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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
2
Davenport news reports a thriving Outing Club after a Wednesday meeting with a gratifying first quarterly report read by Secretary Kerker, plus new members. The paper notes lawsuits, temple remodeling talks, Masonic appointments, divorce actions, obituaries, hotel remodeling contracts, and police actions from Davenport and surrounding areas.
Milan reports include Rock Island visitors at Mrs Susanna Walker and a return home from West Bend by Mrs Wilson Matthews. William Gober moves into Fairview house. Willie Little returns to Milan from Conway Springs. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid met at Mrs Joe Morehead. deep election interest noted with voting at Methodist booth. The Coburn family moves from LaGrande Oregon to Williams property on Dickson Street. Charles and Mrs Wysong welcome a daughter. John and Margaret McQuaid host a surprise gathering with schoolmates and friends.
Hillsdale residents share birthday celebrations and visits as Mrs Elsie Huneke and family honor Grandma Wiggins on her 88th birthday. Neighbors return from Sterling and Galesburg visits while others move homes to Watertown and Barstow. Local ferry operations expand with Kempster new boat in service as families relocate and attend funerals in Colona and Amboy.
The obituary excerpt notes affiliations with the switchmen's union and Rock Island lodge of Knights of Pythias for a Moline resident married in 1896, with surviving relatives including Alfred Dahlstedt and Mrs. Fred Erickson. Also mentioned is Eva M. Anderson, 13, who died after a prolonged illness, born in Sheffield, lived in Moline, with six sisters and two brothers listed as survivors. Carl Joel Swanson, 31, died at city hospital after a long illness.
The piece rejects exercise and dieting as impractical and dangerous for a fat person. It prescribes Marmola with Cascara Aromatic and Syrup Simplex, taken after meals and at night, claiming a half to a pound of fat loss daily within a month and urging readers to try it for overall well being.
A local resident associated with the Swedish Lutheran church died suddenly. He had lived here seven years and was employed by a local company. Friends and colleagues join in mourning the loss of a devout community member with Bright's disease cited among the ailment factors.
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