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Newspaper

Rock Island Argus

Location

Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 27, 1902

Page

2

Davenport News Briefs Include Fire Damages and Wrecks

A blaze alarm at 2 AM sent Davenport firefighters to the Crystal Lee company in Newport, with Jacob Vogler injured leaping from a streetcar at Peoria. Miss Meta Kistenmacher, deemed of unsound mind, is being moved to Mt Pleasant. Rev. G S Rollins ends his Edwards Congregational church tenure and moves to Minneapolis. Smallpox cases rise with quarantines on Northwest Davenport homes. National Manufacturing Company formed in Scott County with D R Truckenmiller as president and W J Pugh as secretary. Rural Bowling Club holds banquet and officers. Forgeries charged against Harry Stewart. A boy narrowly escapes injury from a wagon incident. A funeral and a wedding headline feature in the city notices.

County Recorder Messrs D. R. Trackenmiller William J. Pugh Joseph Dow National Manufacturing Company Scott County Bettendorf Ow Company New Corporation D. R. Truckenmiller William Pugh W. J. Pugh

Casearets Candy Co tops stools with six million boxes

In 1895 none, by 1900 Casearets Candy Co sold six million boxes as a popular bowel remedy. The ad proclaims it the best medicine for the bowels in the world and directs readers to all druggists to purchase at roc.

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