davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
LOCAL NOTICES.

p ach ice cream at Kreli & Maths.
Lemon ice cream at Krell i Maths.
Good barber wanted; bring reference
306 Third avenue, Moline.
Peach ice cream made from fresh ripe
peaches at Krell s. Maths.
Chocolate, vanills and peach ice cream
and lemon ice at Krell & Maths.
The finest and sweetest line of French
candies just received at Krell & Msth's
j. NJ. Bufo.d offers for sale some nice
business property st a bargain-13l2
Third avenue
The deepening of the log way at the
lumber company's B mill has been fin
ished and the mill will start again Mon
day morning.
Brick ice cream takes the lead and
Krell & Math take the lead in turning out
the finest. purest and best in the three
cities. Try them when you want some.
thing nice in cream.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
REYNOLDS.

REYNOLDS. Oct. 6:-Quite number OF
our people attended the fair at Peoria
last week.
Epperly & Curtis are moving their
stock of hardware and implements to the
building formerly occupied by McEntire
s. McPhaiI.
j. Y. Johnston has purchased fine
stable horse of Mr.. Soderburg. of Osco.
Ill. This horse is only Two yeaIs Old and
weighs LOO pounds.
W. L Ekstrom, of Templeton. Iowa,
was in town last week on business con-
pected with the settlement of claims ex-
listing between his father, A. F. Ekstrom
and Montgomery Bros.
William Stanley proposes to keep up
with the prooes sion" in the way of inn
proponents, and is having his house
moved to q more desirable location on
his lot where he will remodel and put il
in good shape.
The shooting contest between C. II.
Wayne, our station agent, and Henry
Patterson. of E1gington, was largely at
tended, several crack shots from Rock
Island being present, among whom We
noticed A. D. WEIGH Robert Fullerton.G
W. Cash and A. w. Cushing. The re-
suit of the match was that Patterson
killed IL out of IS snd Wayne out of
10. The afternoon was given to blue
rock shooting in which everybody took
mart
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
SOME SCRAPS OF HISTORY.

The Twin-Cities as Thay Were In SO
An Old Directory OF Rock Leland
and Moiine Turns Up.
8. s. Davis has been showing the Mo,
line Dispatch book that has lately come
into his possession. that is very valuable
as relic Of the past of Rock Island and
Moline. 1t is the directory of the two
cities compiled in 1855 by William S.
Spencer.
The directory is little one, containing
1873 pages, and these are only FIVE inches
by seven in sizs. Otthese only So are
used for the names of residents. 10 the
SO years that have passed since the book
was issued many of those who are named
in it have passed from this life, and many
others have made their homes in other
places. bat there are many familiar
names on its pages.
In the list of county officers is John M.
Gould. county judge, and George w.
Peasants, school commissioner. Benja-
min Harper was the mayor of Rock ISL
and. and the Harper house was not yet
built.
In Moline s. W. Wheelock and N. c,
Tyrrell were township trustees. and j.
M. Gould school director. OF the other
officials none rem ain in the city.
In Rock Island there was employed in
manufacturing S4Os. $40. about fifty per
cent more than in Moline. and the pro-
ducts amounted to 81. 1873 .O75. The
total amount of all kinds of business
transacted in Rock Island amounted to
Sc 507 $50. while in Moline it was ST..
296. 637. Moline is credited with 1858
inhabitants and an estimate shows that
Rock Island had 4,144 people. The
business statistics of Moline show that
S276, 975 was invested in manufacturing,
and that manufactured articles to the
value of $500, ISL were sold. The manu-
featured articles were lumber, plows,
bricks, beds,eads, pals. tubs. chairs,
flour and slaves. The furniture business
seemed to be good as $4,000 chairs and
1000 bedsteads were made, and the
start of the Moline agricultural implies
ment industries is shown in the 10,40O
plows made by John Deere.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08

