Visitors and train move through Pekin area
Mrs Nancy Loell of Page Nebraska visiting her father Howard Carter went to Pekin this morning. Carter also went to Pekin. Miss Allie Brockway and Mrs Darrow of Lottetown arrived and are spending the day with friends. A party of Rock Island officials passed through at S40 for the southwest on a special train. Oliver Gray and his mother may have returned from Colorado where Mrs Gray spent the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Loell
Page
Nebr
Howard Carter
Pekin
Carter
Allie Brockway
Mrs. Darrow
Lotte
Rock Island
S 40
the Southwest
Faity
Tuesaday
Oliver Gray
Colorado
Iowa Central offers Saturday Lake excursion tickets
Through September 30 the Iowa Central railway will sell special low rate excursion tickets to Lake View via Saturday departures with return Monday. The plan provides a brief, affordable outing for busy men. See your local ticket agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Central Railway
Travel route tip for Rock Island line offered for $25
The first person to inform General Manager Goodoow of the Rock Island System travel location between Davenport and Council Bluffs or Davenport and St Joseph will receive the gentleman's thanks and a $25 check. Address: Grand Central Station, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodoow
Rock Island
Davenport
Council Bluffs
St. Joseph
Grand Central Station
Chicago
TURNS STATES EVIDENCE In murder trial Holada to testify
Iowa City Sept 24 Charles Hiulada will turn state's evidence in the murder trial of James Gallaugher who was shot near River Junction on June 20. The state plans to place Florada on the stand next Monday, and Gallaugher is notified. Holada claims long criminal relations with Gallaugher and that Gallaugher intended to poison or shoot his wife. He will testify Mrs Gallaugher killed her husband. Special venue was issued to secure a jury. Cream puffs at Johnson bakery tomorrow. Kalona Sept 24 Special Mrs Snyder died at her daughter's home after months of illness death attributed to dropsy. Seven children survive. Funeral tomorrow at 10 with Rev King. Interment Spyder cemetery. Get seats for Graham September 30 Palry Play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Holida
Mra Gallaugher
Iowa City
Charles Hiulada
James Gallaugher
River Junction
Florada
Ae Holada
Mre Gallaugher
Holada
Mr. Gallaugher
Gallaugher
Kalona
Mre Snyder
Sharp
Jeraei
George
William
Mary Aone Hkrown
Jersey Sharp
Tiney Dawson
Viva Hay
Van Dyke and Eaton Present Held by the Enemy at Graham
Van Dyke and Eaton Company stage a full production of William Nettleton’s Held by the Enemy at the Graham Opera House this Saturday night. The popular military drama attracts strong drawing power nine years after its debut. ticket prices are 10 20 30 and 60 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Dyke & Eaton Company
Graham Opera House
Wmnlette
lD’rices
Devils Lane Company staging at Graham Opera House
The Devils Lane Company from Fairfield performed last night to an audience that praised scenery and the performers. D. F. Drake manager notes a bakery item promotion for tomorrow at Johnson bakery featuring chocolate and almond macaroons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devils Lane Company
Acenery and
People Right
D.F. Drake
Johnson Bakery
Patty Play Night Notes and Local Snowball
Sept 30 items cover Patty Play notices and social chatter. Mentions Rev Davis of Alnaworth in city between trains, Morris of Oskaloosa passing through for Chicago, a jewelry robbery with $600 to $700 lost, Wilson, Nort Corbin and John ring in Columbus City for a furnace for Wilon Hardware, and Mrs BP Dennison visiting Newton friends. Also notices about truant children, a Washington Chapter society, and a ball game tomorrow at Clapper pasture in southeast town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. Davis
Alnaworth
W. W. Morris
Oskaloosa
Chick
Jas. Wilson
Nort Corbin
John “Ring
Columbus City
Wilon Hardware Company
Kng
BP. M. Dennison
Altamont
Wm. Shannon
Wes Ragan
Washington
Winfield
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Ike
California
Burlington
Local notices mix of sales, licenses, theater and travel
A jumble of small town notices including items for sale and lost items, a marriage license filing, church appointments, a local theater event at Graham Opera House with 200 youths, a bird sale, and travel updates for residents attending reunions and moving to Muscatine. indicates busy community announcements in East Main Street/M Rien Avenue area.
The Work of the Heart and Blood Circulation
A description of the heart’s labor detailing blood volume and travel. It notes the heart pumps about six ounces per beat, sending blood nine feet through the body, at roughly sixty-nine beats per minute. Over a lifetime of seventy years the total work is enormous, with daily and yearly force calculations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufe
Hmmaan
Remarkable shipboard pets recall English sailor fables
Aboard an English ship Jackie the sailor boy kept a four inch long cockroach in a cage with a kennel. He learned his master's call and would come out on cue. Other pets included a trained seal with a tank and daily routines and a deer who enjoyed a quid of tobacco, becoming a shipboard favorite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie Sailor
Ile
Im Sect
Moneybags’ Wealth Sparks Newspaper Mention in Baltimore News
A quip notes that a very wealthy man, Moneybags, has so much money he need not endow colleges to gain newspaper attention. The line highlights his vast wealth and public profile without specifics on gifts or actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore News
Clerk Seeks Early Leave Amid Housework Urgency
A clerk asks to leave early to help his wife with daytime chores while there is still light. The manager declines, and the clerk thanks him for his consideration.
