Community News and Obituaries Include Local Events and Deaths
Local notes report a grocery business push for organization and a Schwetzen Park meeting. Obituary notices list Elizabeth Coline born County Chane Ireland and Andrew Stacy with families named in Wombema, plus Stacy descendants and mourners.
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Richard Cera
Andrew Stey
Stacy
Bent
Gertrude
Mabel
Viola Stacy
Loua
Gabriel
Travie
Hem
Frank
Abraham
Shaey
Uiluiher
The Lost Sovereign Clever London Cabby Trick
In a London street a cabby outwits a passenger who dropped a sovereign and fled the scene. The cabby, suspecting a trick, follows the rider to a doorway and retrieves the seized coin from under the shadowed entrance.
Long fragmented East Moline notes and pastry history
Fragmented OCR notes mention events in East Moline with names such as Merton Winston and Vivien, church and community activities, and a late passage reflecting on English cookery evolution. The text also touches on pastry history coining coffins or coffynes, with references to historical figures and a Touron Saturday Review comparison.
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Touron Saturday Review
Notice to Contractors for Third Ward Sidewalks Rock Island
Bids will be received at the mayor's offices for constructing sidewalks on streets and avenues in Rock Island Third ward and opened August 12 1907 at 9 am. Contractors will be paid in bonds bearing 5 percent interest payable in one two three four and five years. Specifications on file at the office of the city engineer H C Schaffer President of Local Improvements.
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Third Ward
City of
Rock Island
Thh
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H.C. Schafper
Beant
Endorsed Remedies and Patented Drugs Featured in Otenso Journal
William M. Dietz touts New Discovery Dr King as family remedy for coughs and throat diseases. Hartz drug store offers trial bottles, Kool for indigestion, and DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills sold by all druggists.
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Sego County
William M. Dietz
Otenso Journal
Gilbertsville
N.Y
Dr. King
W. T . Hartz
Twentieth Street
Bette
DeWitt
Lighting Niagara Falls Colorful Night Illumination Planned
A New York World report states Niagara Falls will be illuminated at night for the first time on Aug 1 under a General Electric project. The plan uses about fifty large searchlights, with several among the largest, capable of casting beams a hundred miles, and introduces a new color scintillator.
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Niagara Fall
New York World
General Electric Company
Ebay
Bondsmen Superseded in Modern Finance
An editorial argues that personal surety bonds are becoming obsolete as corporate bonds replace them. It claims private suretyship is risky, while corporate bonds offer safety and convenience. The piece notes a shift toward borrowing the key of a friend's safe being as unlikely as using their name for surety. It advertises fidelity and contract bonds as promptly furnished.
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S. S.S
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Fragmented notes on detectors and weather lights amid market list
The text describes a plan to position projectors below a waterfall in two batteries and reference to a new color synthesizer attachment on a search belt. It then shifts to weather effects and speculative future problems, followed by an unrelated market listing with prices for food and livestock.
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Ota
Rochester
Markets and stock news from New York and Chicago trading floors
Daily market notes show chicken and oats prices with mixed futures and receipts estimates. Hog futures steady to higher while cattle and sheep run steady. New York stocks edge higher with gains in Steel and Reading, while Rail and Pacific names hold near prior levels.
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Steel
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Reading
Rock Island
Soutern Pacific
N.Y
Erie
Atchison
Locome iv
St. Paul
Southern Ry
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Local Market Conditions Rock Island Quotations
Today's market report lists provisions produce live poultry with spring chickens priced at 1.90 per unit. The column covers live stock feed and fuel with current price quotations reflecting market activity in Rock Island for August.
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Rock Island
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