No Baseball in Streets in Davenport
Chief Hee Tom Atkinson orders an immediate stop to all baseball playing and batting in Davenport streets after dozens of window breakages and unreported payments for damages, prompting a citywide call to curb the practice. Grange picnic plans shift as Professor Storms cannot attend, with Professor Holden slated to address Governor Bachelder of New Hampshire. Saddlery men from Iowa and Illinois to meet in Davenport at the New Kimball to discuss industry rules and conduct. A $5,000 damage suit involving Emily Radcliffe vs Tri-City Railway is decided in favor of the railway. Mrs Jacobs discovers her husband dead at home after a night shift at Bettendorf Wheel Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Po- Hee
Tom Atkinson
Davenport
Wityar
Acta
Grange
Seymour Barr
A. W. Storms
Ames
P. (. Holden
N. J
Bachelder
Concord
N. H
Suburban Island
New Kimball
Towa
Ilinois
J. L. Sears
Sears-Frizzell Company
Ape
Emily L. Radcliffe
Tri-City Railway Company
John Jacobs
West Third Street
Terday
Bettendorf Wheel Works
Elmer Jacobs
Walsh
Milan News Briefs and Local Notes
Milan notices report a brooder fire ending with loss of 100 chicks, a small graduating class with one young woman and two men, streetcar transfers, travel updates, residents visiting relatives, a boy's birthday party, church society plans, a roof project, and a Rock Island couple’s marriage license. Also includes humorous anecdotes and an endorsement of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with local testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Strickland
Milan School
Milan
J. W. Banburry
R. B. Olmstead
Chicago
Leigh
Grace
Boise
Idaho
Charlie Brandenburg
Martha Bushart
Erie
Dudly Thompson
Sylvas
Clifford Reid
M. E. Church
Henry Wilson
East Dickson Street
C.H. Dibbern and Son
John Volk, Jr
Rock Island
J. C. Johnston
Thesday
Wyland elected track captain at Moline meet
At a Moline track meet Guido Wyland was elected captain over Will Hull in a contest among point winners. The article also notes a dispute involving contractor C. E. Heaps and two employees over holes cut in the Y M C A wall for an adjoining building project.
Death in Moline Arsenal Worker Leaves Wife and Two Children
A worker born in Ware, Massachusetts in 1857 died after a bite caused by a cut leading to blood poisoning. He moved to Moline four years ago to work at the arsenal and was employed there until his death. Survived by his wife and two children, Florence and Ralph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ware
Mass
Moline
Arsenal
Florence
Ralph
Excessive Drinking and Orrine Cure Advertisement
An article fragment discusses drinking as a disease, promoting Orrine with a money back guarantee and two forms No 1 and No 2 for home treatment, priced at $1 per box, plus a request for free medical literature. It also retells the Churchyard Yew superstition and a Washington Howe dog exchange anecdote from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felow
Orrine Go
Washinson
D. C
Marper Mouse Pharmacy
The World's Best Climate and Its Sickness Remedy
The article notes that disease persists in high elevations and malaria is common at lower levels. It promotes Electric Pitt ers as an effective remedy for lassitude malaria jaundice biliousness fever ague and debility, calling it an alterative and blood purifier sold with guarantee at druggists for 50 cents.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Warrisburg
Harrisburg
Jim
Argonaut
Charles Wendt
Mamie Daxon
Chamberlain
Edward Phillips
Barclay, Md
Catherine
Vail
C. E. Heaps
E. B. Cowdery
Nels Christisen
John S. Freeman
Association
Heaps
A. R. Lockhart
Nebraska
Edith Johnson
Harry E. Perlic
East Moline
Germantown
Net
Mr Brakmyer
Congregationa Church
Forty-second Street
Silvis
Charles S. Kerns
J M. Wyland
F. Gritz
Mojine Club
Riverside
Moline Ice Company
River Front
Twenty
Cady
Thirty-sixth Street
H. G .Paddock
Marshall Field
Sidney Ifoy
Dunn
Twelfth Avenue
Marshall J. Bannister
Twe
Third Avenue
Bannister
Lamg
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
BorTte
Rock Saan
Devonport
Frag
Harper House Pharmacy
Inces
England
Orleans
Tmes
Washington
Philadelphia
Valley Forge
Flows Washington
Howe
Neel
Knabe
D'Albert
America
Knare
Beulah Rowley
Champoeg
Oregon
Cardus
Ladies’ Advisory Department
The
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Nooga
Tent
Cardue
Dr. Martin
Second Avenue
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