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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-At sacrifice; l will sell
for cash or payments. one upright
handsome Singer piano ,onc nearly
new Fox typewriter, one National
cash register, 5000 pieces of old
coins. six or seven old violins, two
rWashburn guitars, six clarinets, six
r fiat horns, also lot of unredecm-
ed watches and diamonds; % pieces
of old mahogany furniture. four bar
Der chairs, one jewelers. lathe with
bench and tools, Is fine hard coal
stoves and 100 soft coal heaters also
a fine line of steel ranges. Will sell cheap
or exchange same. Loans on diamonds
at per cent. We make a specially on
trunks and suit cases. Get my prices
+ and If / can't undersell anybody in
the three cities | will quit the bust
ness. The meanest man in town.
Don't forget my money never runs
out. Find this number and put the
rest of your money in the bank. 1909
Second avenue. Jones. Jones, Jones.
Second hand Jones. Jones. the larg-
est secondhand dealer and loan agent
in the whole state of Illinois.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
CLAIRNOHANT.
PATENTS.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.

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JOHN VOLk & CO-Contractors and
builders; Also manufacturers of sash.
doors, blinds and mouldings. Dealers
in plate, window and art glass. Of
fees and factory, 81 to 329 Eigh-
teenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
If you have an interest
ing ad in the
Argus Classified Columns
You are talking by proxy
to a big audience.

RATHs-One wsra under
at L lived after L
kerea Istter In
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE - Nice five-room cottage
\ near Eleventh avenue and Fourteenth
street; has furnace, electric light. gas
and nice high lot; price. $1,000. II. X
| Walker, agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

VILLA DE CHANTAL-A home school
conducted for girls by the Sisters OF
the Visitation. documentary and high :
er branches and all polite accomplish
ments taught. Twentieth street and
Fifteenth avenue, Rock Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for ligh
housekeeping at 307 Third street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR RENT = Two furnished rooms
modern, at 1907 Seventeenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms il
modern house at 1925 Second avenue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SAI4E-A cottage, all in nice re-
pair, on well fenced lot. with good
shop In rear; lot 42X125: location,
Forty-siXth street: price, $1,000. IL
X. Walker
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

L. COX.-Real estate and
insurance. Loans a speciality. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
rOnage solicited. Phones west %, and
new 5172. Office at court house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
INSURANCE.

INSURANCE on dwellings, and house
hold furniture specially. G. r.
Chamberliu.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
ron sALE-srrY pRopERrY.

FOR SALE-LOt 40x150 feet. centrally
located, on paved street For partic-
uiars address Box 267, city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

HURST & S'FAFFORD-At-
torneys-at-law Office i'll Rock Island
National bank building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-$4.000 will buy five lots
with fve-room house on Tenth ave
nue.. near Long View park. w. +.
Bailey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

WANTED-Men to distribute circulars
samples. signs; good pay. no canvass
ing. Oliver, Lake View building, Chi
caGo, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
PRACTICAL NURSE.

WANTED - engagements by practical
nurse, who is an elderly lady of much
experience. Apply at 27f6 Fifth ave-
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
WANTED-FEMALE HELP.

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WA NTED-Girl for general housework
at 1924 Ninth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

once. an actress; call at
2191s West Third street, Davenport,
Iowa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-A six-room modern house
on Fourteenth and-a-half street; gas,
furnace, bath; big east front corner
lot; $4,000. Harry ii. Hubbard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
OSTEOPATHY.

E. l.. DENNdSTON, D. O.-Graduate of
the American School of Osteopathy,
kirksville, Mo. Office hours, to IL
a. m. and l to 9 and to p. m. Of
fee in Peoples National bank build
ing. Rooms 406 and 407. Consulta-
ton and examination free.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-A modern 11-room house
in splendid location for roomers; con-
renient to cars and business district;
snap; 81 100. Harry ii. Hubbard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
EDUCATIONAL.

AUGUSTANA COLLEGE-Business de-
partment. A thorough business train
ing given for entry into commercial
life. Terms reasonable. Apply to Au-
gustana college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-A good home on Forty
second street and Sixth avenue; house
has gas, electric light, and furnace
splendid lot 60Xi50; price, $1,000. IL
X. Walker
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
CARD OF THANKS -.

