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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
2
We have money to loan on everything and offer great bar gains in unredeemed goods. Special bargain on a 9 percent diamond ring. Located at 320 Twentieth Street with phone 633 brown.
The page lists Rock Island and Pacific Railway ticket offices and routes. It mentions Peoria branch depot near Twewiew street, Frank H. Plummer, C. P. A., with train times to Des Moines, Omaha, and Savanna connections across the river.
The advertisement promotes affordable dental work with guarantees and low prices. It lists services including cleanings, fillings, crowns, and full sets starting as low as five dollars. The office is at 1607 Second Ave over Speidel's Drug Store in Rock Island.
A Minneapolis Belt Water Current Power Co says a motor can develop Missie elppi power at a small cost to supply factories in the area with light and heat. A Boston store thief stole shirts and goods, using the alley for storage while fleeing workers pursued him. J. H. Lowgure identified as the arrestee.
An excursion from Moline to Springfield featured Adamson Gust Friberg and a Methodist Church group guesting with Gov. Yater, who greeted badge wearers and toured the mansion. Kate Collier camp entertainers provided a moonlit trip aboard the tugboat Varnard, with music and dancing during the voyage.
A jumble of stray items: Robert Allisin faces a deankeaters charge and a police court hearing ends with a diving sentence about help the blind. Charles Wilwen is under investigation after a subscription paper scheme. Vaults in the Colon bank at New Holland vanish with $200000 missing. cashier John K. Brown is gone. Three Chinese Acheinere were killed in Sumatra battle. Newark colored men plan a new department store. Lord Curzon extends viceroy term to 1904. Irish land acts pass in Commons with Lords amendments mostly approved. Joseph Letter Jr aims to make Chicago coke center. Senator Lingburn weds Gheralien Yeatman. Servians flee as Turkish troops depart. Roothie heads to New York to Saturday. Paris Metropolitan Railway gives $2000 to disaster victims fund.
Helen Williams of Manatieht Massachusetts declares Hyomel cured her hay fever after years of worsening symptoms. The testimonial notes relief lasting since last summer and mentions a planned convention endorsement. Also references refunds if unsatisfied and city notices about water connections and pavement disturbance. Damaged OCR includes misc health ad copy and local notices.
A string of local items reports Peterson injured alighting from an interurban at Twenty fifth Street and Fourth Avenue. The piece covers meetings, political statements, business changes, resignations, and a Chautauqua attendance update. Also mentions baseball game plans and a medical ad urging Bucklin’s Arnica Salve for minor injuries.
A scrambled OCR fragment shows garbled words and misspellings, challenging interpretation. The readable parts suggest a newspaper card style item covering a brief event or notice, but essential names, places, dates, or outcomes are not discernible from the fragment.
Quick Bellet claims instant asthma relief with Foley's Honey and Tar and Dr Thomas Kelectric OFF promotes healing of burns and sprains. It advertises immediate relief for severe asthma and lists ordinary household remedies available at all druggists.
An article extols Dr Horne as a healer whose X ray based methods reveal cure as a scientific gift rather than mystery. It notes his free X ray examinations, detailed demonstrations, and public claims of successful treatments across diseases, urging readers to seek examination at no cost.
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