News of the Neighbors Davenport Local Items and Notices
News of the Neighbors reports Davenport teachers Bertha Roddewig Anna Matthey Marguerite Raguet and Etta L Ruser planning European vacations with 14 months abroad Miss Roddewig and Matthey to depart for Europe returning in fall 1909 Glucose plant at Corn Products lays off about 200 workers and reduces total staff to ~50 by Wednesday Redemptorist order seeks site for a home church and school on Rockingham road west of Bismarck Father Fiel Iowa optioned property for a church and school Obituary: Valentine Laux dies aged 82 former Davenport alderman survived by wife and many children. Local notes include Mrs Clendenin hosting Ladies Union Marjorie Wittamuth birthday Arthur Van Nevel in Chicago Mrs Carl Drakle and Agnes Aldrich visit Geneseo Helping Hand Society concert well received with Svea quartet and county chorus performances.
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Bertha Roddewig
Anna Matthey
Marguerite Raguet
Etta L. Ruser
Davenport
Europe
Roddewig
Matthey
West End
Corn Products Company
Jelly
Summit
George E. Chamberlain
Valentine Laux
West Sixth Street
Sixth and
Myrtle Streets
Bavaria
America
Cincinnati
Elizabeth Kress
Theresa Weigand
P. Greenawalt
Rock Island
Caroline Weigand
William Laux
Denver
G. R. McClelland
Maria A. Laux
Charles Laux
New York City
Flora
Harry Laux
Ceriel DeWalle
Clendenin
Ladies’ Union
Marjorie Wittamuth
Walter Baker
Morrison
Helping Hand Society
Svea
Strongheart and Leslie Carter At Davenport Theaters
The Illinois theater at Sixteenth Street and Second Avenue presents Strongheart on May 7 starring Ralph Stuart as an educated Indian in a story of love and conflict. Burns theater in Davenport showcases Mrs. Leslie Carter in Belasco's Du Barry with advance sale opening Wednesday morning and a promise of a dramatic season treat.
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William C. de Mille
Strongheart
Ralph Stuart
Illinois Theater
Moline Roads Business Decline Measured In April
The Rock Island road reports a 25 percent drop in receipts for April 1908 compared with April 1907, driven largely by fewer through tickets as local business holds steady. Travel clerks note fewer traveling men this spring and a sharp fall in excess baggage revenue, with only three mileage books sold. Local ticket sales near last year’s level after adjustments.
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Moline
Rock Island Road
Illinois
Omaha
East Moline Moves and Local Health Notes
Frank Price and wife move to East Moline occupying the vacated bus by Camiel Coppen. Mrs Shilling and Vernon stay in Wilton Iowa. Fred Jordan takes a police vacation and travels Wednesday with family to Beloit Wisconsin to visit relatives. Clarence Fritehle, hurt last week at the milling company, is improving nicely. Florence Roesli goes to grandmother in Sherrard for health. Florence Carlson of Cable is ill.
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Frank Price
Fiftyfourth Street
East Moline
Camiel Coppen
Market quotes from Chicago wheat corn oats and receipts
Chicago May 4 market reports show Wheat May 104% 104% 101144 1035% and other contracts around 90 to 86. Corn May 69% 70% 69% 7044 with July 64% and September 63. Oats May 53% July 47% September 37%. Park and late markets quoted with May at 13.10 for May and 8.25 for May hog receipts today total hogs 97,000 cattle 30,000 sheep 21,000. Hog market opened weak 10 cents.
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Kansas City
Omaha
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Chicago
Park
Quotations on Provisions Live Stock and Fuel Rock Island May 4
Wholesale prices in Rock Island today list provisions and produce with eggs at 10 to 13 1/2 cents per pound and butter 23 to 24 cents. Live poultry prices include spring chickens 10 cents, hens 9 cents, ducks 9 cents, turkeys 14 cents, geese 9 cents. Live stock ranges: hogs 5.00 to 5.35, sheep 4.50 to 6.75, cattle steers 3.00 to 6.00, cows 2.00 to 4.00, calves 4.00 to 5.50. Grain corn 68 to 70 cents, oats 50 to 60, forage hay timothy 11 to 13, prairie 8 to 10, clover 10 to 11, straw 6. Coal lump and slack per bushel 7 to 8 cents.
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Rock Island
Timothy Hay
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Redemptorist Order of Catholic Priests
Fiel
St. Louis
Iowa
Rockingham Road
Bismarck Street
The
Sixteenth Street
Second Avenue
Elite
Eighteenth Street
Nineteenth Street
Rank
Nels Peterson
Charles Seiffert
Sixth Avenue
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Catherine Seiffert
Frank P. Hall
William Seiffert
Nathaniel ‘Hunter
Coaltown
Mr. Hunter
Pennsylvania
Enoch Lindberg
Robert Blackwell
This City
Asberry Hunter
George Griffin
Johanna Parks
Gilchrist
Elliott Hunter
Liverpool
New York
U. P
U. S. Steel
Reading
Southern Pacific
N. Y. Central
Missouri Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Illinois Central
Penna
Erie
Atchison
Locomotive
Sugar
St. Paul
Copper
Republic Steel
Southern Ry
Iea
Quaker Oats
Ahad
BorrLer
Geer
Rock Island, Ill
Pierce
John Koch
Koch’s
17Th St
Illinois Theatre
Henry B. Harris
Lion and the Mouse” Company
Phone West
Handel Oratorio Society
Augustana College
Gallia
Mendelssohn
College Symphony Orchestra
Edward Walker
Grace Ames
Edla Lund
Emil Larson
Wrest
George Hackenschmidt
Dexter Park Pavilion
Lats Brothers
Clarence Lutz
Smith
Frank Gotcorld
Cicago
Ill
Johni Mabel Moore
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Knabe
Carreno
Hambourg Ee
von Bulow
D'Albert
Totten
Rock Taland
Dr. Martin
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