Moline High Students Begin Cooperative Apprenticeship Plan
Nineteen students start a cooperative education program in which alternating weeks are spent in school and in local shops. The agreement sets pay, age, vacation, conduct rules, probation, and the requirement to make up lost time, with placements at Moline Tool Co Deere & Co and other firms.
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Daily Dispatch
Moline High School
Cooperative System of Education
Moline Manual Arts School
Apch
Apprenticeship contract terms and 100 dollar bonus plan
The document outlines a multi year apprentice program with pay rates and gradual qualification steps. It describes prerequisites for entry in June or September, tools to be purchased during training, and a diploma upon graduation. A $100 employer bonus is awarded, while cooperative plan students receive a $50 bonus for senior and junior enrollees.
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Board of Education
City hesitates on Fifth Ave Realty bid and sale
City officials informally discuss selling the Fifth avenue southeast corner property for Carlson Bros bid of 620,638. No decision reached. several sites offered for a new city hall as a Sept 19 council meeting focuses on sale and purchase options and building-site selection.
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Cartsoh Bros
Fifth Ave. Realty
Daily Dispatch
Olson
City Council
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Carlson Bros
Moline
Ieek
Eighteenth Street
Rank Brothers
Library Lot
Burglars Ransack Rock Island Home of W. W. Taylor
Burglars entered the residence of W. W. Taylor at 2401 Seventh Avenue Rock Island between 7 45 and 9 30 last evening ransacking every room and taking silverware jewelry and about four dollars in cash entrance gained through a kitchen window discovery made at 9 30 by Mrs. Taylor and her son authorities have no clue as to motivation or suspects.
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W. W. Taylor
Seventh Avenue
Rock Island
Rock Island Inventor Displays Airship Planned for 80 to 100 MPH
James W Lyons, a mechanical expert with the Rock Island Plow company, showcases a 50 by 26 foot airship model in Sexton clothing store window. Patented in the United States, the craft features twin 4-foot diameter tubes with 1200 to 1500 pounds thrust, a 100 horsepower engine, aluminum steel construction, and five-piece wing design enabling water landing, rapid aerial transit, and enclosed cockpit for pilot protection.
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Rock Island
James W Lyons
Rock Island Plow Company
Sexton Clothing
United States
Lyons
Mrs Flossie Lempp Seeks Divorce From Joe Lempp
A circuit court suit filed by Mrs Flossie Lempp of this city seeks a separation from husband Joe Lempp on grounds of cruelty and drunkenness. They wed on December 3, 1907 and separated May 6, 1910. Attorney W E Whiteside of Moline represents the plaintiff.
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Flossie Lempp
Joe Lempp
Bill W. E. Whiteside
Moline
No Sign of Club Disruption by Lorimer Friends Withdrawal
Friday’s Daily Dispatch reports that Moline members J. B. Oakleaf and C. W. Lundahl attended the Roosevelt banquet of the Ham Ilton club in Chicago and heard Colonel Roosevelt denounce Imals jackpotters and bribers. Oakleaf saw no disruption in club membership despite Lorimer faction rumors, while President Batten received ovations for supporting Lorimer’s ban from the banquet.
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Daily Dispatch
J. B. Oakleaf
C. W. Lundahl
Moline
HamIlton Club
Chicago
Roosevelt
Oakleaf
Lorimer
Jyndahl
President Batten
Mr Roosevelt
Batten
Wrecking of Moline Pump Co Plant for New Burlington Depot
Dr A H Arp leads Robba Express Co of Rock Island in wrecking the Moline Pump Co plant parts under Burlington Railway auction terms. Thirty men and seven teams remove brick and lumber for reuse in Arp’s Sixth Avenue building while pneumatic cleaners are installed on site.
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Moline Pump Co
Burlington
Robba Express Co
Rock Island
Burlington Pailway
Express Company
Arp
Sixth Avenue
Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Street
Ritter
Sheriff Leads Officers in Wild Goose Chase
Sheriff Kittilsen, urged by a Chicago telegram claiming two murder suspects were in Moline, chased false leads through Chicago and Hammond, Ind. Officers searched an address, found no arrests, and learned the suspects may have fled before dawn Sunday.
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Kitts
Wan
Chicago
Edward Weinan
Thineft
Bryant
Moline
Kittilsen
Hammond
Ind
John Swank Served as County Steward at Poor Farm
John Swank served as county steward at the Poor Farm from December 15, 1897, until retiring to his farm in the latter part of last year. He had long been a trusted official in Coatans Falls.
