Has a Vision Airship Dreamer Mil ton Howard of Davenport
Davenport news reports Deacon Milton Howard a 65 year old civil war veteran on Iowa Street near Thirteenth and Fourteenth pursuing an airship project by vision inspired by the Lord. He built a rudimentary craft and awaits further guidance, claiming divine instruction and planning to sail heavenward once the plans arrive. Also covered are a Horseshoers convention invitation, a man Emil Beck’s suicide at Mercy hospital, obituaries Norris Brown and Claus Miller, a job offer for Edna Kale, and related local notes.
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Milton Howard
Iowa Street
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Noah
Terra Firma
Howard
Arsenal
Norris Brown
Davenport
Fredericka Meyer
Main Street
New York City
Claus Miller
National election items and Illinois ticket details
The article lists national party tickets for the November 3 election, naming Democratic William J. Bryan and John W. Kern, Republican William H. Taft and James S. Sherman, Prohibition Eugene W. Chafin and Aaron S. Watkins, Socialist Eugene V. Debs, and several others. It details Illinois slate: Democratic Adlai E. Stevenson, Republican Charles S. Deneen, and third parties with their state officers and university trustees. It notes 27 presidential electors and 25 representatives in Congress to be chosen, plus a constitutional amendment for a deep waterway bonds and a banking act amendment allowing the auditor to withhold bank certificates under scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
John W. Kern
Indiana
William H. Taft
Ohio
James S. Sherman
New York
Eugene W. Chafin
Illinois
Aaron S. Watkins
Eugene V. Debs
Benjamin Hanford
People’s Party
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
Samuel W. Williams
Independence Pary
Thomas L. Hisgen
Massachusetts
John Temple Graves
Socialist Labor
Martin R. Preston
Donald Munro
Virginia
Preston
Socialist Labor Party
Nevada
August Gilhaus
Charles S. Deneen
John G. Oglesby
James A. Rose
James S. McCullough
Andrew Russel
William H. Stead
Supreme Court
J. McCan Davis
Allen F. Moore
Arthur Meeker
L. B. Evans
A. P. Grout
G. Renner
J. M. Francis
Carl Koechlin
M. H. Schagin
I. Francis
Regina Neebe
J. Martin
Mahlberg
Congress
United States
Albert J. Hopkins
Senator Hopkins
Lawrence B. Stringer
Lockport
Inl
Utica
Mlinoig
Moline Plans Erection of New Block at Bluff Road
East Moline's August De Scheppers will build a brick block at the northwest corner of Twelfth street and the bluff road. Estimated cost about $5,000. Ground floor stores, second floor two flats. Also notes on Campbell Island cottages forming an improvement league and drilling a well for drinking water.
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August de Scheppers
East Moline
Twelfth Street
Bluff Road
Moline
Campbell's Island
Milan Briefs Note Club Visits and Local Events
MILAN Milks Mrs Rich and two daughters of Arkansas visiting O V Pinkney. Merritt Brown and William Miller of Taylor Ridge went to Peoria Friday. Malachi Pinkley gravely ill with three months of illness and slim chances of recovery. Robert Page of Blooming Prairie Minnesota visited Milan Friday en route home after Chicago reunion of the 9th Illinois Cavalry and visiting his sister near Cambridge. Mrs Frank Dunsmore and daughter Margaret visiting friends in Pittsfield. Mrs Ella Smith of Monmouth visiting Mrs Cecelia Gannon. Fire company called Wednesday afternoon. Train bound for Peoria set fire to high weeds near the track. Miss Emma Shellman, formerly a teacher in Silvis, accepted a better position in East Moline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rich
Arkansas
O. V. Pinkney
Merritt Brown
William Miller
Taylor Ridge
Peoria
Malachi Pinkley
Robert Page
Blooming Prairie
Minn
Milan
Chicago
9Th Illinois Cavalry
Cambridge
Frank Dunsmore
Margaret
Pittsfield
Ella Smith
Monmouth
Cecelia Gannon
Emma Shellman
Silvis
East Moline
Diapepsin and Electric Bitters Promised for Indigestion Relief
An old advertisement touts Diapepsin as an absolute cure for dyspepsia promising five minute relief and a 50 cent case with candy like tablets Triangles. It also promotes Electric Bitters as a tonic after a Civil War veteran reports dramatic stomach improvement and claims of rapid rheumatism relief with Dr Detchon’s Relief.
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Pape
David Parker
Fayette, N. Y
Gettysburg
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National
Emil Beck
Mercy Hospital
Beck
Carrie
Fred
Franklin Street
Edna Kale
Canada
Mrs. Bain
Battle Creek
Mich
Adlai E. Stevenson
Elmer A. Perry
X. F. Beidler
Ralph Jeffris
John B. Mount
Ross C. Hall
John L. Pickering
Edward Tilden
A. L. White
Isaac S. Raymond
A. L. Bliss
Robert H. Howe
William Bross Lloyd
Marcus H. Taft
W. E. Rodriguez
Independence Party
George W. McCaskrin
E. Beach
Fred Greer
F. T. Lister
Louis E. Hamburg
Anderson B. Garrett
James F. Cronin
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
Winifred Godley
Willis C. Stone
Joseph Koch
Manufacturers
Frank Clendenin
Harry Mitchell
William Whitney
A. Vander Beke
William Mahoney
Alphonse DeSchultz
A. M. Hubbard
Woman’s Relief Corps
Hubbard
Graham Post
Masonic Hall
W. C. Bennnets
Moline Retail Merchants Association
Turner Hall
Willard L. Velie
Charles E. Webber
Charles D. Velie
Stephen H. Velie
George N. Peek
John Moel
Ada Chisholm
Fort Worth
Texas
Ellen Kelly
Joseph Noel
James Kelly
Rapids City
Julia Flannery
Universal
Forest H. Montgomery
Commercial National Bank
Ill
Universal Adding Machine Company
St. Louis
Mutual Loan Company
People’s National Bank
Old Phone West
Harper House Pharmacy
Aife
PSIA
Morton L. Hill
Lebanon
Ind
Detchon
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Rock Island
Gust Schlegel & Son
West Second Street
Now Or
Jones
SGO
Dr. Martin
Ave
London
W.C. Maucker
Fire Insurance Agency
Maucker
Insurance Commissioner of Illinois
Aachen
Munich
Ins. Co
Germany
Commercial Union Assurance Co
England
Franklin Insurance Co
Philadelphia
Fire Association of
German American Insurance Co
Hanover Insurance Co
Hartford Fire Ins. Co
Connecticut
Insurance Co
North America
Niagara Fire Insurance Co
North British and Mercantile In Co
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co
Phenix Insurance Co
Phoenix Insurance Co
United Firemens Insurance Co
Philadelp London Assurance Corporation
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