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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1909
Page
2
Isidore J. Warner and Monte McCall alias F M Clark were acquitted at Little Rock by Judge Jacob Trieber after an all day hearing on charges tied to the J C Maybray swindling horse racing syndicate. The government failed to overcome presumption of innocence and the defense proved alibis, leading to dismissal of both defendants.
Mr and Mrs William Jacobs hosted their son Milton Jacobs and family of Gilchrist Iowa for several days The Ladies Aid plans an ice cream sociable at Hampton town hall on Thursday May 20 serving ice cream cake and coffee A Methodist church meeting next Sunday at 3 pm to organize an Epworth league Mrs G C Dailey of Taylor Ridge and her children visited the Willis home August Yost died May 14 at Mercy hospital Davenport He was born in France about 88 years ago came to the United States as a boy lived in Pennsylvania and Hampton The funeral was at the M E church in Hampton May 16 Rev W S Read officiating Survivors listed.
Ohio and Pennsylvania relatives visit in Illinois. Dr and Mrs Long stay in Chicago then return. Plymouth circle meets at St. Anne with Mrs Lundquist serving. Mrs Kessler visits Walnut after a week with C E Williams. Bessie Myer and Anton Johnson visit Geneseo. Dr and Mrs Sensibaugh visit home folks. Mary Morton visits A Morton in Peoria. Mrs A B Johnson visits Barrow New Jersey. Freda Bomhoeft visits Joslin. Helping Hand society held a hit or miss sociable at the church. Charles Myers starts a cement block house. Carroll Meader returns from Minneapolis trip.
Wheat, corn, oats, and pork markets listed with bid asks and closes. Hog and cattle trading opened weak with specified price ranges. Liverpool and Northwestern receipts noted. New York stocks and provisions prices shown. coal and forage costs included.
A brief, speculative note on white coal as a future power source expresses that Josiah Spruceby, a farmer, would leave hay and huckleberries on his upper forty due to potential profits from this new fuel. The passage hints at a forthcoming energy shift.
John L. Mathews argues in Hampton's that water farming will redefine energy by converting destructive floods into useful, economy boosting power. The essay highlights dam reservoirs as a vital future resource, stressing its significance for the next generation and urging readers to discuss and spread the idea locally.
A promotional note for Hampton's Magazine highlighting special articles by Rus sell Chesterton Wright Kauffman and others, plus a new Luther Trant story and eight other stories by Rex Beach Fillmore Roberts and more. It urges readers to buy at news dealers today.
Barbers in Moline consider Sunday closures as petitioning owners McCamish and Theodore Walker gain traction. Seventeen of twenty five boss barbers reportedly signed the petition signaling a shift toward Sunday closing.
An 19th century vignette describes Abraham Lincoln rebuking a restless visitor who avoids eye contact, demanding honesty and declining to engage with a misleading paper. The scene, cited by T. B. Bancroft via McClure's Magazine, contrasts Lincoln's piercing stare with a call for accountability.
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