Knocks and Goods Advertised Across Clinton County
Entered at the Postoffice Moline as second class matter KNOX frames pictures KNELLs cheapest prescriptions Clendenins Simon Hingeut clothier Watches and Jewelry at Okerbergs Bucanacens for horse shoeing Mrs Tena Dunn not wear false teeth Brimion Eirsehs neckwear Brimion Books at Public Library Brown's Iron Bitters quick relief dyspepsia nervous weakness Clinton Scott counties reunion DeWitt Ia October Mary Anderson actress Rock Island October Simon Hirsch cloaks dolmans undergarments Fisk stock of winter goods Wheelers road abandonment Ill shop on Main Street lamps and logs New Rock River bridge nearing completion Exopretens minstrel troupe exodused Muscatine.
Clear day makes tax air easy to hear in three cities
Telephone messages from Muscatine and Mior gison could be understood as easily as those from Davenport or Rock Island.
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Tax
Muscatine
Miorgison
Davenport
Rock Island
Tax engine honed at James coal mine near Davenport
On Saturday morning a combined tax engine and deleting apparatus operated at the James coal mine, located six miles west of Davenport. The scene described included uncertain references to time and equipment, with several garbled phrases surrounding the event and its surroundings.
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James
Davenport
Cassel & McKeever’s Moline ad notes and local events
Local notices list Acorn, Charter Oak and National Cook stoves at Cassel & McKeever’s in Moline. A Catholic fair, Dr McKinnie’s new building, and a street corn stalk display by C E Davenpost are reported alongside a stalled Blue club entry and a criminal verdict for Fitch.
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Acorn
Charter Oak
National Cook Stove
Cassel & McKeever's
Moline
Keaton & Co Plans Canal From Wing Dam To Saw Mill
Keaton and Company consider building a canal from above the wing dam to their saw mill to enable log transport during low water. The measure aims to provide an outlet when river levels fall and logs become stranded.
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Keaton & Co
City Council Faces Rock River Bridge Delays
ATTHUK reports next Monday’s council meeting will likely focus on the Rock River bridge progress. It notes the project missed a November 1 completion target and may extend beyond that date despite constructor efforts. A Rock Island wedding is also mentioned with a large Turner Hall reception.
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New Rock River Bridge
Rock Island
Turner Hall
Jake
Picnic crowds and streetcar woes spur calls for more cars
A Sunday picnic at Black Hawk Watch Tower drew a large crowd on the new street car line. Cars derailed then returned but the dummy car ran dry and needed Rock Island water. Dusty, crowded rides prompted calls for more cars and fair passenger treatment. Local veterans urge substantial support for a proposed soldiers monument, asking every citizen to contribute.
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Black Hawk Watch Tower
Rock Island
Tuk Street Car Company
Government engineers blast river ditch before work begins
Tre engineers plan a central river bed trench to drain the water ahead of construction. Five hundred men and one hundred teams will be employed there next month.
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Tre
Government Improvement
Mills to Bring Home Bodies for Burial After Death in Asylum
Mr War Mills of Hillsdale received a telegram stating his brother Charles Mills, a young man sent from the county to Jacksonville in a sane asylum four months ago, had died on Monday. He departed for Jacksonville to retrieve the body for burial and bring the females for burial.
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War. Mills
Hillsdale
Charles
Jacksonville Insane Asylum
Mills
Jacksonville
From Pain to Happiness in a Chicago Advertisement Mix
A jumble of notices and stray items from 1881 includes a testimonial for a kidney and liver cure, local promotions, a railroad employee’s promotion at Galesburg, a lullaby fantasy about Jay Gould, and plans by Mississippi Valley Manufacturers Mutual Insurance to open a Chicago branch at 162 LaSalle Street.
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Minneapolis
Minn
W L. Barnes
Galesburg
Tue
Mississippi Valley Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Company
LaSalle Street
Chicago
Rock Island
W.B. Ferguson
W. E. Smith
LaSalle Atreet
Once More for Luck Marriage by Magistrate Mapes
Magistrate Mapes officiated a marriage this afternoon for P. E. W. Bowden, 59, and Margart Dopler, 50. This is Bowden’s second marriage and Dopler’s third. The couple appeared delighted, smiling throughout the ceremony in Mapes office, joking that they were playing a high joke on someone.
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Mapes
P. E. W. Bowden
Margart Dopler
Knell pledges to discount rivals’ prices
Knell asserts he will cut others’ prices as stated and aims to attract customers with lower costs. The remark underscores competitive pricing strategy and market positioning.
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Knell
Moline Obituary for Harriet B Richards 54
In Moline on September 24 1882 Harriet B Richards wife of Deacon J B Richards aged 54 years 8 months and 7 days. Daughter of the late Deacon Pierson Fifield of Hampden Maine her gentle manner and benevolence were remarkable. She passed after long ill health and friends are asked to meet at her residence Wednesday at 2 pm to pay last respects. Gould and Co report the city’s most complete line of underwear.
