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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1902
Page
2
An advertisement promises electricity as a remedy for many diseases. The author claims universal laws govern health and offers free constipation checks, with a guarantee of cure in curable cases. Associates and rooms listed with hours and contact details.
A Davenport column recaps a series of local items including a desertion case from Presidio California, a sheriff sale of two Mississippi River islands for 205, hospitalization after a throat-cutting incident, the first anniversary of McCowen Hall girls’ home, a thwarted marriage attempt and related legal actions, flag-raising events for Patriot Day, a Carthage College trustee election, upcoming marriage licenses, a child’s fatal illness from appendicitis, a teen’s death from scarlet fever, a Heeney Helmel wedding, a new hotel site purchase at Second and Perry, and the death of 74 year-old Oscar Kiser.
It is quality that makes heat and retains it, enables burning of 90 percent of the combustible part, leaves a light clean ash, and lowers fuel bills by avoiding dirt and unburnables. The coal we handle both hard and soft deserves all the good things said for it. A ton will talk as loudly as a carload.
E G Frazer administrator announces estate of Anton Joseph Walters deceased. All persons having claims or demands against the estate must present them to the Rock Island County Court or to the administrator, George K. Hernick, by the specified date. May 5, 1908.
A dense travel advertisement lists the Queen and Crescent routes to Chattanooga Birmingham and New Orleans with through car service to Asheville North Carolina and Cincinnati Atlanta and Jacksonville. It notes special one fare plus two round trips on June 3 and 17 and announces several convention travel deals and summer literature promotions from Northern Pacific Grand Trunk and other lines. It includes a testimonial for Kodol digestive aid and a general health ad.
Mr and Mrs A Barnard returned Saturday after weeks in California. Bids for the Velie residence sale were opened but cash terms delayed closure. Supt. Cox notes the marriage of Prof Thomas St Clair Correll and Hannah Thompson in Penns Grove. The Nason families plan summer at York Beach. Luther Thulin and Amy Trandaloved married in Clinton. Ken Molders union eyes shorter workday but waits on Toronto convention. Roosevelt river and harbor bill becomes law. A child, Donald Odell, was badly injured by a hammock hook but survived. Six hundred Odd Fellows decorated Riverside cemetery. Coroner Eckhart held inquest into August De Meulenaere’s death at East Moline.
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