Quartier Latin described as haven of vice and ruin
The Philadelphia Times recalls Charles Theodore Murray denouncing the Quartier Latin as the worst place in the world for youths where immoral temptations are sugar coated Ample critique of its seductions contrasts with curious notes on the old sea coal term and a court anecdote from Judge Pennypacker about a loan request that was refused
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vielouws
Charles Theodore Murray
London
Liverpool
New York
Berlin
Vienna
Northumberland
Pennypacker
Harry
Visitor in Washington Yawns at Prolonged Senate Talk
A frontier citizen visiting Washington is shown the Senate chamber during a debate on a major measure. A senator gives a long, prosy speech, prompting the visitor to whisper that the senator is talking against time. The exchange ends with the visitor yawning at his watch, noting time still moves on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Proposal in His Arms Sparks Amused Conversation
In a playful exchange Madge recounts that Harry asked her to marry him last night. A friend’s surprised reaction prompts the tale of the moment when he asked, and she simply said yes as he folded his arms. The punchline lies in the position of their embrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge
Harry
Frugal Saxon Dinners Use Bread Slices as Plates
Dinners at Saxon gatherings used bread slices as plates with alms baskets receiving the leftovers. Grandees enjoyed a silver phitter beneath the bread, which was later discarded as guests appreciated metal and pewter’s advantages.
Statues and Scandals Highlight New York News
A New York committee moves to erect a statue to General Franz Sigel. County Treasurer Wm C Thompson of York Pa is charged with embezzling 74.57. The mother of William Hooper Young, accused of murder in New York, hails from Okanogan County Wash. American Car and Truck Co of St Louis, capital 1 million, chartered in several states. Weather last week favored crops east of the Rockies. General Chaffee reports Pershing captured seven Moro forts with no losses. Louisville tailors strike for higher wages. Senator Hard of California, after pneumonia, is out of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Franz Sigel
Wm. C. Thompson
York
William Hooper Young
Pulitzer
Okanigan County
Wash
American Car and Truck Company
8. Louis
Missouri
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Finois
Rocky Mountains
War Department
General Chaffee
Pershing
Annan
Tlouisville
Senator Hard
California
Los Angeles
Roulette Attache Wins Big At Baratoga Clubhouse
A French embassy attache at the Baratoga club wineroom repeatedly bets $100 on ten black at roulette. He is allowed to exceed the limit, wins each time, and leaves with $17,500 while Morrissey jokes about never lifting the limit. The bank still gains overall from the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Morrissey
Washington
Baratoga
Brooklyn
Morrissey
Leaping Notes and Bangkok Elephants in a Lost Journal Tale
A fragmentary tale blends eighteenth century dance notes improvised by Rameau after a balleteuse asked for lessons, creating Les Sauvages Dans les Indes Galantes. It shifts to Bangkok palace scenes where four sacred white elephants are kept behind gilded posts, seen for baksheesh. The piece closes with a pointed remark from Straits Budget about abolished noble grass cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mile
Salle
Rameau
Rameaa
Les Indes Galantes
France
Bangkok
Royal Palace
Allu
Treasury
Foreign Office
Department of the Interior
Royal Library
Mushrooms as food value and nautical humor excerpt
The London Lancet questions mushrooms as a superior food, noting digestibility and potassium salts but inferior to meat dairy and eggs. It lauds their appetizing flavor as a dietetic plus. The text shifts to a humorous nautical quote about politeness and a comically rude coastline scene near the Isle of Rudeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Lancet
A Terrible Threat and Tea Service Pricing
A fragment shows a threatened scene over a tea service priced at 50 marks and a whispered concern about fainting amid china. The text also includes a German phrase Fiegende Blatter and a moral reflection on wisdom, choosing the path to lasting happiness and glory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilis
China
Fiegende
Madge and Marjorie Spark Witty Mirror Exchange
In a brief exchange from Smart Set Madge notes she checks her reflection after makeup and Marjorie quips that one girl does not hold the mirror up to nature in the witty line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge
Marjorie
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lemmon & Lewis
East Side
Kaye & Lytle
Telephone
Wational Biscuit Company
Wheeler & Wilson
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co
Wabash Ave
Chicago, Ill
Oscar Solbrig
L. BE. Latta
Wade
The
T King
Baptist Church
Spyder
Fairfield
Warren Moore
Mgr Graham Opera
Patty
Boston
Jobhnson's
Judge Clements
J. W. Teeter
Newton
Washington Chapples
Mrs. Clark Ford
Cambridge
Ohio
Opal Ford
Monmouth
Ill
Ationery
E.C. Carris & CO
Clarence Coen
East Main Street
M Rien Avenue
Clark Mathews
Charles EO Ander
Son and
Miss Pearl Dunbar
Eli Grant
A.M. EB
Knoxville
Cornelius Wright
Lequire
West Matin Street
Hix
Kang
Sitam
Keating
Isle of Rudeness
Caledonia
ST. Julien
Manila
CREMO
Windsor Grocery
Washington, D. C
Grand Army of the Republic
D. C
F. F. Rowland
S. F. Boyd
Washington,d.c
EG. Fox
Agt
J. J. McKeone
E. C. Keck
Florist
East
Madison St
Solbrig Repair Shop
Opera House
Cdlenso Hotel
Dave Keltner
Casey
Rd Ot
St Hern North Hotel
Allen
Madison Cine Co
Madison
Wis
Helen Blair
Oquawka
Ketthburg
New Boston
Muscatine
Roel Ieland
Washington Street
W. G. Young, Jr
W. J. Young, Jr
Keithburg
Keithsburg
Young
W. A. Blair
W. W. Kinnear
Lombardo' S
M. Lombardo
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!