Mayor Swenson Defends Pure Water Plant Location
Gustaf Swensson, mayor, argues for the Pitts tract over Bausch for a city water filtration and reservoir site. He criticizes H R A for advocating mechanical filtration, cites hydraulics, proximity to pumping, sewer access, and center-city density, and urges a south and east growth plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipa
Harmon
Pitts
Bausch Tract
Ife
H.R
Hinois
Hiauseh
Midway
South Moline
Smith's
Bausch
Pitts Tract
Twelfth Avenue
Healy
Ditts
Mississippi
Davenport
United States
H.R. A
Sixth Street
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third
Bauseh
Gustaf Swensson
Racine Orchestrion Hall Offers Community Aid Model
A Chicago reader describes Racine Orchestrion hall a three story social settlement offering low cost meals a free reading room with newspapers a bath and sleeping rooms. It runs an employment bureau with work like sawing wood and distributes “No More Tramps” cards directing needy to meals and beds for a reasonable effort. The writer urges Moline to consider a similar institution and provides contact for more information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Editors Daily Dispatch
Racine
Orchestrion Hall
Moline
State and
Douglas Avenue
Wm. B. Duttera
B. C
Wis
E. C. Thulin
Reception for Rev. Richard Caderberg at Swedish M E church
The congregation welcomed Rev. Richard Caderberg home from the conference where he was assigned for another year. The church filled with members and friends as the choir performed and Mr Swan Olson delivered the welcome address handing the pastor an envelope of greenbacks. After speeches and songs the ladies society served coffee and cake. The Rev J T Wigren remains presiding elder and the next conference will be at Galesburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Caderberg
M. E
Swan Olson
Ladies’ Society
J. T. Wigren
Galesburg
Attorney Oakleaf Moves Practice to McKinnie Block
Attorney J B Oakleaf contracts with Dr P L McKinnie to rent three rooms in the remodeled McKinnie block on Fifteenth street and move his office from the post office block to a corner location on Fourth avenue and Fifteenth street about Oct 1. He has occupied his present office since January 1897 and says the change will better serve clients by centralizing in the business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Oakleaf
P. L. McKinnie
McKinnie
Fifteenth Street
Oakleaf
Bert Viertech Returns From Army Hospital
Henry Viertech of the Moline National Bank brought home his brother Bert after a long illness from typhoid fever contracted during service in Santiago. Bert, formerly of Troop A First Regular Cavalry, has been hospitalized at Camp Wikoff Montauk Point and is now slowly recovering at the home of Uncle Albert Ebeling. He endured a grueling journey and was heat exhausted after travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Viertech
Moline W National Bank
Bert
Camp Wikoff
Montauk Point
Albert Ebeling
Santiago
Cervera
Jewel stoves and ranges praised for quality and reach
A 1910s advertisement extols Jewel stoves and ranges from Detroit Stoves Works. It argues common kitchen ranges are prone to many failures, praising Jewel for consistent open hearth steel construction, wide variety, and vast adoption in two million homes. The ad highlights the Detroit plant as the world's largest stove factory and uses the metal crown logo with its slogan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ijn
Detroit Stove Works
Jewel
Jewel Stoves and Ranges
Detroit Stoves Works
Rosenfield's Offense In Army Court Martial
Louis Rosenfield of Company A Rock Island is serving a sixty day term in the Springfield guard house after a court martial for leaving his command without leave. He failed to return to Weehawken at the end of a day’s lease and spent an extra day with friends in New York before catching a train to Rock Island. Several officers faced similar choices but acted differently by going to Springfield ahead of their unit. Rosenfield was known as the Company A correspondent for the Argus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Rosenfield
Rock Island
Springfield
Rosenfield
Ambulance Corps
Weehawken
New York
West
The
Argus
Cures for scrofula and bowel troubles touted in ad
Clarence L. Delaney of Waller Illinois says Hood's Sarsaparilla cured his scrofula and a long leg sore after years of trouble. Hood's Pills are advertised to cure nausea headaches biliousness and indigestion priced at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Hood’s
Foreman Murphy Departs Deere & Mansur for Toronto Post
Foreman James Murphy of the Deere and Mansur Company pattern shop left Friday for Toronto to take a new position there. Fellow workers at the corn planters works called him Saturday evening, expressing regret at his departure while noting he is advancing himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Murphy
Deere & Mansur Co
Toronto
Canada
Dean's Ointment Cures Itching Piles Quickly
Folly to suffer from night itching piles. Dean's Ointment offers quick and permanent relief. Available at any drug store for cents.
