Davenport Deaths and Public Notices Headlines
Arthur Morgan, once a Davenport boy, died in Cuba Arizona after being run over by a train on December 14. His death leaves his mother in California and his father in Davenport. Also noted are Peter Heinrich Boysen’s self-inflicted death and will leaving everything to his wife Dorothea, Rev J P Ryan’s 39th anniversary mass at St Mary’s, J S Wylie’s discharge from bankruptcy following an appeals court ruling, and Bettendorf Metal Wheel Works turkeys and gloves gift to employees along with related local news items.
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Arizona
Davenport
Arthur Morgan
Cuba
Ariz
J. P. Ryan
St. Mary’s Church
Father Ryan
St. Mary's Congregation
Wylie
Sacred Heart Cathedral Opens for Burial of Bishop Cosgrove
The Sacred Heart cathedral with 1500 seating will be open to the public tomorrow morning for Bishop Cosgrove's burial services. No distinction is made among parishioners Catholics or Protestants. If crowd limits are reached doors will close after seating all. Doors will be open from 4 pm yesterday through tomorrow morning. Views will be possible for those wishing to view the prelate. The Carnegie Medal description notes a bas relief portrait of Andrew Carnegie and the motto Greater love bath no man than this. The medal honors the fund covering the United States Canada and Newfoundland.
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Sacred Heart Cathedral
Cosgrove
United States
Canada
Newfoundland
Cure for sore nipples with Chamberlain's Salve
Recommends applying Chamberlain's Salve after nursing and wiping before the next feeding. Cites nurses' use and favorable results. States price is 25 cents per box and that it is sold by leading druggists.
Local saloon brawl leaves man with chewed finger
Alfred Boente nursing a badly chewed finger after a free for all at a local saloon Monday night. A portion of the finger had to be removed. All participants escaped before police arrived. Julius De Smet suffered a burned mouth and face attempting a Christmas trick at a west end saloon. He used alcohol and a match, flames erupted, and he needed relief at home. The Denver Post reports Colorado Moline Plow company will drop civil suit after $1,000 cash settlement from a relative of embezzler John W Anand, while criminal proceedings proceed. Lindgren likely to return as head football coach at Illinois next season under graduate coaching system. No successor named for Moline Incandescent Lamp Co. secretary post until H W Cooper returns from Texas. Edward Coryn to continue in role.
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Alfred Boente
Julius” de Smet
West End
Julius
The
Denver Post
Colorado Moline Plow Company
John W. Anand
Lindgren
Justi Lindgren
Moline
Illinois
State University
Board of Control
Huff
Edward Coryn
Moline Incandescent Lamp Company
H. W. Cooper
Texas
Coryn
Last Man Feasts as Covington Club Ends Its Reign
Lewis R. Hetfield, the last survivor of Covington Indiana’s 1847 Raging Taols, hosted Thanksgiving dinner alone to honor his dead chums. The feast marks the club’s final chapter after fifty nine years with a ceremonial port opening and stories of former members.
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Covington
Ind
New York Sun
W. D. Coffing
Lewis R. Hetfield
Mrs. Coffing
Mr. Hetfield
Hetfield
James McMannamy
Cities for Workingmen. Bliss to Lead U.S. Labor City Movement
The Rev. Dr. William Dwight Porter Bliss resigns as rector of St. Mary's Amityville N Y to become secretary of the Garden Cities of America. The new group, modeled on Britain's Garden City, aims to found urban communities for laboring men, with Bliss an Amherst graduate and longtime Socialist.
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Dr. Bliss
America
England
William Dwight Porter Bliss
St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church
Amityville
N. Y
New York Times
Garden Cities of America
Garden City Association of
Great Britain
Letchworth
Heartshire
Bliss
Amherst
Labor Party
Massachusetts
City, country appeal in housing association leadership named
The text describes an association aiming to blend city and country attractions for homes with gardens. Ex Senator John Lewis Childs is in the association with Ralph Peters of the Long Island railroad as vice president. Board members include Bishop Burgess, Bishop Potter, and other prominent men.
