Davenport News Briefs Highlight Local Health Efforts and Social Events
Davenport boards push Pure Food regulations with city officials to assess meat import rules. A worker at Davenport Malting broke his ankle in a wrestling incident. Nighttime flag battles at the high school ended with seniors thwarting repeated attempts to lower the senior flag. A Davenport pastor from Corning announced marriage plans in Davenport with ceremonies set for June 27 and a Milwaukee home following. A Newton marriage of Rev Cameron Swazey Morrison and Helen Randolph is noted with family attending. A Davenport male chorus was formed at Northwest Davenport Turner hall, with 35 active members and 15 passive members. Property transfers and deeds from sections 18 and 33 in local townships are listed with various sums.
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Johnny Hoffman
Davenport Malting Company
West Fifth Street
Bishop Morries
St. Stephen's Church
Newton
Iowa
Cameron Swazey Morrison
Helen Randolph
Orville Fitz Randolph
T. N. Morrison
St. Stephen's
Northwest
Davenport Turner Hall
Davenport
H. Knuth
J. Ernst
Louis Claussen
Probate and estate actions in Rock Island County Court
In Rock Island County Court Judge E E Parmenter presides probate matters for multiple estates. Proceedings include proof of will in the estate of Herman A Barnard with witnesses deposition, letters testamentary granted to William C Bennett and Walter J Entrikin, appraisers named, and bonds filed. Other estates include Morty Kelley Henry Heitahrends and Frances B Shaw with final reports, administration matters, and administrator appointments. Real estate transfers show Mary E Murphy to Henry Tolson.
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Rock Island
E. E. Parmenter
Herman A. Barnard
William C. Bennett
Walter J. Entrikin
John S. Gilmore
William T. Ball
Arthur S. Wright
Morty Kelley
W. R. Moore
Henry Heitahrends
Frances B. Shaw
Don B. Shaw
River Riplets and Cargoes on the Inland Waterway
RIVER RIPLETS describes vessels such as The Mac Ruth Emily Eclipse and log carriers R. D. Kendall and E. R. Rutledge moving up and down with stage of water at 10.0 all day The Columbia also entered from the south The river forecast notes nearly stationary stages along the Mississippi from Dubuque to Muscatine with little change expected.
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Mac
Ruth
Emily
Eclipse
R. D. Kendall
E. R. Rutledge
Lizzie Gardner
Warnetta
Columbia
Mississippi
Dubuque
Muscatine
Kentucky lowers rates save shippers 1.8 million a year
The Kentucky state railway commission issued an order lowering freight rates, saving shippers about 1.8 million dollars annually. The Louisville and Nashville line faces a 25 percent cut, while the Illinois Central is restricted to the same rate as L N. An election notice follows for Rock Island school district board of education seat to be filled June 26, with Frick's livery barn as polling place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. judges and clerks listed for the First precinct Fourth ward.
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State Commission
Frankfort
State Railway Commission
Kentucky
Louisville and
Nashville
Ilinois Central
Rock Island
Board of Education
Frick’s
Livery Barn
Third Avenue
Following the Flag Mor gan touts New Discovery
Willis T Morgan of Concord New Hampshire recounts two years in Cuba and two in the Philippines and credits Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption as the best medicine for coughs colds bronchial troubles and lung diseases. Hartz Ullemeyer s druggists offer 50 cents and 1 trial bottle free. De Witts Witch Hazel Salve rich with imitators. Good for burns scalds chaffed skin eczema tetter cuts bruises piles and more. Sold by all druggists.
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Cuba
Philippines
Willis T. Morgan
Concord
N. H
Hartz & Ullemeyer
DeWitt
Tri-City youths elect officers and home wedding noted
The Tri-City Baptist Young People Society elected Oscar Wilson of Moline as president Arthur Bixby Davenport as secretary and Mary Maxwell Rock Island as treasurer A program featured Agnes Gibson Earl Gibson and the Willard orchestra Ice cream and cake followed. East Moline church corner stone laid with Rev Brown and Rev Haney on hand A home wedding united Miss Emma Peters and Fred L Wagner with 75 guests in attendance The couple planned a Chicago Joliet Peru honeymoon before returning to Rock Island area. Public library to relocate desk enabling self service shelves. Ernest Anderson died from blood poisoning after scratching a pimple on his neck He was born Sept 18 1892 and would have started high school next fall. Notice includes Rock Island June 15 1906 saloon license application by M Marble stone for 700 Seventh Street with bonds and sureties.
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Tri-City
Seventh Street
Ernest Anderson
John P. Anderson
Sixth Avenue
Ernest Elmer Anderson
Rock Island
George W. McCashrin
County of
State of
Illinois
City of
State of Illinois
Simon Lewis
J. J. Harris
M. Marblestone
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Ving
San Francisco
United States
Ass'n
Phila
Franklin
Philadelphia
Hanover
New York
Hartford Ins
Conn
Ins. Co
North America
Niagara
Pennsylvania
Phila. Phenix Ins. Co
Brooklyn
Phoenix Ins
Hartford United Firemen's
Mutanti
Junaucipma
Aachen and
Munich
Germany
Commercial Union of England
London Assurance of England
North British of England
Ww. C. Maucker
West Seventeenth Street
Rock Island, IN
Tomlinson &Convill
Seventeenth Street
Fourth Avenue
George Schneider
California
Southern
el Paso
New Mexico
Scenic
Colorado
FE. H. Plummer, c. P. A
Rock Island, Tlinois
Paridon Wall Paper Co
Board of Health
W. A. Stoecks
John Wright
George W. Scott
Robert Sample Donaldson
Lenore Catherine Okey
Corning
Arthur Franklin Okey
Donaldson
Milwaukee
Perseverance Church
Princeton University
J. B. Donaldson
Ida Jones
Henry Tolson
Malvina Mudd
John E. Tolson
James B. Tolson
Albert Tolson
Lucy B. Dixon
Anthony A. Wells
J. B. Kleaf
John W. Good
Francis M. Sinnet
Arthur P. Griggs
College Heights
Jess J. Shirkey
Edith Macey
Joseph B. Connell
Bessie V. Liefa
Moline
Wilbert O. Sellers
Theresa Nold
William F. Parchert
Edgington
Louisa Kadel
William H. Stevens
Clinton
Henrietta J. Barrett
Viam E. Hughes Geneseo
Clara B. Brady
Hilmer E. G. Johnson
Emma H. Johnson
Milo L. Elyen Ainsworth
Helen R. Jardine
Wilmington
Philip N. Hennegan
Carbon Cliff
Ethel Duncan
Phileman van Vooren
Marie M. Colpaert
Ottumwa
Newton de Spain
Alice C. Richardson
Galesburg
Mary E. Murphy
River Bulletin
Paul
Reeds Landing
la Crosse Setts
Prairie du Chien
Public Library
Neuralgyline
TRE Neuralgyline CO
Wheeling
W. Va
Steinway
L. C. Finch
Ill
David Don
Second Ave
JONES
J. W. Jones
Rock Island, Ill
Channon & Dufva
Rock Island Savings Bank
Phil Mitchell
H. P. Hull
P. Greenawalt
Mitchell & Lynde’s
R. R. Cable
William H. Dart
H, P. Hull
E. W. Hurst
John Volk
P. Greenawalt Phi Mitchell
L. Simon
H. 8. Cable
Jackson & Hurst
Is & F. M. Lytzen & Co
Clinton, Iowa
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