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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1900
Page
2
For your reception or party we offer the latest in ice creams and ices. Our reception rolls cheese straws Vienna rolls bread sticks are made to order and ideal for entertaining. We also carry taffy and caramels made daily.
Reading shows an address at 1716 1718 Second Ave for a business named Math and Brautham 60 with a phone number 1156. The fragment implies a street-level listing or notice in a newspaper record. No further context provided.
A street scene discusses how newspaper jokes fail when Germans are made to talk in broken English. One man notes the humor comes from imperfect renditions while another argues that sticking to proper language would spoil the joke. The exchange winds through wordplay and peevish humor.
Extensive notices detail excursion tickets sold by the D R L & N W and Chicago and North Western lines. Dates include October and mid month sales to Iowa Nebraska Colorado Minnesota the Black Hills and surrounding regions with round trip fares and 21 day validity. Offices listed at 1603 Second Avenue 1803 Second Avenue and 1503 Second Avenue Davenport IA.
A ledger of transfers in Rock Island includes Joel G Franklin to Leslie Franklin for 3000 dollars and several parcels sold to William McEniry David Fitzgerald and others. Listings cover lots in Edgewood Park and LeClaire's Reserve with prices ranging from 200 to 2100 dollars and dates from Sept 27 to Oct 1. Also includes rental or property actions and a series of medical advertisements for King's New Discovery and Foley's Kidney Cure.
Miss Lusova Robertson, an Ohio native formerly of Lima, has been appointed by President Harper to head Kelly Hall at the University of Chicago. A cultured educator with European study, she advocates coeducation and will begin duties mid September after a period in Canada.
A wheelwoman’s guide favors a compact travel kit with Mackintosh wraps a comb toothbrush pins and thread. It advises soap as leaves and a front handlebar bundle. The Millinery Jewelry note highlights dull yellow gold lookalikes in Egyptian motifs with sphinxes lotus and lotus devices and steel buckles on hats.
The piece discusses low cut day gowns and the use of dog collar affairs to accessorize. It notes some wearers have bare throats and a lonely look, while highlighting attractive options from black velvet collars to jeweled varieties and other ornaments for neck dressing.
Practical advice from an early 20th century issue on nourishing children, storing vital energy, and preparing wholesome meals. It covers child health, parental duties, and the value of water, air, meat, grains, and vegetables, plus lunchroom ideas and kitchen care. Also notes on Chinese customs and piano care.
An old advertisement claims Foley's Honey and Tar cures coughing and sore lungs. It promises relief from a smacking cough with a warm healing sensation and mentions sale by all druggists.
The Buyer and Dry Goods Chronicle surveys whimsical items like life like tape measures hiding in animal shapes and ivory imitation tools. In Topeka the Populist state committee appoints Annie Diggs as boss, a veteran activist born in Canada now shaping campaign strategy and party debates.
Miss Agia Consulich, a young American editor in chief of The Daily News Pensacola, is praised for authoritative editorials and character sketches. An Austrian by birth, she has published fiction and reviews in American, French, and Italian presses and is preparing a new novel.
The portrait portrays the summer girl of 1900 as robust and fearless yet tender and refined. She bikes, rescues a swimmer, rows, sails, and yachts from dawn to dusk, then dons a delicate evening frock. Critics call her charm novel and femininity inconsistent, as men delight to wait on her.
Patti, turning fifty seven, has long held the yearly earnings record for a female performer. Her best 12 months total is 550000 dollars, with London terms around 2000 pounds per night and a peak single show income of 11000 dollars in Buenos Ayres. In her Essays she names Longfellow as favorite poet and Dickens as favorite novelist, and she enjoys entertaining guests with lavish gifts. At Craig-y-Nos castle her band is adorned with ribbons from bouquets thrown to her, some aged and treasured.
In The American Machinist, Oberlin Smith recalls Henry A. Janvier’s 19th century China trip to assist in coinage plant setup. Wai, a Chinese shop superintendent, copied a U S micrometer callier with minor omission of engraved tables, creating a near perfect replica and proposing an exchange. The piece also notes a lesson on swimming leg technique, likening it to a frog's hind legs with precise timing and form.
A collage of notes on farming science and utility with a jest about geology and warfare. Also a testimonial claiming Electric Bitters cured a Philadelphia man perceived near death, followed by a sales pitch offering the remedy for 50 cents at Hartz & Altemeyer’s drug store.
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