Davenport News Briefs: Fatal Laudanum Overdose at West 16th
The obituary notes R A Robertson died from laudanum at his Davenport boarding house. Once employed at the Berndorf plant, he faced bankruptcy and moved west in hopes of renewal. He leaves family ties in the East and Masons cordoned his remains. Also covered are marriage licenses, a Rock Island Milwaukee train collision injuring Fireman Roy Peterson, and Newton Iowa obituary for Anna Friday Burnside, age 72.
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West Ixteenth Street
R. A. Robertson
Berndorf
St Luke's Howital
Warehouse Point
Ionn
Mily
Robertson
Davenport
Altough
The
Masons
Roy Peterson
Rock Island
Milwaukee
West End
Petersen
St. Luke's Hospital
Fourteenth Street
Moline
Oun
Friday Hoodoo Day For This Actress
A superstition about Fridays leads actress Miss Cecil Dunningham to refuse Friday performances and permit her understudy a chance on the sixth day. William H. Scott of 477 Mansfield Place Flatbush is jailed in Tombs court on a $15,000 bail for larceny.
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Cecil Dunningham
New York
William H. Scott
Mansfield Place
Flatbush
Tombs
Book Swindle Case Tied to Alaska Climate Notes
A $30,000 charge against Mrs. Anvernette M. Crombie of 19 East Thirty-first Street Manhattan stems from an alleged book swindle involving Alaska's Two Climates. Official reports summarize Alaska coast weather with heavy rain and snow yet mild winters in Sitka, while Valdez reports sixty feet of snow and Sitka 111 inches of annual rainfall. The Yukon basin features a continental climate with frigid winters and summer highs near 90 degrees in the shade, with limited rainfall and permafrost soil.
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Anvernette M
Crombie
East Thirty-first St
Manhattan
Alaska
Sitka
Washington
Valdez
Yukon
Harper's
Beggars Day in Costa Rica and a Weary Trump’s Utterance
In Costa Rica beggars are allowed to beg from shop to shop on a weekly Beggars Day. Businesses give small coins or trinkets as they visit poorer quarters to earn a few cents. An Argonaut cartoon features a Weary Trump pondering how to ride a shifting earth while roads worsen and science offers no fix.
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Costa Rica
Butterworth Made Director At Illinois Manufacturers Banquet
At the 15th annual Illinois Manufacturers Association session in Chicago the Deere & Co. president William Butterworth was elected a director for two years. The banquet drew 5090 members, with Colonel George Harvey of Harper's Weekly as principal speaker. The event highlighted Chicago leadership dominant in executive offices. In other news, Mothers Pension cases were heard in Moline, granting $25 per month for Mrs Nordstrom to support five children, while another woman sought help to locate her missing husband. Bondholders eye Union Electric assets in Moline as legal steps to dispose of property proceed, and Gerolamo Cassetta, detained by police, was deported to Palermo after recovery in hospital.
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Butterworth
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
LaSalle
Chicago
William Butterworth
Deere & Co
Carrie O'Connor
Bello
John M Nordstrom
Twenty-third Avenue
Union Electric
Union Electric Telephone Company
Moline
Tri-Cities
F. L. Beatty
L. J. Wolfe
Harrisburg
City Commission
Sixth Avenue
Gerolamo Cassetta
Cassetta
Rock Island Road
Palermo
Italy
Wedding attendance ties to Rock Island kin in Iowa tale
Last Wednesday landowner traveled to attend the sister Mayme Gruby wedding to Carl O Sundeen both of Rock Island. R G Thompson visiting Muscatine Friday night. Lon Cole and Charles Huntley drove to Milan Tuesday. Dr P Eckhardt of Taylor Ridge in the village Friday. Mrs Susan Smith improving after illness. Miss Theressa Burmeister Oma ha daughter of Louis Burmeister underwent serious operation last week losing first finger on right hand. condition critical. Charlie Burgoyne attends supervisors meeting in Rock Island this week.
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Mayme Gruby
Carl O. Sundeen
Rock Island
R. G. Thompson
Muscatine
Lon Cole
Charles Huntley
Milan
P. Eckhardt
Taylor Ridge
Susan Smith
Theressa Burmeister
Omaha
Louis Burmeister
Charlies Burgoyne
Do It Now Motto Urges Prompt Christmas Preparations
The piece extols the Do It Now mindset as essential in business and daily life. It warns against procrastination, especially with Christmas shopping, reminding readers that tomorrow never arrives and every delay makes tasks harder to finish. Time is framed as the present moment.
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America
Caloric Paradox and Odd Natural Marvels
A collection of curious notes describes the caloric paradox where cold can be produced by evaporation on hot surfaces and even freezing occurs with certain reactions on red hot platinum. It recounts Faraday's experiments with ether and carbonic acid, and Mercury freezing under heat. The piece also recalls a ship line anecdote, an ant sewing circle in Ceylon, and Ridley’s earlier observations.
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M. Boutigny
Faraday
Ceylon
Ridley
Boston Post
Pine Bluff residents and local notices from Sunday morning
Foster Mr and Mrs Elbert McGreer and son Harry of Pine Bluff visited. The German M E church Foreign Missionary society met Wednesday at Mrs August Kreuger's home. Edward Danner, once ill with appendicitis, can now move about. Robert Workman, recently injured, is not improving as hoped.
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Elbert McGreer
Harry
Pine Bluff
M. E. Church Foreign Missionary Society
August Kreuger
Edward Danner
Robert Workman
Local Travel Notes From Andalusia and Nearby Cities
Fred Spickler traveled to Chicago last Wednesday for the fat stock show while Ruel Roth spent a week in Drury starting Monday. Mrs. William Bentley went to Davenport last Friday. C. H. Huntley was in Rock Island Saturday. Mr and Mrs Adolph Dunlap and son Vertie visited Rock Island Friday. Irma Wenks and Charity Thompson spent Saturday in Rock Island. Mrs W H Dyer went to Rock Island.
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Fred Spickler
Chicago
Ruel Roth
Drury
William Bentley
Davenport
C. H. Huntley
Rock Island
Adolph Dunlap
Son Vertie
Irma Wenks
Charity Thompson
W. H. Dyer
Rock Is
For the Boy's Sake Roseville Man Gives Up Smoking
A Roseville man quit smoking for his young son after realizing the bad example. Three years smoke free, he later found a hex of cigars in the boy's coat pocket a used pipe in the tool box and a bag of cigarettes in the woodshed.
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Roseville
New York News
San Francisco votes defeat local option amendment four to one
Figures on the city charter election unsettled earlier forecasts about California women’s stance on reform. The San Francisco amendment creating local option units in residential districts was defeated four to one. A separate Wisconsin case saw Robert Bennett, 12, and George Schafer, 21, sentenced to life in Watpun for Henry Tuttle’s murder.
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San Francisco
California
Superior
Wis
Robert Bennett
George Schafer
Watpun
Henry Tuttle
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Axline Larson
Ophien
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Iowa
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Anna Friday Burnside
John Friday
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Postum
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Fostum Cereal Co. Ltd, Pure Food Factories
Battle Creek, Mich
William H. Fox
Freeport
Cope
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Liverpool
Charles H. Cramp
John Randolph
Roanoke
Russia
Jackson
Thomas P. Cope
Virginia
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Liggett & Myers Duke
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Tourroses
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Andalusia
Rayo
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Chattanooga
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