Davenport Paving Orders Move Ahead City Work
City council approves second and final paving step for Davenport. Alderman Christ Kuebl presents resolutions for various sections to be paved this year with completion by Sept 14. Streets include Pine, Fourth to Telegraph, asphalt. many brick and concrete alleys and streets across the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wmiusa
Christ Kuebl
Pine Street
Fourth Street
Telegraph Road
Pine Streets
Brady
Rock Island
Rusholme
East River
Bridge Avenue
Western Avenue
Gaines
Twelfth
Lown
LeClaire
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Clarlesa Street
Iowa Street
Large Class Graduates From Moline Public Schools
A class of 117 eighth graders, 71 girls and 46 boys, graduated in the Washington building assembly room with parents present. Speaker W B McIntyre of Rock Island inspired the graduates as the largest group advancing to high school from Central grammar school.
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Moline
Washington Building
Central Grammar School
W. B. McIntyre
Rock Island
Des Moines Wins Hot Bid for Next Meeting Against Dubuque
Des Moines secured the bid to host the next meeting in a close contest with Dubuque as the strongest challenger. The result positions Des Moines ahead of Dubuque in the race for the event.
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Des Moines
Dubuque
Social Roundup in Andalusia and Nearby towns
Andalusia residents and visitors share a busy spell with multiple calls on Rock Island Davenport and Buffalo. Local trips include Miss May Post from Davenport and Mr and Mrs Guy Hays from Rock Island visiting relatives, while Mrs Kate Richards of Davenport visits during Memorial Day. Community events include Baptist Society earning 27 56 at a dinner and upcoming Children's Day services at the Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Anderson
Ruby Carr
Rock Island
Louis Burmeister
Kate Richards
Davenport
Adeline Thompson
May Post
William Bentley
Guy Hays
Charles Hays
the Baptist Social Society
Josephine Strohmeier
Mable Freistat
William Strohmeier
Julia Hammond
Sears
Corn Doering
Tri-Cities
W. Beaumont
R. G. Thompson
Charles Huntrey
Henry Hass
B Burgoyne
Mary Good
The
Baptist Church
Decoration Day Observances In Aledo Noted By Attendees
Sherrard Elmer Sincox and J H Greenwood attended Decoration Day exercises in Aledo on Tuesday. The event was well attended with a morning program and a cemetery visit led by the Sherrard band.
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Elmer Sincox
J. H. Greenwood
Aledo
Sherrard
Memorial services and baseball parade on Decoration Day
Memorial services were held at the cemetery led by Rev T S Pittenger and Attorney Oscar E Carlstrom of Aledo with Rev A K Johnston of this place. In the afternoon East Moline battled Sherrard in a 12 to 0 loss for East Moline. A special train conveyed attendees to the ball game. Charles Sass’s body, killed two months earlier at Mathersville, was moved from here to Davenport for burial. His parents and one brother accompanied the body. mother stayed through Saturday while father and brother returned home Thursday. Local residents and visitors enjoyed Decoration Day visits and shopping in Rock Island and nearby towns, with several named residents traveling to Canton and Abingdon for visits.
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T. S. Pittenger
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Aledo
A. K. Johnston
East Moline
Sherrard
Charles Sass
Mathersville
Davenport
Lester Ky
Thomas Thompson
Gladys
Laura Thompson
Rock Island
Lillian Morgan
Abingdon
Canton
Thomas Funk
Henry Irwin
John Greer
Coal Valley
Kammerer
Fred Letterdahl
M. EB. Higbee
Iva
Gurney Farrow
Silvis
Freeman Nelson
Miller Wilson
Moline
Brehmer
Lizzie Davison
William Essex
Local Move Notes and Visitor Connections
Hampton Roy Fulscher will move to the Stoddard place Lloyd Light was up from Reynolds a few days ago. O. E. Sparling has moved to Mo line and H. N. Shaffer of Moline will move his family to the Takett place. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Patch and family of Watertown and Charles Carey of Carbon Cuff visited at C. H. Lee's Sunday. Quick of Mountain Grove visited Hampton relatives Monday. P. W. Jackson raised some rhubarb, one leaf measured 4 1/2 inches. Miss Hattie Sikes has been here from Peoria visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gustafson and son Hernan of Phelps County, Neb., have been visiting friends in this vicinity.
