Davenport News Notes Rise in Western Union Crew
Arthur Lingafelt, formerly a Western Union messenger, is promoted to a higher post as part of a new southwestern territory with HQ in Oklahoma City. Davenport council selects riverfront blocks for a proposed union railroad station, pending railroad company approval and trackage fit. Scott County Savings Bank marks a silver anniversary with a special spoon dividend for all depositors holding open accounts.
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Arthur Lingafelt
Old Western Union
Harry Matlock
Messenger Boy’s Bench
Western Union
Vantage
Oklahoma City
Langefelt
Chicago
Davenport
River Front
Harrison and
Scott Streets
J. R. Lane
Main
Harrison Streets
Scott County Savings Bank
Moline Football Banquet Fetes All-Americans and Plans
Moline High School athletes close the season with a velvet surplus of g050 in the treasury after expenses. Frank G. Allen invites the Moline squad to Friday’s Allendale banquet where the next team captain will be chosen from eligible M players. To earn an M, a player must play in at least one major game. Jack Ostrom and Gus Herman collide in a wrestling card at the Wagner opera house on December 3. H. W. Cooper Saddlery Hardware expands foundry capacity with a second furnace and four ovens, and a sixty foot stack contract to H. C. Quade. John Hedberg of Williams and White injures his right leg at work and will be bedridden several days. H. C. Quade lands a $7,000 two story brick block at Seventh street and First avenue East Moline replacing a burned structure. William Whitney elected East Moline fire chief, A. J. Johnson as assistant. Thirty-one members form the department as a hose and ladder company are proposed.
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BE. A. Steiner
Iowa College
Grinnell
America
New York
Europe
Texas
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Committee of
Young Men’s Christian Associations
Rotterdam
States
Rhine
Carpathian Mountains
Steiner
Austria
Poland
Robert Watchorn
Italy
Montreal
Boston
Philadelphia
Taft, Mont
Roslyn
Wash
Arizona
Louisiana
Moline High School Athletic Association
Frank G. Allen
Moline
Allendale
Allen
Board of Control
Rockford
Rock , Island
Davenport
H. W. Cooper Saddlery Hardware Company
H. C. Quade
Cooper Company
Shep
John Hedberg
Williams and White's
Fifth Avenue
Rock Island
Charles Lichenecht
East Moline
Seventh Street
First Avenue
William Whitney
East Moline Volunteer Fire Department
A. J. Johnson
Northwestern Hall
F. J. Clendenin
Hazel Dell Community Notes and Local Travel
Hazel Dell residents share visits and arrivals including Monroe Leech from Kansas and Arch Reed returning from a southern Texas farm purchase. Families Ross Kennedy, Mrs E M Murdock, Meigs Hays, Harry Hays, Clyde Shetler and Ethel Kennedy appear in recent visits and schooling updates. Fire in Ontario School Burns mentioned at article end.
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Monroe Leech
Kansas
Arch Reed
Texas
Ross Kennedy
Kennedy
E. M. Murdock
Millersburg
Meigs Hays
Harry Hays
Clyde Shetler
Reynolds Hays
Simpiy City
Ethel Kennedy
Muscatine
Rose Sheiker
New Boston
Hazel Hays
French District No. 10
Frank the
Muscaline
Richardson
League
Hazel Dell
Wylie
Rock Island
Eliza
What to Give Desk Ornament and Novel Gift Items
A description of decorative and practical gifts including a combined desk ornament with pincushion clip holder and paper weight, ribbon sachet girdles, smokers sets shaped as human skulls, heavy leather upholstered wicker chairs, and small brass plaques bearing mottos mounted on dark wood plaques.
Paper Christmas Gifts Desk Blotters and Wall Pockets
Instructions outline making a desk blotter and a wall pocket from cardboard and decorative paper. Materials include two cardboards, flowered and plain crape paper, and ribbon. Steps describe layering, corner reinforcement, and lacing to form a three-pocket wall piece.
Real Estate Transfers Record Names Kenworthy and Andalusia
William Boney Milton Boney and Harry Goode transfer property to S R Kenworthy in Andalusia with multiple parcels in sections 27 and 28, township 17, range 3 west, totaling 300 to 1200 dollars. rheumatism cure ad by N B Langley of Madison Wisconsin touts Detchon’s Relief with claimed three day cure and local dealers Otto Grotjan Davenport Gust Schlegel & Son advertise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Boney
S. R. Kenworthy
Milton Boney
Andalusia
N. B. Langley
Madison
Wis
Detchon
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Rock Island
Gust
Schlegel le Son
West Second Street
Davenport
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Lillian Parr
St. Jerome’s Catholic College
iCollege
Grover Cleveland
John F. Dryden
United States
Newark
N. J
Cleveland Memorial Association
Princeton
Dryden
New Jersey
Bacon
Chamberlain
Jack Ostrom
New York City
Gus Herman
Wagner Opera House
Keey
Ontario
Berline
The
MONEY
Mutual Loan Company
People’s National Bank
Esquimo
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New Yo
Jones
Second Avenue, Rock Island
Burlington Depot
Burlington
F. A. Riddell
Agt
Court House
Harry Goode
Southwest Quarter
Argus
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