Record High Illinois Precipitation and Cold Winter 1909
The United States Weather Bureau reports 1909 in Illinois as generally normal in weather but with exceptionally high precipitation and notable monthly extremes. February and November were unusually mild, August saw high temperatures, and December snow was the heaviest since 1887.
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Illinois
Lnited States Department of Agriculture
Climatological Service
The
Weather Bureau
Atguet
Theatre attendants held on assault charges in Davenport
Flton Frazer and Wiltinn Schhalzen, attendants in the Princess theatre, Davenport, were held to the Scott county grand jury on charges of assault with intent to commit great bodily injury. The case stems from an incident two months earlier when patron Charles Cooper was ejected and then allegedly pushed down stairs, breaking his right hip and leaving him crippled. Warrants were issued against Frazer and Scholzen. Roy Keniton was named an accessory, a charge later dropped against Kindt, while Frazer and Scholzen posted $500 bonds.
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Princess Theatre
Davenport
Scott County Grand Jury
Charles Cooper
Cooper
Ha Ik
Georn
Frazer and
Scholzen
Roy Kenit
Charles T Kindt
Kindt
Frazer
Requests Magistrate to Sentence Him to Jail
Broken in health and on the verge of delirium tremens, Douglas Barker, a habitual drunkard, went to the police station and asked to be sent to county jail to sober up. His request was granted and Police Magistrate Gustafson sentenced him to thirty days in jail.
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Douglas Barker
Barker
Gustafson
Library Board May Buy Forty Feet East Lot
The Carnegie library board plans to purchase a forty foot eastern lot to protect light and air for the building. An option held on the land once owned by Eri B Knox aims to create space for air, lawn, and future development. The deal hinges on Knox’s cooperation and forthcoming board action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library Board
Carnegie Library
Library
Ainsworth
Eri B Knox
Knox
Fifth Avenue
Architect Cervin Injured After Fall on Stairs
Rock Island resident Architect Cervin suffered a dislocated right shoulder from a fall while descending stairs at his home on Seventh Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street. Dr A Harp attended to the injury. Judge Ben M Smith narrowly escaped injury when plaster fell from a ceiling nearby. city custodian Isaac Bean received minor shoulder bruises.
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O Z Cervin
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Rock Island
Dr A. Harp
Ben M Smith
Superior Court
Chicago
R A Smith
Judge Smith
Isaac Bean
Village Clerk Salary Boosted and Other Local Measures
The Silvig village board raised the clerk’s annual pay from $100 to $240 with no commissions for special collections. The police magistrate salary was set at $600, with John Richards newly elected as police magistrate and justice of the peace for Hampton Township. The treasurer reports a March 1 treasury balance of 3548049 and notices on bonds, railways, and contractor payments.
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Silvig
Board of Trustees
A. Shaliberg
John Richards
Hampton Township
Treasury
Elmice i SuauArd Bhming Lwwal Loy Muck Iseland Railway Co
Zuma Evanglistes Work in Perry and Local Travels
Rose Hill services include Dave Bryant of Zuma assisting Rev Keer with 16 years evangelistic work. Local visits note Claud and June Dungan in Moline, Myrtle Frels with Linda Dailey, and various family trips and illnesses. A chicken pie supper raised 23 dollars, and social events include Kneights of Pythias banquet attendance and a postcard birthday shower for Mrs Sylvester Dailey.
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Dave Bryant
Perry
Keer
Rose Hill
Bryant
Thomas Bryant
Zuma Township
Claud
June Dungan
Moline
Myrtle Frels
Linda Dailey
Charles Edward
Clyde Demundrum
Noah
Denundrum
Port Byron
William Cox
Dr Bruner
Old Maid’s Club
Joslin
Harry Cook
Coe Township
Ed Wainwright
Mr Cook
Mra Wainwright
Frank Wake
Ambrose Sears
Chicago
Clyde Wake
Dave Malarkey
Pennsylvania
James Sears
Dave
Zuma
Alfred Mead
Katie
Boyd McMichaela
Julia
Milan
McMichael
Sylvester Dailey
Hanawanker
Bert Wels
Charles Schafer
Ross Wainwright
Will Filbert
Charles Walthen
Bert Shafer
Peoria Man Identified in Ophiem Freight Wreck
Ray Udden of Peoria, not Rock Island, killed in Burlington freight train wreck just north of Ophiem on Friday morning. The Iline passenger reports he was an orphan and rode a car of live stock when the accident occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Ophiem
Ray Udden
Peoria
Rock Island
Universalist Leader Quip Echoes Marital Demeanor
A Universalist leader jokes about gender and marriage saying a man would lie for a husband if he were a bachelor or a widow, reflecting humorous social commentary of the era.
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Universalist
Landmark houses mark early Moline settlement history
AM Hubbard describes historic homes on Second Avenue in Moline built from 1843. He notes Dr Henry F Salter, Dr Hume, and his own 1846 residence, plus fate of Salter’s family and the Geneseo chapter plan. He clarifies the scope of a proposed local history project and his own limited archival coverage.
