Hansen's Term Cut Down by Parole Board in Davenport
Parole board reduces Frederick Hansen's life sentence to 257 years after his Davenport rape conviction of his step-daughter, now married, who helped secure the reduction. Also notes bail for William Timothy in a shooting case, a death of flagman Terrence O'Brien on the Rock Island road, a resignation of H. H. Boettger from a state representative race, a wife testing her husband’s love leading to an investigation, and local obituaries for Mrs Katherine F Evers, Anna Frahm, and Frieda Rahlf.
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Terrence O'Bries
West Second Street
Rock Island Road
Second
Davie
Benjamin Jacobsen
Mr. O'Brien
O'Brien
Katherine F. Evers
John Mess
Duck Creek
Harrison Street
Evers
Germany
Claus Evers
Anna Frahm
Jochim Frahm
Vrom
America
Davenport
Carl Rahlf
Frieda
Moline to Use Vitrified Blocks on Seventeenth Avenue
Moline plans paving with vitrified blocks between Tenth and Fifteenth streets after study showed practicality and cost efficiency. Blocks measure 3 1 2 by 4 by 8 inches and will be laid on concrete with the long edge across the avenue. No existing use in the trio of cities, but positive outcomes elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventeenth Avenue
Tenth
Fifteenth Streets
Board of Local Improvements
Taft wage cutting ruling clashes with precedent
The report recounts Judge Taft’s controversial wage cutting opinion on railroad workers, arguing the receivers’ order to reduce pay stands unless due process is shown. It cites Ames et al v Union Pacific, asserting workers deserve fair wages and timely hearings before any wage schedule changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reporter
Taft
United States Circuit
Caldwell and
Sanborn
Ames — Et al
Union Pacific Railway Company Et al
Colorado
Chicago
Court of Equity
Dredge Mogul Clears Sand Bars Along Levee Front
The government dredge Mogul is at work deepening the river along the levee front to remove troublesome sand bars and improve navigation. This crews efforts aim to stabilize the channel and prevent obstructions for vessels and freight movement.
Cure Colds and Pneumonia With Rexall Mucu-Tone
A Rock Island druggist touts Rexall Mucu Tone as a universal remedy for coughs colds and catarrh arguing most illnesses stem from weakened membranes. The ad promises a cure or the medicine free if not satisfied and notes two sizes 50 cents and 1 with typical use requiring three large bottles for chronic cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
T. H. Thomas
Drugat
Engineers to remedy shallow water at frontage despite low water
Officials note low water will not bar use of the water frontage. The ferry and sand hosts complain water at the outlet of the slough is not deep enough. United States engineers have taken on the task to fix the depth. Bars form across the outlet from the power dam on the island, impeding flow and necessitating dredging.
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United States
In Honor of 10th Birthday at Ranson Home
Social calendar notes a party for Little Mrs. Alice Ranson on Twenty first street with about 56 children. Decorations feature red themes, a ten candle cake unveils a ring and dime, and games and music follow lunch amid gifts. Also listed are a monthly After Dinner club banquet, weddings of Miss Eleanor McCarthy and Miss Lulu M. Kolis, and a Daughters of Isabella party at K. C. hall with Osden's orchestra. References to locally heard testimonials about Electric Bitters and Dr Detchon's Relief cite names and places in Rock Island and Davenport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Ranson
S. J. Ranson
First Street
Liamel
Alice
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William “Buck
Timothy
George Kosmos
Paris
East Second Street
Buck
Kosmos
Ireland
New Orleans
St. Louis
Des Moines
H. H. Boettger
Boettger
William Theophilus
Hubby
John Andre
Tri-City Railw Company
West Fourth Street
Mr. Andre
Andre Ithe
Mary Lange
Sixteenth Street
Third Avenue
Nels Isaacson
Oscar Fryxell
Moline Fvurniture
Eliot
Floyd Barnes Hardin
First Unitarian
Samuel A. Eliot
American Unitarian Association
Elm
Harvard University
District of
Nebraska
Wyoming
Universal
Forest H. Montgomery
Commercial National Bank
Ill
Universal Adding Machine Company
Rock Island, Ila
Daniel Harry Wallenwaber
H. R. Brown
Connecticut Mutual Life
Muscaime
McDaniel, Wullenwaber & Brown
Safety Building
Deepen River
PTL Cae Ba
Cain CU
Society
the Argus
Manufacturers Hotel
Moline
Ben, Ardo
Leon Mitchell
Charles Rosenfield
This City
Ralph Day
Robert Lea
E. C. Poole
Clarke Taylor
Louis Grith
Harry Adams
Decker French
Ben Garstide
Jessie Henley
Arthur Crompton
John Plaine
Mr. Blackburn
Eleanor McCarthy
Nora McCarthy
Ninth Avenue
T. M. O'Conner
Pennsylvania
St. Joseph's Church
Dean J
Quinn
Mary McCarthy
J. E. Dundon
K. C. Hall
Osden
David Parker
Fayette, N
Gettysburg
George W. Koons
Lawton
Mich
Detchon
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Gust Schlegel & Son
Mutual Loan Company
People’s National Bank
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Tacoma
Seattle
Vancouver
Spokane
Wenatchee
Elle
Burlington Route
Ag Riddell, Ent
C. B
Q.R.P
Now Or
Jones
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