Supervisors Approve Miscellaneous Claims and Poor Farm Reforms
March session approves claims totaling 158.97 and forwards overseer accounts. Motions on poor farm control, steward changes, and bonds debated. contracts for poor farm improvements and road work approved. Grand jurors listed. local tax and jail labor actions noted. flour and price reductions announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M Koch
Rock Island
H W Hyde
Moline
Mr. Koch
Mr. Hyde
John Warnock
Taylor
Hartz & Bahnsen
Aster
Poor Farm Committee
McKinnie
Martin
Poor Farms Committee
Pla
Wake
Steward Robertson
Robertson
Committee On Poor Farm
Board of Supervisors
Christ Schreiner
Committee On
Drury Township
John E. Wray
Andrew Drury
Hawes
Aylor
E. H. Bowman
George Schneider
Bowman
Circuit Court
County Superintendent of Schools
Hyde
Heath
Andalusia
Samuel Goode
W B Pettit
WH Whitman
W F Gilmore
J M Albrecht
South Moline
Charles Patch
South Rock Island
I L Whitehead
Zuma
William Whiteside
County Court Criminal and Civil Docket Notes
Criminal docket shows March 10 arraignment for William H Wenks embezzlement with jury requested. March 11 indictment quashed on count one, others sustained. trial began March 12 with not guilty verdict on embezzlement. Civil filings include John O Mara vs James Malone appeal dismissed with costs, gump-suit damages awarded to plaintiff, other default and replevin actions with judgments for plaintiff or defendant costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm H Wenks
Venice
Wm. H. Wenks
Wm H Wonks
Civel Caubes
John O'Mara
James Malone
Bucht & Wheeler
Hibbard More
Wsgumpsit
Biederbecke & Miller
John Praning
Real Estate Deeds Filed in Rock Island Circuit Clerk Office
Deeds recorded March 1 6 and 12 84 in Rock Island and Moline area convey parcels between Cornelius Donovan Fanny Donovan Chas Wahlberg Augusta Nystrom and others. Transactions include Lot 1 Webb subdivision blocks 3 17 and multiple West Rock Island tracts with prices from 55 to 6000 dollars. Several exchanges involve John Deere Ellen Webber Olof Olson and Pitts Gilbert & Pitts additions.
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Cornelius Donovan
Andrew A Johnson
Webb
Fanny Donavan
Rand T Manuell Ge
Rock Island
Daniel Donavan
A and T Mandell
Chas Wahlberg
Augusta
Nystrom
Part Swig
Chas E Dodge
Chas F Bchilinger
Dodge
Frances
James Curry
Hels Ney
Wig Swig
Part
Greenwood
David Hawes
H D Scerblend
John Deere
Ellen
Webber
Sely
Olof Olson
Ney
Nely
Pitta
Gilbert & Pitts
Moline
Frank Olander
West
Pitts
Philip Keene
Chris Biebkin
East
R H Edwards
C O Berglund
Pitts Gilbert & Pitts
Wait & Walker
Michael Miller
Reynold
Clifton Stanley
Reynolds
Amanda P Settler
Rebecca Bailey
Amanda M Parr
Swan FP Anderson
Nels Pases
East Rock Island
John Palmquist
Margaret Palmquist
O M Arp
August Paulsen
Fitts
OJ Dimick
Louise Ebmann
South Rock Island
E H Requato
Randeline Requa
Old Town of
Probate docket entries for multiple estates
February 5 final accounts filed for Thomas Lighton estate with order nisi by April 3. John E Bauersfeld estate proof of death and will admitted probate. March 8 letters testamentary issued to Johana Banersfield with bond waived by will for John E Bannersfield. Louise Margraf estate listed as deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Lighton
Nisi
John E. Bauersfeld
John E Bannersfield
Johana Banersfield
Louise Margraf
Estates and guardianships entries from probate docket
Letters testamentary issued to Albert Haller and guardianship letters to M M Corbett noted along with bonds filed and approved. Appraisers named for Henry Margraf estate. multiple estate actions, final accounts, and distributions recorded. Notices mention insanity commitment for Mary J Furst and bonds for Jacob Furst E W Bowman. Also includes promotional ad and a crime tally stating forty two murderers in Cincinnati Jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Haller
Henry Margraf
John P Soderstrom
Charles Pedl
John C King
Eliza Richmond
M M Corbett
Cornelius Dougherty
Candy Meehan
Mary J. Furst
Central Hospital For
Jacksonville
Jacob Furst
E.W Bowman
David B Seara
Deceassu
Victory
I Blakely
Teenth Celebrated By Our Charming Countrywomen
Our Charming Countrywomen are winning praise for their teenth and beauty. SOZODONT is praised as a popular teeth preparation purifying the surface and aiding healthful nutrition by preventing decay and odor. A late cold spell in Southern Oregon killed many robins and bluejays. Emory's Little Cathartic Pills offer relief for sick headache constipation sour stomach or bilious attacks at 15 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Emory
Meglee
Wells Health Renewer cure claims and family tragedy note
An excerpt cites a patent medicine claim for Wells Health Renewer curing dyspepsia impotence and debility. It recounts a Hancock New York family that suffered multiple deaths after a year, including a mother killed by a runaway horse and a son killed by a wagon, amid sensational health testimonials and other ad copy.
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Benjamin Smith
Hancock
N. Y
Bucklen Arnica Salve Sold By Richards And Lohrbeck
An advertisement touts Bucklen Arnica Salve as a universal healer for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It is offered for sale by Richards and Lohrbeck at 25 cents per box. A separate note mentions a Kentucky insane asylum management investigation yielding little information.
