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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1903
Page
2
A local loan office advertises generous loans on all items and unredeemed goods. It promotes a special bargain in a 944 k diamond ring and invites customers to visit Siegel's Loan Office at 320 Twentieth Street or call 633 brown.
Partial timetable fragments list various times such as 8:10 am 9:40 pm and 1:45 pm 6:55 pm 37:20 pm, but details like routes, services, and destinations are incomplete. The readable items show irregular time entries without clear context or full event descriptions.
Chicago Dental Company promotes affordable dental work with guaranteed quality and a price list including cleaning free, gold fillings from $1, gold crowns from $4 to $5, and sets of teeth starting at $5. The office is permanently located at 1607 Second Ave Rock Island, over Speidel's Drug Store.
Jocke Manwaring’s dance hall in Davenport shuts at midnight on Saturday, signaling renewed liquor reform across the district. Nearby rail and streetcar extensions on Rockingham road near completion, with rail crossings to be specially laid for separate lines. I L & L railroad officials deny links to Chicago & North Western, anticipate electric propulsion though steam later possible for freight. A 10 year old, George Braunlich, injured in bicycle accident on Harrison near Thirteenth, taken home for care. About 1,000 attended a Saengerfest at Schnetzen park, with delegates from Clinton, St Louis, Chicago, and a Claus Groth ball banquet. A turn-out rehearsal by 200 voices at Turner hall preceded a park program. An apple tree fruiting anomaly observed at Warnebeld’s evergreen fruit farm. Ruymann & Ruymann incorporation papers filed with county recorder.
A company formed to buy about nine acres on Locust street in East Davenport plans to convert the ground into lots and add another addition to the city. The article references Solomon’s Horses and snippets about ancient history and artist Richard M. Hunt, illustrating varied topics in a fragmented text.
A quotation from George Dana Boardman in Ethics of the Body compares blood to a river of life. It describes the circulatory system as canals and vessels where corpuscles act as barges, moving through capillaries and arteries to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide, likening blood to money in society as the circulating medium.
A Hindu man was stripped of caste for eating cooked food in a mixed caste railway carriage. He paid his weight in rice valued at 180 rupees, then in wheat, was weighed twice, rolled in manure except for his face, thrown into a river, bathed, and finally received by Brahmans, rejoining caste fellowship.
A dialogue between Berkeley and his wife at dinner reveals a tense exchange about a spoken secret. He asks if she shared what he told her the night before last and learns she did not realize it was supposed to be kept quiet.
John J. Patton, aPatton Alabama citizen, suffered a violent diarrhoea attack but was cured after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A 25 cent bottle and three doses proved effective. claimed as the best bowel remedy. Sold by all druggists.
The notice urges buyers to look for DeWitt on every box of Witch Hazel Salve, touts its purity for cuts burns and sores, warns of counterfeits, and identifies E. C. De Witt & Co Chicago as the genuine maker with local retailers Harper House pharmacy and A Reiss drug store. It also promotes Folex Kidney Cure from Foil? druggists as a kidney remedy.
Rockford pitcher Calhoun, in the Three Eye league, seeks a Latin and history teaching post at Moline High School. He recently visited Moline during Rock Island stay, aims to revive local football and build a strong team, with athletic ties cited by several applicants for the principalship.
Ladies and gents discouraged by thinning hair are urged to try Newbro's Herpicide. The product claims to kill the dandruff germ at the root, stimulating hair growth without oil or dye. A 10 cent sample is offered by the Detroit company, with local sale by T. H. Thomas, druggist.
Dr H B Hettinger of Indianapolis cites months of ankle sprain related rheumatism eased in four days after using Detchon s Mystic Cure for Rheumatism. He reports walking without a cane after two bottles and recommends it to all sufferers. Sold by Otto Grotjan Rock Island and Gust Schlegel & Son Davenport.
An advertisement asserts that kidney disorders disturb the whole body and that curing the kidneys fixes health. It promotes Kid-Ne-Oids as the surest cure, signed by T. H. Thomas as leading advertiser.
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