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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1907
Page
2
A Moline public meeting at the Motine club urged railroads to confer with city officials on removing tracks along Arsenal Island shore. The plan includes land taken on the Moline riverfront and a tie with the opposite island shore, with widening charges and bridge changes to facilitate through traffic.
A civic plan proposes moving five through tracks to the river front to free Fourth Avenue. Land would be secured by fill along the Moline shore with a river power pool adjustment from Arsenal Island. Cost is estimated at 300 000 to 600 000 dollars with railroads gaining faster schedules and city gains including unobstructed 15th 16th and 17th streets and better passenger facilities.
The community mourns Protas, a longtime resident of Rock River Bottoms, who died recently after living near Rack River Pridae until the family moved to Nebraska. At his home on the town’s edge he was well known and attended by many. A funeral service was held at his church with family and friends present.
In the eventh court on Tuesday forenoon Ada Steynenns Portae sought permission to resume her maiden name. Judge Ramga granted the request after a hearing. Mr Jordan was recently granted a divorce. Five applications for final naturalization were granted or set for hearings. Major George W Burr is ordered to the Philippines and to Manila Arsenal as chief ordnance officer.
A Louisville Courier Journal quote notes a diner recalls tipping a waiter two dollars and hearing the man tell another waiter that the tip showed he lacked good sense. The exchange highlights a humorous insult about perception and manners.
S J Ferguson county superintendent announces four district teacher meetings for the year. divisions meet in Bryans Oct 19 Altona City Oct 12 Ridgeview Nov 2 Center Station Nov 9 Port Byron Jan 11 Thnow Jan 18 East Mol line Jan 16 Milan Feb 1 Cordova Apr Disigion 2 Hillisiois City Apr 29 Silvis Apr 11 Reynolds Apr 18. Division 1 Valentine Smith Port Byron Division 2 Curtle D Foster PM Neb City Division 3 20D B Hoffman East Moline Division 4 S J McCounts Milan.
A custody dispute at Scott County Court House in Davenport erupted after a hearing. Mrs. Franklin attempted to take her 8 year old daughter Helen Franklin from her husband. A scuffle ensued with four men opposing the mother and a cane and blackjack used. Order was restored by a special officer and the father left with the child.
Philip Knockus of 208 Railroad avenue narrowly escaped death Tuesday morning when a switch engine knocked him toward the main tracks. John Tobio grabbed him and pulled him to safety as a westbound freight thundered by, leaving Knockus bruised but uninjured enough to return home the same day.
Graduate nurses at Moline City Hospital plan a uniform price of 25 dollars per week for services at their December meeting of the alumni association. Currently fees range from 15 to 25 dollars, with most at 20. They also discuss dress color, preferring white instead of blue and white stripes, and propose half pay from engagement until actual service begins due to delays impacting their time and availability.
Dramatic dialogue shows a distressed woman unable to stem tears as a tender suitor pleads for kisses and a caregiver administers an odd fountain scene. The exchange, filled with fragmented names and garbled phrases, repeats nonsensical aristocratic titles and requests more water amid a melodramatic cure.
East Moline will this fall build a pumping station at the artesian well on Ninth street and a reservoir and standpipe on the bluff end of Ninth street as the first step toward a municipal waterworks. Details remain before bids, with contracts expected to be let early enough to finish before winter. Water mains and other work to be largely by special assessment postponed to spring. Monday marked the tenth anniversary of Fulton battle over MWA head office move to Rock Island. Participants recalled the September 30, 1897 incidents.
De Witt reports that Dinks did not seem happier on returning from vacation and appeared no more cheerful than before. He did not show enjoyment during the trip and remained cred as he left.
Fifteen residents of Mrs. Elizabeth McCauslin’s boarding house at 4125 Fifth Avenue Rock Island were seriously poisoned after eating imitation fruit jelly labeled as Corn Products Co Davenport product. Victims included Mrs. Ella Reynolds and Mrs. Ella Hunter. A Moline physician suspects arsenic or related preservative poisoning from the jelly’s container or coloring, with a lab sample sent for analysis.
Miss Lois Mason daughter of George N Mason postmaster at Erie died of consumption at Tri City sanitarium at 1 a.m. Monday aged 22. The Mason family has suffered three deaths in months with father and son remaining. The daughter had typhoid fever earlier and relapsed as tuberculosis developed after six weeks of hospitalization. Her remains were taken to Erie by her bereaved father.
Wil Cressy of Rock Island says he found evidence of his wife's inconstancy in Galesburg where she was seen arm in arm with Dumford. Both were brought to Rock Island by officers. Dumford fined $1 and costs for disorderly conduct. Mrs. Cressy faced no charges. Divorce plans announced by the husband.
A vintage advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a remedy for teething pain and colic, claiming gum softening and diarrhoea relief. It states the product is sold by druggists at twenty five cents per bottle and is guaranteed under the 1906 food and drugs act with serial number 1098.
John Weldman and Henry Nelson, Rock River bottom farmers, were fined $3 and costs each for obstructing a public highway with an open ditch built to outlet farm drainage. They had township highway permission but started work before approval. two other workers were dismissed, case likely settled out of court.
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