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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
2
Davenport neighbors report varied events from a can company closure and a Panama trip update by ex mayor Henry Vollmer to a Pleasant Valley farmer bound over for a fencing dispute. The city council considers rail car shelling and a police move, while the Treasury outlines measures to ease money stringency, deploy deposits, and support gold imports amid national credit strain.
In Moline, George H. Edwards is noted as the city’s earliest settler still residing there, with a seven decade residence record, initially arriving as a boy of six with his family near what is now Twenty-second Street. The old Edwards home, built in 1838, remains and has been moved near the railroad.
The report outlines appropriations proposed by executive departments exceeding projected revenues for the current fiscal year. It notes incorporations from 1860 to 1870, with 82 associations holding large authorized capitals and 1,822 placed in voluntary liquidation or under receivers. The document analyzes a high failure rate among chartered banks and related financial bodies.
A series of short notes records visits among area families in Rock Island Muscatine and Des Moines. Frank T Gillere and family hosted relatives at their Rock Island home while others visit siblings in Muscatine and nearby towns. A Miss Ethel Foster visits her sister. George Freyermuth visits his sister. school begins with Mike Dunizen as teacher. A large turn out traveled to Muscatine for a tabernacle event.
A Rock Island reader credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing frequent kidney secretions and tiredness after a long trial. The testimonial names Herbert Hansen of Davenport and Harper House Pharmacy as local contacts, praising the product as safe and effective with a dollar price 50 cents, Foster Milburn Company as US agents.
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