City Has Much Property Valuation Shown by City Treasurer
City Treasurer W G Noth released an itemized valuation placing Davenport property at 3 677 275 dollars excluding public school buildings owned by the independent Davenport district valued at 750 000 dollars. The article recounts local incidents including a peeping arrest, a fatal horse kick near Princeton, alumni meeting, river improvement talks, and upcoming civic events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. G. Noth
Davenport
Independent School District of
Town Tales Of The Butcher And City Tricks
A bustling market scene ends with a frustrated woman exposing a price dispute with a butcher over 26 cents. A Rock Island station agent cashes a $5 bill but notes a larger bill allows change. A country lad borrows a delivery bicycle and explores town, then returns it. A hat is lost in a sudden squall, and a want ad seeks its return. Rumors of a city fire prompt reference to a temperate, dry town after saloon closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indh
Fifteenth Street
Second Avenue
the Argus
Rock Island dramshop license petition and local notices
A Rock Island petition asks Honorable George W. McCashrin for a dramshop license at 230 Twenty-first street with signers listed including W. H. Healey and others. The notice references residents and addresses in Spencer and Case's addition, plus a Biographical note about Lester M. Nelson of Naples Maine praising Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and lung issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. McCashrin
City of
Rock Island, Ill
Twenty-first Street
Rock Island
Spencer and Case
W. H. Healey
Best Pills Ever Sold Promote Dr King’s New Life Pills
Ayscue of Ingle side North Carolina praises Dr King’s New Life Pills after years of indigestion and spending over 200 dollars with no relief. The pills, sold at all druggists, come with a 25 cent guarantee and are advertised in The Argus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
B. F. Ayscue
N. C
Rock Island Election Notice and Kidney Pills Endorsement
Notice is given of a Rock Island election on June 29 1909 to elect one school board member with polling at Frick's livery stable from 8am to 7pm. Also a reader testifies that Deans Kidney Pills cured kidney trouble after a Rock Island resident bought them from Harper House pharmacy. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve praised for a foot sore cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Charles Weiss
Fourth Avenue
Rock Island, al
Dean
Harper House
Foster-Milburn Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Sele
United States
Board of Education
Frick’s
Third Avenue
Bottled in Bond The Uncrowned King of Kentucky Whisky
The Cedar Brook whisky by W M McBrayer is distilled in small tubs and aged in white oak charred barrels in a U S Bonded Warehouse in Anderson county Kentucky The product rests for years to reach purity then is reduced to 100 proof under government supervision and bottled in bond with a green stamp as the Flower of Kentucky produced at the Cedar Brook Distillery in Lawrenceburg Kentucky
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W. H. McBrayer
Cedar Brook
U. S
W. M. McBrayer
Bond
Anderson County
Blue Grass
W.M.H. McBrayer
U. C
Kentucky
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Hart
Cherry Street
Arthur Hart
Roddewig
Scott
Frank M. Johnson
Carey Avent
the Sears
Seaca
Mrs. Johnson
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Bishop and
Stapleton
Sears
Princeton
Hugo Schneckloth
Lagquries
Charles Schneckloth
Eldridge
Lincoln Township
Harry
Catharina Moeller
Linda Matzen
Ella Kay
Rudolph
Alma
Grace
Davenport High School Alumni Association
George Edward Marchall
Frank Betty
Alice Mueller
Clair Haase
Arthur P. Griggs
Commercial Club
Lane
Joseph Valentine
Cincinnati
International Iron Molders’ Union
Valentine
California
M. J. Keough
Centres Park
Joe Trimble
Cedar Rapids
Kewanee
Freeport
Galva
Dav- PB Lort
Union Malleable
Posse
Biath Avenue
Moline Civic Playground Associaton
Thirty-fourth
Fifty-fifth Street
Cady
Silvis
Return
Moline Club
Campbell's Island
Eugene Dantier
Gilpin Stromberg
Perry Davis
Muscatine
Civic Federation
William Schulz
Marian Danzer
John Byrnes
Mary Hackett
Dubuque
Dubuque -Rock Island
Lester M. Nelson
Naples
Maine
Newbro’s
Herpicide
Port Chester
Newbro
Anna M. Brode
Denver
Colorado
W. T. McGillcuddy
M. D. Medical Inspector Mutual Life Ins. Co
Herpicide Company
Dept. 25
Detroit
Ich
THE
ARGUS
Chicago
Commonwealth Edison Company
Electric Shop
Michigan
Jackson Boulevards
Wize
Ency
Fourth Ward
George W. McCaskrin
Bucklen
Tom Moore
H. McBrayer
King of
Lawrenceburg, Ky
Taxman Bros
CHANNON @ DUFVA
West Seventeenth Street
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