ATLANTIC & PACIFIC ROYAL 2
COOKS FAvoEITE SCIoTo
CROWN SILVER SPOON
CRYSTAL SILVER STAR
DAISY SNowDRIFT
DAVIS OK. SOVEREIGN
DRY YEAST STAR
GEM STATE
GLOBE STANDARD
KENToN SUNFLOwER
PEARsoN's WASHINGTON
PERFECTION WINDSOR
PEERLESS zIPPs GRAPE
PURITY CRYSTAL
There are, in addition TO the foregoing list from
the Scientific American, a number of such pow
ders sold in the western that were not found in
the eastern stores.
Following is a list TO date:
CALUMET, Contains Alum
Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.5 '''''
FOREST CITY, Contains Ammonia Alum
(vouwie Bros, Cleye' and,)
CHICAGO YEAST, Contains ANN mia Alum
Chapman s Smith Co 4, Chicago)
BON BON Contains Alu-n
HOTEL, Contains Ammonia Alum
a. C. Grant Baking Powder Co, Chicago.)
UNR VAILED, Contains Alum
ONE SPOON, TAYLoR'S, Ammonia Alum
(Tayior Mfg. Co. st. Louis.)
'AANAh tY Il Mfg. Co. St. Lo2 Ge1'ains Alum
sHAw'S SNOW PUFF Contains Alum
merchants Mfg. Association. St. Louis,)
DoDSoN Hills. Contains Alum
SBEPARD,S Contains Ammonia Alum
(Wm. Il. Shepard, s.. LOUISE
BANS Contains Alum
MONARCH. Contains Ammonia Alum
(Reid, Murdoch q Co., Chica= o)
Bengal Coffee & Spice Mills, Chicago)
GIANT, Contains Alum
MILK, Contains Alum
wv. F. Mclaughlin Co., Chicago N
tspencer, Bluing Paddle Co Ch:caeo5 -
KALBFELL's PURITY, Contains Alum
{kalbieli Mig. Co., chicago.]
"' Ghoenii Chemical WORKS, Chicago A3"0n'a
(Globe, Coffee & Spice Mills, Minneapolis.)
WOODS ACNE, Contains Ammonis
ANDREWS PEARL, Contains Ammouis
&C. E. Anorexs & Co., Mllwaukee.)
HARRIEs' FAvoRITE, Contains Alu N
FIDELITY, Contains Alum
SOLAR, Contains Alum
SHERMAN Bros, Chicsgo)
(weil,. PUTNAM & Co. chiesgoJ ''-
(Noah MeDowall, St Paul, Mimi 49,
TWIN CITY Contains Alum
q. K. Fe-gu son, Minneapolis, Mimi,
HERCULES. Contains Ammonia
iHercules Baking Powder Co., san Francisco.)
CLIMAX, Contains Ammonis
Climax Baking Powder Co., Indianapolis.)
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08

CHAS. A. NECK,
TELEPHONE 421. 322 Brady Street, Davenport, Ia
open every evening Saturdays until 1ooOp n
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08

Ifeel it my duty to say few words in
regard to Ely's Cream Balm. and 1 do SO
entirely without solicitation. l have
used it more or less half year, and have
found it to be most admirable. have
suffered from catarrh of The worst kind
ever since / was little boy and never
hoped for cure. but Cream Balm seems to
do even that. Many of my acausintsnces
have used it with excellent results. Oscar
0s'rum, As Warren avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR

Is dominant in everything, but money is not all
that you have to think OF when you are ordering
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
Few Route TO 81. LOUIS.

Oae fare for the round trip for the St.
Louis fair and Yelled Prophets via R. /.
d P. railway. Special train Oct 6 leaves
Rock Island at $40 a. m. arrives at ST.
Louis at 6:45 p. IN. Tickets on sale Oct
8 to 10. limited for return O:t 12. Try
this new route via Peoria and Jackson
vile. For further information or tickets,
call at depot at foot of Twentieth street.
r SToCKHoUsE G. T., A.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
The d. af win be Glad He 4. Comin.

1t cannot fail to be of interest to MANY
of our readers to know that II. A. Wales,
OF Bridgeport. Conn has agreed to visit
Davenport Oct. z and will be at the ST.
James hotel. Mr. Wales is the inventor
of the sound discs, which has attracted
such widespread attention throughout
the civilized world. and to the use of
which is largely credited the decrease in
deafness shown in the late census
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08

The only complexion powder in the
world that is without vulgarity. without
Injury to the user and without doubt q
purifier, is Pozzoni's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
A FIGHT FOR LIFE.
Shall We Drive Slow Poison From
Our Break fast TableY

