Davenport Neighbors Report Rail Line Visit and Local Incidents
A Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul expedition visited Davenport to inspect stock yards near Nahant and yards west of the city. Reports recount a streetcar collision injuring blacksmith Thomas D. Peterson, and a train strike that killed Mrs. Frank Koehler at Sabula. Also noted are a divorce action post-assault, a pastor call from Sidney Ohio, and rail operations advisories following a washout near DeWitt.
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Nahant
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Davenport
Milwaukee
LeRoy M. Coffman
Sidney
Ohio
First Presbyterian Church
Lima
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Kansas City
Compulsory Forest Planting for Prairie Lands
Port Byron April 27 The editor argues for state action to increase forest cover in prairie counties. He proposes compulsory planting aided by state loans or tax exemptions, estimating 2,060,000 acres of new forest across bands of prairie, with bonds $12 million and annual interest about $500,000, repaid in 10 to 20 years. JOHN G. OSBORN. He endorses Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea in an ad at the end.
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Port Byron
Argus
Commonwealth
Prairie
Iowa
John G. Osborn
Wedding plans hinge on engineering New York home move
Lightning struck the home of G. S. Lowe at 2011 Fifteenth Street Friday afternoon, injuring Nellie Wells briefly but sparing her from serious harm as a fire was quickly doused by rain. The attic smoked, a gable tore off, and minor roof damage occurred in the 3 pm incident. Obituary notes Miss Inga Anderson of 1213 Fifth Avenue died Friday night. Swedish born in 1823, she came to America in 1853, lived in Mobile and then the city, operated a boarding house for decades, and lived retired recently with sister Mrs. Charlotte Erickson, burned in a gasoline explosion about a week earlier.
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G. S. Lowe
Fifteenth Street
Nellie Wells
Miss Wells
Inga Anderson
Fifth Avenue
Sweden
America
Moline
Charlotte Erickson
Dr. King's New Life Pills Promised To Purify System
Advertisement claims plenty of trouble from stagnation of liver and bowels and links to head ache biliousness and jaundice. Pills marketed as reliable purifiers that do not grind or gripe priced 25 cents at all druggists.
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Dr. King
S.S.S
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
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Thomas D. Peterson
Fourth and
Marquette Streets
Fourth Street
Fourth
Harris Streets
Peterson
Koos
Dan F. Evers
John M. Mason
Pany
Albert Hass
Evers
Frank Koehler
Jacob
Ida Galdner
Herman Geertz
Sabula
Koehler
John B. Humes
Vada Humes
Humes
Barney O'Neill
DeWitt
Northwestern
W. B. Foster
Jesse P. Morris
Skippers
East Moline
Dimock, Gould & Co
Moline Trust & Savings Bank
Garfield
Lincoln
Willard
Washington
Grant
Irving
Ericsson
Silvis
Mississippi River
Marrigge
Susan Edgington Walker
Rufus Walker
Daniel Sanford Smith
Bridgeport
Knabe
Hambourg
von Bulow
Sss
D'Albert
ATA Seve
Totten
Second Avenue
Rock Island, If
Hers Knabe
Strecker
Lewis
Hollister
Harper House
Pharmacy
Cash Grocers
7Th Ave
15Th St
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
New York
Mutual Loan Company
People’s National Bank
H. A. Lohse
Gus Lohse
Seventh Avenue
W. C. Maucker
Fire Insurance Agency
Maucker
Insurance Commissioner of Illinois
Aachen
Munich
Ins. Co
Germany
Commercial Union Assurance Co
England
Franklin Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Fire Association of
German American Insurance Co
Hanover Insurance Co
Hartford Fire Ins. Co
Connecticut Insurance Co. of North America
Niagara Fire Insurance Co
North British and Mercantile Ins. Co
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Phenix Insurance Co
Phoenix Insurance Co
Connecticut
United Firemens Insurance Co
London Assurance Corporation
Fourth Avenue
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