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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1902
Page
1
Dental firm advertises cleaning and multiple fillings including cement fillings bone and platinum silver and gold options. Crowns priced 4 to 6. Full set teeth offered with permanent location at office 1607 Se Rock Island.
A brief ad praising Scott's Emulsion as a remedy to ease the exhausting fight with consumption. It claims rich nourishment strengthens repair, helps nature gain force, and may cure if started early or at any disease stage. Free sample offered from Scott & Woone chemists in New York.
An additional Passenger Train departs Mock Island at 7 35 p m and arrives Peoria at 16 30 p m. Agent M A Patterson G P A signs the note in this timetable fragment.
A long Davenport column reports deaths in Shell Lake Wisconsin and Davenport, including Clara Bell and Emma Johnson, with kin links and funeral details. It covers fishing club plans for the season, intercity league talks, bowling club formation, and colored enlistment shifts. Plus game wardens seizing ducks, socialist ticket filings, Travelers' Protective Association meeting, and civic improvements like an ice harbor funding bill moving through Congress.
A mixed Rock Island item highlights a local relief note about suffering and recovery, referencing Down's Ointment and a foundry worker who reports cure after three days. It also includes a 1901 tax notice demanding immediate payment for personal taxes, with office location and the township collector's name.
Thieves raided the Whidser hotel Saturday afternoon taking about 100 dollars worth of jewelry and small items from guests. Several rooms were ransacked by someone familiar with the premises. no suspects or arrests announced. The rest of the itemized notes cover local events from an art exhibit to hotel renovations and social gatherings in Moline.
An advertisement touts a 20 year track record and a guaranteed perfect cure for chronic nervous or private diseases for men and women. It claims consistent past success, assures future patrons of the same reliable treatment, and emphasizes no experimentation with an “absolutely perfect” system.
The notice argues against cutting varicocele and similar conditions. It promotes a non surgical cure that preserves organs and avoids maiming, claiming to restore health without destructive methods. It mentions ailments like varicocele stricture rupture and warns against mutilating procedures.
An advertisement offers free X ray examinations for a limited period citing nervous disorders and various male and female diseases. The physician promises private counsel at no charge plus a written contract of promises and invites written case histories for remote assessment.
Dr J Alvin Horne and associate physicians operate at rooms 49 50 51 53 and 55 in the Mitchell Lynde Building Rock Island their hours are 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p m Sundays 9 to 11 a m
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