MIR. AND MRS. J. T. MARION wish to
extend their sincere thanks to all
those who expressed sympathy in any
way, also for the beautiful floral Of
ferings and letters of coincidence re
ceived during the Illness and death
of their beloved little daughter, Mar
celia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

you a draftsman?-One
of the most important departments OF
our business is devoted to supplying
employers with thoroughly competent
craftsmen. Positions now open for
hundreds of men who can do good
work on the beard at 81 900 to $4,000
Il year. Also openings for high grade
statesmen. managers, superintendent,
engineers, etc. Offices in IL cities
write us today stating experience and
position desired. Hapgoods One
Brain Brokers. 1919 Hartford build
ing, Chicago, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

Observation-Disclosures everywhere, $2J to
$50 made weekly distributing circu-
lars, samples. no canvassing; steady.
Merchants Outdoor Ad. Co, Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Masonic.


Masonic.
TRIO LODGE. NO. 81. A. L. & ~ NJ
~ Meets in stated communication
wv on the first Thursday of each
A< month. Special for work Satur-
wv day, Dec. IA, at I p. m. Masons
are welcome. Sam II. Davis, w. Nj.
William b. Petit secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COUNCIL, NO. 20. r. &
=. M.-Mects in stated communication
ON the third Wednesday Of each month.
NJ. NJ. Briggs, T. l. NJ; l.. G. DauSh-
ty, secretary.
ROCK ISLAND COMMANDERY NO. is
X. T.-Meets in stated conclave on
the second Monday of each month
II. \. j. Mcdonald, L. c.; X. c. Willer-
ton, recorder
MASONIC BOARD OF CONTROL - II
ID. Mack, president; +. T. Myers, sec
rotary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-s1,2 $50 cash will buy five
room house; it is a bargain. W. Z.
Bailey, 1721R Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE - Nice modern seven room
house on corner lot on Fourteenth
street; has furnace, bath, and cleo
trIc light; new cement walks, price
$4,000. IL. X. Walker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
LOST AND FOUND.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

GEORGE II. SIDWELL & co. - Com
mission merchants. Grain. hay and
provisions Members of the Chicago
board of trade and Chicago stock ex-
change. Established % years. No.
SAP and 543 Rialto building. Long
distance phone, Harrison 1856
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
MASSAGE.
MASSAGE AND ELECrRoLYsrs.

GENERAL MASSAGE or Special Mas
sage of head given. SuperffuouS hairs
permanently removed with electric
needle. Treatment given at homes
unless otherwise desired. Address
Miss A. M. Kittredge, 613 Perry street.
Davenport. Old phone 1922.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
ART DECORATION.

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PAIDON & SON Artistic interior
decoration. Finest line of late papers
carried and skilled workmen employed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors', adj
ministrators'. guardians, trustees or
any kind of judicial bonds: lodge and
society officers: city, state or l.. s.
government officials; contractors. po-
sitions of trust; in fact. any kind OF
bond you want Except bail bonds j.
Terms reasonable. Hayes IL Cleave-
land. resident managers Fidelity &
Deposit Company of Maryland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
FUEL.

EMPIRE COAL & COKE COMPANY
Wholesale and retail dealers in hi.
luminous and anthracite coal. Prompt
delivery service. Office, IT'S FRS
avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
Charles {. Hodgson.
FIRE INSURANCE
AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED 1874.
225 Eighteenth ST

American Insurance company, Newarh
American ms Co. Newark, N.
Continental Ins. Co.. New York
Agricultural Ins. Co........New York
Farmers ms. Co.. York, Pa
Williamsburg Ins. Co. New York
New Hampshire ms. Co. N Hampshire
Northern Ins. Co. ~. New York
Security ms. Co.. New Haven. Conn
Ins. Co. State of Illinois. Rockford, Ill
Connecticut Fire Ins. Co. Of Connecticut
once, room 8, Buford block. Rates
- low a. consistent with security.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
EMPRESS, STORAGE, BUS AND CAB.

ROBES TRANSFER COMPANY = 120
West Seventeenth street. Old phone
1881; new phone 515S. New storage
building. Express, baggage, bus and
cab calls answered day or night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

EwERT & RICHTER Express and
Storage company, having unequaled
fac Titles for moving, storing. packing
and chipping household goods, and
can otsote reduced freight rates to
Pacific coast and other points Write
or call Office and warehouse, 1921
: 1876 East Fourth street. Davenport,
Iowa. Telephone 598.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

RELIABLE STORAGE-On first floor;
also manufacturer of awnings, tents,
wagon covers. etc. Tents for rent. 3.
Roessler & Co., 209 Fifteenth street,
opposite the court house, Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

