Local notices mix with ads and odd tidbits in Rock Island page
Roaring bits from shops and trades shout hats, trimmings, and bargains at Kohler’s Fisk’s and Gould & Co. The Tri-City Trotling Association wraps up races. Levi Nocemnxy, a colored barber, moves to new space. Telephones push Geneseo to Rock Island links and Cambridge to Geneseo lines. A diminutive 18 year old girl is arrested for bigamy in Philadelphia. Deere & Co news and a Garfield assassination meeting highlight a busy local page.
Tak Moir Review Dispatch Tak Moir Frida June 1882
Local notes describe vendors and goods at Hirschs and Clendenins with flour, sugar, and textiles. Various advertisements promise flour sales, millinery bargains, and carpentry work. A court case in Geneseo ends with a married couple linked to a seduction scandal.
Star Tobacco Agent Praises Stark Jacobs Oil Cure
A San Francisco Call quote reports W. U. Me Allister of Star chewing tobacco praising St Jacobs Oil after claiming it cured his acute rheumatism with two applications. The Rock Island City Council plans an Aurora excursion on Friday to inspect Aurora electric lighting and tower lights as a model for potential adoption.
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Hinasan
New Jorldan
St Jacobs Oil
Columbus
W. UW
Allister
Front Street
The
Star Chewing Tobacco
Jacobs Oil
San Francis
Cal. Call
Rock Island
Aurora
Alster Cfty
Oatteeta of
Hoke
Inquest Confirms Identity of Andalusia River Remains
Coroner Morris, after an inquest in Andalusia on a decomposed body recovered from the river, tentatively identifies the remains as John Temple, a cook on the ill fated Jennie Gilchrist. Questions arise over two other bodies and competing identifications linked to the disaster.
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Coronel Morris
Andalusia
John Temple
Jennie Gi'christ
Government Bridge
H.M . Gilchrist & Co
Engay
Temple
Rapids City
Davenport
J B. Temple
LeClaire
Iowa
Mr Temple
Tite
James McConchiv
Rock Island
Island
McCondle
Andalusian
J. B Temple
Morris
Rapids Cry
Alm
III
Wo Mottris
H. Mosner
Justice Hawes
Tremains
Sadie Temple
Trevor
McCabe
Gilchrist
Mississippi
Avening
I. \. Eckhardt
C. Wakeley
J. Hammond
D. Findley
H. Mosher
N Rugiards
Askeleton
Fannie Trevor
Jennie Gilchrist
Morty
Body Identified as Miss Sadie Temple by Card Beads
Residents concluded the remains are Miss Sadie Temple after her daughter Shella identified items found with the body. Beads and a small breast pin matched Miss Temple’s attire, described in detail by Miss Morey who accompanied the disaster scene.
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Badie Temple
Picnic party at Mud Island ends with fines
Emil Safe Eric Molander and Joseph Biarle held a July 4 picnic on Mud Island within city limits. They drank beer fired a padlock shooting an ice house, and threw stones. Magistrate Mapes fined Safe 7.08 Malander 12 Starle 9 totaling 28.09 for the spree.
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Emil Safe
Eric Molander
Joseph Biarle
Maneili
Isaak Walton
Mud Island
Mapes
Eric Malander
Local weddings and a torn town fire alarm report
In Muscatine Iowa on June 1st at Rev Geo Linfield’s residence Boyd Knetsar and Emma Cleland wed. Jeremiah Bunker and Lizzie Perry wed at Hampton Methodist Church. Claus Reimers and Matilda Speck married at the bride’s bluff home. A fire alarm failure exposes town safety gaps. RW Conntor was assaulted by a rival.
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Geo.fe Linfield
Muscatine
Iowa
Boyd Knetsar
Emma Cleland
Wembrace
Boyd
Bunker
Perry
Jeremiah Bunker
Lizzie Perry
Methodist
Hampton
Newen
RW Conntor
Aurora Daily
Nots
Public Library Use Declines Among Youth Says Report
An annual Public Library Board report notes falling attendance as youths prefer sensational tabloids and dime novels. The piece urges home reading habits and regular library use to cultivate taste, citing Dickens and other authors and stressing early domestic training.
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Public Library Board
Gainsborough
Lady McFlimsey
Dickens
Southworth
Board of Education Meets in Regular Session
The Board of Education met Thursday evening with W. Lt. Edwards as president and H If Grover as secretary. Bills totaled 193.88. A clock was ordered for the board room. West Ward school use for a private school was denied. The secretary was to sell an old lawn mower and buy a new one. A further meeting is planned late next week to finalize teacher appointments and announcements.
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Board of Education
W. Lt. Edwards
H If Grover
W.T Ball
A I. Bullen
W W. Wells
J W Warr
West Ward
Library Report for the Month Ending May 31
The Librarian presents a monthly report detailing circulating items, new acquisitions, attendance figures, and program participation for the library in the period ending May 31. Highlights include increases in children's programs and steady circulation across popular genres.
