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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
2
An OCR fragment lists money lending and legal services by Mitchell Lynde firms, city attorney John K. Scott, doctors Ostrom and Grafton, a veterinary surgeon Miller, a dentist, and a nursery plus railroad timetables and local business names in Rock Island and vicinity.
Local roofing service advertises roof repairs and painting at 221 Twentieth Street rear. Bravel roofing and mechanics labeled in the listing.
Davenport items report property transfer by Guon Cigar company at Sixth and Marrinon streets with plans to expand capacity. Several deaths and marriages occur. hospital cases and a fatal condition at St Luke’s. a 820,000 damage suit against Thiliders' land and Gravel Co. is filed. Davenport club forms at Harvard. city politics and bank appointments noted.
An ad extols Scott's Emulsion as a life giving tonic for consumption. It claims the product feeds the body while starving microbes, offering lungs new vigor and flesh for the wasting patient. An ideal food for wasting diseases.
Bowling, enjoyed by a lively crowd at local alleys, is set to become a winter favorite for Rockland Club members. A tournament will be organized and bowlers are practicing. the Indies are invited to use bowling facilities, with Fridays reserved for them.
Widow Jennie Sehell died in Sweden from hemorrhage while living with Andrew Schell at 021 Thirty-that Street. Funeral at 2 pm Thursday. Rev. M Crombaker officiating. A large reception at the farmer’s home drew many from Rock Island Davenport and the city. The Marine Plow Co reached agreement with relatives of Ed Swaaxan, killed in the elevator accident, to pay no similar amount. Mrs. Cornels left river road for Oklahoma with daughter in hopes of health benefits. Oscar A Livingston, former Moll Plow foreman, moved to Ottumwa Iowa after smallpox, cared for by Swedish Drive Lodge. Eastern Star installed officers for next year headed by Worthy Matron Mrs. W. Davis. Republican meeting at art gallery formed a temporary club with W F Bastian as chair and J S Magill as secretary. City council will remove beer ads from wooden boxes following citizen protest.
Local Rock Island resident Frank Ballenger of 3091 Seventh Avenue describes relief from back pain and kidney troubles after using Beans Kidney Pills. Ad copy notes 50 cent price, Foster Millburn Co. as U S agents, and urges readers to seek Be an s brand pills at Hartz & Meyers.
A promotional notice claims Dr. Hornes remedy daily use will renew vigor and strength. It asserts rapid vitality boost, enhanced brain activity, and renewed life in a weakened body, portraying the tonic as a reinvigorating elixir.
A period advertisement claims electrical treatment can restore manhood by pumping a vital stream of electricity into the body. It asserts benefits include arousing dormant energies, developing muscle and nerve life, and reviving youth, courage, and manliness in men seen as weak or broken.
Health, Strength and Vigor promotes ELECTRI as nature's remedy cured by Dr. Walsh’s twenty years of experience. It claims to treat nervous delay, threatened insanity, loss of will, sleeplessness, defective memory, and a range of diseases from syphilis to kidney issues using electricity as a powerful curative agent.
Hundreds cured in four years by German English specialists offering X ray diagnostics and painless remedies for bones liver kidneys heart and lungs lupus cancer and nervous disorders. Their large static machine aids cataphoresis and ozone inhalation. They claim success for alcoholism with chloride of gold and no fee until cure. Consultation hours and address provided in Davenport Town.
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