Fourth of July notes and local sightings in Davenport
Large Fourth of July gathering from Wapello and Rock Island visitors fill Davenport streets. A new Rock Island theatre project named the Illinois may join promoter Johnston’s circuit. The Milwaukee road tests automatic train order device aiding engineers with whistle signals and enforced stops. Max Albert Bodman dies from injuries after a runaway accident. family mourns in Muscatine and Kansas City.
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Rock Island
George H. Johnston
St. Louis
Chamberlain & Kindt
Davenport
Burlington
Peoria
Keokuk
Iowa City
Quincy
Maine
Galesburg
Muscatine
Rockford
Milwaukee Road
Best Filter and Cooler at McQuesten Sawyers
Davenport combination filter and cooler advertised in all sizes and prices. See the best at McQuesten Sawyer's for customers seeking quality cooling filtration.
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McQuesten
Sawyer’s
Iowa Girl Recovers Farm, Captures Tramps in Delhi
Miss Sarah Clough of the Beal brothers farm detained a gang of tramps about to seize young livestock. She faced them with a repeating rifle, ordered them to surrender, and had them marched to town for the officers. The youths await trial in jail.
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Iowa
Delhi
Sarah Clough
Beal Brothers
Farm accident injures John Mulvey spine skull fracture
On John Mulvey's farm one mile south of Shell Rock Iowa the hayfork broke dropping the implement and striking him on the head fracturing his skull leaving him in a critical condition. In Waterloo Iowa three men were killed and one severely hurt by Train No 3 on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern railway last evening.
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Shell Rock
John Mulvey
Low Rates to Buffalo Exposition Via Nickel Plate Road
Special reduced fares Chicago to New York and return offered on three through daily trains with vestibuled sleeping cars and fine dining car service meals on the American club meals plan priced from 35 cents to 1 dollar. Chicago depot Van Buren street and Pacific avenue on the Elevated loop. John Y. Callahan general agent 111 Adams Street Chicago.
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Buffalo
Exposition
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
New York
van Buren Street
Pacific Avenue
John Y. Callahan
Adams Street
John Y. Calahan
Visitors and hometown notes from Davenport and beyond
Local brief items report Miss Bertha Wachter and Miss Gertie Bierman traveling from Davenport, Lelia Scholten and Mrs. T Moynahan visiting relatives, and several others arriving or leaving. Firecracker accidents injure two children. families from Fairfield Wilton Burlington and San Jose stay with local residents.
Markets Report From Chicago and North Wheat Prices
Chicago markets dispatch shows July wheat at 64 1 2 to 66 1 2 cents with July corn around 44 to 46 cents and oats near 27 cents. Hogs, cattle, and sheep receipts listed with prices and futures. rain and heat affecting crops across Kansas Iowa Nebraska Illinois Minnesota and the Dakotas. overall market and weather notes from Liverpool to Cincinnati.
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Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Illinois
Manitoba
Dakotas
Minnesota
Corn Belt
Concordia
Whichita
Omaha
Sioux City
Valentine
Trace
Springefild
Ilinois
Missouri
Montana
Texas
Cincinnati
Iliness
Oklahoma
Nickel Plate offers Buffalo Pan-American exposition trip
Nickel Plate line sells tickets from Chicago to Buffalo and return for 13 dollars to Buffalo and back, good for travel up to midnight on the tenth day from date of sale. Also Chicago to Buffalo and return available at 16 dollars.
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Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
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Arthur Fowler
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John Hoeb
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Lee T. Gobble and Sons
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Star Cloth’g CO
Muscatine, Iowa
J. H. St. John’s
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