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Review of the Week in Moline and Rock Island Highlights
Framed notices cover Sept 26 to Oct 2 with many items: licensing and naturalizations, bridge contracts, weather readings, scarlet fever reports, local arrivals and departures, political chatter around Blaine and Harrison, river height shifts on the Mississippi, factory updates, criminal cases, and social events. Key names include John Lionquist, Anna Deere, Miss Anna Tennenon, B. Marsh, J. Blaine, Rev McCord, and local officials like Judge Adams and Mayor Knox.
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Frank Allen
Aurora
Peter Witsel
Squire Mapes
Cooke
William Weetenburg
Anna M. Tennenon
Rock Island
Bowman
Richard Flynn
William Armstrong
British Empire
Jacob Tetzioff
Germany
Sam’l McCorrison
Gus. Bjorklund
Osage
Kansas
Willie Asterlund
Fred Asterlund
Bjorklund
Hom
John Lionquist
C . A. Carlson
John Oberg
Hans Hanson
Sweden
Mollne
Adams
George Unterkercher
Cincinnati
Chicago
Iowa
Carter Harrison
Kentucky
Tlinois
Torendon
Woodward
Fifth Avenue
Jenole Huntoon
Eighth Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Arsenal
Knowles
Task Coton
John Brummer
Leo Weehelman
Joseph Cerotgut
Racl Erickson
Egbert
S Cameron
Davenport
Kewanee
Rock River
Syere
J & McCord
Onarga
Upsver
First Methodist Church
F E Brush
McCord
Steiger-Adlay
Circuit
Glenn
Alex. Calbour
J Ro Iluber
Chas. Blanchard
Daniel Daley
L. C Kistler
Walter Barrett
Nathaniel Smith
J R R. Griffith
Wm Thompson
James Alsbrow
W . Bailey
Jacob Breckman
Moline
Shouffer
Perkins
W. Heaney
Cordova
Uneves
W. H. Stockwell
Col Henney
John Hagburg
Jeanelose Company
Frank Lundahl
Jasper
Walter Tolles
Walter
Lke
Knox
Wessell
Portage
Clyde Baird
War Eagle
Gate City
Moline Plow Company
C. A. Davis
Peoria
St. John
Eva Grimm
Carrie
Sadie Reid
Iowa City
James M. Brooks
O. H. Deere
Paris
Anna Deere
Jackson Blackburn
Blacksonian Club
Moline Club
Southwell
Messrs
W. F. Weese
Andalusia
H. C. Quick
A. F. Ekstrom, Jr
Reynolds
E E. Cady
Robt. Evans
Opera House
W. L. Brooks
Groveton
N. H
Tillie
Mueller
Gus Nelson
Charles Nelson
Adamg
Shillinger & Trumball
J C Kinsey
Cambridge
Neece
C. Hr. Deere
Nordenskjold Singing Society
Light Guard
John V. Bunn
Bunn & Phillippi
Bunn
Fred Corns
Havana
Campaign Glee Club
Central Presbyterian Church
Corns
Rock Island Argus
Dr. Davidson
J. E. Poole
Southern Illinois
P. L. Phillippi
Thos. B Carson
Moline Screws Co
Edward P. Pfitter
Wagner
Onward Hose Company
Perry Fisk
Perry
John Holland
Holland Publishing House
Eric Johnson
Citizen
Michigan
Blaine and
Logan
Blaine and Logan Club
Turner Hall
Fifteenth Street
United Presbyterian Church
Aledo
Argyle N. Y
Louis Aldrich
Joe Burkhart
Swedish Baptist Church
St. Paul
Synod
Ogren