News of the Neighbors and Local Happenings
Davenport reports include a Missouri couple deserted on a train returning from St Paul with through tickets to Kansas City. A dog tax plan orders the shooting of unowned dogs. Burglaries target a Sixth Street ladies home while a rooming house owner sues police. Obituaries note A H Cronkhite, Louisa Lucille Mullin, and Hans Heimrich Kissenmacher. The Temple Baptist preacher Rev Robert J Burdette resigns due to ill health.
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Emma Sties
Second and
Warren Streets
George E. Hubbell
Hans Schramm
Davenport
Stites
Roddewig
Taylor Ridge and area residents noted in Rock Island actions
A stream of short items reports Rosa Schneider visiting Rock Island and Milan, Miss Kuehl teaching Black Hawk school, and several trips by residents to Muscatine and Industry. Arrests, repairs and street car plans in Moline and vicinity are detailed alongside a near miss with a box car and a push for a Moline booster club.
Burdette Given Green Light as Recovery Fails
Los Angeles report notes Burdette is allowed to go, with no hope of recovery and resignation accepted. Details indicate medical and administrative steps surrounding his condition and the resulting personnel change.
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Los Angeles
Zuma Community Notes Quiet Weekend in Town
The Zuma Sunday school rally drew about 35 attendees. Miss Lillian Dailey visited her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Dailey. Miss Julia Franklin of Barstow visited Verna Mumma and Mrs. Clyde Wake. Families attended Thomas Newton’s funeral in Port Byron. Jessie Wake returned to Galesburg. Frank Talby’s baby improved. Goldie Wainwright returned from Des Moines chautauqua. Seymour Butcher remains in Moline hospital. Local women planned Zuma church decoration. Myrtle and Marchie Tress returned from Denver.
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Zuma
Lillian Dailey
Lyman Dailey
Julia Franklin
Barstow
Verna Mumma
Clyde Wake
Walker
Tri-Cities
Thomas Newton
Port Byron
Newton
Jessie Wake
Galesburg
Frank Talby
Goldie Wainwright
Des Moines
Iowa
Seymour Butcher
Moline Hospital
Myra Donahoo
Charles Walthers
Nettie Wake
Moline
Zuma Church
Myrtle
Marchie Tress
Roy
Denver
Travel notices and railway book promo in Hamlet area
Hamlet residents head west and to Chicago while others visit family and attend events. North Pacific Coast Country promotes Pacific Northwest travel with fares from Chicago to Seattle and other points, offered by P L Hinrichs Davenport Iowa, with routes and stopovers through Sept 30 return by Oct 31.
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North Pacific Coast
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
North Pacific Coast Country
Chicago
Tacoma
Spokane
Portland
Victoria
Vancouver
Butte
P. L. Hinrichs
Davenport
Iowa
Frail Women Urged to Try Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin
Advertorial note touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a family laxative for digestion and general health. It claims benefits for chronic constipation indigestion and stomach trouble in women children and the elderly. Free sample offer and doctor contact in Monticello Illinois with address and advisory service provided.
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Amanda Brannan
Alvarado
Esther Pine
Marion
Ind
Dr. Caldwell
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell Bldg
Monticello, IL
Local residents on visits to and from nearby states
Foster Mrs Robert Briars and daughter Roberta of St Louis are guests of Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson. John Ray spent a week with relatives in Sturgis Michigan. Mr and Mrs Thomas Riker of Kansas City returned home after visiting relatives here. Edward Warman visits Charles Sprickler near Milan for a week. Anna Zollner attended a Sunday school rally at Moline and visited her sister Mrs Charles Spickler. Gertrude Sprickler to visit relatives. Dr J H Beadle visited Chicago this week. Elbert McGreer visited his mother and sister Mrs Close in Kansas returning Tuesday. George Girls ill and in critical condition near Pine Bluff. Enos Bopp and wife depart for relatives in Kansas Nebraska and Iowa. F P Gillett and Carl Blankenburg depart for a visit in South Dakota. Eleanor and Sade Kleist return from South Dakota and Nebraska. Goldie Sissel returns from Indiana. Ella Foster returns from Rock Island. D L Ripley departs for Eldon to visit brother Clay Ripley.
