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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1904
Page
2
Fragment from a Samuel Lover poem. The speaker seeks to revive lost loves and scatter bliss while sparing tears, imagining the enchanter restoring happier years and easing mournful hearts. The diction blends mythic imagery with longing for vanished dreams and renewed happiness.
Jp Root, 75, longtime educator and former superintendent of Town County schools, died after extended illness from cancer of the face. He spent 40 years in teaching and school administration, and his death closes a prominent chapter in the local educational community. Root was buried in Eamersburg with services marking a career spent in Kadora and nearby districts.
San Francisco reports sport views on the Britt Nelson bout as Corbett predicts a hard fight. Pundits split on who wins with Britt favored for better condition and Nelson rough as nails. Also noted is a testimonial for Electric Bitters from Mrs Newsom of Alabama about relief from indigestion and liver trouble.
Lincoln Nebraska December 15 Ernest Linn a 16 year old boy trying to imitate William Tell killed playfellow Sylvan Belote near Beemene. The boy’s body brought to Lincoln and Coroner Graham took charge. Linn and Belote with others returning from school encountered a game with a tin can on Belote’s head. Linn fired from twenty feet and struck Belote fatally.
Mason and Musén headline a refreshed musical spectacle titled Erits und SpisSeig, staged by Broadhurst Currie in Bundy. The Burtis Opera House will host a robust cast led by Speck Beethers and the Otto Brothers, with new scenery, costumes, and a standout chorus. McFadden’s Row of Flats resurfaces as a revived farce on Dec 18, and Why Girls Leave Home, a melodrama by Fred Sammertiel, debuts Dec 25 featuring a gripping tale of a young woman drawn to dangerous temptations in a bustling city cafe.
An ad warns against mercury based nostrums and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and taken internally. It claims to affect blood and mucous surfaces and urges purchases through doctors with testimonials available. Also mentions Hall's Emily Pills for constipation and bottle price.
The senate received nominations for assistant commissioner of Indian affairs Charles F. Larrabee of Maine and several others from Illinois Indiana Vermont Minnesota North Dakota Ohio and Wisconsin. The postmasters nominees span Indiana Iowa Kansas Ohio Wisconsin and Washington with names like Phineas O. Small Joseph G. Gregson John F. Ashville and Robert Johnson among others. Also noted is a brief meal detail at the end from Dec. 18 describing a sausage and buckwheat cakes plate.
In New Orleans on December 15, Aladdin prevailed in a round about overnight race, with Moot Boimott and Be one a quarter amid wet conditions. The card featured modest fields and a teddy-ton year selling mile, where Au tolighT upset Lendin and Lampoon. Saladio led the six furlongs as Janeta and Kittle Plat battled behind. The Fungie Gap, a recent graduate, won the maiden race by two lengths ahead of Janeta.
Washington DC February 15 The Senate adopted a measure creating the American National Red Cross to carry out a reorganization plan agreed months ago. Miss Barton and other officers have withdrawn and an executive committee now runs affairs with the chief in control until the House acts and the president signs into law.
The annual stockholders meeting of the Merchants Loan Building Savings Association of Davenport Iowa will be held Monday July 2 1905 at the secretary's office 126 Main Street. The polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Joseph Ochs secretary.
Stockholders of Davenport banks announce annual meetings and director elections. Notices list bank names Davenport dates January 1905 January 1906 January 1908 with polling hours and officers signatures. Including UNCON Savings Bank Citizens National Bank First National Davenport and Davenport Savings Bank.
Clan-na-Gael societies in Chicago and the Western states deliver protests to Senator Cullom opposing the arbitration treaty with Great Britain. They warn the pact would enable British holders to seek payment on Civil War bonds issued by the Southern states, seen as repudiated, and threaten punitive actions if ratified.
Des Moines Citizens Bank remains financially burdened after the Iowa Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that Spencer city sewer certificates issued without a quorum were illegal. The ruling also bars a valid contract to safeguard the bank, as Spencer exceeded constitutional debt limits.
The president yesterday sent to the Senate nominations for Charles F. Larrabee of Maine and for postmasters Swen J. Chilberg Bridgeport Oscar H. Hatham Havana Henry Bogue Vermont Charles G Watrous Waukegan Minnesota Lewis O. Norheim Mor tevideo Missouri Edward D. Lowe Cuba Edgar W. Prentiss Bedany.
In Rice Station Minnesota robbers blew open a bank safe and seized 2000 dollars in cash and 18000 in negotiable papers before escaping with a team. A highway robbery at Chisholty netted 2200 dollars. In Peoria Illinois two men Brockaway and Brockaway faced a preliminary hearing for a 2000 dollar bank robbery.
The Davenport Trust Company of Davenport Indiana invites shareholders to vote for the board of directors for the coming year. The election will be held at the company office located at the corner of Spennd sind Male streets on Monday January 9 1905 from 2 to 4 pm. John F. Dow and Henry Struck serve as President and Secretary.
Members of the German Savings Bank will vote for the selection of a board of directors for the ensuing year at the bank office on Monday January 9 2005 at 10 oclock a m Jens Lorzen Chas N Yost President Vice President and Cashier.
A notice from the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank announces the election of nine directors. Polls open Monday January 9, 1905, from 2 to 4 o clock at the bank office 218 Harrison Street. Julius C. Hasler and Claus Stoltenberg are named president and director.
Secretary yesterday awarded the contract for the new post office building at Evanston to F. W. Garthwaite of Chicago. The bid is 68,730 dollars. Work will begin as soon as weather allows, with winter preliminaries arranged to start foundations promptly.
In Kokomo Indiana on December 16 a wealthy grocer George M Kelly shot his wife during a life insurance dismissal moment and then fatally shot himself. The wife was wounded but may recover. Jealousy cited as motive in the domestic crime.
W B Reynolds of Detroit Michigan a traveling salesman broke one rib on his left side this afternoon in Duluth while coughing He had been suffering a hard cold for two weeks and was attended by local physicians.
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