Busy Day With Fires And Local News Of Davenport
Firefighters responded to four alarms including a serious blaze at Louis Gerwe’s home at 113 Grand Avenue with roof loss and $1200 plus damage. Four smallpox cases reported at 619 Oak Street West Davenport. City council items include labor payroll, street and waterworks work, and ordinance votes. Obituaries note John Ehlers and L P Nelson, plus a long list of municipal updates and a school commencement date set for May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Gerwe
Grand Avenue
Dr. Neufeld
Board of Health
Oak Street
West
Davenport
Fred Kelly
Will Kelly
Nettie Kelly
Minnie Meckel
John Ehlers
Thirteenth Avenue
Germany
Illinois
L. P. Nelson
Fourth Avenue
Josetta Miller
Whitewasher
Wis
Milo Stacy
Parrot Quips Enduring Line After Big Ship Scene
A city report shows Alderman Anderson and others adopting a report and naming certain persons as elected. A fire loss adjustment for city hall was authorized before adjournment. A nautical tale follows of a parrot trained to exclaim that's a good trick, even amid an explosion at a port warehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Council
Rock Island
Schaffer
Alderman Anderson
Finance Committee
Motron
Roy Seeley
Springfield
Fire and Light Committee
Anderson
Thiat
Ostrom
Oberg
Tuckis
Schmid
Pratt
Holzhammer
Utke
Smith
Benson
Frick
Trefz
Lawler
McNealy
Ohberg
W. E. Bailey
Lincoln Court
Board of Local Improvements
Twenty-sixth Street
Thirteenth
Tenth Avenues
Alderman Lawler
Tri-city Railway Company
Eleventh Street
Tenth
Eighteenth Avenues
Anderson, Tuckis
Frank W. Blochlinger
John W. Carse
Charles J. Smith
Charles L. Thompson
George L. Schmid
Frank Lawler
Truman J. Ellinwood
Ill
South Rock Island
A. G. Anderson
J. R. Tuckis
John Holzhammer
M. T. Rudgren
Pacific Coast
Mobridge
S. D
Seattle
Tacoma
Wash
South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Fergus County
Judith Basin
Washington
Dakotas
What is the use of coming home when there is no home to come to
A man, a philosopher merchant, plans a rest in Scotland but learns his house burned. His wife asks him to return, yet he replies to take the children to his mother and join later. A second item notes Indiana Tippecanoe battlefield monument plans and funding debates.
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Scotland
Maria
Ths
Tippecanoe Monument
Indiana Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument
Hanly
United States
Tippecanoy Battlefield
Doan's Kidney Pills Help Rock Island Man
Amos Burgman of Davenport reports severe kidney disease with back pain and headaches improving after using three boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills. He credits relief to the remedy and urges others to ask Harper House Pharmacy for customer reports. Sold everywhere 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Amos Burgman
Fair Street
Davenport
Iowa
Rock Island
Harper House Pharmacy
Foster-Milburn Company
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Doan
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Cushing
The
Corn Products Company
Alliance
Central Alliance
Claus Grothhall
W. O. Schmidt
Pete Loge
O'Brien
Tony Harper
Fred Bowers
Henry Utke
Richard Bierley
D. W. Kelley
John Haley
T. Heverling
Michael Kelley
John Burton
Henry Wish
Harry Dean
Sam Dean
John van Dale
Chas Grams
First Ward
Thirty-eighth Street
Seventh Avenue
Second Street
Eleventh
Twelfth Avenues
J. W. Stewart
Virgil M. Warren
Waterworks Committee
Jackson
Board of Education
J. B. Hock
Mr. Hock
Standard Oil Company Incorporated
Knabe
von Bulow
D’albert
America
Totten
Second Avenue
Rock Island, Fil
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Homeseekers
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
George
Haynes
Adams St
F. R. Kuschmann
Fourth Ave
BormLe
Rock Island, Ill
LEACH @ GREVE
Rock Island, Il
Walsh
Walshan Medical Institute
West ‘Third Street
Main Street
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