Scott County supervisors endorse Star circulation for ads
The Scott county board of supervisors chose the Star for official publication, citing its bona fide circulation reaching Davenport and rural homes alike. Advertisers are urged to note the endorsement as it confirms the Star’s wide reach across Scott county households and patron areas.
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Board of Supervisors
Star
Scott County
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Stat
Grinting
the Star
Board of
Scott County Supervisors
Bespoke Hideouts and Burglary Farces Revealed
A fragmented narration recalls a quirky burlesque of hiding valuables in unlikely places from jewelry in a refrigerator to deeds pinned in lace curtains. The elderly Benedict and a bridegroom exchange quips about clever safes while dodging a loose thread of marriage documents and debts. Esmeralda and a painter figure into a comic interlude as a younger sister quietly enters the parlor.
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Sea Safe Depostis
Benedict
Brooklyn
Bradley
Haly
Benodler
The Disappointed by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A fragment from a poem reflecting on Ella Wheeler Wilcox and the toll of ambition and talent. It contrasts poverty and struggle with fame and artistic pride, noting lovers and lovers lost, and the price paid by those who chase literary success.
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Hla Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Eila Wheeler Wilcox
Jury probe shifts to brass in Lafayette corruption case
Reports from Lafayette outline a grand jury investigation into bribery and corruption involving city and county officers. Judge De Hart orders scrutiny of all officials charged, amid rumors of saloonkeeper payments and prosecutorial influence, as indictments loom.
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Lafayette
de Hart
de Hart Teuorell
Wwe
Lagexette
Lafayette Tormuke
Sormeone
Grang Jury
Talbot Case Rests With Board of Inquiry
Bishop Tuttle states duties of presiding leader end at present, noting the board of inquiry will review the presentment against Bishop Talbot. He says there is no new presentment yet and any change must go to the board, with no current notification of J F Jenkinson or huntingdon investigations.
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Tuttle
St. Louis
Talbot
Tuiile
Board of Inquiry
J. F. Jenkinson
Huntingdon
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Trial Claim
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for any case cured. It includes endorsements from Cheneу & Co and Walding Kinnan Marvin, Toledo wholesale druggists, claiming J Cheney’s reliability. It notes the cure is taken internally and distributed nationwide with testimonials available.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Essex Park Set to Open Next Saturday in Hot Springs
Hot Springs Arkansas officials say Essex Park will open next Saturday despite Chicago trouble. Secretary McRoberts of Hot Springs Jockey Club announced the club will proceed, as horses and horsemen arrive daily from Chicago and elsewhere.
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Ark
Jay
Essex Park
Wil
Chicago
McRoberts
Hot Springs Jockey Club
Wiliam Shannon
Hot Springs Club
Jackey Club
Sam Wagner
James Arthur
P.M. Civill
Steve L'Hermine- Rogers
George Howard
Algo
Crescent City
James T McCormick
H. T.griffe
Lilie Rock
Theis
Nashville
Satiler
Troxier
Fllgeins
Schedule Controversy Marks 1905 Turf League Meeting
The ThrerYye league met in Peoria to adopt the Saxton schedule with features pleasing Davenport, Rock Island, Peoria and Springfield. Decatur Bloomington Dubuque Cedar Rapids were largely uneasy, with protests from Dubuque and Bloomington. Bloomington opens season at Cedar Rapids, while J A Lynch of Davenport and Witten Krieg of Bloomington receive posts. Krieg had been expelled in 1902.
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Decatur
Bloomington
Peoria
Davienport
Rock Island
Springfield
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Witten Kreig
Terre Haute
Pooria
Portland Mayor and Police Chief Indicted in 1904 Malfeasance Case
Indictments allege former Mayor George H. Williams aged 83 and Portland police chief face charges connected to overfeasance in office relating to gambling regulations, with acts said to have empowered illegal houses near the city. Other officials and contractors are named in related counts of false pretenses and nuisance maintenance stemming from the Tatner creek sewer fraud probe.
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Portland
Ore
George H. Williasns
Oregon Territory
United States
Oreko
U- 8
Grant
Tates
Thia Inc
Po- Mee Hunt
Witlipis
Portland Club
W. C. Elliott
J. M. Cagwond
Henry Chandler
Forward at the firing line in Joaquin Miller verse
The excerpt urges courage and toil across life and battle, extolling the front line as the measure of valor. It cites David and Alfred and speaks of striving in all walks from newsboy to clerk, ending with a vision of glory found at the fringe where men stand.