Rock Island Boy's War Game Ends In Accident
Sam Miners a fifteen year old from Rock Island aimed a small cannon loaded with grape and canister during a war game. He forgot to remove his hand and the cannon fired amputating most of his hand. He was hospitalized where a doctor amputated what remained. He must now reflect on the miseries of war as a warning to youthful warriors.
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Sam Miners
Rock Island
Meyers
Close Call at Corn Planter Works Yard Accident
At 3 45 Thursday Samuel Bennetts fore man of the Corn Planter Works narrowly escaped grave injury when a loaded lumber car on a downgrade toppled its load onto him. He was freed, conscious, with injuries to the back kidneys head and face. He is expected to recover with careful nursing.
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Samuel
Bennett
Ife
No. 1
Railroad Avenue
Dry Dunn
May Mortuary Mortality List From City Certificate Records
The May mortuary register lists deaths filed with Dr. L D Dune Secretary of the Board of Health. Entries include Matilda Nelson May 2 Pertitonitis 32 Jessie Griffin May 12 Pneumonia 67 John Capris May 22 Accident 46 Thomas Lewis May 22 Suicide 22 Maury DePauw May 23 Croupal bronchitis 7. Remains of others died elsewhere were brought here for burial.
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L. D. Dune
Board of Health
Matilda Nelson
Seo Gerriffin
Shulline
John Capris
Thos Lewis
Maury DePauw
Frank Z Gowan
Riverside
Galva
Gowan
Jeroweniinie
H Hartmay
Stanberry
Sra
Tim
Wood
Anna Paulson
Aleska
Mind
New Cultivator Works Planned by Hoagland in City
El Paso inventor Mr Hoagland patents a new cultivator with a spring mechanism claimed to surpass Balumhor models. Water Power Co offers a building site near the Gas Works at 50 per foot front for the venture. A 140 by 40 foot two story factory is proposed and Hoagland arrives tomorrow for further details.
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Hoagland
el Paso
Plowman
Hdagland
Threads and Balbriggan at Simon Hirschs churn butter season begins
Lx THREAD and Balbriggan teams started rounds gathering cream on Monday last and the first butter batch was churned on Wednesday at their steamery. The yield is small but the quality is excellent and expected to rank No. 1 in any market. Three wagons are in operation with another to start tomorrow and more to follow. Machinery worked perfectly signaling a promising season. Port Byron Globe.
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Miasns, Sisrohnson
LaRue
Port Byron Globe
Bearded tobacco chewer jokes with city official
An inveterate tobacco chewer tells a city official he buys tobacco by the box to avoid frequent purchases. The official, eyeing his beard, suggests he bites quite often. Both men acknowledge the corn-juice.
Fisk Offers Deep Discounts on Hats for Boys
Fisk the bargain giver advertises five hundred hats priced at 60 cents and one hundred forty four boys hats at 10 cents each. The note claims these prices are less than half the usual dollar value.
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Fisk's
Fisk
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E. E. Hood
Ropuan
McAdamized
Kohler
Tuk
Tuk Keator Limber Company
Tri-City
Levi Nocemnxy
American Xpress Office
Mroo
Thos, Dilley
Clem Gallion
Gould & Co's
Groast Taveny
Anthony Llouse
Revere House
Prestos Bari
Taylor Ridge
Sherif
This
Norrish & Lupavith
Deere & Co
Geneseo
Henry County
Cambridge
Philadelphia
Hamiton
Agnew
Garfield
National Medical Association
St Paul
Tur
Chicago
Minneapolis
United States Clothing Company of
Molino
Tin Grnmone
Deere
Gilmore
Deere Hose Company
Tak Moir
Review- Dispatch
Oline III
Frida
Exod
Brian
Hirsch
Tor Fiver
Prestawricks
Clendenin's
Cnorts
EE. Hood's
Wargives
Jows
Okerberg's
Cumpreys
Keehler's
Ture Will On
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Gilbertown
Staly
Lood's
Tinage
Texas
Sweplist ME
Ex Sunay
Brown
Asi
Sliven
Attestictn
District No 11
Ustike
Tukailway
lLnton Maleable Tron Co
Tiaqhuspan
Simon Hirsch
AnoTpen
Velie & Nason
Ate
Riverside Cemetery
Mason Quindy McNeil
Moline
Iowest
Frep!Carkix
Atkinson Street
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Ctizen
JE Osborn
Johnson
Ian
Cote Hnron
Warrenoung
Fapori
Sask
Ork
Moling
United States
Brussels
Rudo Es
Car
Marny
Goom
Ruggles Farm
Cincinnati
Hyimenial
Knetsar Cleland
Whawan
Fale Ikidoey
Livot Ole
Kesaye
Erature
May
Simon Iirsch
Eenereernes
Mogs
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