Capital Punishment Sentenced in Scott County
Stegall, Davenport man, convicted of killing Bill Miller after a four day trial in Scott county district court was sentenced to death. He will serve one year at the state penitentiary before execution, to be carried out by the Scott county sheriff in the penitentiary under Iowa’s new code.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stegall
Davenport
Bill Miller
Scott County
Iowa
Horney Wins Rock Island Arsenal Golf Championship
Lieutenant O C Horney defeated John I Samuels six up with five to play after a two day thirty six hole final. Barnard beat Good for the Class B cup and Butterworth downed Curtis for the consolation cup. Mrs Skinner won the seventh handicap preliminary in the ladies event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John I. Samuels
O. C. Horney
Rock Island Arsenal Golf Club
Horney
Lieutenant Horney
Samuels
C. A. Barnard
J. W. Good
Wm. Butterworth
H. E. Curtis
C. P. Skinner
Zeublins Lectures Begin At First Baptist Church
Prof Zueblin delivers the first of six lectures in First Baptist church starting Tuesday Oct 11. Tickets cost one dollar for all six lectures and go on sale a week before the first lecture at Carlson Co stand fifteenth street post office stand and Clendenins Lindvalls drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zueblin
First Baptist Church
Carlson & Co
Newstand
Fifteenth Street
Post Office Newstand
Clendenin's
Lindvall's
Rock Island Arsenal Worker Loses Eye in Saw Accident
Joe Mauget, an employee at the Rock Island Arsenal, sustained the loss of an eye when a bandsaw produced flying debris Saturday. A fragment penetrated the optic nerve, destroying sight in that eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Mauget
Rock Island Arsenal
County Board Examines Courtroom Acoustics and Elections
The September session adjourned without final acoustics upgrades for the circuit courtroom while architects offered gallery or desk reposition options. The public expenditures committee will report a plan next meeting. A precinct reappointment occurred and five hundred prospective jurors were drawn. County officers’ salaries remain unchanged. Elevator conductor appointment deferred as Cornelius Pfaff seeks the post. George Edgar resigns from courthouse engineering duties. Ed Schnert runs the elevator temporarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Board
South Moline
Louis O. Javis
R. A. Smith
W. C. Wilson
Wilson Harris
Emil Lundahl
John Lewis
Cornelius Pfaff
George Edgar
Court House
Ed. Schnert
Miss Alma Larson Leaves for Atlanta as Music Teacher
Miss Alma Larson of 107 Fourth Avenue departs at noon for Atlanta Georgia to teach music at the Ladies Music School. Her sister Miss Amanda a nurse at Atlanta City Hospital accompanies her. Larson is regarded as one of Prof Stolpe's finest pupils and praised for her piano and pipe organ play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Larson
Fourth Avenue
Swedish Lutheran Church
Atlanta
Ladies
Miss Larson
Amanda
City Hospital
Allen's Foot-Fase and Foot-Ease Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Fase powder to shake into shoes for swollen hot feet. It claims relief from smarting feet, tight shoes, blisters and bunions, with a trial package free and 25 cent price. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmstead
le Roy
N. Y
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Reant Coorda, Tagele, Mie
Soge
E. D. Thulin
Bert Viertech
Montauk Paint
Evening Dispatch
Arsenal Club
Zeublin
Aya
Walter Baker & CO
Haa
Medical and Surgical Journal
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
Pensdale
Pennsylvania
Gee Es
Virginia Beach, VA
Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Southern Railway
Vanderbilt Lines
Virgiaix Beach
Princess Anne
Virginia Beach Land Co
Norfolk, Va
Citizen's Bank
Citizens Bank
Norfolk
Virginia Bead Land Company
Minnesota
Japan
Columbia River
Java
Herkimer County
Ioc
Rio
R. Anderson
J. E. Walsh
Tate of
Acenthony
Griane
Lorthern Wisconsin
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha Ry. Co
Paul W. Blt T
Coinentone
Genesy Tal Passportz
St. Pa
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