Inspecting Tour Eyed Yodel School Buildings in Iowa City
An Iowa City committee led by Superintendent Wills and five board members visited Des Moines schools on a Wednesday inspection. They toured Grant and Lincoln schools, praising their quality, and noted plans to erect a new high school in Iowa City. The Muline reputation for fine school buildings is spreading, attracting potential new residents.
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Wills
Iowa City
Board of Education
Grant
Tincoln
Y P N Plans Upgraded Hall Space For Lutheran Youth
The Young People’s Society of the Lutheran church aims to beautify its new hall by partitioning the large lecture room, furnishing windows with curtains, installing a platform with carpets, an organ and piano, and adding room for a choir. Walls will display pictures of eminent church and state figures. the library will hold one hundred volumes and the group publishes The Young People’s Messenger. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is promoted as a reliable cold and respiratory remedy.
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Y. P. N. the
Young People’s Society of the Lutheran Church
Young People’s Messenger
Vertepid Creature Said to Have Lived in Holstein Bowels
Axel Holstein, a plow fitter from 619 Thirteenth street, allegedly expelled a six inch animal with a backbone and twelve legs from his bowels after treatment by Dr Piper and Dr Truesdale. Physicians doubt a vertebrate. the specimen was taken to Chicago for identification.
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Axel Holstein
Thirteenth Street
Deere’s
Sweden
Vitzthom
Ir. C Viper
Piper
C Truesdale
Rock Island
Llrs
Truesdale
Chicago
S’iper
Excursion Fare For G A K Encampment To Decatur Apr 4–10
The Rock Island and Peoria Railway offers a round trip fare for the State G A K Encampment in Decatur from April 4 to 10 Tickets will be on sale April 7 to 9 and valid for return through April 7 open to the public Trains depart Rock Island 8 10 AM 3 220 PM 6 45 PM arriving Decatur 2 50 PM 10 30 PM and 11 AM respectively Equal return time For details contact F H Rockwell or R Stockhouse Rock Island IL Depot at Twentieth street
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Decatur
Rock Island & Peoria
Rock Island
F. H. Rockwell
R. Stockhouse
Ill
Twentieth Street
Illinois Central encampment fare from Decatur region
Illinois department announces a round trip fare from points in Illinois for the April 8 to 10, 1891 encampment. The C B Q sells tickets April 7 to 10 at one fare for the round trip, good returning through April 11, 1891. Connections are available both ways.
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Illinois Department
Decatur
Ill
Illinois
Davenport raid nets arrest of Bridget O Donahue case
Officers Kearney and Sterofsky raided a Fourth avenue house near the C R I and B P depot and arrested Bridget O Donahue for keeping an assignation house. Three young men, known and locatable, were not taken but warrants were issued for their arrests. The woman pled guilty and paid part of a stiff fine with the rest suspended. Magistrate Keon warned of the extreme penalty if reoffense occurs.
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Kearney and Sterofsky
Fourth Avenue
Davenport
Bridget O’donahue
Kittilsen
Front
Brady Streets
Fred Calkins
Third Avenue
Dridget O'Donatue
Kerns
Keon
Successful Operation On Doctor Merryman's Father
Drs Truesdale Jiper Dupn and Merryman performed a two hour operation to remove a large cystic tumor under the jaw and neck. The tumor about the size of a goose egg was attached to the carotid artery and removed with blunt instruments. remaining fragments were treated with acid in hopes of preventing regrowth. The patient withstood the procedure well and has rallied, offering hope for saving his life.
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Merryman
Corn Harvester Patent Model Shown by Ex-Moline Inventor
P. B. Lundgren formerly of Moline demonstrated a two row corn harvester at the Dispatch office. Drawn by one horse, the machine cuts two rows at a time and shocks the corn after each run. A. L. Carson of Kansas City lauded the device as the best of its kind and urged Lundgren to present it to the Moline Plow Co officers before Lundgren returns to Kansas City tonight.
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Dispatch
Lundgren
Moliner
Kansas
Disratch
A. L. Carson
Kansas City
Moline Plow Co
Read and Eastman Buy The Republican Newspaper
J H Porter sold the Moline Republican to J C Read and L Eastman to consolidate with the Journal under the Republican Journal name. Read will manage the paper with Stead handling real estate and J F Zediker editing. Mickle reportedly knew nothing of the sale and was in Rock Island.