IF YOU WANT to buy, sell, trade or
rent anything. engage help or secure
a ,sation, the Mail and Journal is
the oilS paper in Moline that can do
1t for you Mail and Journal wants
are popuIa..t and Mail and Journal
wants bring re-. tits One-half cent
in advance: two-eent s,-r rs will do.
Evening and Saturday Mail I'd Jour-
nal, Moline, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE - Acre and town lots just
outside of city limits on bluff near
street car line, cheap on monthly pay
ments. Inquire of John +. Campbell,
1929 Seventeenth street. Phone 322
west.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

FOR SALE-$4.400 will buy a l0-room
house in South Heights, with large
to $1,000 will buy n lot on Seven
teenth street, facing Long View park
only four that are not sold. Two lots in
East Moline at a bargain: owner has
left city. / have all kinds of farms
for sale or trade. w, L. Bailey, 172l y
Second avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-14

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! FOR RENT-Furnished room; 41G Eigh-
| teenth street
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16

arising from modern economic con-
ditions and governors are urging the
cutting down of expenses and more
conservatism.
Insurance legislation in the inter-
est of policy holders is, perhaps, re-
ceiving as much attention as any topic
up for discussion. Railroad legisla-
ton will be stronger than ever. Elec-
ton laws continue to occupy the front
ranks and especially primary laws
providing for the direct primary, seem
to interest most of our states.
Remedial insurance laws are urg-
ed for North Dakota, Minnesota, Him
OILS, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Cali
fornia and Massachusetts. The latter
suggests some cheap form of industrial
insurance. That each state should
own and control its own life insur-
ance companies for some cheap form
of insurance has been favorably dis
cussed heretofore. North Dakota has
local fire and hail insurance conlpan-
les which are thriving and doing much
good in the way of mutual protection.
Indiana's governor would enlarge
the authority of the State Railroad
commission and asks for a 2-cent fare
law. The governor of Illinois also
favors increasing the powers of the
similar body in his state. Governor
Folk suggests an anti-rebate law and
prison penalties for violations of the
maximum freight law and the anti
trust laws. Michigan's governor asks
for an investigation of freight car
shortage and the placing of electric
railroads. under the supervision of the
State Railroad Commissioner. Michi-
gan is largely engaged in the manu-
featuring of furniture and paper which
require frequent car shipments. Per-
haps no state has been mode directly
affected by car shortage than has
manufacturing Michigan. Governor
Cox of Tennessee wants railroad
law like the national law and he would
prohibit railroads from owning news
papers. Governor Johnson of Mime
sofa would enact lower freight rates,
a 2-cent passenger fare, reciprocal
demurrange law and an anti-pass law,
and wants the orders of the Railroad
Commission made to take immediate
effect. regardless of appeals. This is
a point that must be considered, for
if the Railroad Commission is to be
effective all red tape probing must be
gotten rid of so that orders to be eff
fective must be carried out as soon
as issued as they are in Canada. There
an order goes forth to move coal and
coal goes or the railroad property
reverts to the government.
The problems, in general, seem
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16
THE TEDDY BEAR FAD.

Social philosophers. says the Wash
ington Star, are somewhat puzzled
just at present by the Teddy Bear"
fad that is raging in certain cities.
Women are to be seen parading
streets, riding in street cars and in
otter public places with these Teddy
Bears affectionately clasped in their
arms, however, the little cloth bears
are more acceptable than most pet
dogs to the sterner sex and since wo-
men must have something on which to
lavish their affections which they can
not bestow upon their children or
husbands because it is of that partic-
ular class called love for pets,'
which, perhaps, was engendered by
the rag doll craze. let us not discour-
age her in the adoption of this fad.
Perhaps the Teddy Bear" marks the
progression from the poodle habit to
an awakening for child love, pro-
erosion to be devoutly wished.
Whether it is sort of feminine
rebuke on account of our presidents
fondness for killing bear, social
philosophers have not decided. Some
genius has foreseen an opportunity
and has embraced it. Nearly ever girl
has cultivated fondness for pets
through the doll habit and many are
loath to give up their dolls when they
begin to wear long dresses and this
innovation of the Teddy Bear" gives
them chance to "love their dollies"
as in childhood days without being ac-
cused of being too girlish. Some girls
refuse to become divorced from their
"dollies" and long after they are
ashamed to play with them in public,
they go to their private rooms and
dress and caress the inanimate little
things and talk baby talk to them.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16
(By George ,,Davi..)

