Sisters of the Immaculate Conception elect new superior
At the academy retreat Sister Mary Adora of Sioux City was chosen to succeed Sister Mary Sith as superior. Adora had prior academy service and has stayed in Sioux City recently. A separate report notes a fire scare at Drake Furniture with no damage and a purse theft near the Academy of Sciences unproved.
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Sisters of the Immaculate Conception Academy
Sister Mary Adora
Sioux City
Mary Editha
Mary Adora
Mary Sith
J. T. A. Flanna
St. Ambrose College
Drake Furniture Company
Swieger
Davenport Woman Is Taken After Date Suspect Found
Ivy Emmons narrowly avoids a date with a mystery beau when Officer Sanford stops her buggy near Second and Prady streets. He drives her to the detention house while Miss Peddie Ross plans a Minnesota concert engagement. A milk horse crashed after a kite incident in the west end, valued at 75 dollars. A 12-year-old patient, Charles Newall, is reported with smallpox. Davenport Turners celebrate a 56th anniversary with a two day event including a monster parade led by Marshal Fritz Singer through downtown routes to Turner hall and Schuetzen park.
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Second
Prady
Sanford
House of Detention
Hill
Ivy
Ivy Emmons
Peddie Ross
Minnesota
Schuetzen Park
Miss Ross
Davenport Agin
Board of Health
Charles Newall
Maiden Lane
Davenport
Ida Meyer
Davenport ‘Turner Society
Turner Societies
Turner Hall
Fritz Singer
Third
Scott Streets
Brady
Perry
Scott
Warren ‘Street
Schuetzen ‘Park
Queen and Crescent routes advertised for travel to Chattanooga and beyond
An old travel ad touts Queen and Crescent lines from Asheville to Cincinnati and Atlanta, with through cars to Birmingham and New Orleans and a Rock Island return trip to August dates. It also features testimonials for digestive remedies like Electric Bitters and Kodol, praising their effects on stomach, liver, and kidney health, with cautions about product claims and availability.
Moline teen’s contract for double house let to Lundquist
In Moline a contractor, FP HL Gardner, awarded the building of a corner double house at Twentieth street and Sixth avenue to A P Lundquist. The project, adjoining a nearby residence, will cost upward of 5000 dollars. Plumber Roy Entrikin was injured by a brick fall at the Kimball building and will be sidelined for weeks. City Attorney A H Kobler recounts a near-death train wreck escape while traveling from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. Local residents and visitors are listed, with several trips and visits to Chicago, Aniwa, Galesburg, and Nova. Emanuel Lutheran fund drives begin with hopes of 1200 dollars and fall start for construction. A joke wedding in Davenport is revealed. Bicycle thefts surface in Moline, with two men missing wheels at the Skinner annex and Natick yards. police investigate. Aron Gamble, 30, faces grand jury for alleged outraging a daughter. tent dwellers near the city waterworks are named.
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FP. HL. Gardner
A. P. Lundquist
Twentieth Street
Sixth Avenue
A. H. Kobler
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Kohler
Moline
Htl
Willis
Charles Swanson
Rock Island
Skinner Annex
Lis
Hhis
Swansen
Natick Yards
Aron Gamble
Udup
Three spectres threaten infant life in floods of illness
A brief medical note cites Cholera infantum, dysentery, and diarrhoea as dangers to babies. It promotes Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry as a remedy to counter them. The tone reflects a 19th century patent medicine advisory urging cautious treatment for infants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Fowler
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Janet Chambers
Seventh and
Perry Streets
Puest
Grace Birdsall
California
William Donker
Baker Soda
East Front Street
R. M. Abbott
Second Street
St. Louis House
Western Jaw
Bnot
Crem
Madison Square Garden
Europe
Callie Julian
Emma Stickney
STA & AM
Mintino
Tada Se
Merrick
Harper House Drug Store
Chattanooga
Queen & Crescent
Birmingham
New Orleans
Asheville
N.C
Southern Railway
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Butte and Return
C. C. Harlan
Eaton, C
Hartz & Ullemeyer
George W. Fry
Viola
Iowa
Foley
Armerite
Er Roy
Albert Swanson
Joseph Lindbloom
Nekema
Ella Harris
Annawan
Mrs
H. H. Harris
Lucy Murphy
Gertrude Meegan
Chicago
Ella Boman
Galesburg
J. B. Oakleaf
J. L. Oakleaf
Colorado
Mattie Taylor
Port Byron
Freda Mumm
Frank Diekman
Pontiac
Emma Peterson
Agnes Eklund
la Crosse
Ralph Parks
H. H. Parks
Emanuel Lutheran
Walker's Station
Grinnell School House
C. Nelson
Alvin Peterson
Presido
Cal
Government Army Post
Japan
United States
Sumner
Angel Island
Peterson
Eo Webb N. Palmer
Mixx Drury
Devenport
Ninth Avenue
Villa de Chantal
Sisters of the Visitation
Mississippi River
Directress
Rock Island, Ill
Brown’s Business College
C. O, Bentley, Prin
The
John Marshall Law School
John Stewett
Sugery Jenkins
Sherice Fartwright
George E. Adams
Edward T. Lee
Dearborn St
John Volk & CO
Eighteenth Street
Augustana College
PTE IR . Rosa
Conservatory OF Music
Augustana
Gustav Andreen
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