Davenport OTS Pointers for Auto Race and Local Notices
Auto racing notes from Davenport indicate Grey Jansen returned from Chicago with pointers from the Automobile Club of Davenport and expectations that a late summer or fall meet may bring big machines. High school class of June 1908 elects officers with Harry Lucas as president and Theodore Morrison as vice president. William Tinnian, a striking can works employee, is arrested for threatening to beat and kill non union worker John Carter. Police recover a secondhand typewriter from Mike Monahan and Newton Bladder as they attempt to dispose of it. Chicago lawyer H L Fearing is arrested for assault and attempted child kidnapping. Local family Edmonds seeks cataract treatment outcomes for their son Edmond, who died after successful removal. Henry Wertz falls from an elevated viaduct near the Savoy hotel, claiming blindness to a locomotive headlight. Obituary notes Annie Martens and James J Sanford with ages and causes, plus family connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grey Jansen
Chicago
Automobile Club of
Davenport
William Tinnian
John Carter
Tinian
Justice Ditzen
Carter
Tinnian
Death of Angeline Branard at 82 Nineteenth Street
The death of Angeline Branard aged 82 was reported, with the cause listed as infirmities of age. The informant is Mrs Joseph Holmes of 122 West Sixteenth street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Holmes
West Sixteenth Street
Angeline Branard
Garbage Cans Sale and City Ordinance Notice
One week sale on garbage cans from June 1 at multiple Rock Island stores offering 5 to 8 gallon water tight covered cans. An ordinance requires every property to provide a standard 5 gallon waste vessel and fines for improper contents. passed March 1, 1898. Also brief ads for rheumatism cure and Dr Fowler’s extract with local retailers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Simser’s
McCabe's
J. J. Burgess & Cos
Young & McCombs
Noftsker’s
Rock Island Hardware Company
J. Carl's
Alien, Myers & Co's
City of
Rock Island
G. G. Craig
JIR
Commissioner of Health
Outing for Aldermen and local society notes
A. C. Stouffer invites city council members to his Rock River camp for a fish bake trip departing at 8:30 AM on the steamer Pearson. Reports cover the Lewis and Clark exposition, a Moline-born figure Edith Fairclough Goode, and several tri-city weddings, farm visits, a death, and upcoming Home Fraternal convention in Moline with officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Stouffer
Rock River
Pearson
Moline
Portland
Ore
Harry W. Goode
Edith Fairclough
Burkland
Swan Burkland
Twelfth Avenue
Ahs
Sweden
America
Also Mentioned on This Page
Harry Lucas
Dent
Theodore Morrison
Helen Gould
Leon Hass
Arthur Seaman
Alice Cole
Corrine Klein
Mike Monahan
Newton Bladder
Sander
Monahan
H. L. Fearing
Frank Huber
Estelle Flexner
East Eleventh Street
Fearing
Flexner
Gal
John Edmonds
Lanark
Edmond
Edmonds
J. W. Gaghagen
East Fifteenth Street
Henry Wertz
Perry Street
Cros
Savoy Hotel
Moscow
Annie Martens
Hans Martens
Blue Grass
Henry
Fred
Jacob
Herman
George
Edward Martens
Fred Petersen
Jamestown
A. E. Sanford
West Fifteenth Street
James J. Sanford
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Gustave Schlegel & Son
West Second Street
Dr. Fowler
Lowden
W. A. Meese
L. C. Blanding
Walter Rosenfield
C .P. Skinner
B. F. Peek
Frank O. Lowden
Farmer Lowden
Ogle County
Almeda C
G. T. Bergston
Theodore J
Peoria
J. P. Miller
Riverside
Home Fraternal League
Streator
Rockford
A. R. Beal
W. G. Brown
la Salle
W. S. Hinman
C. J. Kinnie
J. B. Upson
EB. Miller
Joliet
L. Armstrong
H. B. North
L. W. Morehouse
J. G. Limerick
Rock Falls
E. C. Schwarz
Elgin
Hostetter
Twentieth Street
Rock Island, Ill
L. Griswell
Denver
Cos
Dr. L. Griffin
Kerler Bros
Seventeenth Street
Siegel's Loan Office
Black Hawk Watch Tower
Entertainments
Petersen
Moline Light Guard
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