Weather Prophecies Foresee Hurricanes and Frost in September
W T Foster of St Joseph Missouri predicts a period of high heat followed by sharp cooling and northern frosts. He warns of widespread storms and possible earthquakes and volcanic activity not far from September 7 and 21 with a Gulf and Atlantic focus near September 21.
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Washington, DC
W T Foster
Pacific Coast
Rockies
Great Central Valley
Great Central Valleys
Gulf and Atlantic States
Gulf of Mexico
Star
Weather Bureau
W. T. Foster
St Joseph
Foster
Washington, D. C
Man Arrested in Rock Island for Raising Money Order
C F Glugel formerly of Kansas City, in Rock Island a few days, asked for mail at the general delivery window. Inspector Tripp arrested him for raising a Kansas City money order from 10 cents to 41 10 on August 20. Tripp took him to Kansas City the same evening. The order was questioned when Glugel presented it at the paying window.
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C. F. Glugel
Kansas City
Rock Island
Tripp
Postal Service
Glugel
Jnst
Rock
D. Postoffice
Tola
Merchants Plan Excursion to Joslin Fair
The Retail Merchants' association plans an excursion to the Joslin fair within two weeks to mingle with Moline farmers. They seek a large crowd to secure a train for two days and hope for council support. The peddler ordinance was amended to remove potatoes from the list of vendible goods.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Moline
Davenport
City Council OKs six paving ordinances for season
Six paving measures passed for this fall as part of public improvements. Plans detail brick and asphalt work on Eighth street from Third to Fifth avenues, Thirteenth avenue from Ninth to Fifteenth street, Eleventh street segments, portions of Eleventh avenue and Eighth street, and Fifth avenue and Twelfth avenue. Estimated costs range from about $2,127 to $18,665 with total paving likely completing the year.
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Eighth Street
Third
Fifth Avenues
Thirteenth Avenue
Ninth
Fifteenth Street
Eleventh Street
Eleventh
Twelfth Avenues
Eleventh Avenue
Fifth
Eleventh Avenues
Thirteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
Twelfth Avenue
Thos Campbell Reports County Crop Conditions
County Crop Correspondent Thomas Campbell reports to the department of agriculture for September 1. Corn 65 percent good, potatoes 80 percent, apples 50 percent, grapes 60 percent. Oats at harvest 60 percent. Stock hogs on hand 85 percent of last year, with normal condition.
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Thomas Campbell
Department of Agriculture
Lettuce Daily Said to Prevent Smallpox
A newspaper column asserts lettuce daily prevents smallpox, claims lettuce is superior to vaccination, and warns that lack of fresh vegetables at sea causes scurvy. It argues celery and onions are less effective due to delays between harvest and eating.
Hurley Divorce Suit Cites Cruelty and Drunkenness
Marie Hurley sues Richard Hurley in Davenport for divorce on cruelty and habitual drunkenness. She seeks baby custody and equitable relief. The couple’s relatives, Hussey and Frough, were jailed after a Davenport court appearance.
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Marie Hurley
Davenport
Richard Hurley
Hussey
Frough
Hurley
Moline
Jude
Result of Despondency: Woman Dies by Own Action
Miss Emma Fuhlendorf of Rock Island committed death by carbolic acid at her sister Mrs. Thomas Thomas's home in South Rock Island. The 40 year old was crippled and despondent over misfortune, suicide occurred on the porch Monday afternoon.
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Emma
Fuhlendorf
Emma Fuhlendorf
Rock Island
South Rock Island
Thomas Thomas
Northern Illinois Republicans Hold Rockford Conference
The Rockford opera house hosted a twelve county Republican gathering to name executive committees and rally for governor candidate Lowden and attorney general candidate Stead. Northern counties pledged solid votes but unity across all counties remains uncertain amid regional interests and county-by-county splits.
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Rockford
Opera House
Lowdon
Whiteside
Sterling
Yates
B. F Shaw
Dixon
Jackson
Northern Illinois
MacKenzie
B. R. Vanhorne
Walter L Reeves
Streator
Will
Depage
DeKalb
Grundy
Colonel Lowden
Stead
Prize Awarded for Fine Chautauqua Views
Crego Brown near Prospect Park won a local Moline Chautauqua association prize of five dollars in gold for the best photographs of the Chautauqua grounds and buildings. Three contestants competed. judges praised all entries, but Brown’s image had the greatest merit. Plans are afoot to expand the association’s scope and boost next year’s assembly business.
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Crego Brown
Prospect Park
Moline Chautauqua Association
Doug Brown
Chautauqua Association
Hills
Son Financial
Vt Hk
Nesey Ene
Rent Chapel for East End Pupils
The board of education will rent the chapel at Twenty six street and Fifth avenue to relieve crowding at Grant school. Fourth grade may occupy the chapel pending decision by Superintendent Smith and Grant principal. Issues at Seventh street school lead to enforcement against Sunday school use. The commercial system at the high school to change from Pitman to Gregg shorthand with Pitman ongoing for current students. New calisthenic apparatus for Irving school. A $1000 bond to guarantee the teamsters coal contract was accepted, signed by F S Melin Martin Nibert Abe Johnson with sureties M W Battles Jr Ed Cory and C V Swanson.
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Grant School
Board of Education
Twenty-sixth Street
Fifth Avenue
Smith
Little Seventh Street
Entrikin
Gregg
Irving
Teamsters
Melin
Martin Nibert
Abe Johnson
M. W. Battles
Ed Cory
C. V. Swanson
Davenport to New Shops Drawr Upward of 75 Employes
Thirty single men and forty five married men, with their families, will move from Davenport to new shops when opened, if housing and boarding can be found. Some workers will stay in Davenport or seek other work, signaling Davenport shops may be first to suffer from the big plant's late fall opening.
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Davenport
Gle
Rock Island Clerk Loses Train Journey Briefly Ill
City Clerk C. M. Schaffner of Rock Island was taken ill with a congestive chill Friday night en route home from Nebraska. He was removed from a train at Red Oak Iowa at his request and spent the night at a hotel under a physician’s care. He arrived home with Mrs. Schaffner and their son and is now entirely recovered.
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C. M. Schaffner
Rock Island
Nebraska
Red Oak
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A physician offers a social chat and free personal examination for men with diseases or conditions specific to men. He claims to have a system developed from lifelong experience and promises a written cure guarantee or money back if incurable.
Cure-All Treatments Promising Permanent Healings
An advertisement touts permanent cures without cutting or pain for ulcers rheumatism blood poisoning impaired vitality and catarrhal discharges. It claims eczema hydrocele rupture bladder and kidney issues improve quickly with a confidential system and plain-enveloped correspondence.
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Perkot
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C. i. Josephson
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Dewend-Kuschmann
Moline, Illinois
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First National Bank
J.m.gould
Moline, Illinoisa
J.T. Browning
O. H. Deere
Deere & Co
H. A. Barnard
Barnard & Leas Mfg Co
T. M. Sechler
D. M. Sechler
Walter A. Rosenfield
Moline Wagon Co
J. S. Gillmore
Cu WU
G. H. Somerox
Sohrbgck Bros
J. Alvin Horne
Mitchell & Lynde Building
Walsh
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