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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
2
Davenport neighbors report a Keokuk youth named George House visiting a Gaines and Ninth street family. He woke up Thursday in a police line with hoboes in cell 4, claiming only sleepiness after reportedly shooting cans while river fishing.
Miss Lottle Smith returned to her home in Ladd after a month spent at the residence of her aunt Mrs. Mary Goben in Milan. Verde Miller of Taylor Ridge was noted as spending time there.
Mr and Mrs Sherman Powell and two daughters and Mrs Reynolds leave for New York and Washington to visit Powell and Hays relatives. Mrs James Forsyth and Mr and Mrs McCloud visit Mrs Mary Kennedy. Amy Bear visits Blanch Hays. William Hays plans a two month mountain trip. Ed Potter and son Vernie visit family in Scottland Center Iowa. Dr Lincoln Barton spent Sunday with Dr Edison of Eliza. Mrs Ossie McCully of Grand View Iowa visits Clyde Kent’s sister.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition to be held in Seattle from June 1 to Oct 16, 1909, is 65 percent complete as of Aug 1. Finances are secured with $800,000 capital stock plus over $200,000 in county aid, and 10 large exhibit buildings plus private and state structures totaling about 100. Government support includes $600,000 and six buildings, with the event touted as the finest federal display since Chicago and St Louis.
The Moline levator company reveals a 22 hour workday next Monday to handle a surge of orders, operating two 11 hour shifts for several weeks. D. M. Schhler Carriage’s planter department restarts next month, and spreaders will run 12 hours daily for weeks. The Moline Famous Clothing Co faces winding up via Sam Berger buying stock for Muscatine principals. Samuels resigns as Moline club plans extensive renovations and a $759 entertainment budget, with residents in Fort Madison. A woman in Rock Island was struck by an Ely streetcar returning from a Swedish Lutheran event.
Mrs Lindholm was knocked down on Seventh Avenue near Twelfth Street and hurt, with flesh wounds to the forehead and left arm. A Greek steelworker, Leoontris, narrowly escaped a fatal beam strike, receiving a forehead cut and facial injuries as a large steel beam swung loose. The incidents occurred in the steel mill area and were reported by The Argus.
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