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Richards & Lohrbeck
Cured When Physicians Give Up
Henry Knee of Verilla Warren county Pennsylvania claims his child was saved after a doctor gave up and for sale medical agent Samaritan Nervine. The Flora Illinois calaboose burned Tuesday night and Charles White, jailed for drunkenness, died in the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Knee
Verilla
Warren County
Penn
Flora
Ill
Charles White
Parlor rifles boom prompts range of patterns and uses
A New York Times report quotes a sports store manager describing parlor rifles popular for home practice and their features. The light octagonal-barrel model with a 0.221 inch bore uses noiseless ball caps and extractors, with prices from five to seven dollars and 60 cents per 200 caps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Sportsman’s Foods
Germany
Vanderbilt Gallery Visitors Spark Reconsideration of Public Access
New York corresp reports that John D. Vanderbilt faced repeated damage and disruption from ill behaved visitors during two years of public gallery access. Family groups overloading single invites, damage to frames and statues, and children roaming the rooms prompted hesitation to repeat the experiment despite growing Thursday crowds near Fifth Avenue and the cathedral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Cor
Chicago Tribune
Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Cmele Esck's Wisdom from a Century Ago
A collection of quips on patience, luck, money, and character. It contrasts stubborn honesty, restless risk taking, and the value of natural eccentricity with genuine patriotism and practical virtue. The text urges less politics and more pluck, less advice and more example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cmele Esck
Had To Be Particular in Boston Post Verse
A humorous Bee line recalls Mary nearly marrying due to a distinguished family. The poem notes her father a governor and brothers a colonel and a scientist, and suggests she had to be selective about a match. The Lime Kiln Club monologue casually laments squandered time and money.
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Boston Post
Mary
Special Cars for Train Cranka in a Humorous Exchange
A humorous dialogue imagines odd train cars for various travelers. Characters jokingly propose specialized cars a cattle car for tobacco chewers, a flat car for a window open passenger, a box car for whistlers, a car for drum and floor tapping, a Jumbo car for truck riders, and a Kalamazoo velocipede for a drummer, as the scene peters out with an improvised congressional feel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranka
Robert J. Burdette
Ani
Barnum
Patent nostrums and medical testimonials of 1874
A fragment mentions W. W. Brown and Mrs Charles of Worcester Maryland, with a note that Charles died, and testimonials praising Uale e Honey of Tar for bronchial issues and Ely's Cream Balsam as a painless cure for catarrh hay fever and colds, priced around 60 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Ste. T
E. W.W Brown
Ely
Railroad Timetable Highlights for Chicago Area Routes
Passenger and express routes listed include Minneapolis Express daily at 8 05 and 6 0 pm, Kansas City Express at 9 82, Council Bluffs Express at 11 96, and Milwaukee Express at 5 68 am. Bureau accommodations shown at 4 10 and 10 36, with Milwaukee Night Express at 11 90 and other regional services noted.
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Minneapolis
Dully
Paanenger
Reese
Kansas City Express
Courcil Bluffs Express
SUI Egg Council Bluffs Express
Kansas Ily Express
Minneapol Express
Dally
Pamsongoe
Express
Kansas City
C. “Bluffs
Chitawo
Milwaukee & St.paul
Gm. Paul
Milwaukee Express
Milwaukee Night Express
Oe H. Milwaukee Night Express
Eretie
Schigaud
Burlington & Quincy
Fyrom Rock Island
St. Lixpress
Mall
Tess
St. Louis
Sterling
Bane Loave
Beardstown
St. Louis Night Express
Orae
Omaha
Tax Notice of Land Sale in Rock Island County
Public sale scheduled for June 1 1882 in Rock Island County to recover delinquent taxes and costs. W R Moore purchased part of section 31 township 17 north range 3 west and the redemption period ends June 1 1884 at the County Clerk office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Illinois
Es Rock
Jabez Cobledick
Illnois
Rock Island
I. W. R. Moore
Seventee
Jabez
Mook
Executor's Notice of Probate and Hearing
Fatato of Lovee Micarit deceased designates the county court of Hock County to hear claims and debts. The notice asks all claimants to appear at the magistrate in Hoek Inland on May 1 to present their claims and seek immediate payment of estate debts. Dated June day of May, A D 1895. ALUPET HALLER executor
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Mongar
Hock
Sant Cont
Hoek
Magteria
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Eagle Quincy White
Hood's
Circuit Clerk’s Office
Kerns & Smith
New York
The
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dr. Dye
Cincinnati
Great
OC. M. Stanley
Ihaca
Victoria of Hesse
Wasswell, Hazard & Co
Ohio
Papillon Manufacturing Co
Chicago
Richard & Bohrbeck
Wai. Clendennen
Warren
Bunker Hill
William H Montague
Boston
Bucklen
Kentucky Insane Asylum
Vanderbilt Gallery
Mra. Charles
Worcester, Md
OBR
Pacific
Innot
Vervone Devii
Plaim
DR. Ward & CO
Oon
Aliga
Mull
Hv Scanvaee
Ing
Itidd & Co
Vox
Raat
Harper Hotel
Maren
Hexecutor’s Votice
Tutt’s
D. Edwards
Palmyra
Murray St
Ray Harmon
Dapiuglio
Murray Stract
New Yorks
T'S
Bate
S. Clark St
Court House
United States
Itia Nella
Latege
Anakesis
M. W. Bacon
Cor
Clark St
Calhoun Place
Cubano
We Numan Brody
Deveyd
Delil Bares
Piu Raed
Enderscenas
Toner
Rene Aderene
M. Bare
A.B. LD
Fulton
York
Igntin
Sulit
Yale
Dr-Keaase
GEO KR
Pratt & CO
West Pawlet, Vt
I Winusrs Co
Portland Maine
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