Local Notes From Moline City Headlines
Local residents attend family visits and marriages while businesses plan expansions and infrastructure. Mrs Gast Hokanson travels with her son. Henry Williams and Annie Stewart begin housekeeping in Moline. Odd Fellows prepare for corner stone ceremonies. wagon works adopt new name and officers. William Barnard travels to London for milling convention as unions plan picnics and bottling upgrades.
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Henry Williams
Annie Stewart
D. Stewart
Rock Island
Moline
Odd Fellows
Rebekka Degree Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Orphan’s
Lincoln
County Convention at Rock Island Endorses Judge Pleasants
The Rock Island county convention met at the courthouse in Rock Island this afternoon. Ex Senator H A Ainsworth was chairman with M E Sweeney secretary. Credentials were adopted and delegates assigned from Moline and Bowling township. Resolutions endorsed Judge Pleasants for circuit judge and urged unbiased support for other counties’ candidates. Debate arose over opposition to Judge Smith, but the motion was defeated and the Beardsley led report adopted.
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B. O. Keator
Bowling Township
Moline
Oakleaf
Judge Pleasants
Wm. Jackson
Judge Smith
Messrs
Gest. Wilkinson
Jackson
Smith
Messrs. Sweeney
Beardsley
Mr. Jackson
Friction clutch invention tested at Barnard Leas works
Monday Wm. Goldsworthy, superintendent, demonstrated a novel friction clutch or cut off coupling at Barnard Leas works. The device, praised for unlimited power, simplicity, and cheap construction, fit a pulley 18 inches diameter with a 4 inch face and balance like a pulley. It can be quickly shifted to connect or sever a line of shafting and adjusted for more or less power as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Goldsworthy
Barnard & Leas Works
Mr. Goldsworthy
Ztuvac
Wood
Millinery at the Bee Hive Davenport and Kemp's Balsam
An item notes Millinery at the Bee Hive Davenport and promotes Kemp's Balsam as a cure for coughs and colds. It urges readers to ask friends who used it, claiming long years of success and genuine merit. Large bottle 60 cents, and one dollar at all druggists.
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Kemp
Turf Topics Highlight Melbourne Cup and Bay District Track News
The field reports Melos broke down after a third place finish to Bravo and Carbine in the 1880 Melbourne Cup. James Dustin is named superintendent at the Bay District track in San Francisco during the Blood Horse meeting. Viking, the New Hampshire stallion, will train under James Golden this year with hopes of lowering his record. A Lyons Township Norman mare gave birth to triplets, one thriving. Guttenburg bettors suffer losses as Pittsburg Phil, Fred Eshner, and Pat Irish each drop substantial sums. Lorenzo, a Derby dark horse, has three early starts with two wins at Nashville in November. A mule drive through Allentown, led by a rider on horseback with cow bell, attracted attention. Brown Dick’s yard expects nineteen horses, with promising 2-year-olds Astrakhan and Future. L. Allen returns to ride for Brown Dick this season.
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Mia
New Hampshire
Viking
James Golden
H. H. Stoddard
Lyons Township
Cook County
Ills
Guttenburg
Pittsburg
Phil
Fred Eshner
Pat Irish
Lorenzo
Ten Broeck
Vera
Nashville
Allentown
Brown Dick
Astrakhan
Janet
Duke of Montrose
L. Allen
The Alien Labor Law Question From Vermont
Secretary Foster replies on how the alien contract law applies to Canadian Pacific railway workers along the border. He states that line repairers and train crews do not fall under the alien law, but declines to extend this ruling to station agents and yard crews.
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Wasiteaton City
Foster
Burlington
Canadian Pacific Railway
International Boundary Line
Canada
United States
Ps Eific
Toa
Condition of the crops reports April weather effects
The agriculture department reports April crop conditions with wheat at 97.9 percent and rye 97 percent, barley 96.2, grass 97. This ahead of last month with no state below 98 in wheat, rye, or barley. Frost damaged fruit in strawberries grapes cherries and peaches, with serious losses in Kentucky and Ohio. Michigan reports vary. Early vegetables suffered nationwide.
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Marley
Washinatox City
Department of Agrculture
Kentucky
Ohio
Michiigan
Dressy Trifles Well To Have For Women Wear
Special correspondence from New York on May 7 describes a comfort dress and wrapper themes for women. It outlines dark blue sateen robes, cape and basque designs, lace trims, and parasols, highlighting practicality, economy, and fashion for home, sick rooms, and ceremonial wear with numerous named fabrics and styles.
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Ogy Cee
Lillie Orl
Lillie Frickeon
Hilda Gulig
Gast Hokanson
Hétie Son
Swedén
Keater & Merrryman
Keater
McCoy
George
Joslin
Mary A. McKinley
California
Sirs-A- T. Morey
Geo. H. and
M. BR. McKinley
H. M. Kuhn
C. W. Jackson
Wichita, Kas
L. B. Kuhn
City
Moline Wagon Hose Company
Wagon Works
Louis Friedrich
H. A. Barnard
London
Eng
Iron Molders’ Union, No. 237
Frank Beatty
Richard Brown
John Wynn
Harry Boenell
Elmer Heck
Mueller
Milwaukee
Moline Pipe Organ ‘Co
St. James Episcopal Church
Mr. Marshall
Wisconsin
Crawford
Northwestern University
College of Liberal Arts
Depre & Co
Third Avenue
Chas. Hatch
W. G. Fowle
Chas. Carlson
George Crowder
Monmouth Review
Alex Paine
Fillsboro
Ill
Monmouth
Cornell
Payne
Pnouta
Turner
Indianapolis
George Karstens
Georg Reimers
Henry Grantz
Tcl
Teva Tage
Herman Meldk
Christ
Kiel
Enry
Brite Lingner
Aioe Tel
Nya
Mock
Ace
E. D. Sweeney
W.H Gest
J. Onkiaf
G.W Cambio
H A Alineworth
W. Bearle
J.W Simonson
HH. Bobb
W. J Entrikin
E. &. Parmenter
David Lyon
W.T Ball
J . Adama
Harry Curtis
F W. Gould
J Colling
HH Welie
Roward Wells
Bee Hive
Davenport
W. O. Blanchard
Rock Island Lumber Company
Blanchard
Eyster
England
Melos
Bravo
Carbine
James Dustin
Bay District
San Francisco
Vulluga
Vermont
Olive ‘Harper
New York
Sarah
Olive Harper
James Pyles Arline
Pearline
Try Swanson & CO
Monarch Brand
Schepp
New England
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Big Joe
John Swanson & CO
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Thomas Yates
Barriott
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