Fakes Option at 500 Front Foot Third Time
Plans for Pierrs construction are questioned as faked option at 500 front foot looms. Structure for which plans drawn will not rise if option is exercised and price soars.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
8
Plans for Pierrs construction are questioned as faked option at 500 front foot looms. Structure for which plans drawn will not rise if option is exercised and price soars.
May retain twenty feet of the Pierr lot for own use while offering disposal of sixty feet. Real estate agent M C Maher holds an option on the eighty foot frontage between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. The Pierr brothers, who had planned a store and flat building, may alter plans if Maher completes the option.
The steamer Sidney of the Diamond Jo line will touch Rock Island Friday on its first trip of the season from St Louis to St Paul. Fresh from overhaul, it left St Louis Wednesday at 10 and will pass here Friday morning about 7. It aims for St Paul by Sunday noon and return to St Louis by Tuesday morning next week.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup long used by mothers for teething children. It calms pain and soothes gums and is said to cure wind colic and diarrhoea. Twenty five cents per bottle. State convention dates for the German American alliance set for September 4 and 6 at Moline and Rock Island.
Bethany Home board at Harper house Rock Island met in regular session. J B Oakleaf outlined building committee work to secure a new building or addition. C Kerns reported finances satisfactory and a tag day planned to boost funds. Matron’s report lists 37 children, 21 boys, six returned home, average age about seven. Donations listed from several individuals and firms.
A. J. Endter, Rock Island contractor, awarded the bid to erect the Dr A H Arp building on Sixth Avenue. The four story structure, with basement, dark colonial brick, copper cornice, large first floor windows, and elaborate interior features, will cost about $32,000. Construction starts after moving two frame buildings from the lot. Dewend Kuschmann Furniture Co leases for ten years. Also noted, Mrs. Lucile P. Kimball seeks a divorce from John A. Kimball on grounds of unfaithfulness and cruelty. custody of a child requested. George W. Wood of Moline represents the plaintiff.
Herbert D Blakemore once court reporter and abstract manager announces a horsemint oil remedy named monarchin that allegedly cures hookworm and rheumatism Dr S C Barnes confirms the discovery after years of study The oil is produced at Oquawka Illinois with trips from Rock Island and plans for a monarchin factory and national market start to form.
Rufus Walkerer buys the final fifteen acre parcel in Acme addition from Emma Nourse for 8000 dollars. The original deal began five years ago at 15000 dollars with Nourse to release as Walker desired. The land between Nineteenth and Twenty-seventh streets and 11th to Twelfth avenues was divided into about fifty lots.
Emer Mowry a longtime Moline clothing trader now in Waterloo arrives in Moline Saturday with his wife to spend Sunday with relatives and friends. He will drive a recently bought five passenger touring car in his new role as field manager for the College of Commerce at Waterloo and the Oelwein Business University. He will oversee eighty letters for both colleges from offices in Waterloo while remaining home in Moline at times.
Colonel McClernand reports the regular army board testing cavalry equipment at the arsenal is making good progress and may take less time than the infantry board. Major McCormick, on the return trip from Washington, plans to deliver a final report to war department officials.
Washington reports the Senate passed the bill granting the Moline Bettendorf Bridge Co a charter to span the Mississippi River. The $1,000,000 structure will have two decks and dual draw spans, with construction to begin in 1911 and traffic expected by 1912.
A lengthy list shows Mamie Conn transferring to Hugh Curtis a pair of lots in Hales add Rock Island for 1 dollar. Emma Nourse to Rufus Walker for 8000 dollars on Acme add Moline. numerous other parcels traded among Sills, Daebelliehn, Brandt, Oster, and many more, detailing lots blocks and additions across Rock Island Moline East Moline and Nancy Newcomb to Hugh Curtis, June 2.
The Rock Island county fair will be September 14 to 16 at Joslin fair grounds. A special Tri City Train will run from the tri cities on Wednesday morning September 14 with return at 5 30 p m depending on demand. Amphitheatre reconstruction and speed rings prep under way. Officers elected include President William Filbert and Secretary F J Whiteside with a full board of directors and key race schedules listed.
Frank Kos of Calumet Michigan ended his life by shooting himself in the Milwaukee yards at the foot of Fourteenth Street Rock Island on a Tuesday afternoon. He fired two shots one entering near the heart and the other the Read Tine. Police were notified and the remains were taken to an undertaking parlor. An inquest was conducted.
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