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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text references a proposed property or survey plan under favorable conditions at a present or near term. Details are garbled, with unclear names and locations, making definitive facts impossible to extract.
City and county officials held talks with Porter and Lardner of a street railway firm on building a Rock River bridge and extending a Geneseo line. The project aims to open camping and picnic spots, link Geneseo with Cam bridge and Kewanee, and integrate with a Chicago three cities line. Current funding barriers delay action for one to two years amid favorable rates. A site survey of proposed bridge routes may occur early October with officials inspecting the south bank and approaches.
Real estate transfers dated Sept 17 list multiple party deals. Guyer Pope & White to Emil Perdon $400. Chas B Radden to Hiram W Reynolds $250. Edgar J Pickard to Jos B Oakleaf $1200. Johannes Peterson to J Peterson Co $13,000. Edgar J Pickard to Jas B Tyner $1600. Louis Mosenfelder to Bleo M Winter $340. Bhogren to Beraphine Gardener $3000. J W Wahlatrand and husband to I 18 block setowan South Moline $3000. W Benshoof tracts in Westong 23 33 priced variously. H S Alterdahl to Louis Gs rom ay Foll 4 block 7 Columbia Park $?. additional entries include various tracts and parcels in Moline Rock Island and surrounding areas with tagged prices.
A garbled exchange from a Pittsburgh area snippet hints at a man named Hicks discussing relatives and a halted financial request. Wicks dismisses a claim about his wife delaying funds before returning home. The fragment references a Catholic paper and a local Times edition with stray city chatter about peanuts.
In a garbled transcript a witness appears to apologize and claim accidental destruction of documents. The dialogue suggests confusion over legal duties and possible miscommunication with the judge. The fragment hints at a court setting and an attempt to clarify obligations.
Rockford editor seeks Republican bid for Secretary of State as B. D. Shurtleff campaigns for governor. Moline residents report heavy petition literature while Rock Island county has not yet circulated his petition. Fred Sterling and James A. Roxe also initiate petitions, signaling broad statewide effort.
Phil Mitchell of Rock Island owns a rare 1856 Bank of Federal Union one dollar note valued as a relic. The worn paper, issued Nov 1 1856 and tied to Illinois securities, recalls early Rock Island banking figures like N B Buford and Bushrod Birch. Also noted are related bank notes and colonial currency, plus a local baseball score and a Davenport lease dispute over a saloon lease ending Oct 1.
Weather bulletin notes week ending September 28 opened warm with highs near 90 across southern half. Five consecutive days of 90 plus, then cool with Sunday morning frost in the north. Mean temp excess about 6 degrees. Rainfall heavy in the north, light in central and south. Sunshine near 70 percent. Third frost dates: Oct 9 north, Oct 11 central, Oct 18 south. Davenport report: high 88, low 42, mean 68, precipitation .80 inch, 9 percent above normal.
Nine men crowded into a racing car after an Elks social, the chauffeur lost control on a downgrade near Manitou Col Sept 17. Wheelock, once of Moline, survived with a sprained ankle and bruises while others were killed. He learned of the tragedy from a cousin here and related news to relatives.
A playful exchange from Puck features a maid replying she loves “you most to pieces” and the speaker wonders if she would love him “broke.” The quip shows longing and humor in a compact couplet style.
A Cleveland Leader item records a farmer asking a helper about dairy work and discovering the helper only pumped, not milked, 38 cows. The exchange frames a rural humor moment in a small town context.
A Chicago Tribune quip notes a man who preaches the higher life and universal brotherhood yet has no time to change his socks. The jab contrasts lofty ideals with ordinary personal neglect.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup as a teething aid used by millions of mothers. It claims soothing effects for pain and colic, diarrhoea relief, and lists a 25 cent price per bottle. Sold by druggists everywhere with a guarantee under the 1906 food and drugs act.
The Illinois Liquor Dealers convention in Rock Island called for adopting the Chicago ordinance and amending laws to restrict saloons. They praised gains at the November elections, noted 32 bills introduced with two laws passed, and outlined plans to fund and organize to counter local option efforts.
Andrew Perrin plans to take over the fortun e and real estate business of his late father H Perrin. He has severed ties with Western Electric Co in Chicago and St Joseph, Michigan, and will return to Moline to assume local agencies for the insurance firms his father represented.
The Rev John Walsh, assistant priest at Sacred Heart cathedral Davenport, is transferred to Council Bluffs to head a large parish succeeding the Rev Rather Snoivthe. Walsh has served at the cathedral for three years and is noted as a rising young priest in the Davenport diocese. The transition is coordinated by Vicar General Rev J T A Blannagan.
A damaged OCR fragment presents poetic lines about devotion, steadfast friends, and worldly paradise. The archaic style and misspelled diction hint at a literary-era texture, with imagery of fibers and arete. Names or clear context are not identifiable from the readable text.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits notes a claim about Jerold unable to get speed from a motor car. It mentions an arrest record of six crimes allegedly linked to obstructing the highway, attributed to the same subject in a casual exchange.
Large construction effort by McCarthy Construction Co to riprap the river front and complete grading filling and road work at Sylvan park. Fifteen to twenty teams and many laborers pace the site with stone distributed along shore and work aimed to finish roadways walks and shore alignment similar to the Rock Island levee layout. The circuit court term is delayed with naturalization hearings set for Sept 30 and Oct 1 under Judge Graves and Ramsay.
Public notice announces final report and settlement in Rock Island County Court. Amelia Hintze executor schedules a nine o'clock hearing for objections, then distribution order and fees if no objections are filed. Also notices Edward Crawford administrator seeks final settlement with a nine oclock hearing in Rok Ishin county for October 1907.
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