ALUM AND AMMONIA IN OUR BREAD.
A nuisance that troubled England SO
years ago is now rapidly spreading in this
country. that is putting alum in the bread
we eat. This question is causing great
deal of discussion at the present moment, as
it is revealed that alum is being used as
substitute for cream of tartar in baking
powders. A story is told lat very large
percenta &c of the baking powders sold on
the market contain either alum or am
monia, and many of them contain both
these pernicious drugs. Much timely
alarm is felt at the wholesale use of
alum in bread, biscuit and pastry. To
young children, growing girls, persons of
weakly frame. alum bre. d eaten morning
noon and evening is the most harmful. II
is the small quantities taken at every
meal that do the mischief. Alum is cheap,
costing but two or three cents pound,
while cream of tartar costs SOC, and the
high price of cream of tartar has led cheap
baking powder 10 be made of alum. If
the reader wants 10 know something of
the corrosive qualities of alum let him
touch piece TO his tongue then reflect
how it acts on the tender delicate coats
of the stomach.
Following is a list compiled by the
Scientific American, of tie alum and am.
monia baking powder that have already
been tested:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-08
FURNITURE AND CARPETS.

Spend your money blindly and nothing but good
luck will give you your moneys worth; spend it
ntelligently and you will get your almighty dol
lar back again. Does not style count for some
thing and durability for something more? If
you do not get both of these, what sort of an in
vestment are you making? Whether you or
they be big or little, you will do justice to your
dollar and justice to your judgment. If you want
Bed Room Suit or an Ingram or Brussels
Carpet Chenille Draperies, Curtains or Shades,
Cook or Heating Stove, Side Board, Ward
Robe, Extension or Parlor Table, Parlor Suit,
Lounge or Couch, we can fit you out in any de-
sired style or price, and give you credit at lowest
cash prices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

When we returned to town In the middle
Of September I was "all agog to dash
through thick and thin,o and all the more
impatient because Iknew that two months
must yet elapse before the season would
fairly begin. A visit to Lofty when her
family came home from Newport and Olive
Grene's garden party helped to stay my
desires to a small extent; and, as every
week passed by, used to see one or two of
the men, whom by that time knew, stroll
ing through Rittenhouse square or walk
ing in Walnut street. Mr.. Boullter in
sisted on rowing me up the river think
he would willingly have had me take sup.
per with him at Strawberry mansion quite
by ourselves, but ! positively refused to
row with him alone except in the morning;
and l only did it once, being little dis
turbed, | confess, by the Other men at the
boat house. Not that 1 was afraid of them;
but l did not want to be talked about, and
at that time did not know enough to dis
criminate. Iwould gladly have been rowed
by him for days together, however, for he
looked admirable in fannels.
At last came the great event-Mrs. Ha-
thorne's dinner for Lofty.
| feel again my thrill of delight on hear
ing our door bell ring as ] stood in my
room on that well remembered evening.
for knew that it must be Olive Creme,
who had promised to come for me in her
coupe. ] scarcely waited for the little
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
TOLD OF PEOPLE IN EUROPE.


THE widow of Prof. Schliemann will
continue his archaeological work.
DURING the illness of the late Emper-
or Frederick, it became so much the
fashion to consult DIR. Morell Mackenzie
that his professional income rose to an
average of twelve hundred dollars day.
THE famous Lafayette family, of
France, has become extinct by the
death of Senator Edmond de Lafayette,
a grandson of the General. He was
wealthy bachelor and gave largely to
charities.
SIGNoR JEssADA, the great lace fab
ricant of Genoa, Italy, carries back the
manufacture of Italian lace as early as
the year 140O, and has in his possession
specimens which he declares to be of
that date.
DURING the present century, three
girl Queens have, before the advent of
Queen Wilhelmina, almost simultane-
ously ascended the throne of a European
Nation: Maria da Gloria of Portugal,
Isabella of Spain, and Victoria of En-
gland.
Mrs. MARSHALL o. ROBERTS, who
lives now in Spencer House, London,
is said to receive as many offers of
marriage as any widow in the British
metropolis. She has the entire income
of the Ss,0oo,o0 estate, now very much
increased, left by her husband.
DIR. ScHLIEMANN left his property to
be divided among his relatives, includ-
ing $4,000 to his first wife's heirs. The
sum of eS00 is left to Prof. Virchow.
The palace at Athens, with all its coll
lections and libraries, with the excep-
ton of the Trojan vessels, which are
destined for the Berlin Museum, is be-
queathed to his wife.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Old clothes from London.

