First White Man Photographed Indian Sun Dance
George Wittick died in Texas after a snakebite and poisoning. His sons Charles and Archie Wittick travel to Texas for burial in Moline, with widow and one son Roy in Minneapolis en route to the funeral. Wittick, a longtime photographer from Third Street, was known for relic collections and for being first white man to photograph the Indian sun dance in Colorado and New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Archie Wittick
George Wittick
Texas
Moline
Claude
George
Roy
Minneapolis
Deere & Mansur Con
West End
Rock Island
Wittick
Colorado
New Mexico
Social notes recount weddings travels and events in Rock Island
Social notes cover Mrs August Johnson’s visit to West Superior Wis. upcoming wedding of Josephine Frances Krone to Frank W Sollo at St Mary’s church. addresses after November 1 at 1328 Sixteenth Ave. Also listed are travels, engagements, anniversaries, and social calls from Rock Island and Moline with numerous names and places.
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August Johnson
West Superior
Wis
Henry T. Krone
Josephine Frances
Frank W. Sollo
St. Mary's Church
Sixteenth Avenue
Local business filings and regional notices from Reynolds region
The Farmers' State bank of Reynolds filed articles of incorporation in Circuit Clerk Gam ble's office. Capital stock is $25,000 fully paid. Obituary notes Mrs. Mary A Diebert nee Jackson died August 1 in Chicago of hemorrhages. She was sister to Mrs. Piper and worked at the Moline post office under Postmaster D W Gould. Her husband and two daughters survive. Reports from New York say the Rockefellers formed a new chemical company with a factory and depot to be located in Moline. The Kewanee labor unions, blocked from reaching Moline by lack of cars, plan a picnic of their own. Democratic governor candidate Jerry Sullivan of Iowa is noted. Davenport mayoral tensions emerge amid socialite discussions and an Iowa beauties album controversy in Davenport.
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Farmers’ State Bank of Reynolds
Gamble
Mary A. Diebert
Jackson
John A. Diebert
Chicago
Piper
Moline
Lerk
D. W. Gould
Bloomington
York
Rockefellers
Kewanee
Erry Sullivan
Iowa
Will
Ker
Davenport
Daven
Obituary notices from Moline era include several deaths
Bartholomew Trumble aged 75 died at home from chronic dysentery. Edward David Boylan, 1889 birth, died of lung and spinal complications at 1820 Fourteenth Avenue. Miss Lois Wilson, spinal meningitis, Epworth hospital South Bend. Joseph A. Maxwell, 56, Rock Island native, died at home. funeral in Byron under U V A. William Surr, 78, Edgington resident, noted in fragmentary lines.
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Bartholomew Trumble
Hunt’s Addition
Bohemia
Alice Swinburn
Lois Wilson
Epworth Hospital
South Bend
Ind
Miss Wilson
Moline
Orion
Aft
Swinburn
Joseph A. Maxwell
Rock Island
Jesse Maxwell
Port Byron
Byron
Parenta
Bertha Tuttle
Harry
Roy
Willig
William’ Surrr
Real Estate Transfers in Rock Island and Moline Areas
Listings show transfers from August 28 to September 2 including Edward P. Lewis to Mrs. Finley in Rock Island and multiple deeds in Moline East and Third Wheelock districts. Amounts range from 1200 to 4000 dollars with various lot and block details. Other transfers include Rock Island Mutual Building association to Katherine Brown and several parcels in Barstow Milan Cordova and Rock Island areas.
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Edward P. Lewis
Ufennie Finley
Rod Woan
Hale
Rock Island
Rock Island Mutual Building, Loan & Savings Association
Katherine G. Brown
Moline
John Lunskold
Charlies G. Alsene
South Moline
Elsa A. Davis
Addie B. Harris
Ryder & Read
Thome F. Banks
R. C. Letsch
J. G. Franklin
Barstow
C. H. Pope
William Dusenbery
Hulda M. Carlton
East Moline
Anna E. Wheeler
F. P. McMichael
Milan
Christiana
Jackson Et al
W. Grossklaus
Catherine M. Arp
Henry Struck, Jr
Pitts
Gilbert & Pitts
William H. Whiteside
James Quinn
Brigham’s
Cordova
Charles H. Pope
Charles Schick
Myron_H. Dillengeck
S. W. Spickler
William Jackson Et al
Carl W. Enburg
Wheelock
Fifteenth Street
Thomas H. Noden
Skinner
Moline Water Power Co
George Perry
F. W. Schroeder
Thompson & Wells
Milly Wahlstrom
Justina Walheim
Howard's
Emil Evers
Otto Athoff
Black Hawk
Carnegie Library to Install New Olive Green Book Stacks
The Art Metal Construction Co of Jamestown N Y won the contract to furnish eleven stacks for the Carnegie library building. Two reference stacks measure twelve and fifteen feet. nine general stacks face the delivery room door and radiate to fit a circular room. Place for 20000 volumes planned with adjustable shelves and brass details.
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Art Metal Construction Co
Jamestown
N. Y
Carnegie Library
Jamestown Company
The
Military Association
Skinner Building
Tom Burtchnell
Obituary Notice for Mrs. Anna Mounts and Family
A fragmentary obituary notes Mrs. Anna Mounts and her family. It mentions Tae Deere iugiter and that he had been sick since last spring. The deceased was born in Germany and farmed in the county’s lower end for many years. he is survived by two children, Mrs Mounts and a son Ferdinand.
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Tae Deere Iugiter
Anna ‘Mout
Rmany
Mys
Ferdinand
The Letter List at Mofine Post Office 1903
Advertised letters at the Mofine Illinois post office for the week ending September 3, 1903 include Aagaard Andy Barnhart Phil Bajzek Stephen Butters W D Canavan Nellie Godfrey John Gibbon Mias Hmma Gustafson Alfred Hansen Mrs Geo Harrison Wm H Hendra Jack Huenger A Kenunis P Mageth Malsesd Geo W Pres Mutual Protective League Nilson Stina Parry B Porter EB W Rasmussen Kristian.
Mary Hadden Said to Be Supreme Ruler in New Book
Abbie W Gould A H Mertz and Fred Hass to Have High Places in affairs of Eternal City The Book of Books Vol 1 comes to the Dispatch Four volumes total publication seen The real author appears Mary Baker Hadden listed as supreme ruler of all things in the heavens and controller of all on earth with her portrait in the frontispiece
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Abbie W. Gould
A. H. Mertz
Fred. Hass
Book of Books
Dispatch
Charles Weasley Dean
Heave
Chicago
Charles Wesley Delan
Mary Baker Hadden
The City of Hadden Proposed as World Capital
A text from Mary Baker Hadden outlines reconstructing earth with Chicago as a world capital named The City of Hadden. It details grand expo plans, a 1200 by 20 foot People Tower with 26 stories and free beverages, and a symbolic wedding of heaven and earth. Local leaders Fred Hass Abi W Gould A. H. Mertz discuss commercial storage clothing roads and parks duties.
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Mary Baker Hadden
Chicago
City Walls
Fountain of Beauty
People’s Tower
People’ Tower
Heavens
Earth
Poe
Morta
Immortals
Grand Aural Council
Hadden
Fred Hass
Coe Island
Abbi
Moline
Willian J. Bryan
Abb W. Gould
A. H. Mertz J
Divides Her Property Among Ten Children
Three wills were admitted to probate Tuesday for the late John Rapids red. The will distribution divides the estate among ten children with specifics unclear in the fragment.
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John Rapids
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