Davenport Council Adopts Transfer Ordinance Next Meeting
The Davenport city council approved a motion referring to the next council meeting an ordinance authorizing transfer of the physical properties of the Independent Light and Power and the People's Light companies. Stores will close early on Christmas Eve with downtown shops shortening hours to 9 30 and 7 30 for clothing.
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Davenport
Independent Light & Power Company
People’s Light Company
Retail Clerks’ Association
Kansas City
Louis Shouse
Moline Club
Shouse
Paul Brown
Brown
C. F. Dillon
Kansas City Star
Dillon
State University of Kansas
County notes temperance plans and township relief ideas
The Argus letters discuss diverting saloon license revenue to the county treasury and splitting poor relief to townships with elected overseers. The author argues for tax reform, inheritance tax state-collection, and reduced graft, urging moral action from taxpayers, and cites opposition from city interests. Also covered are a Kansas City speaker invitation, parish vestry reelects, wages paid to mill workers, Sunday school officers, and a small obituary.
Rheumatism Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement claims Dr Detchon’s Relief cures rheumatism and neuralgia in one to three days. It asserts the remedy removes the cause and the disease disappears after the first dose, with prices 75 cents and $1. Available from Otto Grotjan in Rock Island and Gust Schlegel & Son in Davenport.
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Detchon
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Rock Island
Gust Schlegel & Son
West Second Street
Davenport
A Dangerous Operation and Dr King’s Life Pills Ad
An advertisement touts the removal of the appendix as a dangerous operation by a surgeon while promoting Dr King’s New Life Pills as a quiet remedy. The pills are claimed to cure constipation headache biliousness and malaria and cost 25 cents at druggists.
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Dr. King
Left On Her Doorstep For This Mother
Mrs A G Tyson of Livermore California writes that her five year old daughter suffered loss of appetite nervousness and fatigue. She found a book on cod liver oil extraction and used Vinci. The treatment improved the child's appetite strength and cold resistance. she urges other mothers to try Vinci. HARPER HOUSE PHARMACY.
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A. G. Tyson
Livermore
Cal
Vinci
Harper House Pharmacy
Forty Nineer Pioneer Praises Hyomei Cure for Catarrh
An 1849 California pioneer, W. Mack of Santa Rosa, writes that Hyomei relieved his catarrh after years of trial and kept him clear with daily use. He praises the remedy and notes the complete outfit costs $1 with refills at 50 cents. He also mentions Chamberlains Salve for skin diseases.
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Hyomei
California
Santa Rosa
Cal
Booth’s
Hyomei Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Fourth Street
W. Mack
H. O. Rolfs
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Leo J. Schebler
West Third Street
Breh Mer
J. H. C. Petersen's Sons
Middle Road
Pleasant Valley Township
James Dyer
Dyer
Pleasant Valley
Johnson Jury
John
Paul Paulsen
Bettendorf Axle Company
German Savings Bank
Henry Lisener
Third
Main Streets
Third Street
Main Street
der Demokrat
Board of Education
Fair Grounds
Stace
Henry Wohnrade
Scott County
Howell Street
Altenbook
Germany
America
Chicago
Mueller Lumber Company
Germania Sick Relief
the County Revenue
Port Byron
Ill
Argus
Ioline
Christ Episcopal Church
F. H. Burrell
F. G. Allen
Schiller Hosford
George S. Sherwood
C. J. Cooper
C. L. Desaulniers
Octavus Marshall
R. B. Lowry
E. H. Fuller
Moline
Silvis
Second Methodist Sunday School Board
C. S. Trevor
Revy
Andrewartha
Bertha Hicks
Josephine Fowle
Clera McLeay
Bertha Littler
Peter de Pape
Sixteenth Avenue
St. Anthony's Hospital
St. Mary's Cemetery
East Moline
J. Silverman
Grozery
17Th St
Par
John G. Osborn
Port Byron, Il
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Etter
Duffy
New York
Michigan
F. R. Kuschmann
Fourth Ave
Sale
The
Blakslee
Iil
Bennett’s Fur Store
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