Davenport News Briefs Highlight Speeding Bureaucrats and Buildings
Petersen known as Barney Oldfield clashes with Officer Homeyer after speeding. A saloon injunction against W W Hovey is dropped as his operation moves across the street. Smallpox concern leads to a $290 claim against city officials. Mile track rules bar liquor and gambling at races. Davenport reports a 20 percent rise in building permits totaling about $1 million in the latest month.
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Petersen
Pe Petersen
W. W. Hovey
Second
Iowa
Union Mission
Vollmer
Salvation Army
Hovey
Graps Boiler Works
Iowa Streets
Volker
Mc Hovey
Tommy Galvin
Elizabeth Early
J. A. Phinley
Jr. W. A Stoecks
City Physic
Davenport
Harrison Street
Mellie Miller
Shelf Eekhardt
Sheriff Eckhardt
Iowa City
Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill shows headline Davenport crowd
The two bills show in Davenport today at the old ball park drawing crowds though fewer than usual. The tented city impressed with 500 horses and strong order while Western wild west acts like Red men, Zouave drill, trained elephants, tumblers and pyramid builders drew loud applause. Buffalo Bill received a hearty reception and led the performance with modest prominence.
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Buffalo Bill
Will
Pawnee Bill
Far East
Davenport
Ball Park
Cedar Rapides
Big J
Major Burke
Wild West
Local visitors and social notes fill Moline area
COE Mes and Thomas Crawford visit Adaline and Mrs Foiles for weeks. Miss Dena Hauberg to Valparaiso for teacher's institute and will teach next year. A musical at the Kipper home drew about 60 friends with lanterns and various solos and readings. University of Illinois football and track camps planned on Campbell island with Verne Richards and Benny Baum coordinating. Foundry plans for Moline high school trades building discussed costing about 250 dollars plus equipment to total around 409 dollars. River Improvement Association dues approved by Moline club directors. Local obituaries note the death of 21-year-old Max Hessman. Various visits and minor town business wrap the page.
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Mes
Thomas Crawford
Adaline
William Kipper
Mabel Robinson
Meryl Trowbridge
Bessie Martin
Sadie Cool
Madge Feuster
Grace Camp
Luella Miller
Edna Simpson
Mildred Camp
Miss Liphardt
Virgil Kipper
Lola Donahoo
Edward McMurphy
Virgil Eipper
University of Ilinois
Campbell's Island
Verne Richards
Ihlini
Richards
Oklahoma City
Moline
Benny Baum
Baum
Phoenix
Ariz
Richards Cottage
Moline High School
H. Dickinson
Manual Arts
Manual Art
Dickinson
Markets brace for mixed grain and hog sales today
Chicago quotes show wheat and oats fluctuating across contracts while hogs and cattle receipts hint at a busy day. Omaha and Kansas City reports reflect active hog futures and steady cattle and sheep pricing amid regional gilt and meat demand.
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Omaha
Kansas City
Northwestern
Duluth
Liverpool
New York
Union Pacific Labs
U.S. Steel
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
Local Social News and Community Notes
Mrs Scott Foster of Braceville is hosted by Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson. A Bap Sunday school picnic drew good crowds and raised a neat sum. Pie Bluff M B E church township convention attracted an appreciative audience. Mr and Mrs Thomas Aiken of Kansas City Mo visit relatives nearby. Gladys Foster visiting Rock Island summer, travelled home Friday to Tuesday. Will Kleist, son of Mr and Mrs L Kleist, is ill. Thomas Thorpe, below Copper Creek, is ill at home. Mrs O McNall and her son Nathan spent part of the week here.
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Lincoln
Neb
Bertha L. Evans
Thomas H. Jones
Bettendorf
John Evans
Miss Evans
Kewanee
Frank Thomas
Illinois City
Max Ralph Hessman
Louis Hessman
Matthew Q‘hara
Millersburg
Fred Christian
Jessie Beadle
Shirkey
Charles Foster
Atllissa
Iowa
George Girls
Pine Bluff
S. W. Spickler
Scott
Braceville, Til
Thomas Watson
Pie Bluff M. BE
Thomas Aiken
Kansas City
Will Kleist
Parisian Sage Promises Cure For Dandruff Hair Loss
A Parisian hair product from Gi roux Manufacturing claims to kill dandruff germs and cure thinning hair within two weeks. The Harper House pharmacy in Rock Island offers Parisian Sage on a money back plan, with a 50 cent bottle advertised as non greasy and pleasant to use.
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Paris
Dr. Sabourand
Dr. Sabour
Rock Island
Harper House Pharmacy
America
Giroux Manufacturing Company
Butf Falo
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Betty
West Bod
Model Farm
Deere Model Farm
Eagles
Eagle
Moline Aerie No
Fourteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Coe
Moline Club
Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association
Chicago
Park
Mildred and
Bel Robinson
Claire Golden
Hazel Cain
Louis Hauberg
Foster
Gladys Foster
Michigan
Illinois
Central States
Milwaukee
V.n.mercer
Third Avenue
George W. Swigart
Copper Republic Steel
Slac
Wakefield
Best Building
Second Avenue
Young & McCombs
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