Local News Roundup Highlights Evening Events
Multiple short items report residents and visitors in Davenport including Stapleton and Miss Shad departing town. a central game between Central Rock Island and Muscatine Maroons. baseball and other social notes at fair grounds and nearby venues. A serious injury incident with Henry Alterhruse is noted along with cafe offerings and upcoming society meetings. Mrs. Vogel returns from New York while Mrs. Nesper suffers dental extraction complications.
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Fair Grounds
Central Rock Island
Muscatine Maroons
Wanted Life Lena Marticke Seeks Divorce from Oscar Marticke
Lena Marticke files for divorce in district court claiming her husband Oscar Marticke has an uncontrollable temper and abused her. She alleges threats with a knife during illness, repeated beatings, denial of medical care, and separation losses including the cow. She seeks alimony, attorney fees, restoration of her maiden name Lena Kelley, and guardianship of their child. case set for the June term.
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Lena Marticke
Oscar Marticke
Lena Kelley
Ed. P. Ingham
Bottles for babies in ancient Greece and Rome
Professor Mosby told an antiquarian society that feeding bottles existed in ancient times. He cited Greek nurses using honey pots to soothe babies and two 7th century B C Greek vases in the British Museum. A red Roman feeding bottle was found in Canterbury's St Sepulcher cemetery in 1861.
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British Museum
St. Sepulcher
Canterbury
Byron and Napoleon as parallel tragic figures
John Davidson in London Outlook compares Lord Byron and Napoleon as mirrored tragedies of temperament. He argues Byron’s life is a sequence of tragic loves, a loveless upbringing, and a doomed reach for expression that ends in Greece seeking action. Napoleon embodies active tragedy through conquest and forced memoirs.
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Napoleon
Greece
St. Helena
John Davidson
London Outlook
A Bit of Orctory Speech by Benton McMillin
An old speech reflects on a bygone era when American ships and seamen carried commerce under the flag. The author lauds national identity as the flag appeared in distant ports and distant seas and in the imagery of American strength and beauty across lands.
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Orient
Benton McMillin
Robber Bees Plague Monarchies of Bees Warned by Tit Bits
The London Tit-Bits notes that bees, though well governed, suffer organized crime among sneaks and highway robbers. Some colonies thrive on theft, others rely on burglary while some larvae allegedly artificial via feeding bone and brandy mixtures, as per Buchier.
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Buchier
London
Markets Today Hog and Sheep Quotes From Local Auction
Hog receipts total 10 000 with prices rising five cents for some classes and mixed trends for others. Buyers paid 5 00 to 5 45 for hogs with bulk sales around 5 30 to 5 49. Sheep receipts 2 000 steady with lambs at 4 50 to 7 00 and sheep at 3 50 to 5 25.
Chicago Poultry Market Report
Chicago May 20 poultry prices show weakness across categories with turkeys at 14 to 15 cents per pound chickens at 13 cents and springs ranging from 3.00 to 6.50 dollars per hundredweight.
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Chicago
Chicago Butter and Egg Market News Report
Butter steady across creamery and dairy prices ranging from 16 to 21 cents per pound. Eggs firm at 15 to 15 1/2 cents per dozen as of May 20 in Chicago markets.
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Chicago
New York Produce Market Report
The New York produce market notes wheat for July at 92 4 8 cents and corn at 53 4 cents. Market activity appears steady with prices listed for futures trading on the New York exchange.
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New York
New York Poultry Prices May and Market Report
New York May 20 poultry market report shows fowls 10 13 in a per pair range of 75c to 1.00 for spring chickens. Broilers quoted 30 35 and turkeys 12 17e.
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New York
New York Butter and Egg Market Update
New York on May 20 reports butter factory at 14 18 1/2 cents per pound. Egg prices remain unchanged with no movement noted.
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New York
Chicago Produce Market Highlights Wheat and Grain Prices
Wheat and corn futures move with mixed results as No. 2 red wheat ranges from 98c to 1.04, July contracts firm and oats show modest gains. Park May milk and rye steady, flax cash advances, barley small, while bank statement shows loans and deposits up month over month and U S deposits down.
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The
Associated Press
Timothy
Peoria Corn Market Report May 20
Peoria corn market shows No 3 at 514 ½ to 514 ¾ cents. St Louis market reports wheat July at 82 ½ cents corn at 46 ¾ cents oats at 28 cents.
