Davenport News Briefs and Local Notices
Davenport licenses to wed, regatta race course map completed for July 4 6. Divorce filing by Mrs. Bessie Ringle against Benjamin Ringle. Runaway team damages a shop window. horse injured. Obituary of Harry Thelemann, longtime plant fireman at Independent Brewing. Notices of local residents traveling, visiting, or returning from cities and events. Captain Coufal’s missing ship Belle Isle body found near Cherbourg. Various social visits, transfers, and community notices across Davenport and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Ringle
Benjamin Ringle
Deep River
Town
W. G. Mott
Petersen Auto Company
A. A. Arnould
Harry Thelemano
Independent Brewing Company
Davenport
Mme
Auga Boenfeldt
Augusta Thelemann
August
Louis
Charles
Oscar
West Fifth Street
Davenport Lodge
Fairmount Cemetery
Moline Bank Declares Semiannual Dividend Amid Growth
Mechanics and Merchants bank directors announced a 3 percent semiannual dividend, the second since the bank’s founding two years ago. Deposits near $900,000. Meanwhile Moline Vacuum Heating secures a $12,000 Philadelphia suburb contract for a $250,000 project, promising largest apartments in Morris Realty’s project. Counterfeit silver dollar and 25-cent pieces circulate. customers at Rank’s store pass them, Lindwall’s drug store involved. Ernest Anderdenberg jailed on $100 bond for whisky theft from Frank Anderson’s saloon. Henry Hudson jailed in Davenport after arrest with stolen goods. bound over to grand jury for trial. Numerous society items note visits and travel of local residents including Miss Florence McCreight, Miss Laura Love, Miss Georgia Samuelson, and others. City paving contract awarded to Advance Construction for $95,354. largest Illinois contract this year. Mrs. Minerva Ruse of Aledo dies aged 79.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanics and Merchants’ Bank
Wn Land
Moline Vacuum Vapor Heating Company
Moline
Philadelphia
Morris Realty Company
Rank
Fifteenth Street
Lindwall
Rank Bros
Erick I. Asplund
Williams, White & Co
Twenty-seventh Street
Mr. Asplund
Davenport
East Fourth Street
Henry Hudson
Scott County
Florence McCreight
Ashland
Neb
Laura Love
Waterloo
Iowa
Georgia Samuelson
New Windsor
M. J. Merryman
Mary Washburn
New Boston
Zitha
Vira Pittenger
Litchfield
Emma Speer
Hanover
Miss Warwick
E. L. Walters
Galesburg
Aledo
Kate Dunning
Rock Island
A. C. Sells
Muscatine
T. A. Marshall
James Wallace
Indianapolis
Ind
Leon McWhorter
Louise Bartlett
S. A. Noland
Paola
Kan
Anderson
John McAdams
Reynolds
B. E. Berwick
Alexis
Frank Macy
Los Angeles
Cal
Alex Macy
Eugene Parkman
Board of Local Improvement
Advance Construction Company
Waukesha
Wis
Illinois
Minerva Ruse
A. E. Moody
J M. Jones
Aledo Cemetery
Local residents leave for visits and travels
Miss Minnie Sheats returns home from visiting her brother R Sheats in Joy. Mrs F Starkey returns from Farmington visiting her parents. Glen Baker of Burlington visits his mother Mrs John Baker. Miss Esther Hogan spends a week in Burlington. Mr and Mrs Honeyman return to New Boston after visiting A Willits. Mrs E Cool of San Francisco and her mother visit Joy. Nellie Willits goes to St Joseph to visit her uncle. father accompanies. Mr and Mrs H Duncan and Miss Mabel Coleman visit Aledo. Miss Mabel Bloomer spends Saturday in Aledo. Grace Brandt Bertha Mawby Hettie McCreight visit with Lucile Florence Fouts Nina Eyes depart Farmington. Mrs Otto Heather and Mrs Edgar Smith spend day in Rock Island. Mrs W B Smith and daughters depart for Orton. Estaline McClellan and Mary Bradford head to Epworth league convention Bradford Tuesday. Grace and Pearl McKee go to Brabaton for Pi Beta Phi convention. Miss Minnie McCreight accompanies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Summers
Astoria
Clements
J. F. White
Marton
Henry Weaverling
New Windsor
George Reynolds
Castleton
Aledo
Elizabeth Warner
Woodhall
8. Bowen
Good Shepherd
Peoria
B. O'Day
Keithsburg
H. O. Bauer
New Boston
Ed Heidrick
Burlington
Ed Dool
Lucille
Isabelle Irvin
Los Angeles
Cal
Jessie Scott
Mr. Dool
Lowell Lloyd
Lincoln
Neb
L. B. Lloyd
W. A. Minor
Downs
Kan
J. A. Matchneer
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Olive
Charles Brandt
Mabell Barr
Champaien
Loatni Byron Brown
Fairport
Iowa
C. L. Gregory
Minnie Sheats
R. Sheats
Joy
F. Starkey
Farmington
Glen Baker
John Baker
Esther Hogan
Mrs. Honeyman
A. Willits
E. Cool
San Francisco
C. A. Smith
Nellie Willits
St. Joseph
H. Duncan
Mabel Coleman
Mabel Bloom
Doan's Kidney Pills Rock Island Testimony
Rock Island residents testify to Doan's Kidney Pills relieving rheumatic backache and fatigue. C M Fisher of 32 First Avenue reports improved sleep and regulated kidney function after taking the remedy sold nationwide with Foster Milburn as U S agents. 50 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Doan
S. C. M. Fisher
First Avenue
Rock Island, Ill
Dean
Harper House
Foster-Milburn Company
Buffalo
New York
United States
Historic Blackguards by Jack Sheppard tale
A Victorian era feature recounts the highwayman Jack Sheppard, his mock gentlemanly dance with a frightened girl, petty theft career, and dramatic jail escapes. It notes his real harm, illegal career, and a crowd of 200000 at his execution on November 16, 1724, contrasting legend with fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hounslow
England
Jack Sheppard
Dick Turpin
Claude Duval
Sheppard
London
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Providence
R. I
Central Union Telephone Co
A. J. Beverlin
John H. McMeans
Ruth L. Johnson
Pasadena
Ignatz Schmidt
Davenport Boat Club
Tampa
Fla
Laporte
Leeoner
Sem
Coufal
Isle
Cherbourg
France
Ilinois
Illinois City
124Th Sniots Volunteer Infantry
Scudder
Amanda Milton
Mercer County
Laomi
Jennie
Rev
Warren Shed
G. A. R. C. B. Duvall
Baltimore
Young People’s Society of the Baptist Church
Baptist
C. A. Baker
Devalin
Minn
Baker
People’s Home
Anna Watson
United Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth Townsley
Harry Powell
A. Swanson
Kansas City
Rev. A. Smith
Methodist
Ernest Anderberg
Orion
Frank Anderson
Third Avenue
Justice Williams
Bruner
Worl
el Arercet Vee
Choriy
Mamersc
Renee
Postum Cereal Co
Lim Bacio Cone
Mile
UBA
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Albert Payson Terhune
the Press Publishing Co
Jack Sheppard, the
Boy
Jonathan Wild
Wild
Jack
Newgate Prison
Migs Maude
Lowey
Ketehtate
Dayport
Alec
Chicago Medical Institute
Third St
Adams Express Co. Davenpot
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