Davenport Gazette Highlights Civic Strife and Local Events
Reverend George Giglinger leads a moral crusade amid threats of clashes over injunctions while Davenport Malting Co pledges to curb wine sales if leases are terminated. Atlantic City hardware show honors Col. Nutting, a Muscatine verdict settles a defamation claim, a Pleasant Valley youth seeks a bride name, and a proposed joint station on the levee intrigues businessmen. Bowling ace Art Vinall rolls a 300 series, a post office aide suffers an accident, and Rosethel Clark dies at 20 after a year in Davenport.
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George Giglinger
Davenport Malting Company
Giglinger
Iown Theatre
Clay Woodward
Art Vinall
Davenport Bowling & Supply Company
Tips to Travelers Last Low Rate Excursion
Travel offer details several round trip homeseekers' tickets to Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Texas and New Mexico for 18 dollars. Include depot location 1820 Second Avenue for information. Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Railway runs double daily service to Colorado and California and offers through sleepers between Chicago and San Francisco and between Chicago and Denver. A new Colorado train leaves Chicago 9:45 a.m. and travels one night.
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Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
New Mexico
Second
Colorado
California
Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul
Fornin
Chicago
Southwest Limited Opens New Chicago to Kansas City Route
The Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul railway completes a new short line through Moline Rock Island Davenport Muscatine Washington and Ottumwa linking Chicago and Kansas City. The Southwest Limited electric train debuts December 6 featuring standard and compartment sleepers observation library car dining car chair car and coach. A second daily train also runs on the new route. Information available from ticket agents or F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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Southwest Limited
Chicago
Kansas City
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
F. A. Miller
Lincoln Man Engages in Marengo Horse Graft
A Lincoln youth calling himself J. L. Hamilton worked a horse buying scam in Marengo Iowa, using bad checks from the First National Bank of Marengo. He bought horses including Sam Patch from James Sherlock of Oxford for $500 while paying with worthless checks, then vanished. Local dealers say he spent about $60 in cash and expense advances, leaving a hotel bill unresolved and many vendors out money.
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J. L. Hamilton
Lincoln
Neb
Marengo
First National Bank of
Sam Patch
James Sherlock
Oxford
Iowa
Johnson Counties
Christmas Preparations Warm Rock Island This Season
Christmas spirit sweeps Rock Island as shop windows glow with festive displays and merchants promote early shopping. Snow clears the way for holiday plans while churches arrange programs and families anticipate reunions, with many students returning home for the season.
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Rock Island
San Claus
Two Kinds of Children Emulsion Advertisement
An old advertisement promoting Scott's Emulsion for children, claiming it aids healthy growth and development. It promises a free sample upon request and lists Scott & Bowne in New York as the publishers.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Moline Drops Winter Lecture Series After Low Interest
Moline will abandon its annual course of extension lectures for the winter due to insufficient promise of attendance. L. R. Abbott, president, states the center should discontinue until Moline residents express a clear desire to resume. Also reported are election of Abe Lincoln camp officers, a death in Florence Steplake, library moves to Carnegie building, opening of new bowling alleys, and honors for local athletes and Beethoven club plans.
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Moline
L. R. Abbott
A.C. Stouffer
Seventeenth Street
Eee
Board of Control
High School Athletic Association
Stromberg
Baas
Hedin
Towndrow
Hergin
Lindburg
Melin
Mortenson Real
Hodgson
Griffin
Sutley
Isas Tilbrook
Joseph
Albertay
Wahlstrom
Miller
Steenberg
Isaacson
Meier
Albertson
Perrin
Cowley
Hail damages Messina crops and other scattered items
News in outline reports half the orange and lemon crop near Messina ruined by a heavy hail storm. Other items note the Anti Sl aon League delegates in Washington, Herbert Spencer’s body to be cremated, Mrs. Jennie Caldwell’s death by carbolic acid, and a wireless message exchange with the liner Kroonland. Additional notes cover Mayor-Elect McClellan snub by Princeton club, Reyes departure affecting Colombian legation, John B. Colgan’s arrest, Gordon McKay will contest, Roosevelt’s travelers association badge, and Mrs. Katherine Soffel’s prison term completion.
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Messina
Italy
Washington
Herbert Spencer
Jennie Caldwell
Chicago
London
New York
McClellan
Princeton Club
General Reyes
John B. Colgan
Baldy Red
Joliet
Milwaukee
Gordon McKay
Newport
R. I
Harvard University
Roosevelt
Travelers Protective Association
Katherine Soffel
Allegheny County
Biddle Brothers
Your Health Depends on Your Kidneys
An old health ad urges kidneys as the body's capital and primary health determinant. It claims purifying the blood should be done by the kidneys, not laxatives, and promotes Irving's Buchu Wafers as a remedy containing Buchu and Juniper Berries.
Cure for Piles and Rectal Diseases Offered by Doctor Horne
Dr. Horne advertises a Bio-Chemic treatment for piles fistula chronic constipation fissures and other rectal and intestinal diseases with claims of pain free healing. He warns of rectal disorders affecting female health and guarantees cures when possible offering free consultation and X ray exams at Mitchell Lynde Building Rock Island with evening hours.
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Horne
Mitchell & Lynde
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St. Joseph
S. S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Simon Lewis
Market Square
Cor
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Third Avenue
Savings Department of the
People’s National Bank
Rock Island, Ill
Chicago Dental Company
Second Ave
Speidel’s Drug Store
Frazer
Charles E. Hodgson
Fire Insurance Agency
Newark, N. J
New Yank
American Ins. Co
Continental - Agricultural
Traders’ Ins
Union Ins. Co
Philadelphia
Rockford Ins. Co
Rockford
Security Ins. Co
Haven
Conn
Ins
State of
Tor Ladies
Lene Pietamm Co
Institute
Wight
John Volk & CO
Eighteenth Street
J. M. Buford
General Insurance
Davenport
National Hardware Association
Atlantic City
N. J
Col. J. R. Nutting
Biglow
Press Comm
Isees
Boepple
Huttig
Muscatine
Mr. Boepple
Eins
Valley
Henning
Hennings
Business Men's Association
Warren Teele
Teele
Luke's Hospital
Rosethel Clark
West Fifteenth Street
Denver
Abe
Florence Steplake
Carnegie
Beethoven Club
Meline
William FP. Benth
Galesburg
Peoria
Burlington
Bentley
St. Louis
Moline Hive
No. 110
Violammander
Emma Carstens
Dora Kling
Kiel
Rosa Nelson
Marianne Sellmer
A. J. Griffin
Lilly Carstens
Kittie Wells
Emma Shallberg
Selma Medin
Flossie Anthony
Irving’s
Buchu Wafers
Thous Pharmacy
H. C. Rolfs
Stengel
Guaren
Paridon
Old Union
B. Winter
Waukesha
Bock Island
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