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Moline
Harriet B. Richards
Richarde
Harriet B. Fifield
Deacon Pierson Fifield
Hampden
Maine
Deacon Richards
Mystery girl in blue at Rock Island depot returns home
A fourteen year old Des Moines girl named Payne who ran away to avoid boarding school was found in Rock Island. She stayed with a Des Moines traveler and was registered as Cedar Rapids, but upon advice from a hotel guest she returned to Polk County to rejoin her father, the county recorder.
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Darling
Rock Island
Des Moines
Moline
Intelligence
Parker
Keater
Cedar Rapids
Payne
C.R.I& P
Des Mourceward
Polk County
Elegant line of gents neckwear at Gould & Co’s
An elegant line of gents neck wear has arrived at Gould & Co’s. Customers are invited to call and examine the new stock.
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Fisk
Gould & Co's
Fear and faith and a nearby dynamite scare
A quip about piety under fear leads to a local note on a Water Power Co project. Messrs Reynolds dig near the Gas Works with explosives, stirring fear among neighbors who fear dynamite in the air and possible as yet unseen hazards amid reports of property for sale nearby.
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Messrs Reynolds
Water Power Co
May Burns' Runaway Tale Shocks Sterling to Sioux City
A sixteen year old girl named May Burns from Dixon Ill vanished from Sterling after a reported $25 robbery on a Rock Island to this city line. Her father Mr Wilsey traced her to this city and Dakota, while police and reporters describe the case as a mystery resolved only partly by family pursuit. A separate Poorla highway theft saw a thief tear the vest from a man, stealing a gold watch and money, with little information about the robber.
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Dyapatha
Rock Island
May Burns
Dixon
Ill
Dakota
Marshal Henderson
Revere
Sioux City
Gilbert
Sterling
Wm. Wilsey
Mr. Wilsey
Mary Wilsey
Wilsey
Jie
Mary
Erip
Thia
Anper
Poorla
Etemyna
Dusty roads and city notes in midsummer brief
The river falls while country roads stay dusty and firemen fix equipment. Church spire work progresses, Teas telephone line Peoria to Delaware opens, Deere & Co hose house nears completion, and a litany of local events from picnics to baseball games fills the week.
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Peoria
Delevan
Deere & Co
Schiller Lodge
S'hede's Grove
Dr. McKinnie
Rodman Avenue
Moline Malleable Iron Co
Alayor Wheelock
A. P. Fisk
Nixon & Fisk
Whrtkey
Dramatic Company
Ida Lewis
Col. B. F. Marsh
Rock Island
Moline
Col
May Burns
Sioux City, Jr
Dakota
Sam Davis
Basye Standard Dramatic Co
Florence Webster
Frank Hartwell
Bingham
Milan Street
Blacksmith Shop
Deere & Co's
Woodshop Boys
McGlynn
The
Union
Spoopendyke
Mac
Jacob Riley and Cleland & Co
Riley
L. Kindt & Son
Opera House
Helen
Paris
Peerless Singing Method The Peerless by W O Perkins
Review notes the Peerless as a convenient singing class book by W O Perkins, published by Oliver Ditson Co. It praises its usefulness for teachers and students, notes dwindling winter schools, and calls for revived communal singing practice across schools and classes.
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W. O. Perkins
Oliver Ditson & Co
Boston
Price
Dla
Pchoola
St Nicholas to Feature Broad Range of Yearly Attractions
The upcoming St Nicholas will showcase a wide lineup including J T Trowbridge serial, a thirteenth century historical novelette by Frank R Stogiton, Maurice Thompson Robin Hood story, Archibald Forbes war correspondence on Plevna, a young readers play by William M Baker, features by Mary Gowden Clarke and E S Brooke, an Elizabeth Thompson battle scenes article, and more including works by Alcott Boyesen Miller and Norah Fawcett in the new year issue.
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St Nicholas
J. T. Trowbridge
Frank, R. Stogiton
Robin Hood
Maurice Thompson
Plevna
Archibald Forbes
William M. Baker
Mary Gowden Clarke
Brooke
Ian
Elizabeth Thompson
Herl
St. Néchelae
Tepe
M. Alcott
H. H. Boyesen
Joaquin Miller
Norah Fawcett
Rooks
Toigne
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Moline Review - Dispatch
Knox
Knell’s
Clendenin's
Simon Hingeut
Okerberg's
Tena Dunn
Tuk
Brimion
Clinton and
Scott Counties
DeWitt, Ea
Whiiretky
Brown
Mary Anderson
Simon Hirsch
Gaylord
Freeport
Regere
Dolmans
Wheeler Fisk
Clark
Mares
A. P. Fie
Main Street
New
Rock River
Maerstra
Gen. W. T
Senator John Sherman
Ohio
Paylin Hte
Cassd
McKeever's
E Davenpost
Cambridge Chrontete
Tne
Lowa
Noise Central District
Medi.end Association
Rock [Sland
U. S
Blues
Fitch
Whiteside County
A. C. Bangs
Winfield
Kaw
Louise Crapster
Hampton
Gen Baum
Waynes
Cat
Mney
Knoll
Base
Bowlesburg
Red Stockings
Coal Valley
Coal Valley Club
Sylvans
Bincs
Stars
Gun Club
Davenport Fair Grounds
Rock Club
Mfoss
Gould and Co's
Peerless
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