Davenport News of the Neighbors and a Big Ringling Circus
Local notices report a death from heart trouble and an autopsy in Davenport with a pauper burial in Oakdale cemetery. A traveling disabled man aims to raise funds to move the body home. Also noted are a buggy collision with an auto, a burglar scare at 810 Rock Island street, a grocers and butchers picnic planned for Aug 27, and a police incident on Third and Brady streets. The Wylie Fuel company sale transfers to Rockwell Fuel, tied to H. W. Lynch of Peoria. A Ringling Brothers circus parade and show arrives Aug 24 with a new parade, artists, and the France built death-coaxing act Mile. La Belle Roche performing a two-revolution automobile somersault.
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Alice Robeson
Pale Ace
Lambach
Oakdale
Danville
Wylie Company
Wylie Fuel Company
Davenport
Rockwell Fuel Company
H. W. Lynch
Peoria
Ilinois
Wylie
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
East River
Fourth Streets
Ringling Brothers
France
la Belle Roche
Miss Roche
A Royal Slave at Amusements and Circus Parade Preview
Amusements notes a Royal Slave performance on Aug 30 with a matinee and evening show. Ringling Brothers promise the finest street parade of their career featuring new material built in Europe and Asia, three miles of luxury floats, carved wagons, ornate cages, and exotic costumes, including a 20 camel tableau team.
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Ringling’ Brothers
Germany
France
Japan
Persia
Vacation by Proxy Six Take Sea Breeze Outing
A New York man funds a proxy vacation for six through the Association For Improving the Condition of the Poor. R. S. Minturn, treasurer, reports a letter from F. I. requesting an outing via proxy for summer. The charity sent six guests for a week at Sea Breeze home on Coney Island to fulfill the generous act.
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New York
R. S. Minturn
Association For Improving
East Twenty-second Street
New York City
The
Sea Breeze
Coney Island
The Allowance and Youth Folly Clash
A brief quip from the Chicago News depicts a father and son debating allowances. The son urges leniency for youth mistakes, while the father retorts that without the allowance there would be less folly, framing a moral about discipline and guidance.
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Chicago News
Your Mother and Her Endless Quiet Strength
A tribute to the woman who offers a smile for joy and a tear for sorrow. She consoles in grief and forgives faults with prayers for every misfortune, always encouraging every hopeful moment.
Kohler Home Again and Local News Briefs in Moline
Attorney A H Kohler returned from Sweden. B F Peck suffers aggravated blood poisoning after a razor wound. improving. Deere & Co employees receive 10 percent yearend bonuses as a faithful-service present. Swedish Methodist church vote shows 90 percent support Rev J P Miller staying. Roscoe Williams resigns as East Moline justice of the peace. Local funds raise enough money to secure land options for Coal Valley ford road. Suburban booster meeting forms committee to press city for benefits for newly annexed area.
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Swedish Methodist Church
J. P. Miller
Moline
Coal Valley
Ford Fe
O. F. Anderson
S. Trevor
Tony Pastor's Start in Vaudeville Remembered
Veteran actor Tony Pastor recalls his early career starting with a basement one night show in Greenwich Street New York. He describes carting coal into a makeshift audience, a tambourine act, a gospel meeting awakening his stage fire, an apprenticeship in circus work, a Cincinnati elephant scare, and a lifelong career as an industry manager.
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Tdeville
Greenwich Street
New York
Nathan
Delevan
Cincinnati
May Irwin
Sister Mary
Tom
Hig
Therza and
Women Bring Energy to Bowery Variety Shows
A local note recalls how women began attending a Bowery vaudeville scene, expanding audiences from a few to matinees and evening performances. The author credits female patronage with revitalizing the stage and thanks readers for support, while also mentioning a past race and a medicine ad for appetite and digestion.
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Bowery
Lune
Robbins Describes Memorable 409 Meter Olympic Race
Olympic runner William C. Robbins recalls the 400 meter race at Loudon where Carpenter won after a tight battle with Halswelle and Robbins finishing second. He credits trainer Murphy for urging each to run their own race and notes Carpenter was later disqualified.
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William C. Robbins
Cambridge
Loudon
M Murphy
Carpenter
Taylor
Halswelle
Ifalswello
Seay
Sven Ej Carpenter
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