Bismarck, Jan. 16.-When Judge
Morgan who is naturally one of the
most self possessed men in the coun-
try, began to administer the oath of
once to Governor Burke he seemed to
have realized the change in conditions
and hesitated In his repetition of the
oath SO much that some of the specta-
tors were uncertain as to whether he
had not omitted part of the oath.
One morning at the close of his
prayer Chaplain Stanton Of the house
asked all to Join in repeating the
Lords prayer. Some time afterward
Representative Anderson of Grand
Forks county. was seen intently
searching copy Of the last issue of
the democratic campaign text book,
and when asked what he was doing
stated that he was trying to find that
thing the chaplain wanted them to re-
peat so that he could commit it to
memory.
Senator Taylor while serving as a
law maker does not forget his profess
sion, and during one of the long
waits required by the interminable
roll calls while the officers of the SEN
ate was being elected, he strolled into
the corridors and meeting a profess
sional friend, the two were soon deeply
engaged in discussion of recently
. reported case of skin grating in which
some decidedly novel as we'll as inter-
esting features were characteristic.
One of the new democrat senators was
sitting where he could catch fragments
of the conversation and the words
graft and grating were so often re-
peated that he finally concluded that
the conversation was one concerning
politics rather than surgery, and in
the hotel lobby a short time after
ward. was RECALLING a number of
friends with vivid portrayal of-how
the matter of grating was openly
talked in the senate chamber itself.
After he had discussed the matter a
fellow member put him wise, and it is
said that had Grand Forks or Fargo
have been the capital, there would
have been pronounced addition to
the circulating medium of the east
side.
A number of ladies who were in the
capital to attend the inaugural ball
expressed a. very earnest desire to
see Alex. Mckenzie. While they were
talking in the lobby of the hotel, the
big Scotchman passed through and he
was pointed out to the awe-stricken
spectators. Surveying him carefully
one of the ladies remarked, "Why, he
is nothing but a man after ALL"
Considerable amusement is being
had in hotel corridors over the jour-
nalistic stunt INDUCED in by the fam
Gus correspondent who halls from VAL
ley City. A few days ago, Senator Nc
Arthur and number of friends drew
up number of supposed resolutions
covering everything known in the
history of North DAKOTA from, the con-
test between Jud LaMoure and Frank
Wilson to the organization of the
| present legislature. The resolutions
were joke in which every one in
dulged and no one thought of con-
sidering them seriously. They were
shown to Mr.. Packard and he failed to
see the joke and rushed them to his
papers by wire thinking he had a
scoop. When the papers containing
the story under sensational headlines
reached the capital. the joke was on
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16
CONSERVATION IN RANKS
(Continued from Page ~

Continued from Page ~
with Heinze is E. r. Thomas, the
young horseman millionaire, who ap-
parently has determined to enter the
active business world. Just what
Heinze wants with bank and what
his plans are is interesting Wall
Street very much, but so far nothing
has occurred to give even an inklin;s
of what he intends to do.
Astounding revelations of the spread
Of the cocaine habit in this city have
been made during the past few days.
An investigation begun several weeks
ago, after an unusually large num-
Der of cases of illness due to the drug
habit had been reported by the hospi-
tails, has disclosed that thousands of
persons, many of them mere boys and
girls, are wrecks Ill body and mind
from the use of cocaine. There are
drugstores, principally in the Tender
loin, which have no business except
their trade in narcotic drugs, but they
prosper on that. The proprietors of
some Of these places are said to have
gone SO far as to have agents, or "run-
ners," who peddle the drugs in the
poorer sections of the city. No law
prevents the sale of these poisons, the
druggist being Obliged merely to make
a record of each sale with the pur-
chaser's name. Much of the cocaine
disposed Of is masked under the name
Of Catarrh cure," and thousands of
bottles of such "cures" are sold daily
in New York. In the all-night phar-
macies in the White Light" district
one may see lines of wretches look
ing men and women seeking that which
gives them temporary relief from
their misery.
So serious have the conditions be-
come that the authorities who have
been engaged in the investigation of
the matter are convinced that within
comparatively short time cocaine will
be responsible for more victims than
alcohol. Even now many of the lead
ing hospitals have special wards for
the care OF drug victims, the num-
Der of insane in institutions because
of addiction to the drug habit is con-
stantly increasing, and thousands of
the so-called dope fiends" are con-
fined in private sanitariums in and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-16
own country

The great prosperity of our country
has called for more extensive build
ing and made such unprecedented de-
mand upon the saw mill product that
mill men have been unable to keep
stock sawed ahead long enough to
properly season. Orders have been
untitled for want of cars and since
lumber shipments require considera-
BILE rolling stock this feature alone
has been one cause of car shortage.
1t seems to be the consensus of opin-
ion among lumber men that the de-
mand for 1907 will be even greater
than last year and that car shortage
will continue so long as prosperity
continues.