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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1901
Page
2
Rock Island doctors and dentists advertise medical services and eye and ear care. Dr D E Bai, Dr C W Grafton, and others list offices in Rock Island with hours and specialties. Several lines mention diseases of women and eye ear throat and nose, surgical procedures, and free consultations advertised amid mixed text.
Sam of Stona and Phows of oees supply bridge stone corn crib blocks and foundation stone of any size for Mitoball and Lynda's building at Boom No. 19 with unspecified address.
A well dressed English visitor enters Marienthal by the lake path during a calm returning to a village that never changes. Joseph Sibler, long vanished from the town, is revealed in Alma Winter as the forester’s daughter and the missing son, now grown and rich in America.
An advertisement extols Schlitz beer as the pure beer worldwide. It claims fifty years of agency presence across continents, early fame in Siberia, advertising in Japan and China, and thousands of loads sent to Manila after the Spanish American War. It asserts global nightly and daily reach and endorsements by physicians.
General Butler acts as counsel in Boston for a man accused on four indictments for theft. The strategy seeks to quash three indictments on condition of a guilty plea to the single major charge. The prisoner is steered to plead guilty, a maneuver orchestrated by Butler.
Stark courtroom farce unfolds as counsel’s ruse frees a prisoner, while debate about cooks and social status reveals sharp wit and social observation. Anecdotes touch on evangelism, science quarrels, and a Victorian appetite for irony.
A Buffalo family faced disruption after a fire was put out and a frightened little girl, awakened and half dressed, went downstairs. A neighbor described the scene as chaotic and disturbing, noting the alarm and subsequent chatter in the neighborhood.
In a fragmented Philadelphia Press excerpt, Julia resists returning a ring amid an engagement lapse. Jack insists, citing the ring flatters Julia, while De Trow offers payment to recover its cost. The clipping also notes historic cotton exports and a remark that women marry later than before.
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