Rock Island boy held in fatal Dunbar shooting
A 16 year old, Frank Martens of Rock Island, is jailed accused of firing the shot that killed Frank Dunbar 18 in the front yard of 125 Nineteenth Avenue. Six other Rock Island youths aged 18 to 22 are in custody on riot conspiracy and murder charges.
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Dunbar
Daily Dispatch
Frank Dunbar
Nineteenth Avenue
Reuben Dunbar
Reuben Dunber Jr
Frank Martens
Seventeenth Avenue
Rock Island
Andrew da Burg
Joe de Pouver
Proper Dierickx
William Jacob
Henry Schafer
Mary Pierce
Geneva School For
Reuben Dhinhar Jr
Frank
Reuben Dunbar Jr
Danbar
Magill
Harry Dunbar
Mra
Kittie Dunbar
Bisant
Rose
Perry H Wessel
Columbus Castle
Augstana Graduate Ethyl Wade Wins Chicago Scholarship
Miss Ethyl Wade of Rock Island wins the first violin scholarship at Chicago Musical College, worth 640 dollars, earning free instruction from Professor Alexander Sebald. A Augustana conservatory graduate and former Bodfors School of Music violin chief, she previously toured with the Wennerberg chorus and is hailed by local critics for a brilliant future.
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Daily Dispatch
Chicago
Ethyl Wade
Forty-first Street
Rock Island
Chicago Musical College
Augustana Conservatory
Miss Wade
Gertrude Housel
Miss Housel
Bodfors School of Music
Moline
F Ziegfeld
Mise Wade
Wennerberg
Augustana College
Pani
Minneapolia
Stillwater San Claire
Twin City
Miss
Inland waterway revival meeting eyed in Cincinnati
A key Ohio River improvement meeting in Cincinnati on September 21 aims to push the Nine Feet from Pittsburgh to Cairo project. Attending are Joseph Ransdell, Kavanaugh, and possibly President Taft, who may address the gathering and visit the Fernbank dam as part of the event. The Ohio Valley exposition adds to the occasion with Georgia and Portsmouth day and Elks day featuring August Hermann.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River Improvement Association
Pittsburg
Fernbank Dam
Joseph Ransdell
National Rivers and Harbors Commission
Louisiana
Kavanaugh
Gulf Deep Waterway Association
Ohio
Mississippi
Taft
Greater Georgia
Portsmouth
Elks
August Hermmann
The
Midland Sixty Entering WW Hill Climbing Contests
Midland Motor Works accelerates its six cylinder sixty bore Midland Sixty for the Algonquin hill climbing contests under the Chicago Motor Club. Built for 85 mph pace and a Vanderbilt cup October hope, the car uses stock components with two extra cylinders and four classes of stock and four cylinder entries. Ralph Ireland is favored to drive as a severe test hill with 12 to 15 percent grades will push power versus weight and displacement.
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Frvdis
Midland Motor
Algonquin
Chicago Motor Club
Midland
Midland Sixty
Ralph Ireland
Little Change in Size of Salaries for County Officials
The board considers a unanimous report from the fees and salaries committee proposing a sheriff’s boarder of prisoners rate cut from forty to thirty cents daily, keeping sheriff salary at 1500 and livery at 500 annually. Other salaries remain, with deputy raises and no change to the county judge. The panel urges prompt action before Thursday primaries and criticizes costly practice on execution papers and jail fees.
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Court House
Cool
Pfoh
Huntley
McGuimpsey
Eastman
Board of Prisoners
Police Magistra Ee
Moline
Kane
Rock Island
Justices of the Peace
Gustafson of
Magill Itia
Circuit Court
Freer Committee
L. M. Magill
Improvement in Fifth Ward Assured in Moline
The Fifth Ward improvement plan is secured with three miles of sewers and 1% miles of water main after county court confirmation of the assessment roll. Objections were overruled by Judge Olmsted. City Attorney Beil represented the city. Work covers the southwest district between Fifteenth and Twenty-second Avenues and Seventh and First streets, extending sewer and mains through the bluff district except the southeast portion.
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Moline
Olmsted
Beil
Bluff District
Cane Snatchers Cause Injury To Rock Island Elder
August Kruse a 60 year old German shoemaker residing on Third avenue Rock Island was struck and dragged by a carload of Tipton youths after they snatched his cane. He lies in serious condition at St Anthony's hospital with a skull fracture but doctors remain hopeful. Five youths including Kirk Hooper were arrested at the baseball park after the incident on Sunday afternoon.
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A H Arp
Andrew du Burge
H K Struck
Davenport
Dr Arp
du Burg
Martens du Burg
Martens
Struck
Arp
Anyzone
Carauer
Andrew du Burg
John de Pouver
Frank Dunbar
de Pouver
Henry Tanghe
Fourteenth Avenue
Rock Island
Dunbar
Schafer
Harry Dunbar
Vada
Mary Pierce
Frank Dunber
Reuben Dunbar
Daily Dispatch
August Kruse
Third Avenue
Tenth
Eleventh Streets
St. Anthony’s Hospital
Tipton
Kruse
Turner Hall
Kirk Hooper
Arthur B Shaller
F Fields
B. LaMotte
J R Cozad
Tipton, Lo
Thompson Witness in Springfield Master in Chancery Hearing
Hearing on claims by Fraternal Tribunes policyholders against Northern Life Insurance Co. opened before Master in Chancery Pfeffer in Springfield. Hope Thompson of Rock Island, president of Northern Life, testified that members were insured individually rather than as a group as the case progresses over several days.
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Daily Dispatch
Fraternal Tribunes
Northern Life Insurance Co
Himnolg
Pfeffer
Springfield
Northern Life
Old Line
Hope Thompson
Rock Island
Tribunes
Campbell Island monument to receive concrete protection and sidewalks
Meese today launched plans for concrete protection curbs and cement sidewalks around Campbell's island monument. Bids from contractors will be sought and work will begin once the contract is let. Mrs Deere will provide the financial support. exact cost remains unknown until contract is awarded.
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Campbell's Island
Mra. C. H Deere
One Thing Needful Fishing Day Ends In Loss
In Louis Star item, Jim Culver drops the only flask while fishing in a ten-foot pool, leaving no catch and the group ending the day in disappointment. The tale notes abundant fish but a mishap ruins the effort.
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Jim Culver
Louis Star
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