Davenporter Victims and Local Notices of 1904
Davenport news notes a Chicago finding of Luke Van Evera, a former Davenport printer, badly wounded and possibly murdered. divorce suit filed by Mina Scheef against Julius W. Scheef. runaways Bert Johnson Jasper Auer and Irene Snyder arrested in connection with a Chicago to Dixon to Brady street episode. various local incidents include a man drugged and claiming amnesia, a woman insane after her husband’s death, an obituary for Frederick A. Rochau, and multiple community notices from Elks Memorial to street lighting and school football events.
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Chicago
Luke van Evera
van Evera
Milwaukee
Mina Scheef
Julius W. Scheef
Muscatine
Navy
Edna
Harold
Lester
Bert Johnson
Jasper Auer
Irene Snyder
Dixon, IL
George Shanley
Brady Street
Chief Atkinson
E. Johnson
Tilden Street
Bert
Johnson
Baer
Dixon
Washington Joke At Cabinet Meeting
Secretary Straus shared a cabinet meeting joke recalling the inaugural day date chosen to spur feeholders toward retirement. The quip implies a shift away from public duties as a humorous take on political pensions and timing in the republic.
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Washington
Straus
White House
Republic
Last Session of Sixtieth Congress Begins
The second session of the Sixtieth Congress opens next Monday December 7. It will be a short session with a fixed expiration date. The House work ends March 4 while the Senate stays in session until appointments are confirmed. New faces are expected in the Senate, with several senators to be chosen by state legislatures. Vice President Fairbanks will convene the Senate and retire once James Schoolcraft Sherman is sworn in.
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Senate
Robert Marion la Follette
Wisconsin
United States
la Follette
R. M. la Follette
Chicago
Mississippi
John Sharp Williams
Tennessee
Williams
J. W. Keifer
Ohio
Jani
Congress
Indiana
Republic
B. Landis
William Warner
Missouri
Kansas City
West District
Grand Army of the Republic
Insomna
Ower
Platt
New York
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Davenport
Robert Kelley
L. E. Roddewig
Kelley
St. Louis
Ida Hagemann
Commissioners of Insanity
State Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Deert J. Hagemann
Clark Street
Indian Road
Frederick A. Rochau
Ripley Street
Rensburg
Holstein
Germany
America
Davenpoit
Rochau
Katherine Stoltenberg
Hickory Grove Township
Sheridan Township
Emma Dengler
Lydia Borgelt
Louisa Kistemacher
Bell Rochau
Rock County
Minn
John and
Louis
This City
Henry
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tve
Elks Memorial
The
Elks
First Congregational Church
Richard Littleholm
Fifth Avenue
East Moline
Ninth Street
Retail Merchants’ Association
King's Daughters
Moline
Henry Beale
Watertown
Hampton
Wills
United Light and Power Company
Waiter, Light and Claims Committee
Water, Sight and Claims Committee
Lei
F. G. Allen
Allendale
Earl Elmstedt
Will Dewend
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
Cannon
J. G. Cannon
North Carolina
James Benson Foraker
William McKinley
J. B. Foraker
United Stats Senate
H. B. Money
Champ Clark
Kentucky
Perman
Natio
Parker
Lidate
J. Warren Keifer
Aary
Charles Beary Landis
Las Onrs ‘An
Hostetter
S. E. Palmer
Elmira, N. Y
de Sais
Fidelity Loan CO
J. T. Shields
5Th Ave
Lange & Heitmann
Chas. Holmgren
Apple Bros
Larson & Larson
Clement & Diedrich
20Th St
Siemon & Davis
South Rock Island
A. N. Carlson
Baker & Young, Distributors
Burlington
Depot
Tri-Cities
Big Horn Basin
Yellowstone
North Platte
Big Horn
Yellowstone Valley
North Platte Valley
Stu Erie
D. Clem Deaver
Burlington Route Landseekers’ Information Bureau
Q. Building
Omaha
Neb
Sarah J. Hoskins
Cary
Cardui
ED. Williamson
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