Rescues a Boy at Riverfront. Turners Help at Fire
A boy swimmer was carried out into the stream by a wake from the Columbia. A bystander sprang in, reached the boy near the steamer wheel, and brought him to shore, earning praise and Carnegie medal talk. Turners aided a house fire at 311 Western Ave by removing furniture amid dense smoke. Other items note saloon abatements, a runaway horse injuring a man, and obituaries and science notes.
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Brady
Perry
Columbia
Muscatine
Turners
Western Avenue
Turner Hall
Second
Perry Streets
Peter Burke
Eat What You Need for Strength and Digestion
The text urges eating a sufficient, regular amount of wholesome food and emphasizes thorough digestion. When the stomach is weak, rest is needed and Kodol is claimed to aid digestion by digesting the food for you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kodol
Guarantee Offer For Kodol Dollar Bottle
A retailer promises a full refund to customers who buy the dollar bottle of Kodol and claim no benefits after finishing it. The offer, limited to one bottle per family and to the large bottle, is justified by confidence in Kodol’s effectiveness. Kodol is produced by E. C. DeWitt & Co. in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
S.S. S
S&s. S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Maucker
Noah's Ark on a Hilltop River in Alaska Report
N J Brown reports a twelve to fourteen foot high, 100 yard long floating fort like structure on lakes near Chandelaire River, possibly built by early Russian settlers and later abandoned. It features copper fastenings, doors and windows, and Russian inscriptions. Tribesmen fear the site and fish nearby, with many moving away. Also describes the Quetzal, sacred bird of the Montezumas, a striking green and scarlet Trogon rare in Central America, shy and high in oak forests above 200 feet trees.
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Chandelaire River
Dawson
N. J. Brown
Tacoma Dispatch
Brown
Guatemala
Trogon
Republic
Central America
Shotgun
Outing Magazine
Students Create Mixed Bug Prank for Professor
Three college students collected many bugs and assembled a composite pseudo creature by stitching parts from six specimens. They presented it to a professor who identified it as a humbug, deeming the prank a curious species joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Wrong End First Infants Kiss Uncle John Then Wash Face
A London Telegraph quote depicts an agitated mother urging her infant Willie to greet Uncle John with a kiss before washing his face, highlighting family dynamics and sudden arrival of a wealthy relative.
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Willie
John
London Telegraph
Run 15 Minute Cars On Interurban Line Inauguration
The Moline area announces the first 15 minute service to Campbell's island on the interurban line yesterday marking a new schedule. Also reports on a marriage split, a Republican ratification meeting with speeches by Mayor Shumway and others, the obituary of Charles DeWeenhauser, and bankruptcy stock sale by trustee Entrikin for Pierr & Co.
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Campbell's Island San
Market Square
L. M. Magill
P. H. Wessel
Shumway
Galesby
L. H. Hanna
Monmouth
Warren County
J. B. Oakleaf
Svea
F. C. Entrikin
Charles Tansley
Pierr & Co
New York
Trup
Markets Report From Chicago Grain Pork and Cattle Prices
Market quotations for wheat corn oats hogs cattle and sheep with receipts today and tomorrow and regional activity in Omaha Kansas City and Liverpool. Hog market opened strong and closed higher while cattle rose at open and sheep softened. Export wheat and corn clearances and visible grain supplies noted along with Minneapolis and Duluth receipts. New York stocks summary follows.
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Omaha
Kansas City
Liverpool
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Quotations on the Stock Market Today
A mix of stock percentages and commodity prices runs through today’s market listing. Notable figures include U S Steel preferred 102 U S Steel common 38 Reading 112 percent and Copper 66 percent with several railroads and steel averages noted. The ad segment promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at 35 cents from Harper House pharmacy.
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U. P
U. S. Steel
Reading
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
N. Y. Centr
Missouri Pacific
Atchison
Locomotive
Sugar
St. Paul
Copper
Republic Steel
Southern Railway
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Harper House Pharmacy
Local Market Conditions Rock Island June 29
Wholesale prices in the local market today list provisions and produce with eggs at 16 cents a dozen. Live poultry hens at a half cent per pound ducks nine cents geese per pound. Butter 20 cents. lard 10 to 11 cents. Potatoes 45 to 50 cents. Live stock hogs five dollars to five dollars and thirty five cents.
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Rock Island
Here's Money for Your Vacation
A secrecy focused loan offer promotes quick household goods and pledge security loans. It describes a $50 loan at $1.20 weekly for 50 weeks with no removal, available in Buffalo and several nearby towns, plus home visits at no charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
le Claire
Princeton
Clinton
Silvis
Milan
What Shall We Have for Dessert Jell O
Promotional note extols Jell O as a dainty appetizing economical dessert. Instructions say add boiling water, cool and serve. Claims 110 count package serves a large family and lists seven flavors lemon orange raspberry strawberry chocolate cherry peach. All grocers sell it and no substitutes are accepted. Complies with pure food laws.
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Davenport
J. F. Miller
East Front Street
W. S. Goodwin
Minnie Hagan
Sporting House
H. B. Betty
Mt. Vernon
N. Y
George Lewis Osborn
New York State
Mr. Ossborn
Rochester
Hattie Tiffany
Lats Union
Robert
Eloise
F. O. Davis Threshing Machine Company
J. H. Flick Construction Company
Osborn
St. Simon of Cyrene Commandery
No. 9
K. T
Tentate
Kaaba Temple
Mystic Shrine
A. Calmette
la Revue du Mosse
Persia
India
Europe
Calmette
America
Missouri
West Indies
Azores
Cape Verde Islands
Humber
Sanitas
Strecker
Lewis
Second Avenue
George Shoanaker
Moline
Sloanaker
Arthur B. Farwall
The
Law and Order League
Mr. Farwell
Charles de Weenhauser
Nue
Security
Tri-City LoanCo
Brady Street
Iowa
Ludolph & Reynolds
Mitchell & Lynde Building
Beckict
A. J. Reiss
W.C. Maucker
Fire Insurance Agency
Insurance Commissioner of Illinois
Aachen
Munich
Ins. Co
Germany
Commercial Union Assurance Co
England
Franklin Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Fire Association
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. Co
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Phenix Insurance Co
Phoenix Insurance Co
Connecticut
Fourth Avenue
Helo
Rock Island, Dll
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