Davenport Dots Reports on Road Vacation and Local Incidents
Davenport board of supervisors advances plans to vacate the county road east of Es Planade to permit new town plat development near Oakdale cemetery. Other items note a watch loss by Duke Goldman near a livery ride, a millwright’s fall at Seavern elevator, and a Davenport Outing Club pamphlet promoting a new clubhouse while proceedings include river road widening awards and a suburban railway right of way.
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Board of Supervisors
Es Planade Avenue
Oakdale Cemetery
C. 8. Watkins
Watkins
Far West
Duke Goldman
Emma Goldman
Goldman
Emma
Seavern
Fishertown
Davenport Company
Huffaro
Davenport Brick & Tile Company
Buffalo
Bettendorf
Arsenal to Have Own Proving Grounds
Rock Island arsenal conducts experiments on gun carriage widths of fire using eight horses and tractograph readings. A flooded Prospect drive tests mud in extreme conditions while a timber sand-filled butt is built to fire loaded guns for real use evaluation. This site will allow testing without sending equipment to Sandy Hook, highlighting planned, safer proving grounds locally.
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Rock Island Arsenal
United States Army
War Department
Prospect Drive
Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Davenport Democrat
Travel Ads and Patent Remedies Promote Rail Lines and Cures
Travel notices tout Queen and Crescent routes with fast lines to Birmingham New Orleans and through cars to Asheville plus Cincinnati to Atlanta and Jacksonville. Advertisements praise DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for skin injuries and poison ivy as well as Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and lung diseases, with Ricky Mountain Tea and Thomas' Pharmacy selling remedies.
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Queen & Crescent
Birmingham
New Orleans
W. H. Dibble
Sioux City
Iowa
DeWitt
Colts defeat Flying Dutchmen in bowling match at Brunswick
In Moline on Wednesday the Colts won 2345 pins to 2168 over the Flying Dutchmen. The report also covers plans for a new public athletic field, Sunday game questions, and preparations for the Woodman picnic drawing large out-of-town attendance.
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Brunswick
Moline
Look at Her Secret Health Boosters Revealed
An advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills claim to energize all organs and aid digestion with no headaches. It promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers as a liver tonic and Kid-No-Olds for backache and nerves, with claims of vegetable purity and a no cure no pay deal. It cites Hartz Allemeyer and T H Thomas as endorsers.
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H. Johnston
Broughton
Hartz & Allemeyer’s
Dr. King
Hartz & Allemeyer's
DeWitt
W. Scott
Highland Avenue
Milton
T. H. Thomas
Davenport
Tri-Cities
Walsh
McCullough
West Third Street
J. E. Walsh
Iowa
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E. G
Frazer
Telephone
Colona
Rock Island
Mitchell & Lynde
Arthur Burrall
Rock Island of
Colona, I
State of Illinois
Rock Island County
Black Hawk Homesend Building Loan & Saving Association
Julian Spaulding
Earls G. Spaulding
Seidefroult Court
Sul Court
Yenusr
Work Rock
Monsey
Hastine
Nee
Harry
Miles
Dr. Mites Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
J. Johnsons
Foxey
Harper House Pharmacy
Madison Medicine Co
Madison, Wis
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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
California
Colorado
Minnesota
Utah
Northwest
Second Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Thirty-first St
Rock Island Savings Bank
Rock Island, Il
Iteral
Real Estate Security
R. R. Cable
P. Greenawalt
John Crabaugh
Phil Mitchell
H. P. Hull
L. Simon
E. W. Hurst
J. M. Buford
John Volk
Jackson and Hurst
B. Winter
Waukesha and
Colfax Mineral
Third Avenue
Kock Tuland
Davenport Outing Club
Col. M. Holliday
Court of Justice
J. 5
Joshua Burk
Frank Nadler
J. W. Bulard
Sixteenth
Main Streets
Chicago
Grand
Burr
C. J. Brown
Aleert
Erement Island
Colorado Springs
Col
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Quinn O’brien
City
Herschel Printy
Carthage
Sisterhood of the Immaculate Conception Academy
Sisters of Charity
Sacred Heart
Immaculate Conception Academy
ATS
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Frank A. Hart
Pass’r
C. B. & Q. Depot
Guy
Neck Xone
Ookina
Tibet
A.digor Swat P Rawson
W. W. Basu
Arsenal
Chattanooga
Asheville
Southern Railway
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Jacksonville
T.H. Thomas’ Pharmacy
Moline, East Moline & Watertown Railway
Nels Pierce
C. V. Swanson
Charles Swanson
Moline Plow Company
Arp
Christine Carlson
Nels Carlson
Tri-City
Mary Darling
Emil Zetterman
Swift Specific CO
Pythian Convention
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Puget Sound
Northern Pacific Railway
Yellowstone Park
General T'Ass
NX. P. R
St Paul
Minn
Wonderland
Fhotela Art Fe
Stockham
Market Square
S. H. Miller
M'killip’s Veterinary College
Fourth Avenue
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