Commercial Teachers Meet Opens in Davenport Exposition
The Central Commercial Teachers association convened in Davenport with sessions at Brown's Business College and a Friday lecture by A F Sheldon. Exhibitions include a typewriter operation contest for a silver trophy and a steamboat excursion on the W W after the Friday preliminaries. Rose L Fritz and Emil Trefzger to compete in typewriting events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Commercial Teachers’ Association
Davenport
Brown's Business College
G. B. King
W. W
Outing Club
A. F. Sheldon
R. H. Peck
Rose L. Fritz
Emil Trefzger
Coal Valley News of Transfers and Local Industry Boom
James Corey sells his business on South Railroad to Fred Gregg of Sherrard. M. Poston sells to John Boots and William Vivian’s property transfers to Poston as the town eyes a coal boom. Miners, mines, and canal shipments loom as prospecting and drilling expand with a regional labor stretch and new public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Corey
South Railroad Street
Fred Gregg
Sherrard
M. Poston
North Railroad Street
John Boraks
Boots
William Vivian
Vivian
Colorado
Donahue
Moline
D. L. Edwards
McCaffery
Burg
Coal Valley
M. Sievers
M. D. Rosenfield
Mr. Levy
Rock Island
Sommerson & Stoddard
J. Pryce
Robert
William Greer
Mr. Greer
James Callahan
John T. Hass and Son
Presbyterian Church
Grateful Thanks In Pittsburg For Cooper's Proposals
Pittsburg residents line up at Cooper's headquarters to thank him for his stomach theory and remedies. A 42 foot tapeworm reportedly removed from a duration of medicine brings renewed health. a local pharmacy advertises the Cooper remedies as famous and saleable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Brustrom
Barney Johnson
Fourth Avenue
Pittsburg
L. T. Cooper
Cooper
LT. Cooper
C. W. Woods
South Highland Street
Tittsburg
Harper
Chamberlains Remedy Promoted By Narcoossee Merchants
Ennis Bros report long use of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from Des Moines. They tout its success in El Paso and sell the product locally with 25 cent tablets offering a gentle laxative and head clearing effect, samples free at drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Des Moines
el Paso
Texas
Narcoossee
Fila
Ennis. Bros
Death lure in a Matrimonial Ad by Belle Gunness
A sensational tale traces how Belle Gunness used a Scandinavian matrimonial advertisement to lure suitors to Taporte Indiana. The letters describe Gunness as a Norwegian widow with a large farm and 75 acres near Chicago, seeking a trustworthy partner to share in her wealth and future, while omitting the dangerous truth behind her murder farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Gunness
Taporte
Ind
Laporte
Gentieroan
Carl Peterson
Waupaca
Wis
Norwerland
Indiana
Chicago
Delicious Banana Cream TMs dessert recipe and patent offer
A reader recommends a banana cream dessert using bananas sugar sweet cream lemon Jell O and whipped cream with candied cherries. The note promotes Jell O at grocers and a free book on patents with an invitation to send descriptions for patentability to Joshua H Potts at multiple city addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua RK. H. Potts
Biearborn St
Chicago
Ninth St
Washington
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
Letter from Mrs P S Gunness on deposits and rest
A typed missive from Mrs P S Gunness discusses requiring a satisfactory deposit from applicants to deter crafters and offers to meet in person if the recipient can raise $1.04. She expresses fatigue from hired help and a desire to rest at home, signing with friendly regards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ana
P. 5S. Gunness
Bank Short on Kisses in Clever Draft Spree
Benjamin Thomas a La Rue Ohio schoolteacher sent Covington Kentucky girl a check for a thousand kisses made out to her. Morris Clements La Rue bank cashier replied he could not send a draft but offered to deliver kisses personally when possible. The Kentucky girl has not replied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Gildea
Moline
Coal Valley
Thomas Hyland
Mort Connor
Graham Post
126Th Regiment
Willi
Benjamin Thomas
la Rue
Marion County
Covington
Morris Clements
Kentucky
French Agriculturist Notes Seed Treatment For Crow Protection
Stinilas Tetard, a noted French agriculturist, states that treating seeds before sowing with a mixture delays germination by a day or two. This delay plus a mild odor deters crows from attacking freshly sprouted grain, with no lasting damage to the seed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stinilas
Let Us Alone and the Nation’s Call for Prosperity
A fragmented article notes a proposed Jardin des Plantes transfer to a foreign site to create a zoological oasis with greater animal liberty. It includes a weathered poem urging enterprise, plus an advertisement praising Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia, liver issues, and weak kidneys, with a 50 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jardin Des Plantes
Paria
Frank Conlan
Houston Street
New York
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Retail Clerks’ Union
Workmen’s Relief Society
Danish Brotherhood Hall
West Fourth Street
H. A. Shelley
Henry Boettger
Charles Adrian
Charles Kennedy
J. A. Homberger
Auto
East Second Street
E. 3
Crossett
Nels Petersen
Phil Werthmann
Werthmann
Cora Galbreath
City
John Metzger
T. F. Eldridge
Third Avenue
Mr. Eldridge
John N. Eldridge
Eldridge
Cora-Lee-Roy
Anna Frances Parker
Old Baptist Church
Fourth and
Perry Streets
Lee E
Miss Cora
Pearl C
Roy Edwin
Fire, Water and Light Committee
Day
Twenty-seventh Street
Old Cemetery
Burlington
MacBeth
Olson
Douglas
Pierr
James Pierr
Mercy Hospital
Pape
Walsh
Gee
Atresthy
Washburn-Crosby Co
Peete
Isines
Kennoth Journal
Orean
Ray
W. J. Lampton
Fidelity Loan CO
Mitchell & Lynde
Room
West
Rock Island, Ill
W.C. Maucker
Fire Insurance Agency
Maucker
Insurance Commissioner of
Ilinois
Aachen
Munich
Ins. Co
Germany
Commercial Union Assurance Co
England
Franklin Insurance Co
Fire Association of
German American Insurance Co
Hanover Insurance Co
Hartford Fire Ins. Co
Connecticut
Insurance Co
North America
Niagara Fire Insurance Co
North British and Mercantile Ins
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Phenix Insurance Co
Phoenix Insurance Co
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