The Company of the Noble Seven in Swan Creek
The chapter portrays the Company of the Noble Seven dominating Swan Creek social life. It follows Jack Dale and kinship ties, introduces leaders like the Hon. Fred Ashley and the enigmatic Duke, and sketches members Bruce, Hi Kendal, Bronco Bill, and the Hill brothers. The group blends English chivalry with western ruggedness, exposing bravado, loyalty, and peril in a frontier society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Dale
London
Noble Seven
Swan Creek
Syuan Creek
Britain
Jack Dale
Ashley Ranch
Hi Kendal
Bronco Bill
Fred Ashley
Ashley Court
England
Charlotte
Fred
Bronco Pill
Ashley
Noted Civil War Era Camp Life Reflections
A speaker recalls living among frontier cowboys, camping on the range, bunking in shacks, tending cattle in summer and hunting wolves in winter. He notes no one shirked duty during permit nights and praises the enduring comradeship and honor of his companions.
Real Estate Transfers in Rock Island Moline Port Byron
Listings from Sept 4 to Sept 14 show transfers of multiple parcels across East Moline Rock Island Port Byron and Cordova. Purchasers include Tyrrell Blackwell Atkinson Letsch Babcock Simonson Shafer Fowler Nor mand Warner and others with prices ranging from 1 to 8200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben B. Tyrrell
R. J. Blackwell
Old Town of Moline
J. W. Atkinson
R. C. Letsch
East Moline
Mary I. Boggess
George M. Babcock
William Jackson
Barth & Babcock’s Add
Rock Island
Margaret
Old Town of
Port Byron
E C Donahoo
J. W. Simonson
John Shafer
Donahoo & Cosner
Edward Exelson
Elizabeth Clark Et al
J. F. Normand
Ambrose
Richardson
Lucinda N Warner
Oscar
Dailey
T. N Warner
N. L. Warner
Neither Young
L. N Warner
Nettle J. Young
L. N. Warner
Charles O. Lewis
Wilton Parsons
Metes
Bounds Sey
William Bishop
Thomas White
C H Pope
W. J. Hannan
George I Reeves
Mary Wetsell
Bailey Davenport
Moline
Elizabeth Marshall
G E. Ferguson
Brigham
Cordova
Amelia A Sweeney
W L. Sweeney
Chicago
Lower
Add
Frederika C A Frederick
Barth & Babcock
William Reynolds, Sr
Thos Drennen
William Krueger
C F Krueger
J F Decker
Gratia W. Decker
George C Witt
Henry Ruben
G L. Davenport
George Pewe, Sr
C J. Carlson
Pewe
J D. Beecher
E. A
Beecher
D. Beecher
A. A
George Pewe
George Pewe, Jr
W L Ludolph
R. R. Reynolds
J B. Eckhart
Columbia Park
James G. Britton
Susan Roseman
Andalusia
Otto Uthoff
W. S. McKee
Black Hawk
Walter S. McKee
Matilda Uthoff
Fredericke C. A. Frederick Et al
Ike Levinstein
B. Stickney
C. H. Pope
George W Foss
E. C. Donahoo
H. H. Parks
Donahoo
Christy
Spencer & Case
O. A. Reed
Frank Reed
Local Painter Attempts Suicide by Gas Inhalation
Joseph Ward a former Deere & Co. painter living near Eighth Street and Fifth Avenue attempted suicide by inhaling gas shortly before Sunday evening. Neighbors found him in a room with gas on. Dr. A. H. Arp attended and Ward remained in danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Ward
Deere & Co
Eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
A. H. Arp
Miss Gullberg Leaves to Study Art in New York
Principal Thomas imposes athletic qualifications at the high school. Students seeking any team must complete fifteen passing hours, present a doctor’s certificate of fitness, and secure parental consent. Miss Bertha Gullberg departs for New York to pursue art studies and Miss Gullberg has been a standout declaimer and artist at the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Campbell
Neu
Bertha Guilberg
New York
Guilberg
Pioneer River Ferchant Luce Smith Dies at 70
Luce Smith, Ohio native who settled in Rock Island in 1863, died Tuesday at his daughter’s home from kidney troubles. A river pilot with almost fifty years on the Mississippi, he commanded rafts on the Saturn and Winans boats. A 40 year Mason, he leaves six children in Ohio and California as well as Rock Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luce Smith
Ohio
Rock Island
George Barker
Oquawka
Mississippi River
Saturn
The
Mississippi
Masonic Fraternity
Lodge of
C H. Phillips
Parkersburg
W Va
F. Smith
Carroll
W. Va
John Sugnam
Fresno
Cal
F A. Smith
Nettle Smith
Rock
Growth of pearls in Muscatine bed linked to germ disease
A Muscatine dealer suggests the pearl bed near the Muscatine bridge may be affected by a germ disease that triggers abnormal pearl encrustment when sand enters a clam shell. The bed yields large pearls in small mollusks, possibly due to rocky river bottom or swift currents, with shells often scarred or deformed. Clammers report high pay from this bed and many gems found on mollusks in this spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Bridge
Botanic Blood Balm Claimed to Cure Skin Cancers
An Alabama advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as curing a nose and face cancer in Mrs. M L Adams of Fredonia and a case in Mrs. B Guerney of Warrior Brand. It lists cures for eczema and other skin troubles and claims many patients were considered hopeless by doctors. The ad notes a bottle costs $1 and markets to Mol ine and Peoria areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Adams
Fredonia
Ala
B. Guerney
Warrior Brand
Paes
Carnegie Library Sails Early Finish as Lundahl Wins Decor
Frank A. Lundahl, a noted local artist, won the contract to decorate the Carnegie library interior with oil painting on the first floor at an outlay of 600 to 700 dollars. The board may add an oil portrait of Carnegie. A Art Metal Construction Co. representative reviews card catalogues cases, while a committee studies catalogues today. Most work and furnishings are by local contractors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank A. Lundahl
Carnegie Library
Library Board
Lundahl
Carnegie
Art Metal Construction Co
W. A. Meese
Henry Hanson
L. D. Dunn
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By Ralph Connor
Glengarry
Black Rock
Fleming BH. Revell Company
the Company OF the Noble Seven
Ted
Bill
Old Latour
Bruce
Edinburgh University
Hill Brothers
Bertie
Humphrey
Hump
Blake
Gifford
H. R. Gould
Minewe Ork
Howse
Didress Redidece
Miss Gullberg
Pioneer River Ferchant
Frank Lundahl
Ners
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta, GA
Swift Specific CO
Aicamerica
Inter Ocean
Associated Press
Inter - Ocean
New York Sun
New York World
Moline Review-Dispatch
NEW York Tribune-Farmer
Farmer’s
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Union
NEW York Tribune Farmer
Fred Farmer
Review Dispatch
New York One Farmer
Cit
California
Best
San Francisco
Rockies
Sierra Nevadas
Los Angeles
John Sebastian
Iillonis
John Deere
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