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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1914
Page
2
Springfield scene at the Illinois Teachers Association meeting where Governor Dunne advocates simplified spelling to shorten schooling. He argues phonetic spelling would let children finish earlier and cites adoption as a school reform goal.
Advertisement promises instant relief from head colds and catarrh with Ely's Cream Balm. A small bottle applied in the nostrils soothes swollen mucous membranes, clears air passages, and ends snuffles and headaches, claiming relief and breathing ease.
A policy notice advocating a minimum wage for teachers and a statewide retirement fund with equal contributions and benefits, plus support for a larger school unit and extended superintendent tenure. It calls for schoolhouse standards and vocational courses under current boards while opposing separate schools. Also announces the Miners Exploration Board meeting in Rock Island on January 7, 1915 for miner certificates.
A Davenport wedding scheduled yesterday was postponed after the bride Bertha Messerole 21 disappeared before the ceremony. William H Wilkie of Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, traveled to Davenport for the event but found only strangers. Police scoured the city for the missing bride while friends and a frantic suitor await news of her whereabouts.
A Rock Island blacksmith named Michael Corcoran testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured his back pain and kidney irregularity. The ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills, 60 cents, as the same remedy. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y.
A community meeting on health and happiness is announced for Monday at St Pauls English Lutheran Church. The event features speaker A. I am next week and targets women attendees in Davenport and Clinton, with no further details provided. Also noted is a civil suit filed by Freda Schuch against Emil Matzen seeking 10,000 dollars for alleged slander. The obituary notices record the deaths of Andrew Gordon Brown aged 63 and Mrs N E Huggins aged 68 with brief biographical details.
The annual stockholders meeting of Rock Island National Bank Rock Island Illinois will be held at the banking house on Tuesday January 12 1915 at 330 p m for the election of directors and other business. H E Casteel President H E Simmon Cashier. A waitress in a Memphis Tennessee restaurant seeks 25000 damages from a restaurant cook after an altercation.
A brief newspaper note reads that a nut will serve as a costly lesson in manners for the cook, implying chef behavior could carry a high price if standards slip.
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