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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1901
Page
2
Long fragment discusses publishing terms, regional notices, and editors in Rock Inland. Mentions J. W. Potter, Buckfield Maine, and local building projects. Includes brief items on music, Marconi, Ex-Gov Tanner, Shropshire labor, and immigrant Yankee trends in New England.
The passage denounces potential brutal colonial actions in South Africa, arguing famine and disease would follow if hostilities target civilians. It condemns the idea as an enormous crime against humanity and civilization and warns such acts would jeopardize the British Empire’s future, stressing civilian protection under civilized canons.
A jumble of notes covers missing Miss Lena Day of Moline after a family quarrel, Pentecost observances, high school report cards at Lincoln building, home wiring estimates, Davenport theatre bids, and a police watch recovery. Hospital and medical society delegates from Rock Island discuss next year's Illinois state meeting in Quincy. People’s Comedy week, a railway brochure, Trinity church missionary event, and community notices conclude the item.
Advertises Milwaukee excursion for June 5 and June 8 with round trip fares of 2.60 and 2.50. Includes Lincoln Nebraska round trip May 28 to June 4 with 50-cent extension option, multiple homeseekers tickets to northern western and southwestern points, and Pan-American exposition tickets to Buffalo. Milwaukee special trains depart Rock Island at 10:30 and return next morning at 8:30 pm.
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