Bucktown Decline and Townwatcher Notes
Davenport items report Bucktown fading as Brick's pavilion closes ending its famed social hub. A severed leg recovered at Fairmount cemetery shocks police, while Mrs. Pacheco returns from Porto Rico about climate and opportunities. Bakers to meet in Davenport. county jail reports a quiet year with 18 inmates. local crime includes Billy Johnson’s Racine jail break. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup advertised with no narcotics.
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Bucktown
Brick
Arthur Pacheco
Ella Hyde
Davenport
Porto Rico
Dining Car Headquarters at Davenport Moving to Rock Island
A Rock Island magazine article outlines plans to relocate the dining car headquarters from Davenport to a new building on Fifth Avenue near the depot in Rock Island. It details Frank Stewart’s 25 year leadership, current facilities including laundry and storehouses, and the scale of operations with about 36 dining cars in use and 8 spares. It also notes the Rock Island Safety Deposit bonds offering a $50 000 mortgage secured investment.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Fifth Avenue
Frank Stewart
Stewart
Rock Island Safety Deposit Company
Hope Thompson
Second Avenue
T. J. Medill
Peoples National Bank
Wagon Company to Resume Work in All Departments
The Moline Wagon company will reopen all departments Monday morning after a three week idle period for annual inventory and machinery repairs. Also reported is Rock Island line officials plan to favor Silvis residents for train crew calls to concentrate operations at Silvis, a key terminal for four divisions. The city’s park bonds, worth 8000 dollars, were bought by People Savings Bank at par, bearing 4 1/2 percent interest, maturing in 1917. Additionally F J Keeler survived a 20 foot fall at East Moline plant, suffering a fractured nose and wrist sprain.
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Silvis
Rock Island Road
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Southwestern
F. J. Keeler
East Moline
Keeler
Obituary notices from Erie region include infant death and amputation incident
Obituary records note the death of Alice Ruby Head, ten months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Head of Erie Alabama, at the city hospital. The body was shipped to Erie for interment. A man suffered a severely crushed finger requiring amputation after a mold handling accident on a truck.
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Alice Ruby Head
Andrew Head
Erie, al
City Hospital
Erie
Delta Alphas Host Mystery Social at Baptist Church
In Silvis next Friday evening the Delta Alphas plan a mystery sociable at the Baptist church. Each girl will donate a doll for sale to benefit the Delta Alpha society. Homemade candy will also be sold and the event is open to the public.
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Delta Alpha’s
Baptist Church
Delta Alpha Society
Jessica Don Carlos
State Universal
Iowa City
W. J. Downing
J. J. Davis
Kewanee
Ill
H. F. Kirkpatrick
Delta Alphas
The
Kittie Bull
Bee hive honey found in Taylor Ridge home after wall breach
A long inhabited Taylor Ridge area residence yielded 200 to 300 pounds of high quality honey when an upstairs room’s ceiling leaked and workers tore into the wall. The discovery ended a quiet, ongoing bees invasion affecting the occupants.
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Taylor Ridge
William My
Tay Ridge
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Fairmount Cemetery
Runge
Master Bakers’ Association of
Davyenport
Scott County
Racine
Billy” Johnson
Wis
Johnson
Joe Stapleton
Saratoga Hotel
Doc Welch
Chicago
Kennedy
Antonios Pappas
Peter Anderson
Deere & Co
Arbuckle Brothers
City OF
Mayor's Office
Arbuckle Bros
New York, N. Y
Waldo B&cxer
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Copartnership
John J. Ullemeyer
E. B. Sterling
E. W. Groves
Hollister
Harper House Pharmacy
Schroeder Bros
Twentieth Street
Fourteenth Ave
Burlington
Florida
Cuba
Mexico
California
Mittin Hun
F. A. Riddell
L. E. West Gum CO
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