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Salter
Hume
Geneseo
Taylor
Second Avenue
Seventeenth Street
George Stephens
Daughters of the Revolution
Henry County
Rosecrans Honored by Fellow Members at Lodge Election
In Manufacturers' Lodge No. 485 Rosecrans was elected grand by acclamation the first time in the lodge's history. Officers named include Noble Grand Albin Youngren Vice Grand R E Rosecrans Recording Secretary A H Sellmer Financial Secretary A E Bergholtz Treasurer Fred Moberg Trustees John Condo C M J Van Battum Fred W Beckstrom S F Arnold and Rev R E Henry. Five Coal Valley Odd Fellows candidates received initiation by the local degree team as forty locals attended from Coal Valley. Rebekahs provided supper and R B H Henry stirred enthusiasm with his talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manufacturers’ Lodge
R E. Rosecrans
A EK. Bergholtz
Fred Moberg
John Condo
C M J van Battum
Fred W Beckstrom
F. Arnold
R. E. Henry
Coal Valley
Odd Fellow
Manufacturers Lodge
Odd Fellows
Axel Anderson
Axel E.link
Harry Anderson
James Utts
Charles Wilhouse
Rebekahs
Henry
Johnson Retires After Seventeen Years as Deputy
J A Johnson resigns after seventeen years as deputy in the circuit clerk office with real estate duties and moves to Kansas to farm. He served the public well and made many friends, replaced by Robert Young, a Moline native and brother of Fred R Young the real estate and automobile man.
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J A. Johnson
Kansas
Johnson
Robert Young
Fred R. Young
February Weather Recap Shows Cold, Sparse Snow
February 1910 brought low temperatures with a mean of 21 degrees and only six days above freezing in three cities. Precipitation totaled 0.59 inches vs 1.68 inches average. snowfall reached 3.5 inches and a 62 percent sunshine rate recorded. The month featured a 32 degree daily high range and notable solar halo on the 26th with sleet on the 25th and 26th.
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Dakota and
Lanark
Monmouth
Equality
Mascoutah
Antioch
Sycamore
Mass
Zhou
Rockford
Winnebago County
Winnebago
Bakers at Independent Baking Co Strike Over New Foreman Rules
Eleven bakers and five girls at Independent Baking Co in Davenport walked out after a foreman from the east imposed 7 am to 6 pm hours and restricted lunch breaks. The workers had previously set daily outputs and left once tasks were finished. The strikers refused to sign the new rules.
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Independent Baking Co
Front
Brady Streets
Davenport
Realty Exchange Launched By Agents In Moline
Real estate agents in Moline organized The Real Estate Exchange of Moline at a meeting last Friday in the Chase building. About a dozen agents attended and monthly meetings will be in room 5, Chase block. Officers include President C F Grantz and Vice President D A Jones. Secretary F L Sherman. Treasurer M Horstkamp. Corresponding Secretary T E Lundell. Executive and membership committees named. entertainment chairmen listed.
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Real Estate Exchange of
Moline
R S Woodburn
Chase Building
Chase Block
C F Grantz
D A_ Jones
F L L. Sherman
M Horstkamp
T E. Lundell
F L. Sherman
D. A Jones
Woodburn
T W Maher
A I. Pulver
C H Read
Grain shipments resume as Cordova roads reopen
Five or six carloads of grain and straw left Cordova Monday, the first departure since the winter blockade. Groceries run tight locally though supply appeared on the road three weeks ago. An onsite wrestling match at Claus Miller’s featured Ole Guinn versus Beef Johnson with Quinn securing a fall in one hour five minutes. George Wells sent two carloads of baled straw to Moline, Mrs. Charles Reynolds visited Rock Island, and Miss Rose of Moline stayed with the Millman family. Will Moody shipped a carload of hogs, a Friday box social at Hoke school netted $46.50, and Ed Gibbie’s clamming rate burned with contents. Sibble estimates $100 loss. Earl Brown returns home from Dixon after schooling there.
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Cordova
Here
Claus Miller
Ole Guinn
Beef Johnson Quinn
George Wells
Moline
Charles Reynolds
Rock Island
Miss Rose
Objections by Liquor Dealers At Hearing Questioned
SUSTAINED. BY ATTORNEY Objections Raised by Liquor Dealers at recent hearing held to challenge proceedings have no weight. The decision is on file.
City Clerk Rules Local Option Petition Sufficient
Henry M Oldefest, Moline city clerk, rules the local option petition sufficient for April's municipal election. The ruling follows challenges by Hauer dealers attorney Jos L Haas claiming 344 names should be struck, leaving 171 short of the required total. The opinion states a woman may sign, the affidavit is valid, and a legal voter may sign regardless of registration.
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Henry M Oldefest
Moline
Hguer
Jos. L. Haas
Rock Island
R. E. Henry
H. Moldefest
John H Hauberg
Haas
New Superintendent at Freeport Carriage Co
Frank M Allen resigns as superintendent of the Freeport Carriage Co a branch of Moline Plow Co effective March 1 He will return to Columbus Ohio to work with the Allen stock farm famed for pacing and trotting horses E F Tenney the current assistant superintendent succeeds him at Freeport
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Frank M Allen
Freeport Carriage Co
Moline Plow Co
Allen
Columbus
Ohio
Allen Stock Farm
E. F. Tenney
Freeport Company
Dean's Kidney Pills Promoted With Patient Testimonial
An advertisement claims kidney issues emit signals via urine changes and back pain. It promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a permanent cure, citing Edward Chas of Moline who reports relief after using the product bought at Jericho's drug store. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents. Foaster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Bright
Dean
Edward Chas
Sixteenth Street
Moline
Iir
Jericho
Deaters
Foater-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Dean's
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Aera
Chicago Wholesale Co
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Pawar Wee Heeer
Lope
Sher
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Shakery
Glaewhet
Jay Treight Cinetpen
Tina
Dugas
Yee
Bette
Wwe
Oh Raye
Luorge
Columbia River
Chicago Wholesale Company
Silvis
Maglietrate
Lockhart Company
Byietotrerie
Peharaba
A. M. Hubbard
Eighteenth Street
Porter
Henry F Salter
Iowa
Omaha
Charles Atkinson Salter
Knox Chapel
Rosecrans
Albin Youngren
FE Rosecrans
A H_ Sell
Mer
Realty Exchange
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