There are London dealers who adj.
vertise their readiness to buy ''cast-off
clothes for export only" To what
country are these cast-off clothes ex-
ported? A New Yorker who ought to
know says that the chief markets for
them are among the blacks of the
British possessions in Africa. Some of
them are sent to Asia Minor and the
regions bordering on the Red sea, but
more of them go to Guinea and the
lands of the Hottentots. 1t is proud
day for n negro when he can stride
among his bare boned brethren in the
garb of London dandy. There can
be no doubt that civilization is pro-
NOTED by the trade in old clo'.-Ns \.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can't do any
thing to your satisfaction, and you won
der what ails you. You should heed
the warning, you are taking the first
step into nervous prostration You need
a nerve tonic aud in Electric Bitters
you will fnd the exact remedy for res
toring your nervous system to its nor
NAL. healthy condition. Surprising
results follow the use of this great nerve
tonic and Alternative. Your appetite
returns, good digestion is restored, and
the liver and kidneys resume healthy
action. Try a bottle. Price sec. 81
L. r. Kinks drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
PEOPLE OF ROYAL BIRTH.

The high court of Amsterdam has de-
cided that all official and public servants
shall address the little Queen as King
Wilhelmina.
ONE block of real estate owned by
Queen Victoria is the most valuable in
the British Kingdom. 1t is in London,
of course, and includes both sides of the
Quadrant and Regent street from Picca-
dilly circus to Oxford street.
ARcHDUKE CHARLES LOUIS, heir pre-
sumptive to the Austrian throne, will
allow his sons but fifty forms month
until they attain their majority. At the
age of eighteen they become free with
an income of at least twenty thousand
forins.
THE Sultan of Turkey is not in all re-
spects the ease-loving monarch he is re-
ported to be. He passes good part of
the day with his secretary discussing
matters pertaining to the Empire, and
it is his boast that he has never signed
a state paper without reading it.
THE Princess Louise, daughter of
Princess Christian, will be married to
Prince Aribert of Anhalt during the
coming summer. The private chapel at
Windsor Castle will be used for the
wedding ceremony and whole stream
of right-reverend prelates will be laid
on for the occasion.
THE Persian Shah's dinner is served
to him in two courses. The first is com
posed of caviare, picked fruits, dried
prunes and apricots, Then, after an in
terval of two hours, dish of thick
broth, containing roast lamb, chicken
and stewed apples, and a rice stew are
placed before him. The Shah eats Very
daintily with the tips of his fingers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
The First Step.

fro BE coNTrsUED.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
CHAPTER /.

l must lightly indicate my early history.
My father was prosperous business man
in the city of Philadelphia. No name on
Market street was more respected, and GER
tainly no store front on Market street was
uglier than his. He was a kindly man, en-
tirely devoted to his business, and all the
more because it demanded slight knowl-
edge of science, which gave him an excuse
for subscribing to The Scimtific Nmerican
and forming cabinets of ~speci sns."
was exceedingly fond of him, and he,
think, preferred me to my younger sister,
who wasa prig, as many girls are.
It may be that l. ought to ascribe my
fathers preference to the fact that, being
a precocious child, soon learned how to
play at billiards, for it was in that game
that he found his chief, and indeed his
only, relaxation. In course of time | be-
came quite an adept, though it was tire
some to have to knock the balls about night
after night, and many long evening have
spent in my fathers company, stretching
myself across our big green table and
chalking my tall cue with childish gravity.
My mother was as ambitious as my father
was contented. Long before either of her
daughters was old enough to understand
the meaning of the word position" she
had discovered that it was impossible to
convey to his mind in any way the idea
that there could be anything wanting to
ours
His idea for the future happiness of
Ethel and Elizabeth Jones was that we
were to marry energetic young business
men, live quietly in the country, and raise
peas and families to be the admiration and
Il -. I'LL H.
agined that my mother rarely endeavored
to convince him how trite were his ideas
when add that whenever these visions of
the future pastoral happiness of his daugh-
ters presented themselves to his mind he
invariably was excited to declare an inten-
tion to retire from business himself and
taste similar bucolic joys on my grand
fathers farm in Lancaster county. My
mothers hopes, however, were none the
less distinct because my father did not
happen to share in them; she looked to us
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
MILITARY GOSSIP.

