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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
2
The piece notes a guest from General Kurok Arsenal who is versed in American methods of manufacture and equipment. It highlights a salute of seventeen guns and signals a ceremonial homage blending Japanese design with American practice. The text emphasizes cross cultural military symbolism and allied arms familiarity.
General Kuroki and staff visited Rock Island Arsenal to inspect the shops and power plant with Colonel Blunt and Mayor Schaffer meeting them. The party toured the government factory, spoke with tri-city press representatives, and later planned to depart by 5 PM returning toward Fort Leavenworth.
A noisy ad style passage notes a cleaning sale in New York stores with discounts on ware and refrigerators. It mentions various home items, prices, and promotional offers amid scattered product names and shop references. The text also includes excerpts about wills and a nursery rhyme, reflecting a collage of 19th century newspaper filler.
A group under General O E Wood of the US Army, retired, travels from Fort Worth to Seattle to sail for Japan. Major Lynch of the general staff accompanies them. Wood's orderlies, an artillery sergeant and a first sergeant of the Fourteenth Infantry, join lunch with the Japanese party at the soldiers' barracks escorted by Sergeant Fredericks, who had guided Colonel Blunt earlier.
Albert K McCurdy was elected president of the Moline High alumni association for 1908 at the thirty first annual reunion held at House in the Woods. One hundred and thirty members attended despite stormy weather. Officers named include President A K McCurdy Vice President Ralph Nelson Secretary Wallace Meier Treasurer Bilatt Quick. The group plans to maintain the executive committee and form subcommittees to boost activity and possibly raise dues to fund a banquet.
City council committees examined two methods to open Twenty Ninth Street from Sixth Avenue with different grades. One straight route requires no earth hauling and risks condemnation of private land. the jogged route needs earth import and frees city property but adds cost. Community groups pledging funds and support, with Mrs Hillhouse leading and a formal budget discussion concluding at 6 PM.
The Kinks Daughters union met at the First Congregational Church on Saturday to review this year’s work and pledge $1385 for next year. Reports showed funds raised and patient care figures, with nurses and hospital visiting work emphasized and a new city missionary welcomed by the group.
Broder Kristiansen Christiansen a Davenport resident and former insurance solicitor, age about 52, shot himself at his home 1341 Liberty Street after family illness and personal strain. He entered a woodshed with a .38 caliber revolver and died later from his injuries. His wife Mrs Christian and a daughter were gravely ill, with the wife recently undergoing an operation at Mercy hospital. Despondency was cited as the motive.
A humorous 1887 railroad damage bill itemizes charges to a railroad for injuring a wife wagon hat and baby to a doctor and court records. The note says the claim was paid immediately, illustrating lighthearted legal lore from a scrap book.
Swedish Americans plan a grand welcome for HRH Prince Wilhelm of Smoland on a harbor voyage to Chicago in August. Invitations, signed by hundreds, include a vellum address to be sent to King Oscar II and Queen Sophia. A banquet for King and Queen is also planned at the Grand Pacific with about 500 attendees. An address signed by Swedish Americans nationwide is en route to Sweden for Prince Eugen, noted as a distinguished artist.
A series of transfers from May 2020 shows John Schafer and wife selling to Village of Port Byron part lot 32 in aw frl. sec. 25. Other entries include J W Simonson selling to John Schafer and Ino Johnson selling to August Sandholm. Values range from $10 to $3850 with parcels in Moline Rock Island East Moline Silvis and Taylor Ridge and involve numerous addtions and blocks.
Tecumseh tribe of Red Men held a tense meeting to elect officers for six months. The sole contest for junior sagamore produced a deadlock after ten ballots. Fred Volkman withdrew to back his opponent, and Harry Sward won. Other officers named include Sachem Al Anderson, Senior Sagamore C V Hammer, Prophet Emil Shallene, Trustees M J McParry eighteen months, H I Thede twelve months, and George Leach six months.
A Baltimore American poem quotes a Ladies' Political Club urging civic duty and reform while shoppers interrupt with cries of bargain day. The piece contrasts political idealism with consumer culture and warns of graft as the town seeks "pure homes and honest men."
Dr Huntington performed a rare operation at the city hospital on Saturday to remove a piece of dead bone from the back of three year old August Claeys after scarlet fever. The damaged hearing should improve due to relief from the inflammation.
A clergyman tells a hobo to seek work noting that Satan finds employment for idle hands. The hobo thanks him, remarking on the odd polite phrasing of the advice and his prior refusals at following similar counsel.
A Washington Herald remark contrasts the wealthy enjoying horses and hounds with the rest of the public facing hardship. The exchange hints at class disparity and social critique in a concise epigram.
The article notes that between 500 and 600 works across plays comedies and operettas feature Napoleon as their central figure. It quotes Uncle Bek remarking that some men find satisfaction in sharing their troubles and thus compare their fate to famous leaders like Washington and Napoleon.
East Moline council discusses a fifty year franchise for the Moline Rock Island and Eastern Railway to operate in East Moline. The ordinance includes track use, five cent fares to Moline and Campbell’s Island, street lamps, and police fire wire poles. Changes to routes and construction commitments are proposed, with a special police appointment also authorized.
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