Toublon and two friends were seen drinking and shaking dice in Van Daele’s saloon. Toublon swore out a warrant for assault and battery. Van Daele was also found guilty of assault and battery and fined five dollars and costs.
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Ed van Daele
Fourteenth Street
Seventh Avenue
van Daele
Henry Toublon Toublon
van Daeles Place
Toublon
van Deele
Engineer C H Davis Celebrates Fifty Years With Rock Island
C H Davis, a Rock Island road veteran since 1857, marks fifty years as a locomotive engineer on the Eastern Town division without a serious accident. The milestone was observed by Rock Island division 60 and hundreds of friends with gifts, a jewel emblem, and carnations.
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C H Davis
Rock Island Road
Rock Island
No 60 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Davis
Engineers
Eastern Town
Darvis
Local artist receives odd collection request from Indiana bank man
A Cleveland Plain Dealer cut from a letter reveals a Indiana man claiming to collect sketches from newspaper artists nationwide and offering ten dollar bills as payment. The writer hints at a bank connection and requests framed drawings from Ohio artists in a tone that mixes humor with a threat of payment.
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Is Wana
Union
Indiana
Ohio
Iterature
Sam Makings
Tam
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Real Trouble Mr Yaswley Desperate Look At Chatter Pair
A distressed Philadelphia Inquirer fragment describes Mr Yaswley with an anxious expression and Mr Goodsoul noting Mrs Chatter has begun employing a servant quitting her own duties.
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Mr. Yaswley
Mr. Goodsoul
Mrs Chatter
Janes
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Oakleaf Toastmaster
North Star Benefit Association
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Jedge
Ruthin
Atlanta Constitution
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Tne
A C. Stouffer
Carl A. Carleon
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Iowa Division
Dr. Walsh
Chicago Medical Institute
Third Street
Main Street
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Lowe
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