Local officials reshuffle as Wolff becomes deputy sheriff
Wolff succeeds Naeve as deputy sheriff after Naeve resigns due to a nervous breakdown. Berg, longtime bookkeeper, named county treasurer. A Davenport real estate deal lands Security Fire Insurance a west Fourth Street site for a new two story office building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ludwig Berg
Otto Albrecht Company
Schuetzenpark
Davenport
Security Fire Insurance Company
Elks
West Fourth Street
M. C. Hirsch
Fourth Street
Elks sell part of building site and Stomach Bitters claim
The Elks club house sale involves disposing of a portion of the property West Davenport. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters touted for cramps diarrhea indigestion fever and malaria with a private bottle stamp used to identify genuine product. Reports include a fall from a Locust street car injuring Mrs Frizzell and a parade launch collision with multiple craft, plus local notes on residents travel, school opening, water usage surge, and burglaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Club
Corry-Vernentin
Elks
Bitters Recommended First to Aid Health for 56 Years
A vintage health pitch urges using Bitters as the initial remedy before trying other options, claiming it prevents aggravation and offers notable relief. The message touts a 56 year tradition of effectiveness and ends with a confident recommendation.
The Uncrowned King of Kentucky Whisky
The distillery in Anderson county in the Blue Grass region makes W. H. McBrayer Cedar Brook Whisky. Bonded for years under government supervision, it is reduced to 100 proof using limestone water and bottled in bond with a Green Stamp guaranteeing integrity. It is touted as the "Flower of Kentucky."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. McBrayer
Cedar Brook
U. S
W. M. McBrayer
Bond
Anderson County
Blue Grass
U. C
Kentucky
Tales Told About Town and The Lazy Liver
A Rock Islander resident with frugal habits buys a home and removes a sill cock to save water, then helps a neighbor by sprinkling with the neighbor’s hose, causing water to spill across a boundary. The piece shifts to a moral on idleness and praises Dr King’s New Life Pills for liver trouble relief and overall health, 25c at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silvis
Y. M. GC
Dr. King
Apple Crop Poor Says Advisory Board After State Tour
Illinois faces the smallest apple crop in years according to the State Horticultural Society advisory board after touring fruit counties. Professor R O Graham leads the committee with other experts noting six orchards may yield large crops while most areas show 20 percent or less bearing. Dry weather, poor bloom, and increased pests explain the scant production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
State Horticultural Society
R. O. Graham
C. C. Aldrich
Neoga
J. F. Jolly
Olney
W. S. Perrine
Centralia
Blair
Burrill
University of Illinois
Stuart
Pennsylvania Agricultural College
H. M. Dunlap
Savoy
Henry Augustine
Normal
A. V. Schermerhorn
Ridge Farm
Flora
Griggsville
Graham
National
Apple Growers’ Association
Illinois
Winn
Cadwell
Tanner
Dunlaps
Rock Island Man Endorses Dean's Kidney Pills Experience
A. G. Fider of Rock Island testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved his back and kidney pains after reading about them. He bought a supply at Harper House pharmacy and found prompt relief, endorsing the product sold by Foster Milburn Company Buffalo as sole U S agents with a 50 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
A. G. Fider
Dean
Harper House
Foster-Milburn Company
Buffalo
New York
United States
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Hostetter
W.L. Frizzell
Thirteenth
Brady Streets
Moon Law
Nels Petersen
Ernest Wenzel
Civic Federation
Wenzel
Tte
Ficke & Ficke
Mermaid
Meisner Brothers
Silberstein
Mildred
Robert C. Naeve
Will Krow
Devil
Puls
Rue
East Moline
William Tate
Chicago
W. Parrott
Wyanet
George Dick
Herald Office
Keithsburg
B. Hoffman
Lafayette
Ind
Elsa
Florence Shilling
Muscatine
Iowa
Herbert Beatty
Fruitland
Blair Rose
Larmon
F. Beatty
E. Crouse
Jacksonville
Robert Ingersoll
James Doyle
A. B. Johnson
F. J. Clendenin
Princeton
R. W. Reeves
Kansas
Leta Doyle
Whitehall
Maude Emmett
Central Union
Moline
Margaret Sackville
Sugar Hollow
Sixth Ward
Twelfth Avenue
Clark G. Anderson
Magnus Olson
Forrest McCoy
A. J. Beach
Industry
Beach
Phillip Kennedy
Macomb Journal
McCoy
Foggy
Donald Green
East End
Arthur Edlen
Fifty-fifth Street
Third Avenue
Halger Rasmussen
Emmetsburg
Denmark
Adolph
Twenty-fourth Avenue
King of
Lawrenceburg, Ky
Taxman Bros
West
the Coast
Alaska- Yukon - Pacific Exposition
Seattle
F. A. Riddell
Gent C
B.& QR
Central Trust & Savings Bank
Rock Island, Ill
H. E. Casteel
M. 8. Heagy
H. B. Simmon
Commonwealth Edison Company
Cor
Michigan and
Jackson Blvds
Chamberlain
The
Argus
Michigan
Manistee
Manistee, Mich
Pere Marquette
Northern Michigan Company
G. & R. 1. Railway
Detroit
Grand Rapids
W.n.mercer
Phone
Old
George W. Swigart
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