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Newspaper

Rock Island Argus

Location

Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1906

Page

2

Child’s Horrific Skin Ailment Baffles Doctors

A child suffers a severe skin condition with massive sores covering the face and body. Ears droop and the face becomes increasingly clear as the illness worsens, despite treatment from three doctors.

Cured by Cuticura in two weeks for 75c

A Akron Ohio mother recounts a Cure by Cuticura Soap and Ointment for her child with widespread skin humors. After trying doctors with no relief, the baby improved within days and the sores healed, with the letter praising low cost and effectiveness. The ad promotes Complete External and Internal Treatment for skin conditions and offers free information from Potter Drug & Chem.

J. Steese Coburn St Akron Ohio Cuthura Potter Drug & Chem Boston Maes

Happy Home Jewel Smokeless Generator Stove Ad

The advertisement promotes the Jewel Smokeless Generator Gasolene Stove as a solution to trouble and confusion. It highlights model 78-98 a step stove with a step burner eighteen inches from the floor for wash day convenience. The wash boiler or oven may be used on the step freeing the stove top for other tasks.

Starved Horses Case Leads Davenport Cruelty Charge

Davenport news notes a case of animal cruelty filed by Humane Officer George Ellman against Leedon Hart, a 2320 Grand avenue resident, for starved and neglected horse death. Ellman describes four days without feed or water, the horse dying in suffering before humane intervention. Earlier Hart’s horse fate prompted a prior killing by the officer.

Leedon Hart Grand Avenue Justice Ditzen George Ellman Hart Mr. Ellman

Rock Island County Court Probate Docket Summary

In Rock Island County Court, Judge Parmenter presides over probate matters. Claims by Mary Goekent and Dr. G Wiggins are allowed in specified classes with monetary amounts. Appointments include guardians for minors and conservators, with proofs of service, notices, and hearings. Bonds set at 2500 and 2400 dollars, with orders of sale and conservatorship actions finalized.

Samuel W. Sprickler Thomas Wherry E. J. Hay Hay Rittman Ohio Rock Island B &. Parmenter Sarah E. Cook Mary Goekent August John Selma C. Johnson Hugh E. Curtis Guardian Bradford N. Phillep Anna C. Kuehl Wiggins Ward Moore Ena Willard E. Moore Ward Mary Anson

Launch trip from Fifteenth street with Kath eryne B

D A Leach of this city and J D Blume of Galesburg embarked from the foot of Fifteenth street in the Kath eryne B on a three day river trip after shipping the launch from Lake Rice the C B and Q lake in Galesburg on a flat car They planned two days upstream and one down stream.

D. A. Leach J. D. Blume Galesburg Fifteenth ‘Street Katheryne B Lake Rice

Railways Offer Affordable Round Trip Fares This Summer

The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and Rock Island lines advertise round trip tickets to Chicago Milwaukee and Kansas City for eight dollars with varying return limits. Excelsior Springs Missouri promotes a 32 page illustrated book on its waters and hotels, available for four cents postage. Through service via the St Paul system invites travel to Colorado for the summer with low rates and efficient through trains.

Union Pacific F. A. Miller Chicago Colorado-California South Dakota Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Lyman County Missouri River Minneapolis St. Paul Rock Island Moline St. Pan Mone City Ticket Office Second Avenue Milwaukee Excelsior Springs Colorado Rocky Mountains

Shortstop Wagner Auctioned as Newark Star Draws Nods

A London Mail note hints at a Newark N J Eastern league shortstop named Wagner drawing major league interest and possible comparison to a Pittsburgh Nationals star. The item also recalls a youth mispronunciation anecdote about a four year old boy sleeping in a top berth and asserting he is in the top drawer.

Watch Tower John Hurley John Kinney Velie Carriage Company Gertie Shields Davenport Hurley Agnes Hurley National Employment Bureau John Keokuk Kinney Father Reilly Jon Tower Wagner Newark N. J Pittsburg Nationals Johnny

A Wise Man Hewitt How did you marry your typewriter

The remark plays on marriages and machines with Hewitt asking how a man married a typewriter and Jewett replying he found a good wife and dismissed a poor stenographer in a witty quip from the New York Press.

Hewitt Jewett New York Press

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Allen Myers & Company III Eatin Souths Queen & Cresci Southern Railway Cincinnati Louisville W. C. Rinkarson GP. A, Cincinn Kline Dy Mall DeWitt R. A. Pratt Woman's Union Labor League American Federation of Labor Iowa al Carstens Justice Roddewig Old Settlers Pioneer Settlers’ Association of Scott County Court House J. F. Kelly Jesse Armil Henry Karwath Oscar Virgin Martin Humane George Eliman Peoria Ill East Tenth Street George Black England Toronto Fred George Alfred FE. F. Light East Berlin Conn Mercy Hospital Wilhelmina Schwieder John Getz G. A. Funck W. B H. G. Nyenhins Louis Mosenfelder Frederick Echart L. Mosenfelder Emil Kohler Frank W. Blochlinger Old Town William E. Bailey James H. Sullivan Wallace Alfred Parsons Lillian E. Parsons A. Smith & White Moline Heights John Hackerson Rock Island Mutual Building Loan & Saings Association Alday East Rock Island W. E. Bailey Anna A. Hensch Wallace Grove William Johnson John A. Anderson Sweeney & Jackson W. P. Daebelliehn B. F. Stow Daebelliehn J. E. Johnson Harry Alers Lower Add Emma E Matilda D, Erickson Acme Francis E. Crompton John J. Joslin L. S. McCabe James McNamara Edgewood Park Fairmount G. A. Howens James Thompson Old Town of Milan Leonard Stockwell C. W. Green Brigham’s Cordova Galveston’s Sea Wall E. W. Goodloe Dutton Street Waco Tex Dr. King Hartz & Ullemeyer Pabst Blue Ribbon Pabst M. Levy & Son West First Ave Blue Ribbon Beer Telephone Company Central Union Telephone Company Springfield Alfred ‘Freed Prospect Park Park The Swedish Methodist Church J. P. Miller Miller Homeseekers Alberta Manitoba Michigan Minnesota North South Dakotas Ontario Saskatchewan Wisconsin Kansas Miss Withers Binks London Mail Malta Vita Cluett, Peabody & Co B. & Q. Depot F. A. Riddell Walsh Dr. Walsh Chicago Medical Institute West Third Street Main Street Rh. E. Casteel L. D. Mudge H. B. Simmon Central Trust. and Savings Bank Island, Ill Stats Law Depwalte H. H. Cleaveland Mary E. Robinson E. D. Sweeney H. W. Tremann H. D. Mack Heagy John Schafer Paridon Wall Paper Co Seventeenth Street Rock Island Savings Bane KK Island, IL Phil Mitchell H. P. Hull P. Greenawalt Mitchell & Lynde R. R. Cable William H. Dart E. W. Hurst John Volk P. Greenawalt Phi Mitchell, L. Simon H. P. Cable Jackson & Hurst
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