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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1907
Page
2
Major J. T. Thompson tells a press club that General Crozier favors the local institution. The remarks underscore support for expanding the steel plant at the arsenal and its development potential within the community.
Major JOT Thompson spoke at the Tri-City Press club noting Rock Island arsenal aims to boost wartime output with extra departments and high staffing. He described plans for weapon parts and steel castings while detailing General Crozier’s ongoing wartime fiscal push and the need for readiness.
The article recounts the long effort to build the Hennepin canal from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, noting 36 years since initial work by the federal government, with 19 years of preliminary work and 15 years of actual construction. It details feeder construction, bridge challenges, Green river piping, Rock river dam, and a 75 mile canal with a 29 mile feeder forming a navigable 104 mile waterway, seven feet deep, eighty feet wide, for barges up to 600 tons.
The article notes a music festival at Augustana on October 24 featuring a classical program with works by world renowned composers. It highlights the conservatory as a leading music center and mentions prominent artists and faculty connected to the event and institution.
Henry Krone armed himself with an ax and with Henry Beck secured a shotgun when two men raided his chicken yard. Rene Stein and Ed Cassel were held at bay until police arrived. Stein posted bail while Cassel remained jailed on burglary charges.
The Rt Rev John Henney Pope 4 Moofte a bishop of the Independent Methodist Church was arrested in Moline after soliciting subscriptions to fund an industrial school for colored children. He was fined 2.50 and costs for disturbing the peace after an intoxicated disturbance. Police had tracked his activities amid reports of fraud and questionable support from local backers.
Property deeds involve Edward Delanghe to Camiel Verbeke for part of lots in Rock Island with 1300 dollars. Multiple transfers occur in Rock Island and Moline including Woodburns and Connell exchanging lots, tracts in Edgewood Park, Moore's Second Addition, East Moline items, and various other lots with prices ranging from 200 to 9400 dollars.
The People's Power Plant at Fourth Street in Moline is installing a giant Westinghouse turbine engine and generator weighing 190,000 pounds total. The 1200 rpm unit will deliver 5000 horsepower with 60 percent overload, and 3000 kilowatts from the generator. The project adds a boiler-house extension and new gas holder as part of a long modernization to be completed by spring with a broader gas plant planned into 1909.
Dismissal of two larceny warrants for Ray Hodge in Rock Island county came with his acquittal in Scott county. His attorney filed $6000 damages suits in Scott county against his in laws for malicious prosecution. The case recalls Hodge’s elopement with 14 year old Della Woods from Rapids City and detention in Devonport.
In a Rock Island road case over Andreas Tamparlos’s estate, the dispute centers on a $100 draft and a registered letter sent from East Moline to Sorrona Greece. Testimony showed the draft and letter were sent about two weeks before his death, with bank and post office witnesses called to confirm or deny purchase and registration. The evidence aims to prove the deceased aided his father in Greece, impacting damages claims.
The Moline Ministerial Union held its annual meeting with Rev. W. Story presiding. Officers elected included Rev. J. P. Miller as president and Rev. R. S. Havey as vice president, with Rev. Story serving as secretary and treasurer. A revival may be invited in January or February 1909 by Billy Sunday after field review in Muscatine.
Chicago detectives search for Edward Van Celld and Martha Van Zanker who fled from Moline. Described as good looking and well dressed, they were last seen boarding a Chicago bound car at 9 30 pm with heavy grips. Locals report the couple traveled from Moline and were observed in Aurora on Tuesday.
Eugene L. Moffett, a leading Henderson County lawyer, is indicted by the county grand jury along with Miss Oley Patten for conspiracy. Rumors say he has fled town and not yet been served. supporters call the charges trumped up while semi official sources suggest the indictment alleges multiple blackmail attempts against prominent Henderson and Mercer county men.
A vintage advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Boothing Syrup as a relief for teething pain gums colic and diarrhoea. Priced at twenty five cents a bottle it’s sold everywhere by all druggists and guaranteed under the food and drugs act with serial number 1098.
Labor trouble causes fewer hours and smaller crew as boilermakers’ strike continues. Fewer men report for shifts, delaying production and drawing concern from management about output and deadlines.
Wages paid to Silvis employees from September 15 to October 16 totaled $68,000 after a strike reduced the workforce from 1000 to 600. September payroll fell to $48,000 while August reached $63,000, with the drop tied to labor trouble and an eight hour day. Store department wages remained about $10,000 with no layoff.
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