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Peoria
St. Louis
Wanted energetic woman to advertise and receive orders
An advertisement seeks an energetic lady to advertise and take orders for hygienic soaps perfumes flavoring extracts and toilet preparations. The position pays 20 dollars weekly with free samples and advertising matter. Hygienic Manufacturing Co. at 276 285 East Madison Street Chicago offers the post.
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Hygienic Manufacturing Co
E. Madison St
Chicago
Court of Honor Memorial Program Arranged for Muscatine Tomorrow
The Muscatine Court of Honor schedules a private memorial service at Woodman hall tomorrow afternoon with speakers J B Reay John C Coster and J M Butler among others. Moline visitors arrive at 1 o clock from Plow City with plans for refreshments and shared entertainment. Fourteen deceased Muscatine members lie in city cemeteries.
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John C. Coster
Moline and Muscatine
Moline
Plow City Court
Muscatine Court
Stranger asks where poet John G Whittier lived in Danvers
A stranger enters the Berry tavern in Danvers and asks for Joe Whittier the contractor. A local man misnames Whittier and jokes about John G Whittier the dead poet, finally directing him to Will Crosby the undertaker across the street for information.
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New England
Joe Whittier
Danversport
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Clarence Whittier
Essex Street
Will Crosby
Boston Herald
Misfortune Shapes Character and Strength in Adversity
The piece argues pain and sorrow forge character, with happiness only surface brightening. Misfortune or disability often elevates people into poets, orators, philanthropists, scientists, or statesmen, while misplaced love can still noble the lover.
The Glowing Twilight Called Gloaming
The term gloaming echoes gloom and denotes the dim light at dusk as the sun sinks. Byron notes its harmony and cites Scottish usage for twilight, with references to the gloaming star and lines from Lowell and Hogg illustrating its literary presence.
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Byron
Dr. Moore
Burns
Scotland
Lowell
Hogg
Imposter Arrest Ordered for Inland Printer Solicitor
A Boone Iowa Inland Printer solicitor who collected $2.00 for a yearly subscription was labeled a fraud and ordered arrested by the company in a telegram received by Boone printers. The incident occurred May 20 as the man was confronted.
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Boone, Ia
Boone
Closing Exercises At Morning Sun Public Schools
The Morning Sun public schools held closing exercises in Landon hall last evening. A large audience saw performances by the high school orchestra and chorus, a humorous impersonation, a declamation, and a variety of sketches and music. The program featured Mrs Jarley’s Wax Works, a comedietta The Queen Anne Cottages, and multiple choruses. The finale was a dramatic re-creation of opposing camps singing Home Sweet Home with flag bearing participants.
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Morning Sun
Morning Sun Public Schools
Landon Hall
Iva Elliott
Roy Wilson
Roy Pierce
Ray Latta
Anglesea Yohe
Lola Clausen
J. G. Saxe
Leonard Owens
Charles Swan
el Travator
Ora Wilson
Rappahanock
Dixie Land
Nichols Visitors Arrive In City From Home
Mr and Mrs John Nichols arrived last evening from Nichols to spend today in this city.
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John Nichols
Nichols
Farmer Suffers Blood Poison From Puncture
George Mittman a farmer south of the city has a swollen hand from a puncture bite of a lead pencil point leading to blood poison. He is improving after medical treatment and rest.
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George Mittman
Remarkable Scrapbook Guards Hidden Currency Proofs
A guarded US Treasury scrapbook sits in a burglar proof safe in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Only high officials have seen it. Its shabby exterior belies the valuable proofs pasted inside from counterfeit plates seized by the government.
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United States Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Department
Youth urged to change tactics or risk becoming a might have been
A writer warns a youth to seek a brace up and purpose before it is too late. He argues failure to reform will lead to joining the great army of the might have beens, a path marked by squandered potential and lost opportunities.
Snails Emerge As Culinary Question In Philadelphia
A Washington Star quote features a playful exchange where an epicure jokes about cannibalism in Philadelphia while a local girl explains the real issue is catching the snails. The banter highlights local appetite and an amusing regional mistranslation.
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Philadelphia
Washington Star
Bigelow’s Assets Show Broad Mining Interests
Milwaukee May 20 The Journal prints a long list of assets of ex banker Frank G Bigelow not before public showing he was involved in many ventures including stock in mining properties and other concerns deemed valueless.
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Milwaukee
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Frank G. Bigelow
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