PRESIDENT CARNoT contemplates the
entire demolition of the Notifications
| about Paris.
THE only Chinaman in the regular
| army of the United States is Edward
Cohots, a private in Company II of the
Fifteenth Infantry at Fort Sheridan,
Ill. He served through the war as a
volunteer.
kA.EsIDENT DTAZ began his political
career while an officer in the army by
heading an insurrection. He kept on in
that line until he reached the Presi-
dency, but is now the most conservative
politician in Mexico
THE Chinese on the Russian frontier
are restoring the Notifications of the
town of Kuldja. An enormous fortress
is nearly finished, with mud and clay
walls twenty-three feet high, twenty
five feet thick and eight hundred and
fifteen feet in length, with moat seven
feet deep and fifteen feet broad.
THERE will be eleven retirements for
age in the army during 1891. These in
clude two Brigadier Generals, six
Colonels, one Major and Captain, be-
sides two other staff officers. The
Brigadiers are General Gibbon, COM
manding the Division of the Pacific,
and General Benet, Chief of Ordnance.
A PNEUMATIC dynamite gun is being
constructed in England to use COM
pressed air at 5000 pounds per square
inch; it is Is seconds of arc in diame-
ter, and is intended to throw 600 pounds
of dynamite three miles. The air COM
pressor is of special design, and has
four pistons which decrease in diameter
as the pressure increases. The first
piston is IL seconds of arc, the fourth is
~ seconds of arc in diameter. The
n. Y. Engineer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

lHE I'm, number of employees on all the
railroads of the country amonnts 70
seven hundred thousand. There arc
nIreen hundred and eighteen different
railroad corporations, and tbe totai
mileage of these railroads ;s ona S,'.a tosai
dred miles. Ni mum
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-29

at all. The next sketch is one of Red
FERNS special tight-fitting gowns by
which he has made his name. 1t is of a
silver gray cloth with bands of chin
chilla and deep terra Gotta velvet intro
duced to give touch of warmth to the
appearance.
The gown is made in the princess
style with short train. The sleeves
are novel, being headed with a puff,
edged with chinchilla. Another band
encircles it little lower down and the
high-pointed cuff is edged with yet an
other. A bold pattern of braiding in
brown, picked out with steel beading,
runs down the front of the bodice aud
curves down the gown lengthways. The
fastening is at the back. Novelties in
dress are not fairly out for the winter
season, but those that have appeared
are novel to a degree. Feathers are ''de
rigeur." In millinery they were never
more used, in bOaS and rufus they
are seen everywhere. and as trim
ming for gowns, mOdiStes are trying
are to get them generally adopted. The
effect, though strange, is not good. Red
fern has made many gowns with three
rows OF feather trimming on the skirts,
headed with braiding, and they have
been worn by distinguished people.
who pride themselves on being in good
style. But it cannot be said that the
feather trimming, however beautiful
and costly, make anything but a ragged
looking bordering. As for the bodices
of feathers. few of which have been
introduced by some mOdiste straining
after originality, they are far too sug-
gestive of the noble red man TO ever be
worn generally by civilized woman
hood.
LIE BARON DE FREMONT.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-29

of cooking which L mean to speak about-
1t is sensible cuisine which, on occa
sion, may arise to the height of an elah-
crate dlnDar, and which is also suitable
Tor people with a comparatively small
purse who like to eat we'll, although with
out extravaganza. L must add that
these recipes will be entirely French.
as 1t IS the only kind of cooking | know.
1t has often occurred to me what a
good thing it would be il some of the
people III this country were taught 10
use all that is eatable in an animal.
When one thinks of the waste which
must result from the American way Of
buying meat, it makes one wish to rem
edy the evil, for | earnestly believe
that lt IS great disadvantage 10 poor
consumers. | will explain what
mean. Have you ever noticed
the butchers shops where the
poorer classes are served? Have
you noticed tie low prices
of the meat and the quality of 1t? In
France the poorest people can de al at
the same butchers shop as the million
aire. The millionaire buys the choicest
cuts, while the other buys inferior
pieces. but both eat the anne quality of
meat-the best. In this country Tex
ceptlng the Germans, Frencb and Ital-
lans) everybody wants the best pieces.
The mason who works for SI5o a day
must have his pOrterhouse steak as we'll
as the rich banker. But the mason can
not afford the price asked for the best,
and the eonseq uence is that he gets poor
meat. If he understood that first
class cut of third-q1ality beef is not
as wholesome and nutritious as a lower
priced piece of a firs-clasS animal, it
would be advantageous to his health
and his purse to buy good round steak
instead of a poor porterhouse. am told
by one OF the trade that most butchers
OF the city of New York do not even
pretend to keep anything but what are
considered the best pieces of various
qualities according to the butchers pat
ronage. As rule it is next to mpossi-
BILE to find good meat in the country.
There are exceptions in few villages,
near the great cities, for instance, where
many very rich people live. but then
yon pay at least one-third more for il
than you would in the city.