Davenport Marriage Licenses and Local News Sparks
Davenport reports licenses issued for Clyde C Edwards and Elster Marguerie Halsdall Davenport and Charles Benny Sweetman with Pearl Denny Davenport. A divorce decree grants Finn Fairman alimony of twenty dollars monthly. the inquest for a train victim remains unsettled. J B Fenlon announces L A Dilley as Davenport chief of staff in the Iowa Sons of Veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde C. Edwards
Elster Marguerie Halsdall
Davenport
Charles Benny Sweetman
Pearl Denny
J. B. Fenlon
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
The
Sons of Veterans
L. A. Dilley
Fenlon
Paul M. Clark
L. S. Gideon
Mason City
RC. Brown
Waterloos
Frost nips corn as See shifts from Friday to Saturday
The sudden shift from Friday to Saturday and light frost nipped the corn, leaving farmers busy this week finishing planting after excessive rains. Children exercises were held at Pine Bluff M E church with many locals attending, and Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson plus family visited relatives, with Laura spending a week with grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Bluff M. E
Thomas Watson
Leonard Dungan
Laura
Eliza Church
Louise Foster
Local residents visit Davenport and Rock Island
Mrs Louis Burmeister and daughter Francis visit Davenport while Miss Irnin B Wenks returns from Des Moines after a ten day stay. Mrs Anna Spickler goes to Rock Island. Larkin club hosts. Miss Hope Hayes finishes a spring term in Drury and returns home. Several residents travel between Davenport Rock Island DeWitt and Buffalo for visits shopping and illness updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Burmeister
Francis
Davenport
Irnin B. Wenks
Des Moines
Anna Spickler
Rock Island
Gilman Hobart
Larkin Club
Charles W. Bischoff
Co. L. Wenks
Hope Hayes
Drury
William Roe
Clarence High
John Stropes
Blanche Ballard
Harry B. Leeman
DeWitt
Iowa
Lin Ballard
Joseph Simmons
Josephine
G. L. Truckenmiller
Charles Burgoyne
Albert Hoffer
Phil Bloom
School Yard Grove
Gertrude Carlson
Buffalo
Investing Your Money and Diversification Lessons
The essay cites Marshall Field and Russell Sage to argue that spreading investments across many ventures is wise. It notes Field estate values and Sage’s vault of risky stocks, concluding that insurers and banks favor broad distribution. Even small sums should not be placed in a single venture as securities reflect living enterprises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swigart
Michigan
Iate
Marshall Field
Russell Sage
London Children and the Country Meet a City Mindset
The bishop of Stepney laments that London slum children fail to grasp country life. A school treat to Hampton Court reveals a longing for swings and beds, as one girl dismisses country nights due to rabbits and noise, highlighting urban indifference to rural calm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Stepney
Hampton Court
Westminster Gazette
Higgins the self made man hoax claim challenged
A Woman's Home Companion excerpt cites Higgins as a self made man but dismisses the claim as improbable, arguing bad manners could not be acquired and suggesting he was born so rather than self made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Higgins
Moline News Briefs Include Smallpox Quarantine And Post Office Record
A 14 year old Moline boy Howard Ramser was quarantined after doctors confirmed smallpox, while several area children had chicken pox. The First Congregational church may occupy its building until June 1914 under terms with new owners. May post office receipts hit a historic 24,422.08 dollars boosted by parcels post. A Burling ton tele phone booth break in yielded cash missing from a toll register. Seven year old Joe Korytkopski suffered severe arm injuries after being struck by a freight car, requiring amputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Ramser
Will Ramser
Nineteenth Street
Ramser
First Congregational Church
T. E. Lundell
Moline
A. T. Foster
Parcels Post
Boy Hurt on Tracks in Moline Plow Yard
A boy playing on tracks was struck by an incoming freight car behind the Moline Plow shops. He was hurled aside and rushed to the city hospital with facial and arm injuries. Doctors fear internal damage could develop but he may survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Louise Mohs
Warrentreet
Milwaukee Railroad
Front
Warren Streets
Georgge Yeley
Des Moines
Manly
Yeley
Brady Street
Mercy Hospital
City Ambulance
Ben Mangels
West Sixth Street
Edwy Clintonr Clapp
John Tanner
Alice Clapp
Los Angeles
Cal
Iowa
Bank of
Shelby
Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank of
Harlan
Moline Plow
Jerome Kelleher
Second Street
Anton Smith
Frank Gustafson
Kelleher
Smith
Denton
Pratt County
Monticello
Ill
David Biebinger
Moline Plow Company
John Biebinger
Naomi Ellen Biebinger
Columbus Junction
Biebinger
Jesse Biebinger
Isaac Newton Biebinger
Anna Laura Kinder
Margaret Biebinger
Leo Biebinger
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Done
Finn Fairman
Je Fejeruary Park
Sam Forgordt
William Smith
Hugo Her
Pine Hills Cemetery
Second
Ripley Streets
R. W. Hatcher
Hatcher
C. Bowmann
Belle Schultz
Bowmann
Iowa Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents
Kimball Hotel
John P. Montrose
Charles J. Schrupp
Dubuque
Frank H. Binder
Council Bluffs
Loa
Pine Bluff
M. E
Wrayville
D. L. Ripley
Ira Parker
C. H. Parker
Ethel Foster
Charles Foster
Atalissa
Sherman
Muscatine
Zephie Spickler
Foster
Mason
Manistee
Lake
Wexford
Tilbois
Illinois
George W. Swigart
First National Bank
Chicago
Leo DeSmet
Fourth Avenue
Andanj.usia
Central Union Telephone Company
Burlington
Joe Korytkopski
Second Avenue
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Knox
Charlotte
Charles
Exox CO
Encr Ave
Johnstown
Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology
Phone West
Carse & Ohlweiler Co
Eleventh St
Milwaukee
Ubrarian
John Lindberg
the Bluff
Josephine Lindberg
Seventeenth Street
Harnees
Arsenal
Chamberlain
Argus
Copenhagen
15Th Street
Brady
Clone
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