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John Lewis Childs
Ralph Peters
The
Long Island Railroad
Bishop Burgess
Bishop Potter
Rock Climbing Fish Seen Near Stratford
Young boxer Corbett while exercising on Long Island Sound spied a peculiar sea creature climbing a rock. He helped tie the thirty pound fish to a car and brought it to Bridgeport. The animal has two winglike fins two small feet a ten inch mouth horns and measures over three feet long eighteen inches across the back. No such species has been seen in these waters.
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Young Corbett
Stratford
Conn
Long Island Sound
Bridgeport
New York World
Augustus Wood
Pittsburg Woman Lives Alone in African Jungle Study Monkey Talk
Miss Ida Veronica Simonton of Pittsburg Pennsylvania has reached the jungles of South Africa to study the language of monkeys. She lives in a bamboo hut under watch by three companions and will use a phonograph to learn and test monkey words.
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Pittsburg
Ida Veronica Simonton
Dr. Simonton
Fortieth Street
South Africa
New York American
Miss Simonton
Pistol Sound
United States
Heckenroth
Cape Lopez
Atlantic
Fernan Vaz
The Builders Poem for Oklahoma by Freeman E. Miller
Freeman E. Miller of Stillwater writes a poem dedicated to Oklahoma's constitutional convention praising the builders who will fashion a new state. The verse envisions a fearless, enduring enterprise guiding tribes and settlers toward a beacon of liberty and an enduring land.
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Oklahoma
Freeman E. Miller
Stillwater
People's Progress
Okla
Guthrie
Kansas City Star
Anti-Noise Corporation Formed Led by Mrs Isaac I Rice
Mrs Isaac I Rice of Eighty-ninth Street Riverside Drive New York will head the Society For the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise a new corporation formed after her successful crusade last summer against river craft whistling on the Hudson The advisory board will include physicians according to the New York World
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Isaac’i. Rice
Hudson
Society For the Suppression
Isaac I. Rice
Eighty-ninth Street
Riverside Drive
New York
U N Critics Tame Noise Near Hospitals In City Plan
College professors publicists and literary figures urge limits on auto horns trolley bells and street hawkers. They also target daytime milk wagons and noisy street activity to protect hospital areas and quiet neighborhoods.
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Dorothea Henrietta Boysen
Bettendorf Metal Wheel Works
Carnegie Medal
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Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Hero Fund
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Pekeckeim H. E. Casteel
Prine L. D. Mudge
H. E. Simmon
Central Trusts and Savings Bank
Rock Island, Ill
J. Larkin
J. J. LaVelle
H. E. Casteel
L. D. Mudge
H. D. Mack
John Schafer
M. S. Heagy
H. B. Simmon
H. H. Cleaveland
Mary E. Robinson
E. D. Sweeney
H. W. Tremann
Trust Department
Rock Island Savings Bank
Stat
Phil Mitchell
H. P. Hull
P. Greenawalt
Mitchell & Lynde Building
R. R. Cable
William H. Dart
E. W. Hurst
John Volk
L. Simon
Cable
Jackson & Hurat
Cities For Workingmen
Anti-Noise Corporation
20Th Century Limited
Chicago
Toledo
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Boston
Entral Lines
Lake Shore
New York Central
W. J. Lynch
Chicago, Ill
J. W. Daly
Pass
Hollister’s
Rocky Mountain
T. H. Thomas’ Pharmacy
Er Edwards
Stomachechenck Chemical Co
Elion
Detroit
Mich
G. A. Clement
T. H. Thomas
Rock Island
Burlington
F. A. Riddell
C. B
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Woman's Home Companion
Cosmopolitan
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McClure
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Lippincott'’s
Suburban Life World Today
Country Life In America
World Today Outdoors
Sunset Magazine Review of Reviews
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Sunset Price
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Success
Outing World Today
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Beeneeeeeeeees
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