Davenport Injured Woman Returns Home After Hospital Stay
Mrs. William Joens returns to Davenport from Mercy hospital Chicago where Dr. J B Murphy treated her broken ankle suffered while alighting from a train en route to Milwaukee to visit her husband. Obituary notes Grace Cooley dies at 36 after several weeks illness in Davenport.
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William Joens
Davenport
Mercy Hospital
Chicago
J. BR. Murphy
West Third Street
Grace Cooley
Bedford
Ind
Record Month Shows Surge in Filings and Deeds
Holm set a record surpassing 1911 figures as 43 percent of documents were filed this month, up 60 from last year. May deeds rose to 182 this year from 176 in 1911. Injured man Harry King improves. Ida M. Blankenburg sues for 39500. obituaries note Mrs. Elizabeth Whitson at 90. Various quotes on Blake, Twain, Wall Street, and a jest about a gold brick.
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Er Holm
Historic Blackguards Cartouche the French Robber Chief
Albert Payson Terhune recounts the life of Louis Dominique Cartouche, Paris’s famed highwayman. He built a citywide crime network, feasted with duchesses, taunted judges, and evaded capture until 1721 when a chance arrest led to a death by the wheel.
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Albert Payson Terhune
the Press Publishing Co
New York World
Historic Blackguards
English Lady Runs Siamese Princess School of Sixty
In Siam a Parisian in Paris notes a British lady operates a school for Siamese princesses. The 15 pupils, all royal, learn reading writing arithmetic and household management including cooking and table decoration. Men are barred by custom. Wednesdays they return to the palace with court ladies.
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Siam
Paris
Une Dame Anglaise
The Power of Beauty and Witty Banter Shaped by Talk
A humorous exchange in which a man praises his wife’s beauty and jokes that if he had such a wife she could buy him many neckties, reflecting light dialogue from the Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Argus.
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Brown
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Tract Sale Records Top Brown ing Farm Purchase Near Prospect Park
Four owners in 30 days set a record as R J and S H Montgomery bought the Brown ing farm tract from J D Metzgar for about 28000 after Metzgar had paid 26000 last week. The purchase followed a finalization announcement of two phone franchise proposals in Moline with Tri City Automatic Telephone and Central Union Telephone company ordinances. a tragic accident injured Anna Swanson, 86, in Seventh Avenue. market crowds showed strong demand with few sellers. speeders fined included G K DeBord 12 05, M J Butters 12 05, and Otto Anderson appealing a 14 05 fine. obituary of Maurice O Donnell at 218 Fifth Avenue after pneumonia.
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Browning
Prospect Park
R. J
S. H. Montgomery
J. D. Metzgar
Moline
Tri-City Automatic Telephone Company
Central Union Telephone Company
G. K. DeBord
W. E. Whiteside
M. J. Butters
Otto Anderson
Justice Whiteside
Restore Gray Hair to Natural Color Sage and Sulphur Cure
Wyeths Sage and Hair Remedy combines Sage with Sulphur and other ingredients to revive gray hair to a dark glossy shade. Promises quicker color restoration, dandruff relief, and strengthened hair. Sold by all druggists with a money back guarantee if not as represented.
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Wyeth Chemical Company of
New York
Wyeth
It will be mailed in plain sealed envelope
A brief admonition stating communications will be confidential and urging action to save a brother or relative from ruin disgrace and death in relation to liquor habit.
Irish-born resident dies at 62 after 16 years in city
The obituary notes the death of a 62 year old man, longtime city resident for 16 years. A native of Ireland he came to the United States as a young man. Surviving are his widow and five children Matthew Margaret A Mary J Regina R who live at home and Francis of Dallas Texas. Two sisters in Chicago also survive.
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Cartouche
France
Louis Dominique Cartouche
Paris
O'Donnell
Ireland
Matthew
Margaret A
Mary J
Regina R
Francis
Dallas
Texas
Chicago
Felicidad the Luzon pygmy aboard the China
On the passenger liner China landing in San Francisco Felicidad a ten year old Luzon pygmy with a storied past captivates the crowd. Abducted from a Philippine tribe she was saved by Mrs Abreu later adopted and finally entrusted to Miss Jessie Durham supervisor of Manila district schools.
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San Francisco
Cal
China
Felicidad
Luzon
Philippines
Abreu
Zambalis
Jessie Durham
Manila
Miss Durham
Lloyd Osbourne
United States
Investors view Bryan county farms and invest in Oklahoma lands
John T. Stafford and A. J. Lindstrom visited Durant and Bryan county to assess farm lands. Both invested in farms, praising improvements in farming methods and infrastructure. Stafford, a rock island banker, and Lindstrom, Illinois savings bank cashier, anticipate Bryan county as a future garden spot. Ends Hunt for Rich Girl. Electric Bitters advertised as a women’s health remedy, 50c at druggists.
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Durant
Okla
John T. Stafford
A. J. Lindstrom
Rock Island
Bryan County
Mr. Stafford
Elmore W. Hurst
Lindstrom
Rock Island Savings Bank
Illinois
Stafford
Oklahoma
Texas
Messrs
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Mayo Record
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Cutter
le Claire
Otto Berghouse
Berghouse
King
Washington
Jones County
Iowa
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Tor
Naphtali Luccock
William C. Shepard
Wilbur P. Thirkfeld
Homer C. Stuntz
Richard J. Cook
Francia J. McConnell
Theodore S. Henderson
Fred D. Leet
Harry King
Ida M. Blankenburg
Bollinger & Block
Milton J. Dunlap
Thomas Hamm
Zanesville
Ohio
St. Mary's Church
Holy Family
Elizabeth Whitson
W. H. McGinnis
Tremont Avenue
Dorshire
England
America
Thomas Whitson
Blake
William Blake
J. F. Nisbet
Cunningham
Lot
Mark Twain
Orion Clemens
Sam
Albert Bigelow Paine
Harper's Magazine
Old Wall Street
Wall Street
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Christian Herald
Washington Star
Sions
Sy Cartouche
School For Princesses
The
Argus
Anna Swanson
Robert Swanson
Swanson & Lundquist
Thomas Dunn & Sons
Walter Nelson
Seventh Avenue
Twenty-fourth Street
Maurice O'Donnell
Fifth Avenue
Livingston
Kee
Institute
Pineht i
Keeley
Keeley Institute
Keeley Institutes
Dwight
Leslie E. Keeley
Rector Building
Monroe Street
Leslie E. Keeley CO
Dwight, Illinois
Doctor Pierce
Pierce
C. W. Paney
Millville
Calif
Dr. W. Pawley
Esa
Allen, Myers & Company
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