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Mountain
Ming
David
Alfréd
Gord
Butler Narrowly Survives Snow Storm Crossing River
Butler athletic trainer Mitchell A. Butler of the Chicago Athletic Association faced a life threatening ordeal as a blinding snowstorm drove him to trek a river foot crossing from Greendale to Catskill Point. Struggling through heavy drifts in a northwest gale, he was found exhausted with frostbite to nose and ears after failing to catch the ferry sleigh near Greendale on the Central railroad.
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Greendale
Catskill Point
Mitchell A. Butler
Chicago Athletic Apadeladon
A Butler
Ratp Rose
Jamé
Lightbody
Jeff Gilcage
Madison Square Giridem
New York
Butler
Northwester
Nelson Parts Ways With Manager Murphy
San Francisco report says Nelson and manager Murphy have separated again with Nelson traveling without a manager to hunt in the mountains. The pair had longstanding tensions and disputes over recent trouble involving Britt Murphy and a Chicago incident. Nelson left for Chicago with the money and has not reconciled, leading to a final severance of their professional relationship.
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San Francisco
Nelson
Eday
Murphy
Tod
Saul
San Pefael
Sid Murphy
Britt Murphy
Chicazo
Asthma and Catarrh Drug Campaign News
A Vienna January report shows a marked decline in fatalities from respiratory diseases due to catarrh and asthma, with new remedy ascat eo yielding success. The Associated at 6 East 13th Street New York will inaugurate a ten year vigorous campaign and offer free ascatee samples to all who write to the dispensing agency.
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Vieuna
G—Neportz
Ascateo
America
New York City
Stockholders Meetings in Davenport Banks for 1905
Several Davenport banks announce annual stockholders meetings in January 1905. Unions Savings Bank and Citizens National Bank schedule elections of nine to eleven directors, with hours from early afternoon to noon, at bank offices on Jan 9 10 11. Presidents and cashiers list vary by bank.
Electric Bitters Promised To Cure Malaria
SICKENING SHIVERING Sits of Ague and Malaria, can be relieved and cured with Electric Bitters. A pure tonic, especially beneficial against malaria, claims to expel the disease from the system. Says it is preferred to Quinine with no after effects. Endorsed by E. S. Munday of Henrietta Texas amid other testimonials from a Frank Nadler Co drugstore listing.
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Henrietta
Tex
Frank Nadler Co
Price Boc
Smarantecd
Stock yards law draw back noted in Kansas towns
Topeka reports Wichita seeks to modify or wipe out the stock yards law passed two years ago. It is described as a dead letter for rates regulation yet seen as a barrier to new yards in Kansas, with exemptions in earlier versions cited and interstate shipments limiting reach. The law remains a scarecrow deterring investment as authorities have not actively enforced it.
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Topeka
Jan
Wichita
Kansas
United States Supreme Court
Kansas City Stock Yards Company
Missouri
State Line
St. Joseph
Keneral City
Stockholders Meeting of Davenport Trust Company
Annual meeting of the stockholders of Davenport Trust Company Davenport Ia for election of nine directors for the ensuing year to be held at the office corner of Second and Main streets Monday January 5 1905 polls open from 2 to 4 o'clock Wm Dow Henry C Struck President Secretary
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Union Savings Bank
Davenport
Anll
Bantemeyer
WM Hecer
Cassley
First National Bank of
Anthony Burdick
Geo. Hoeun
Davenport Savings Bank
Birdick
Ibenry C
Sekudge
Cushler
Davenport Trust Company
and Company
Second
Main Streets
John F. Dow
Henry C. Struck
Bank Directors Election Notice January 9 1905
Biockeholders meeting of the German Savings Bank and Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank Davenport will elect five directors for the ensuing year. Meetings set for January 9 at 10 am and 2 to 4 pm at bank offices, 218 Harrison Street. Olaus Stoltenberg and Juliva C. Hasler serve as president and cashier.
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Farmers & Mecha Bavings Bank
Davenport
Harrison Street
Tesla
Olaus Stoltenberg
Juliva C. Hasler
Casdier
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