Davenport County Appointments and Hospital Question
Davenport county officials will continue in their posts for another year as the board of supervisors reappoints incumbents. A hospital proposal may go before voters in November after petitions call for a fall submission, with estimated cost at $50,000 and a three tenths mill tax. Nurses from St. Luke's class of 1912 will receive diplomas on June 11. Scott County reports 15,422.67 spent on the poor in first half of the year, Davenport receiving portions. Plans for Davenport Turngemeinde diamond jubilee set for Aug 18 with broader fraternal attendance. Obituaries note Michael H. Howard and Anna Klingenberg.
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Want
Davenport
Board of
St. Luke's Hospital
Scott County
Collins
Davenport Turngemeinde
Turner Hall
Turner Society
Mississippi Valley
Turner Societies
Michael H. Howard
West Fourth Street
Howard
Clinton County
Iowa
Nella Merchant
Ladora
John
Thomas
Ulick Howard
Omaha
Mary Barrett
Katie Smith
Walnut
Anna Klingenbere
West Fifth
Ends Hunt for Rich Girl Stirs Local Gossip
A local column notes social matchmaking themes with a blurb on Electric Bitters as a cure for a restless, restless spirit and a nod to a May social scene. The item blends charity, marriage market satire, and medicinal ads popular in era papers.
Uncle Sam Food Co. Ad Describes Heat of Bowels Oil Claim
An Omaha based cereal ad touts Uncle Sam Food as oil like for digestion. It claims olive oil like lubrication of the bowels with the flavor of brown toast and offers 24 ounce sealed packages for 25 cents or mail order samples. Money back if unsatisfied.
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Omaha
Uncle Sam Food Co
Neb
Aledo News Roundup with Deaths and Local Travel
Aledo brief reports visitors and travel mentions including Aledo residents called by their ill mother Mrs Margaret E Graham of Bradford Ir. Tommy Thompson captain of William and Washtt team leaves for Washington Iowa for summer baseball. Miss Olga Hecker of Cleveland arrives to teach languages next year. Robert D McCord comes from Indianapolis for commencement and will summer on a farm near Aledo. Miss Ellen Morgan dies after pneumonia at United Presbyterian church services held Friday.
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W. N. Graham
Bradford
George F. Graham
Philadelphia
Aledo
Margaret E. Graham
Tommy Thompson
William and Washtt
Washington
Iowa
Olga Hecker
Cleveland
Ohio
Miss Hecker
Robert D. McCord
Indianapolis
Indiana
Zenas Miller
Orion
Aledo Opera House
John Plymm
Niles
Mich
J. A. Sanders
Predonia
Kan
Rebecca Duffield
John Gray
Rock Island
Margaret Markey
May Markey
United Presbyterian Church
J. B. Pollock
Townsend
Bansett and
Graham
Wyoming
G. D. Reed
Dorothy
Galesburg
Ed. Taylor
Woodhull
A. G Bridgford
Memorial address at Baptist church and Decoration day at Reynolds
Foster Rev. Mr Carrol of Silvis gave a Memorial address at the Baptist church and announced a June 9 appointment. Decoration day exercises were held at Reynolds cemetery with attendees from Red Wing and Rock Island. Mrs Lena Gremel’s death prompted Mrs Thomas Watson to travel to Kansas City. Knox College in Galesburg celebrates its 75th anniversary June 4 through June 13.
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Mr Carrol
Silvis
Baptist Church
Reynolds Cemetry
Ira Heynolds
Red Wing
Minn
Frank Reynolds
Brooks
Elmer E. Reynolds
Rock Island
James Underwood
Lela
Mormouth
Ill
Knox College Founded City Plan by New Yorkers
Knox college and its city tracing origins to plans by New York originated leaders led by Rev. George W. Gale. They aimed to found a college on the prairie heart of the West to train leadership for the growing population. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets would brace nerves banish headaches prevent despondency and invigorate the system. Sold by all druggists.
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Knox College
New England
George W. Gale
Center West
Chamberlain
Hastings Flight of Harold and Norman Conquest Tale
Historic narrative recounts the 1066 Hastings clash led by Harold and William the Conqueror. It describes Norman assault, Harold's disobedience, and England's first step toward greatness, plus Norman origins and William's brutal rise.
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Hastings
England
Hus-Carles
Harold
Norman Invader. In the Plain Below, Toward the Billside
Taillefer
Roland
William
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
France
Normandy
William the Conqueror
Robert of
Robert the Devil
Edward “the Confessor
Edward
London
Tower of
New Forest
Hampshire
Nantes
Blackguard
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Board of Supervisors
E. 0. Ficke
James Hickey
Christie Hickey
Bayley Cook
Court House
Hermano Bahis
Peter Sauer
Frank Peters
W. JD. Alvardo
Mabel A. Schaefer
Minnie B. Chapman
Independence
Lulu E. Graham
Faribault, Minn
Street
Goettersdorf
Probster
Holstein
Germany
America
St. Louis
Henry
Herman Klingenberg
Ruth Lowe
Bluff District
Myron Robinson
Clinton
Bethel Church
Dina Gerkin
Hampton
Paul Durbin
Sophia Schave
John Gerkin
Jere Pearsall
Daugther
Clive Trowbridge
Plan Lane Fourth
C. P. Skinner
Prospect Park
Sylvan Park
Moline Public Library
Library Board
Board of Education
Leedy
Fifth Avenue
Sixteenth Street
A.C Stouffer
Rock Island Road
Motive Power Department
Edith Mae Holand
Michigan
Minnie Mae Austin
Wisconsin
Tri-City
Filbert
William E. Filbert, Jr
Watertown
Board of Trustees
Lloyd B. Drake
Central Grammar School
Grace V. Johnson
Miss Johnson
Ericsson
Uncle Sam
Sam
Nature
Foster
Knox
Kitchen Nzer
Patrick
Albert Payson Terhune
William DE Cong
Tubborn
R. L. Phillips
Indian Valley
Cardus
Cardui
Ardus
Ladies’ Atysory Dept
Chattanooga Medicane Co
Chattanooga, Tenn.seul
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