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Robert Briars
Roberta
St. Louis
Thomas Watson
John Ray
Sturgis
Mich
Thomas Riker
Kansas City
Edward Warman
Charles Sprickler
Milan
Anna Zollner
Moline
Charles Spickler
Gertrude Sprickler
J. H. Beadle
Chicago
Elbert McGreer
Close
Kansas
George Girls
Pine Bluff
Enos Bopp
F. Wright
Rock Island
D. L. Ripley
Eldon
Iowa
Mr. Ripley
Clay Ripley
Orion Horse Sale Planned for August 21 in Orion
Local and visiting residents mentioned include Orion hosts Tom Fitzpatrick returning with horses and mules for a public sale on Saturday August 21. Other notes cover Beardstown visits, Rock Island trips, and a South Dakota land excursion by Will Gabrielson Norton Anderson and Rush Wright. A humorous tale about a boy and his imagined grandmother closes with a medicinal plug for Electric Bitters as a malaria remedy.
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Marion Wright
Beardstown
Tom Fitzpatrick
Iowa
Orion
Lester McDonald
Rock Island
Will Gabrielson
Norton Anderson
Rush Wright
South Dakota
George McCandless
Albany
Jimmy
Billie Robinson
Sidney Grant
Lippincott’s
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Louis Anderson
Kemmerer
Muscatine
Missouri
Anderson
Tenth
le Claire Streets
Kuehl
Oliver Evans
Ladies
Ladies’ Industrial
Sixth Street
Brady and
Main Streets
Denver Times
A. H. Cronkhite
Louisa Lucille Mullin
S. G. Mullin
Brady Street
August Ludwig
Elkhart
iJohn Ludwig
Perham
Minn
Martin
Gustav Ludwig
Madeline
Margaret
Rose Ludwig
Hans Heimrich Kissenmacher
West Second Street
America
Scott County
Little’s Grove
Maria Kruse
Louis
Dora Nelson
Harlan
Augusta Muldoon
Corley
Charles Soller
Amelia
Christina
Della
Temple Baptist Church
Robert J. Burdette
Burdette
Taylor Ridge
Rosa Schneider
Susie McAfee
John Miller
Nannie Miller
Gibson
Misses Chambers
South Rock Island
H. Chambers
F. E. Garnett
R. Miller
W. S. McCulloch
Rock Island Exposition
W. M. Doonan
Rose Kuehl
Frank Crompton
Macomb
Industry
Wedneday
Forrest McCoy
McCoy
Charles Hegge
Walcott
Burlington
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Hegge
Louis Dorman
Sylvan
Republic Tron & Steel Company
Sylvan Mills
Plan Booster Club
Moline Booster Club
Moline Club
Elmer BE. Morgan
Moline Boosters
Alex Helta
Seventh Avenue
Gustafson
Sel Meyers
Helta
Meyers
Fourth Avenue
Transportation Committee
J. F. Porter
Tri-City Railway & Light Company
Porter
Twentyseventh Street
Thirteenth Avenue
Elm Street
Eighteenth Avenue
Sixteenth Avenue
New Park
Third Avenue
Forty-eighth Street
Ball Park
East End
Sowr
Welch
Tri-city
Davenport Flour, Feed & Commission Company
the Coast
Alaska- Yukon - Pacific Exposition
F. A. Riddell
Agent C
Q.R.R
Myron Stockberger
Paul
George
Indiana
Riley Halstead
Jesse Cooper
The
Bay
Marjory Fiege
C. B. Halstead
Reynolds
West
Forscythe
Frank Cooper
Maloney Cooper
New Boston
Nora Whisman
Teachers’ Institute
Aledo
the Argus
Foster
Washington
Potomac
R. M. James
Louellen
S. C
Michigan
Manistee
Manistee, Mich
Pere Marquette
Northern Michigan Company
G. & R. J. Railway
Detroit
Grand Rapids
V.N. Mercer
Old
George W. Swigart
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Harper House
Ramser’s
Roce Island
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