Rock Island scandal stirs legal fight over county meeting legality
State's Attorney L. M. Magill releases statement amid scrutiny of March 14 Rock Island county board actions. Ruling questions notice location and grand jury validity, notes $38,000 in bills paid at the special meeting, and highlights potential liability for the county treasurer. Magill vows further indictments and broader probes into insurance cases.
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L. M. Magill
Jssues
Dispatch
W. H. Gest
Rock Island
Flinois
Board of Supervisors
H. B. Hubbard
Mable
Rock River
Colona
Henry J. Hull
Frank W. Anderson
George Herbst
Sangamon
Burke
State Superintendent of Insurance
America
Rock Island County
Heed the Warning about Sick Kidneys and Dean's Pills
A vintage ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble, highlighting symptoms like dark foul urine and back pain. It includes a testimonial from H. Caverly of Moline Illinois praising the remedy and noting availability from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as sole agents for the United States.
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Dean
Moline
H. Caverly
Fourth Avenue
Ill
Iowa
Jericho
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Eec A
United
Plan A New School Building For Ridgeview District
The plan calls for a new Ridgeview district school to relieve crowding at the present building. Superintendent Bob Jackson says more space is needed after Christmas and the board will decide on a site and action at once. The district lacks access to a bridge over the ravine and a petition urged council action. Miss Anna Bailey, Ridgeview principal, receives a raise to 90 dollars monthly. Bills totaling 18 236.96 were approved including payment for Irving school heating plant.
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Ridgeview
Bob Jackson
Board of Education
Jackson
Forty-sixth Street
Anna Bailey
Irving School
Rufus ,Walker & Sons
Shallberg Bros
The
West Disinfectant Co
Jef
Moline Manual Arts School Builds Lathes In Foundry Work
Eleven of twenty woodworking lathes have been built by students in the Moline manual arts school. A new miniature foundry in the basement advances the program, funded by the board of education and local factories. The project aims to expand practical training in machine and pattern shops under H B Dickenson and the school’s promoters.
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Daily Dispatch
Moline
Manual Arts
H. 8. Dickinson
School of
Board of Education
Manual Training
Coal Valley High School Oct Attendance list
Complete October attendance record for Coal Valley High School shows students in Primary Intermediate and Principal rooms with no absences or tardies. Local events include Presbytery visit, Lynn excursion, Hallowe en party at Rural, ghost games, and a tomb wedding anniversary dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miller.
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Coal Valley, No. 2
Coal Valley High School
Otto Kay
Margaret Gook
Elizabeth Lees
Mildred Krapp
Reynold Krapp
Jennie Nichols
Blanch Murphy
Alice Murphy
Lysle Lees
Dorothy Hayes
Edwin Martin
Alice Hintz
Emma Nightingale
Melvin Woolley
John Hamer
Leonard Murdock
Julia Frederick
Myra Krapp
Wm. Lambke
Nellie Lees
Edna Daliiege
Hallowe'en
Quy Hutchison
Rural
Geo. Miller
Sunny Hill
Crop reports show varying yields and prices across counties
The department of culture notes the wheat weighed sixty pounds per bushel and oats exceed 32 pounds by a pound. Irish potatoes and grapes show 90 and 35 percent of normal. Average crop quality near 100 percent with 10 percent of last year’s crop in farmers hands. Prices include wheat 50 cents, oats 10 cents, potatoes 50 cents, hay 12.50, butter 40 cents, eggs 25 cents, chickens 12.5 cents.
Lindahl dies visiting Kansas after many church years
Gus K. Lindahl a longtime Swedish Lutheran church janitor and collector in this city died while visiting a niece in Elsmore Kansas. Born 1842 in Sweden he came to town in 1869 and worked for Moline Plow Co later serving the church as deacon trustee and janitor until health failed. His death follows service plans at 2 30 in the Swedish Lutheran church and a burial at the same church. An infant daughter of L R Hanson died today.
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Moline Plow Co
Lutheran Church
Gus K. Lindahl
Swedish Lutheran Church
W. C. Lindahl
Elsmore
aKkn
Lindahl
Rock Island
Twelfth Avenue
K. A. Johnston
Sweden
Moline Plow Company
Edward Maher
October Repairs at Silvis Railroad Shops
In October Silvis railroad shops performed major and minor work. Forty four engines received general overhaul and eighty eight engines in total are in varying stages of repair. A $75000 wage distribution is planned for the 15th. The yard also reports running repairs to boxcars and engines and a five day work week after holidays.
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Silvis
Untitled fragment hints at BOEing work extension plan
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a discussion of a steam or boiler system in force with references to extending work or an extension. Names and clear facts are not readable.
McCarthy Firm Drives Hill Digging Boom on Twenty-seventh Street
The McCarthy Improvement Co. of Davenport under Tri City Railway Co. contract is cutting a hill on Twenty-seventh Street between Sixth and Fifteenth avenues to grade the extension to the Fourth Avenue line. A steam shovel moves about 1200 cubic yards daily, with an auxiliary crew operating a dirt elevator and wagon trains to fill the valley, creating a bustling work camp with stables and housing for nearly 200 workers.
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Daily Dispatch
Twenty-seventh Street
McCarthy Improvement Co
Davenport
Fourth Avenue
Tri-City Railway Co
Twenty-seventh
McCarthy Company
McCarthys
1174 Avenue
Hull
Eleventh Avenue Hill
Andy Ear
Firesaith
Moline
Culebra
Tri-City ‘Railway Co
Fifteenth Street
Avenue Hill
Sam
Main
Nifith Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Book sale reforms cut costs for pupils and schools
Superintendent B. B. Jackson reports the board’s new system reduces expenses for textbooks. This year only twenty three cents per grade school pupil and 1.68 per high school pupil, with $2001.65 worth of books sold to school children and high school sales totaling 640 dollars. The shift eliminates middleman profits, and free spellers hygiene texts and supplementary readers are provided.
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Board of Education Sintend
Stody. Ies
Becks
Wes Khoo
Walt
B. B. Jackson
Corn shuckers scarce draw big wages in Rock Island
The Dispatch notes a Bloomington school closure for husking duties may affect pupils. Farmers report scarce corn shuckers across Rock Island County, with workers commanding high wages. Some nearby areas, including Cordova, struggle to hire shuckers, prompting a push to move workers from twin cities to backcountry farming.
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Bloomington
Cort
Coth Growere
Rock Island
Cordova
Twin Cities
Death of Mrs Elinor Frances Chat East
Word has been received of the death of Mrs Elinor Frances Chat in New York. She resided in Rock Island for a time and visited her sister Mrs Russell West at 1026 Thirty first street. She was a widow and survived by daughter Miss Pauline Chase. The remains will be taken to England for interment.
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Elinor Frances Chat
New York
Chase
Rock Island
Russell West
Thirty-first Street
Misa Pauling Chase
Brightett
Hay
Gibbon
Board plans to redraw boundaries of two school districts
Silvis and East Moline boards met to discuss realigning districts Nos 84 and 37. Clark Corbin to confer with H. Ferguson on procedures, with a report due at a Sims School board meeting. Desire to expand district 34 by annexing nine blocks now in district 34 to district 87.
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Silvis
East Ma Hine
Clark Corbin
J. Ferguson
Dusty
Sims
Fmt
East Moline
Mmits
Dia Iret
Silvie
Diestriet
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Magill
Ridgeview District
Coal Valley
Ms Spree
Shan Sesrnea
Issforty- Wie
Kansas
End
Niece
Elsinore
L. R. Hanson
Fortiath Street
Cs Pe
Pauline Chase
East
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