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Newspaper
Tri City Star
Location
Davenport, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1904
Page
2
Reports confirm three serious plots to damage the battleship Connecticut. Rear Admiral Rogers ordered guards to shoot to kill when intruders are found, as vigilance at the Brooklyn Navy Yard intensifies to deter further attacks.
A memorial portrait of a man who faced both failure and faith, persisting through discouragement until his death. Some mourners felt sorrow and others joy for a life lived in quiet effort, judged with a final blessing.
Town Topics offers: avoid cold weather bragging and draughty habits. Don’t sleep with your head out a window in a draft. Do not boast of never wearing an overcoat when temperatures dip below zero. Complaints about Thanksgiving and Christmas are warned against yet cheerfulness deserves reward. A dentist notes women biting cotton threads can ruin teeth edges during sewing. reform promises often fail.
A Chicago civil service exam candidate, famed for a jelly and preserves display, braved the spelling test for a stewardess post at Pridewell. She admitted being too nervous to spell eat, attempted every word, and ended with several misses including Remedy and Fumigote.
An ad touts Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder as curative for catarrh with fast relief and eradication claims. It also mentions Dr Agnew's Heart Cure and asserts rapid relief in minutes with a sales note from E. S. Ballard.
A brief note describes a Teometer antidick Medison service system with the woman's identity kept confidential and a reference to a thermometer like antiseptic concept.
Dr John Howe of Russell Lake county and his bride Misa Eva Rutledge returned from a brief honeymoon to a raucous birthday parade. The crowd gathered at their home, the bride opened the door and stepped into the crowd causing the revelers to flee. A ball player was struck and sidelined for a time.
An organ recital by Prof. S. T. Bowlby at Trinity Church Seventh and Brady Streets drew a large congregation Sunday evening. The program featured Ba. Uste Grand Offrtoire in D major and Massenet Laulide. The event, titled The Virgin's Prayer, showcased stop registrations and bold execution. Dowling's address titled The Best Companionship and morning sermon Spiritual Economy followed.
A Muscatine delegation including Mayor McNutt Alderman Burtameler City Engineer Ryan and Wm Molise visited Rak Island Thursday to press Major Dunham government engineer for the 10000 harbor improvement appropriation. They urged riprap bank protection and brick paving to the MLN tracks with dredging needed for depth. Major Dunbar pledged to help carry out the plans and the committee returned encouraged.
The Diamond to Packet company announces weekly trips for the steamer Dubuque to St Louis with special rates for World’s Fair visitors. Departures from Dubuque are Saturdays at 6 am, arriving Davenport in the afternoon. Returns depart St Louis on Tuesdays.
The Weather Bureau will withhold reports from newspapers that print Hicks style long range forecasts. Dr Geo M Chappel from Des Moines says Peoria papers are targeted for refusing to publish such predictions and warns against funding for a bureau building at Peoria if predictions continue. The bureau insists forecasts come from scientific observations by trained graduates and deems prophet predictions as mere guesswork and a hoax.
The Inside Inn at the St Louis World Fair advertises a three story building 400 feet wide and 800 feet long with 2257 lodge rooms and dining seating for 2500. It markets European and American plans with rates from 1.50 to 5.50 euro and 3.00 to 7.00 American, offering advance reservations through December 1 and a booklet on request.
Judge A J Mathie vows to stop loathsome street harassment. George Burns, a salesman for a large piano house, fined $50 for tailing Fairy Gore from Sixth and Grand to Third and Grand, attempting to pursue her. Miss Gore testified sobbing and indignant about the incident.
An old advertisement touts Mother Gray as a nurse at a New York children's home selling Sweet Powders to ease colds fevers teething and stomach issues in kids. Claims include destroying worms and regulating bowels with a free sample offer mailed from Allen S Olmsted Lehigh.
Des Moines Iowa October reports Rutolat Adams a Benton school pupil aged years was killed by an extra Great Western freight train No 212 near Eleventh and Shawn streets just after leaving the school for dinner. The boy's head and mangled body were found with police and his brother Carl Adams aiding identification. parents live at Ninth and Wall streets.
Bettendorf news items list social visits, a house fire with no injuries, a piano purchase, a local engagement, and community updates. Notable mentions include Henry Brobst, W. F. Bruin, Mrs. Gillin, Miss Daisy Fanning, Frank Gilland, and local residents such as Tar. Anderson, Carrie Lambert, and J. Jenks.
The fragment covers an accident at a private school, upcoming departure of Richard Shauney to Colorado with Mr. Downs and Mrs. Shannon to follow, wedding congratulations for Miss Ermine Wath er and Michael Reistreffer, a surprise for Bliss Gertrude Stark, an ill day session with Mrs. Mamie Duggleby, and general farming and transport chatter about a new telephone line, a mains railway survey, and Oklahoma land dealings, plus local business trips and chicken prices.
In Washington on October 8 Miss Gave R Cameron a department of the interior operator set a world record by typing 22 000 words in seven hours. She was aided by her fellow clerk Mary B Pretty and Davenport’s Mr Snyckloth. The achievement highlights an exceptional typing rate of 228 words per minute.
An old advertisement touts Bucklow’s Arnica Salve as the best cure for burns, sores, bruises, cuts, skin eruptions, and piles. It guarantees satisfaction by Brante Nudler, druggist, claiming a thorough, comprehensive remedy.
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