City Assured New Plant at Owensboro Ky Incandescent Globe Factory
Business Men’s association discussed securing capital to move the incandescent lamp plant to Owensboro Kentucky. Mr Spencer’s favorable evaluation and assurances from Eb Kreitler and Deere bolster belief the project will obtain required funding. A tax ferret issue in Rock Island County prompts a committee to investigate possible abuses. Two Sweden-born residents, Mrs Anna A McCandless and Charles O Gustafson, die in Moline. arrangements for burial in Keokuk are noted.
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Business Men’s Association
Grantz
Owensboro
Spencer
Louisville
Warr
Cincinnati
EB. C. Kreitler
Deere
E. E Morgan
Rock Island
Messrs. Morgan
C. F. Dewend
W. A. Meese
Obituary notices from Rock Island and Moline deaths
Obituary notices report Mrs John Garvin of Rock Island dying after tumor surgery at Moline City hospital. Born July 21 1863 in Vincennes Indiana she leaves six brothers and four sisters. Also noted are the deaths of Mrs Nathan Irving of Moline born Jennie Maxwell in 1848 and Andrew Peterson born in Sweden 1839 who died of stomach cancer. details describe their deaths and surviving relatives.
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Chas. O. Gustafson
Charles O. Gustafson
Moline Plow Co
Eighteenth Street
Torpa
Ostergotland
Sweden
Moline
Hannah Gustafson
Myron Jordan
John Garvin
Sixth Avenue
Rock Island
Moline City Hospital
Garvin
Vincennes
Ind
Nathan Irving
Wm. Walters
Twenty-sixth Street
Jennie Maxwell
Nathan S. Irving
Geneseo
Walters
Irving
H. A. Stoughton
Andrew P. Peterson
Mr. Peterson
Teamater
Deere & Co
Oh Les
Jod
Hampton News Roundup of Local Visits and School Opening
Mrs A M Keller of Watertown visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Tille Hannewacker is teaching school in Watertown. School resumed Monday September 7 with teachers J Holland Anna Gray and Elzina Smith. Collected notes show multiple visits among families in Watertown Moline Rock Island Ridgeview Port Byron and Ridgeview. Born to William Mohr Jr and his wife a son on Friday September 4.
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A. M. Keller
Watertown
Paul Guckert
Iowa
Harry Adams
Eagle Grove
John Mohr
Mamie Holland
Moline
Josephine Holland
J. Holland
Anna Gray
Elzina Smith
S F Odell
G. Harder
William Corbin
Lemon
Ridgeview
James McGinnis
J. Bishop
Charles Hayes
William Mohr
James Allsbrow
Nellie
Marc Wood
Bert LaGrange
Nellie Maxwell
Rock Island
Hiram Whitehead
J. T. Wood
Grace
Josephine Henry
Marguerite Silvis
Tille Hannewacker
Watertown Notes On Local Housing and Visits
Ben Holck buys two O Aren shield lots and begins a dwelling. Hospital visitors include state hospital presidents and the state board of charities. Mrs Lida Roumel of St Paul visited the hill. Miss Sarah McEllwain of Rock Island recently married. The Watertown school opens with Miss Tillie Hanewacker in charge. Concrete wall work advances on the hospital reservoir.
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Watertown
Ben Holck
O Arenshield
State Board of Charities
Lida Roumel
St. Paul
H Howell
Iowa
Mr. Grinnel
Friends
Sarah McEllwain
Rock Island
I. W. Hospital
Tillie Hanewacker
Hampton
Alex Frerkson
Moline
L. H. Richards
Mary Sargent
Yates City
Hillay
Joseph Benson
J. C. Hawkins
Manuel Smith
Zena
Ethel Smith
Benson
Hospital
J. W. Parker
Moline Set for Strong Showing at Teachers Association
Indications point to a large Moline representation at the Northern Illinois Teachers association meeting to be held in Joliet on November 6 and 7 with a featured lecture by Jacob Riis. The central theme for the address is The Application of Business Methods in Education.
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Moline
Illnois
Florence A Houghton Edits IEEE Relay Note
Florence A. Houghton edits the IEEE relay note, shaping technical updates and highlights for readers. The placement signals ongoing coverage of electrical engineering developments and professional communication within the association.
Foothill Country Adventures On a Ranch in Alberta
In a memoir style walk through the Alberta foothills the narrator recalls travel from a Montana rail town to Jack Dale’s ranch. A first ride on a bucking cayuse becomes a comic trial revealing frontier life and the charm of western ranchmen and landscapes.
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Jack Dale
Alberta
Bludson Bay Company
Montana
Jack
Swan Creek Tales of a Prohibition Night in the Noble Seven
The narrator recalls a summer evening entering Swan Creek a village of imagination centered on the Stopping Place. Jack explains a permit night for medicinal alcohol in a prohibition country as locals gather with the Noble Seven amid hills, rivers, and distant mountains.
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Jack
Swan Creek
Iellos
Noble Seven
Market prices for grains eggs and dairy in Moline and Rock Island
Corrected market figures list prices for timothy oats coal hardwood eggs diary butter and apples in Moline and Rock Island with notes by Brown Christison Duncan Ransom and Benson Passig Bros. Prices shown include new timothy 8.50 9.00 and Upland oats 7.00 9.00 plus dairy butter 16 to 22 percent creamery butter 20 22 1/4 and apples 60 50 per barrel for New potatoes 50 and other items.
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Brown
Christison and Duncan & Ransom
Timothy
Rock Island
R. OC
Benson and Passig Bros
Westpiats
Eeeuseves
Dpaaalss
Wea
Supervisors Back Tax Ferret Resolution and Levy Extension
The board endorses the tax ferret concept and authorizes the board of review to remain in session until back taxes are cleared. It directs moral and legal support for the review board. The committee on town accounts recommends the county clerk extend taxes for roads bridges and town purposes per levies.
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Board of Reviews
Fair at Joslin Expected to Draw Big County Crowd
The Joslin fair will run Tuesday through Thursday next week with extra attractions and a larger attendance anticipated. Farmers are urged to attend to meet neighbors and exhibitors, with excursion trains planned to bring hundreds from the city.
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Joslin
Moline
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