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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1901
Page
2
An advertisement proclaims Dr Walsh a celebrated specialist for chronic nervous and private diseases for both sexes. It touts a large 24-plate X-ray machine, free consultation and exam, and claims cures for nervous debility, threatened insanity, syphilis, and many other ailments with electricity and X rays.
The December issue offers Christmas tales and features for boys including Little Pete's Christmas by Bertha Esterbrook Goodler and An Exepected Santa Claus by Hezekiah Butterworth. It presents editorials, world tour installments, and departments on games, sports, and youth topics from Sprague Publishing Co. Detroit Michigan.
Christmas and New Year travel promos announce round trip fares at one third extra to points within 200 miles. C., M. & St. P. and railroad offices list sale dates, return validity to early January, and foot street ticket offices. Also cleanly advertises Men’s Lung Balsam and Rocky Mountain Tea health tonics.
Notice is given by Rock Island County Circuit Court that in the January term a complaint has been filed by Mary Bateman Els worth Hazen M Colfax Hazen and others as guardians and defendants in a chancery action. The nonresident defendants are ordered to plead answer or demur by the first Monday in February at Van Buren Illinois and to appear in the clerk's office of the circuit court. Jackson & Huast are solicitors for the complainant.
An observer signing Fashion questions whether the female form is inherently kaleidoscopic or shaped by dress. She catalogs fifty years of silhouettes from Grecian empire to crinoline, noting waistlines from short to long and varied back detailing.
Experiments at New York Citys health board bacteriological lab test Kochs theory that human tubercle bacilli do not readily infect cows or calves. Calves showed only slight reactions to tuberculin tests, one calf died with no bacilli found at autopsy. Dr William Hallock Park reported at the New York Pathological Society meeting that most calves remain in good health and will be observed for ten months.
The account of Miss Stone echoes a 1870 incident when English travelers seized by Greek brigands were held for ransom near Marathon. Lord and Lady Muncaster led the party, with three remaining hostages to be freed by troops. News of the operation reached Athens before the expedition, which found an empty camp and the three men murdered.
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