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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1910
Page
2
Mary Brennan sues Chicago Burlington and Quincy for 1999 dollars claiming brakeman's death at Alliance Nebraska on August 3 1907 due to defective tracks and maintenance. Obituary notes James T Clancy 34 obituary and family mourners.
Silvis residents visited relatives while shops reopened after a 10 day shutdown. Families celebrate anniversaries and a Chicago trip ends. A land deal closes in Acme addition for $8,000 on a 15 acre tract between Nineteenth and Twenty-seventh streets and Eleventh half and Twelfth avenues.
East Moline resident John Doxey returns after weeks away. Mr and Mrs F O Hill attend a Peru wedding last week. Mabel Potter of Erie visits W S Potter’s home Friday afternoon. Bell society hosts gathering hosted by Anna Lathan. Mrs Bid Woodruff entertains her sisters from Springfield and Geneseo. Mrs Ross Dick visits relatives in Keithsburg. Mr and Mrs Alfred Lundquist back in Fairfield Iowa. Margaret Quick returns to Des Moines after visiting. Mrs Claude Compton leaves for Des Moines. John McKinley and granddaughter mentioned.
Hampton students Mildred Cloidt Ethel Light Mabel Johnson Clara Edelman and Columbia Mohr passed the eighth grade examination. Local visits include Pardee families Adams Brown Collis Dailey and others. Community events feature an M E church ice cream sociable June 9 and St Marys Catholic sociable June 11. Sunday school rally planned as Hampton children attend Rock Island parade June 13.
Minneapolis June 9 A city woman May Belle Bowler sues Richard Bowler for divorce in Hennepin county district court alleging a spirit affinity as the cause. She says at the theatre and on street cars he flirts with an ethereal goddess, while both are spiritualists and claim the marriage by suggestion has proven unstable.
A health advertisement urges women to seek Electric Bitters for improved health and beauty. It links constipation and kidney poisons to skin problems and says the tonic regulates liver and kidneys, purifies blood, strengthens nerves, and improves complexion and breath. Fifty cents at druggists.
An advertisement touts Oxy-Tonic as a harmless germicidal tonic with no drugs poisons or alcohol. It claims to boost blood vitality to fight disease by aiding natural healing and asserts twenty two years of cures. A special trial offer is included from the Oxy-Tonic Company at 80 West Illinois Street Chicago.
Residents slept as burglars entered downstairs windows. Lin der’s trousers with a watch and $25 were found on his bedpost. Burglars escaped undetected until morning. A man and a boy are suspected, with footprints of both found in a freshly raked garden at Linder’s home.
Court house record lists transfers including Fraeyman to De Poorter for east half lot 18 block 3 Dabelliehn addition Moline priced 1250 and Shallberg to Baird for part lot 16 block 3 Columbia park Rock Island 595 plus multiple others in Moline Rock Island East Moline and Silvis with prices ranging from 200 to 8000 and buyers including Crumpton Palmberg Lundquist Middleton Gustafson Nourse and Connell.
Judge Joel M. Sandlin ruled that all original Chickasaw and Choctaw allottees must pay state taxes like other citizens. The decision affects about 9,000 landowners and validates the 1908 tax levy. Petitions to enjoin collection were filed by the allottees. Attorney General West.
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