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Poor Farm
Mr Swank
Rock Exland County
John C Swank
Rock Island
Zumatawayhip
Monroe Swank
Kentucky
Mndijana
Toneph Swank
Montgomery County
Indiana
Min Maury Clevenge
Ohio
Psas
Hinole
Zuma Township
Thin County
Rock River
Swank
Thee
Western College
Iowa
Wersleyan Academy
Crawfordsayile
Moret Womers County
Badtana
Minnesota
Nebraska
Tennessee
Staten
Zuni Township
Swank Pioneer and Public Servant Passes Away at Zuma Farm
John C Swank a longtime Rock Island County resident and public official died at his Zuma farm two miles south of Rapids City after a brief illness. He served as assessor and county supervisor among other posts, led a life of farming stock dealing and local service, and was active in Odd Fellows Modern Woodmen and Knights of the Globe. He leaves a widow and a large family across Illinois and the Dakotas.
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Rapids City
Mr Swank
Moline
John Swank
Chicago
Harry Swank
Mra
Laura Tang
The
City
Samuel
Flora
Mesa
Mary Lach Man
South Rock Island
Wattle Meathan
Peoria
David
Dakotas
Laua Kooltohmob
Clara Atu Spindel
Theis
Provence
Sacre
Grant
Justice of the Peace
Gossessor
Order of Odd Fellows
Modern
Woodmen of America
Knights of the Globe
London Wedding Cable Sparks Return Across Ocean
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet notes a London marriage cabled request from a duke to the speaker, raising questions about whether the message seeks the father or his fortune, reflecting cross Atlantic slang and social intrigue.
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London
Laouisville Courier-Journal
Rat Catcher Tames Rodents Using Ratine In New York Opera
T A Tormey, a professional rat catcher based in New York City, travels widely taking contracts to rid buildings of rats. He works at night and recently operated in Rockland’s Second Avenue building, bagging several dozen rodents. He uses a secret stimulant he calls ratine to coax rats from hiding and places traps around rooms.
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Daily Dispatch
T A Tormey
Cites
Tormey
New York City
Second Avenue
Rock Inland
Pierre Alters Plans For Third Story Apartment Block
Debating a third story addition on a Fifth Avenue building raises costs by about $10,000. Pierre and architect Whitsrt planned a two story 60 by 40 foot structure, but Pierre’s team proposed a three story build with a larger footprint. Construction costs with Gust Ed Construction Co could exceed earlier estimates, and occupancy may shift to 1914 or later depending on city approvals and final design.
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Pterry Mas
Gust Ed Construction Co
Dareater
Che Pierre
Mia Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Sold For Teething Use
An old advertisement touts Mia Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a fifty year remedy for teething infants. It claims to ease gums, quiet fussiness, relieve wind colic, and cure diarrhoea, priced at twenty five cents a bottle.
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Mia Winslows
Head-on Auto Crash on College Boulevard Causes Injuries
A noon collision on College boulevard at Thirty eighth Street Rock Island involved Edwin Goodwin driving a Velie and Frank Swanson in a Swanson car. Eyewitnesses blamed Goodwin for speeding and turning across the boulevard. The Velie and Swanson vehicles were damaged but occupants escaped with injuries described as severe shaking and minor harm.
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Daily Dispatch
College Boulevard
Thirty Eighth Street
Rock Island
Pierce-Arrow
W L. Velte
Frank Swanson
Galesburg
Edwin Goodwin
Mr Well
Goodwin
Thirty-eighth Street
Talesburg
Croadwin
Ed Swanson
Swanson
Sid Swanson
Howver
Reappoints Pastor of Moline Church
The Swedish Methodist church in Moline reappointed Rev Glemaker as pastor after a 1909 arrival following Rev Muller. Under his tenure the church began a campaign for a new building and fundraising proceeds toward the planned edifice.
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Moline Church
Chicago
Mdapath
Hev NP
Glemaker
Swedish Methodist Church
JW Sanson
Galesburg
Mr Glemaker
Moline
J P Muller
Ft Moline
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Ben Camstedt
Tine Tool Co
Ben Rundquist
Mone Tool Co
Leroy Caratens
Moline Tool Co
Albert R. McCune
Carl Dahlheim
Lous Strickland
Leigh West
Moline Automobile Co
Harold Engstrom
Nels Johnson
Moline Scale Co
Harold Hartzman
Deere & Co
Hjalmar Swanquist
Ingwere
Philip Celander
Pattern Room
Line Too! Co
Roger Peterson
Carl H. Carlson
Folke Jennisch
Walker Whiteside
Jacob Lusinger Jr
Herbert Johnson—Drafting Room
Eames
D A Jones
Seventh
Eighth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Berg Estate
Twelfth Street
Sixth and
Seventh Avenues
Irving School
Charles Peterson
Joe Donald
Sixteenth Street
Hanson Estate
Taylor
J. W. Lyons
Children Ory
Fletcher
Astoria
J. Oakleaf and
Locimer
Robb’s Express Co
Dr. Arp
Coatan
Rock Island County
No Tedder
Review of Active Life
Miss Shannon
Pied Piper OF
Hamelin
Pierrs
Joon Bierr
Phlinw
Whitsrt
Velie
Witt Nessen
Howe
John Deere
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