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J. H. Porter
Moline Republican
J. C HL Read
L. Eastman
L’estatlica Glock
Messrs Read
Eastman
Messrs. Head
Lastman
Republican
Journal
Republican Journal
Ivach the Black
Sr. Uasluno
Stead
J F Zediker
Mickle
Rock Island
Supreme Court Upholds City Street Improvement Tax
The Illinois Supreme Court ruling confirms that municipal assessments for street improvements may be legally imposed as a special tax or assessment on abutting property. In Ellen Murphy v. City of Springfield, Justice Craig upholds the lower court, holding the tax justified where benefits equal burdens and frontage-based charges apply under state law.
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Supreme Court of Ilinois
Springfield
Ellen Murphy
Craig
Iiaely
Goulds Position and Local News Roundup
A letter to the Republican replies to a Dispatch report claiming Gould supports a thousand dollar license. The paper asks Gould to state his view on city election licensing and offers to publish his clarification. Also notes George Stromer, aged about 21, of Moline Wagon Works, lost a finger in a wood shaping machine and had it amputated. His sister is F W Stromer who previously lost a leg in a Davenport railroad accident. A brief health note mentions climate changes and a popular tonic.
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P. J. Kall
Huntoon
Charles McKugh
Rock Island Sicket Decker
Express Co
Alfred Coxsee
J. H. Parka
Eleventh Street
Ory Williams
Sechler Carriage Works
Moines
Moline
Austin
Rock River
Hock Island Arsenal
Dimock, Gould & Co
Pall
E E Morgan
Folsom
New Megon
Mra
I M Hastings
John Reese
Turner Society
Fhail
Watertown
Mass
Bessie Flagler
Washington
Flagler
Richard Payton
John Pierce
Ils
Elgin
Pierce
Peter S. Lundgren
Kansas
Undgren
Kelso & Bligh
Stewartville
Worfting
Republican
Dispatch
Ould
Gould
George Stromer
Moline Wagon Works
Dr. Arp
Third Avenue
First
Second Streets
Young Stromer
F W. Stromer
Davenport
Republican Journal Criticizes Rival Paper Circulation
The piece claims the Republican Journal, under Porter, outcirculates the Evening Journal and Despatch, aided by L Eastinson and a minister partner. It asserts the Disvatrum edition is far larger, predicts more growth, and criticizes presses and hyphenated names to reach rival circulation.
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Evening Dispatch
Republican-Journal
Moline
Republican
Porter
Dservatcum
Disratream
Leach
Lastman
The Citizens Move to Change Convention Date and Seek Bennett Candidacy
Citizens push for a mass convention to back a thousand dollar raise while Capt W C Bennett may run for mayor with Barnard and Leas needing agreement. Talk of moving the convention date and a Swedish Lutheran church concert influence. Moline Spring Works gains state permit to incorporate with $13000 capital for springs and iron steel products. incorporators Cowan Snyder and Nason.
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Prapapeh
Capt
W. C. Bennett
Barnard
Leas
Bennett
Moline Spring
Secretary of State
David R. Cowan
Jacob Bb. Snyder
Clarence E Nason
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AJ Troxel
Cth
John I. Walker
O. Olson
Augustana College
Mias
Agnes Boggs
Wu. Maxey
J.T. Meegan
Lena McMurphy
Hillsdale
E. M. McMurphy
Misa Cora Bates
Decorah
Lewa
W. E. Stevens
Twelfth Street
Seventeenth Avenue
Helen Clark
C. H. Deere
New York City
Staten Island
Daisy Taylor
Orge Allen
Port Byron
Geo. E. Merryman
Keller & Walker
al 'Truxell
Wilson
Mra W .S. Knowlton
K Island
Welter Jongs
Joss
Charley Strand
Johnnie Ritchie
Rock Island Printing and Pubishing Company
Thomas Smart
Robert Bennett
W. A Guthrie
Georgia
George B. Bickels & Co
Tate
Boston
San Francisco
Portland
Oregon
Sherman
Milan
Barstow
Cora Stewart
Nebraska
M. McMurphy
Flist ME
Sylvan Island
Iulroads
Nels J. Sundquist
P. Bergholtz
Thompson
River Road
Iie
Pacific Ocean
Department of Agriculture
Ayer
Ploay
Dr. Piper
Sandstrom
Attengion
Vetornone
G. A
P. 8. Lundgren
Lyptle
Sita King
The
KF. J. Kastiman
Bike
Supreme Court
D. WW. Gould
Burch
Eke Sordi Warka
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