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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
2
Moline Heating & Cooling firm unveils four inch long novelty matches designed to keep hands farther from gas burners. The item aims to reduce heat exposure common with standard matches. Other notes mention chaperoning a group of young ladies at Camp Welcome and wedding attendances in nearby towns.
Judge Barker of Clinton appoints Joe Hebert as receiver upon the intervention of judgment creditors in the German Trust case against Crystal Ice and Cold Storage. The action seeks liquidations tied to first bond holders and the ice company.
Carbon Cliff reports births for Corbin and Henry Krambeck families and several relocations and visits. Charles Fahlstrom returns from Chicago for a two month vacation. Residents attend funerals, visits to Colona and Rock Island, and camps on Rock River. Orion notes visits from Ella Nutting and Ella Rutledge with relatives. Miss Ione McCahon hosts friends.
The Grand Detour Plow factory in Dixon is reorganized with W. B. Brinton as president. New officers include R. R. Frey as vice president, Bradford Brinton as secretary, and F. O. Coleman as treasurer. The group plans to improve and enlarge the Dixon plant as O. B. Dodge, C. H. Noble, and Amos H. Bosworth retire from active roles.
The C M St P offers first class service to Chicago and Kansas City from the tri cities with sleeping car reservations. Home seekers tickets go on sale every Tuesday to Nov 1 1995 to Iowa Minnesota North South Dakota. other homeseekers routes on first and third Tuesdays. Summer tourist rates run May 16 to Sept 30 1905 with final return Oct 31 1905 to Wisconsin resorts. Also touts Kodo Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion sold by druggists.
An advertising notice warns that food can contain poisons and that Dr King’s New Life Pills promise relief from sickness caused by undigested food. The guarantee offers a money back option and a price of 25 cents at Hartz and Ullemeyer drug store.
Charles Hodgson’s agency lists established 1874 and a roster of insurers including American, Continental, New York Agricultural, Traders, Williamsburg, New Hampshire, North German, American, Security, and Ins Co. offices in Newark New York Philadelphia New Haven Rockford and New Haven. Rates as low as consistent with security offered from Room 3 Buford Block in Rockford Illinois.
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