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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1909
Page
2
Bettendorf residents celebrated a decisive sewer election with 179 votes for sewers and 25 against. The council will meet next Monday to plan issuing up to 28 000 dollars in bonds for sewer construction, including Fisherman project.
Clark Nelson of 1423 Twenty fourth avenue was badly injured when a horse frightened by an oncoming car bolted while he was harnessing a manure spreader near Lynn Illinois. He sustained a deep cut over the left eyebrow requiring five stitches and a chin gash needing two stitches. A Tri City Railway and Light company decision to not lay a double track on Fourth avenue was announced. Porter will relay a single track, bricks to be relaid within days, with rebates limited to one dollar per yard. The council’s franchise extension petition may be withdrawn as stockholders in the merger are consulted.
Davenport greets a combined Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill exhibition featuring North American Indian braves East Indian jugglers dancers and various international acts. Two shows daily 2 and 8 pm rain or shine with open air seating under shed canvases. Also includes curious anecdotes and ancient hair remedies.
A Paris guide shows Napoleon's tomb to a Yankee tourist using grand language about a 40 ton sarcophagus a 12 ton steel receptacle and a 2 ton lead casket then a mahogany coffin the tourist quips that the emperor would be hard to move if he ever got out. The ad then ends with an unrelated drug advertisement for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets sold by druggists.
Six bids opened by the building committee show all bids too high. Gust Ed & Sons offered the lowest at just over 40 000, while plumbing heating and wiring could add about 5000. Five local firms bid, one from Rock Island. Finance committee members say extra funds may be raised.
In Peoria Illinois eight year old Adam Ross son of Nicholas Ross while on a fishing trip with family wandered into Farm creek near its mouth to the Illinois river and was swallowed by quicksand. His body was recovered after strenuous labor late yesterday. The boy accompanied by two sisters and several younger companions had traveled from East Peoria toward Farm creek to fish when he began to sink after stepping out with his pole and cried for help before vanishing.
An advertisement touts Yello cornflakes as a premium toasted cereal made from yellow corn only. It claims superior corn flavor and notes the product is produced in the largest mills in the world. The copy urges consumers to try the new cereal.
George H. Moses reports that the house approved the senate bill creating a state board of examiners in osteopathy and setting license fees, with Governor Brown indicating he will sign the measure.
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