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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
2
Davenport celebrates John Driscoll octogenarian engineer aged eighty who began railroading sixty five years ago and fired for 62 years. He rose to engineer on Hartford and New Haven 56 years ago and logged 41 years in locomotive service.
A fragmented list shows multiple property transfers in Reynolds, Rock Island, Moline, and surrounding areas. Notable deeds include Sperling to Wein berger for lot 15 in Wait h& Walker's First addition Reynolds, and other parcels traded among Beecher, Laplow, Engels, Wenger, Brookman, King, Brunk, Merks, Britton, Carlson, Vogler, Rinck, Bliss, and Normoyle across Rock Island and Campbell Park. The notices also include business and public notices appended after the transfers.
The piece extols household brooms and sweeping power, estimating national energy from one day’s use. It notes vast broom production, per-broom costs, and multiuse life for four broom varieties. Imaginative calculations describe broom handles circling the globe and a massive possible broom weight and reach.
Heat peak nears all time season record with 93 degrees reported around 4 pm. Air moisture makes the afternoon exceptionally oppressive, a figure two degrees below the warmest seen this season. Descriptive literature and time tables for the Grand Trunk Railway system from Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls are offered free by George W. Vaux in Chicago.
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