Davenport Wessenger Boy Run Down Action At Local Street Scene
On Monday afternoon Eddie Marchmond, a Western Union messenger, was knocked down by a Hiegel bakery wagon on Third Street near Main. The wagon ran over his legs but caused only bruises. he rose, retrieved his bicycle, and walked away. Other items note Turners to Have Picture House in Davenport, a school commencement at Immaculate Conception academy with Bishop James Davin speaking, and plans to remodel St Roberts' hospital into a contagious disease facility pending approval. Bettendorf eyed a municipal amusement park on State Street north of the town hall, while Mrs. Katharine Staten of Des Moines drowned in the Des Moines river when a rowboat overturned. Judge M J Wade forecast Champ Clark's nomination and speculated on Taft and Roosevelt. The city’s outlook remains unsettled.
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Wessenger
Third Street
Main
Eddie March- Mond
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hiegel Bakery
Immaculate Conception Academy
Academy
James Davin
Katherine Staten
Des Moines
Touls
Phyra
Wade
Clark
M. J. Wade
National Democratic Committee
Champ Clark
Baltimore
Taft
Roosevelt
Teddy
Moline set to vote on waterworks bonds and franchises
Moline schedules a special election for July 23 with four propositions including issuing 164000 in waterworks bonds under the Moline Waterworks Extension and Improvement program. Franchises for Central Union Telephone and Tri City Automatic Home Telephone are also on the ballot.
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Moline
Moline Waterworks Extension
Central Union Telephone Company
Tri-City Automatic Home Telephone Company
Beauty Health Hints From Mrs Mae Martyn
A period advice page offers homemade skin and hair remedies including an almospin cream jelly for pore reduction and clear skin, a parnotis weight-reduction tonic, a quinzoin scalp tonic for dandruff, delatone hair removal, pyroxin lash and brow enhancer, a blood tonic, canthrox shampoo, spurmax lotion, and an eye tonic. It also reports crime and obituaries and Deere Picnic plans.
Orion News Recap From School Picnic And Visits
Orion residents and guests share a midweek gathering as Mrs. George Westfall visits her sister in town while others travel from Galesburg and Lynn. The public school announces its next year staff, led by Principal J. Muma and teachers Miss Myrtle Cox Miss Irene Toleman Miss Alice Sallaway. Philip Palmgreen sustains a minor eye injury at the picnic with no serious harm reported.
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Orion
Nat Hamor
Toulon
George Westfall
Galesburg
Schneider
C. Forsell
Florence
Lynn
Philip Palmgreen
J. Muma
Myrtle Cox
Irene Toleman
Gaiva
Alice Sallaway
Mrs Stevens Recovers with Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Nebraska and New Hampshire reader recounts relief from seven years of female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges other women with inflammation ulcers displacements tumors irregularities pains and backache to seek advice from the Lynn Massachusetts company.
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Waurike
Okla
Lydia E. Pinkham
Sallie Stevens
R.F.D
Comanche, Ohio
Newton
N.H
F. A. Peasey
Aledo Social News Notes Visitors and Club Picnic
Aledo reports numerous visitors from Moline, St Louis, Cuba and Clinton. The Columbian club held a rain postponed picnic at the opera house with about 50 members and guests, and Mrs. Edwards hosted the event. The Union Clothing Co opens a branch on East Seventh Street, and a weekly public band concert series is planned in Central Park through October.
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Loyal Minor
Urbana
Aledo
J. Andress
Moline
M. F. Felix
Thomas Ewing
Rock Island
R. W. Brooks
New Windsor
W. Parkinson
C. Balmer
Johnson
Albert Hardiman
Cambridge
Leon McWhorter
Mr. Edwards
Opera House
Merchants’ Hotel
W. York
Aurora
Whittier
Cal
R. Gridley
B. A. Smith
Ada
Okla
May Cain
J. Gridley
E. J. Brooks
New
Caligula A Descent From Mercy to Cruelty in Rome
The piece recounts Caligula rising as a promising ruler then spiraling into madness. He orders executions for spectators, starves mercy, and uses torture during meals. He gambles away wealth of Tiberius’ fortune, parades German captives, and proclaims himself son of gods before being killed January 24, 41 A.D.
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Caligula
Jupiter
Germany
Britain
Shipa
Rome
Conceit Led to His Undoing in a Hotel Restaurant
A German postal employee who fled Chemnitz with $40,000 in cash and papers was arrested in a Raleigh hotel restaurant after Swiss detectives noticed a laughing stranger studying newspapers with his photo. The man, found with a $250 reward notice, was identified and detained. a large sum of money in shares and notes was found in the room.
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Chemnitz
Germany
Rale
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Davenport
Northwest
Turner Society
Plaos
Ihs
Old Hospital
Board of Health
Board of Supervisors
St Roberts’ Hospital
Bettendorf
State Street
Bettendorf Improvement Company
Staten
Moline Wagon Company
J. D. Hallowell
Winona
Minn
Hallowell
Winona Wagon Company
Fifth Avenue
Kneberg
M. R. Carlson
Fifteenth Street
Bank
Lincoln N. Sadler
E. 0
Grassley
Twenty-fifth Street
Sadler
Bessie Churchill
Buda
Augustana College
Churchill
Brown's
Business College
Root & van Dervoort
Eastern Star Lodge
White Shrine
Mary Churchill
E. O. Grassley
R. C. Kelley
Warren Churchill
Louis Churchill
Sheffield
Leona Maria van Voren
East Moline
St. Anthony's Hospital
Rostron
Carpathia
Black Cat
Tain
Arthur H. Rostron
Winter Garden
New York
Mae Martyn
D.O
Max
Jane
Anna G
E. L. Grant
Whit Grant
Oklahoma City
William Cook
East Sixth Street
Herbert Cook
St. Luke's Hospital
Albert Buckwater
Washington Street
F. E. Rudolf
Thirteenth and
Seventeenth Avenues
Twenty-seventh
Twentyfinth
Mrs. Stevens
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Mass
O. H. Neeley
John Edgar
Joy
Ed. Partridge
Frances Bay
L. H. Woodward
Clinton
Iowa
New Boston
P. E. Nicholls
Edna Stallings
Nellie Dodson
Claire Smith
Love
Keithsburg
E. F. Worst
Eva Chowning
Mary Chowning
C. 8. Burns
Battle Creek
Mich
Ottawa
Kan
Methodist Sunday School
Ste A. m
Black Hawk Watch Tower
Tom Abercrombie
J. H. Abercrombie
Homer Dines
Chilldren
Muscogee
Windsor
F. Cole
Omer Sheese
Muscatine
May Harvey
Dixon
Mamie Dool
Hancock
J. M. Nesbitt
Margaret Myers
Wilton Junction
Lila Macklin
Oquawka
Helen Boone
Tors
Albert Payson Terhune
Yright
the Press Pub
Crazy Emperor
Gala
Caci
JLA
Calus Ceasar Augustus eGrmanicus
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Tiberius
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