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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1915
Page
2
A garbled record shows city officials discussing a trust fund derived from telephone company assets and a pavement damage dispute. Attorney J K Senet explains property and utility rights while commissioners debate liens, offsets, and potential settlements tied to a beach site and street repairs.
Davenport reports a spate of legal matters and family disputes. A Beardon Pickpocket case leads to an expected trial with a key suspect named George Moore. Serious injuries from a barber shop attack prompt hospital care and upcoming charges. An asserted forgery case sends a Nelson girl back to Sweden. Divorce filings here include a substantial alimony settlement and house deed issues. Police pursue a deserter in Wisconsin. A Davenport man accused of wife beating faces assault charges. Local marriages, separations, and property disputes fill the docket alongside an aged widow’s petition and a Hollywood death from a former Davenport resident.
Fragmented OCR text describes construction plans and payments for a house. It mentions concrete construction and possible uncertainty about funding and timing. Names and details are unreadable, but the core idea concerns building work and financial arrangements.
City council advances Ninth street paving from Eighteenth Avenue to Rock River, with brick and concrete base at an estimated $51,749. Salaries boosted for three city hall employees and two new offices created, including a city inspector position at $1,200 yearly. Other ordinances cover polling places, fire station phones, sidewalks, and street walks. Two additions add ten Bailey sub lots and O'Brien sub lots. Coal Valley Mining agreed to supply screenings at $1.45 per ton. Commissioner Murrin authorized to sell old iron at waterworks, linking to Davenport past. The obituary notes the death of an official, with surviving family.
A vivid pitch describing a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway northbound journey through the Rockies and Cascades toward the Pacific. It highlights Montana to Washington scenery, opportunities to visit Yellowstone from Butte, and a 40 mile boat trip on the St Joe river with Lake Coeur d Alene, offered as an exclusive feature at no extra cost.
Advertises all steel trains on the Rainier Shasta route from Seattle or Tacoma to California with direct return on the Pacific Limited from Los Angeles or San Francisco. Promotes a Grand Circle Tour to see western show places at moderate cost and urges contacting the local Milwaukee Road agent for fares, schedules, and literature. Includes a joke quote from a judge about buying him.
Light showers in Minnesota, the lake region and along the Atlantic coast result from a northern low moving from Manitoba to the lake region's eastern area. Scattered showers on the southeastern Rocky Mountain slope accompany a southwestern barometric depression over the southern plateau states. High pressure advances over the Dakotas and Nebraska bringing clear skies east to the upper lakes. Expect fair weather tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change.
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