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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1902
Page
3
Advertising copy outlines dental services including cleaning cement fillings bone filling platinum and silver fillings gold fillings crowns sets of teeth and permanent locations. Promotion lists office at 1607 Se Rock Island with pricing from one to five dollars and a trial offer.
A period ad describes Scott's Emulsion as sending a breathing spell to the Consumptive. It claims rich nourishment strengthens the body, helps repair waste, and may enable nature to throw off disease at any stage, with best results early. Free samples offered by Scott & Worne, Chemists, 40g Pearl St, New York.
An additional passenger train departs Mock Island at 7 35 p m and arrives in Peoria at 4 30 p m using military time. Agent M A Patterson G P A notes this timetable addition in the travel brief.
A busy Davenport column reports deaths, civic plans, and local happenings. Clara Bell of Shell Lake dies after prolonged illness. William Roetge dies after bowel trouble. Fishing club talks, sports league hopes, bowling club moves, recruiting news, and prison-era law enforcement actions appear alongside socialist ticketing and post meetings at St James hotel. Public notices include a memorial, a marriage, and an ice harbor funding bill advancing in Congress.
A fragment from Rock Island items includes an anecdote praising Downs Ointment for hemorrhoids and a tax notice urging payment of 1901 personal taxes. It mentions Foster Milburn Co as Dean's ointment agents and William J. Zeis as Township Collector with office details in Mitchell and Lynde building.
Thieves Saturday afternoon entered the Whidser hotel and stole about 100 dollars worth of jewelry and small guest articles. Several rooms were ransacked by a likely insider, with no suspects or arrests yet reported.
An advertisement claims guaranteed cure for chronic nervous and private diseases for both sexes. It touts a two decade record of perfect success and promises future patrons the same never failing treatment, urging certainty over doubt and stressing decade long reliability.
The piece argues for noninvasive cures for varicocele and similar conditions, claiming surgery maims patients. It extols a treatment that preserves organs and avoids destructive methods, appealing to sufferers of Varicocele, Stricture, and Rupture.
A physician advertises free x ray examinations for several days addressing nervous disorders, strictures, hydrocele, rupture, blood poison, kidney and urinary diseases, reflex complications, and female ailments. Private counsel is free, with a contract to hold promises, and at‑home treatment is suggested. Patients may mail full case histories for a scientific opinion at no charge.
Dr J Alvin Horne and associates announce offices in the Mitchell Lynde Building Rock Island with hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 pm evenings 9 to 11 am Sundays in rooms 49 50 51 53 and 55
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