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Roy Fulscher
Stoddard
Lloyd Light
Reynolds
O. E. Sparling
Moline
H. N. Shaffer
Takett
Herman Patch
Watertown
Charles Carey
Carbon Cuff
C. H. Lee
P. W. Jackson
Hattie Sikes
Peoria
A. A. Gustafson
Hernan
Phelps County
Nets
Hamlet Meigs Weave and West Liberty Visitors
A fragment diary-like item reports Hamlet Meigs Weave with Mr and Mrs Ben Halsted of West Liberty Iowa. It notes Charles Bopes and sister Kath erine Bopes shopping in Rock Island and Miss Mary Lee visiting there. Miss Lulu Cooper travels to Monmouth for a specialist. Emily Boyle leaves for Colorado to visit Rosa Wolfe. London Clark A Miller and Alfred H Motley detained for a patent dispute but discharged and sail for New York aboard the Krot pring Wilhelm from Cherbourg three hours before New York officers arrive with an extradition warrant. Washington President Taft signs a homestead act allowing entrymen to prove claims on public lands.
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Meigs
Ben Halsted
West Liberty
Iowa
Charles Bopes
Katherine Bopes
Rock Island
Mary Lee
Lulu Cooper
Monmouth
Emily Boyle
Colorado
Rosa Wolfe
London
Clark A. Miller
Alfred H. Motley
American State Department
New York
Cherbourg
Washington
Taft
Five Years Reduction in Cultivated Acreage Granted
A provision authorizes five years with five months' reducing the acreage to be cultivated. The measure shortens annual absence from a claim and cuts large claims from 80 to 40 acres.
Ivan the Terrible and the Russian Empire’s Rise and Fall
A sweeping account of Ivan IV of Russia known as Ivan the Terrible. It traces his childhood under brutal nobles, a later reformer phase guided by his wife Anastasia, and a dramatic turn to paranoia and mass slaughter. The piece notes his open ports, printing, Siberian expansion, and eventual death in 1584 after murder and superstition.
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Jan
Moscow
Ivan IV
Russia
Ivan the Terrible
Caesar
Rome
Ivan
Anastasia
Vince
Novgorod
Earl of Huntington
Siberia
Paris lecturer warns young women about marriage
In a Paris lecture, Mgr Bolo urges prospective wives to observe how a fiancé handles small travel annoyances. He advises noting conduct on long voyages, endorsing engagement as a test but warning against marrying if knowledge is limited. He quips that finances are oddly revealing.
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Mgr. Bolo
Paris
America
France
Littl
Lars
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William H. Gosch
Fire Department
Gosch
George Putterich
Deck Creek
Decoration Day
Petersen's Island
Chris, F. Sase
Theodore Lamp
Edward Kreinture
J. G. Emensdorfer
Edward Remer
Julius Hartwig
Mercy Hospital
Roma
Davenport Woman's Club
Washington, D. C
House
Stimson
Adamson
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Committee
Swedish Epworth League
Galesburg
Joliet
Georgia
George J. Mars
Bethany
Mars
Sixth Avenue
Henry C. Johnson
Eleventh Street
Fifth Avenue
Rock Islander
Charles Peterson
Sellitz
Phone West
Carse & Ohlweiler Co
Eleventh St
Rock TM
Jldyy
Milwaukee
Schlitz
Andalusia
Albert Payse
R. V. Pierce
Oregon
Dr. Pierce
Sa. Jan. D. Livey
Washburn
Tenn
Route 2
Pierce
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