Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-27
ROCK ISLAND is
A FAVORED SPOT;
FUTURE ASSURED
Location, Prestige and Enter
prise of People It's Best
Guarantees,
PROGRESS is INEVITABLE
Everything Here to Make Life DesIr.
able and to Inspire One to Put
Forth Best Effort.

n oCK ISLAND. To the stranp.
er the mere name suggests
strength. stability. picturesque
ness. To one of slight acuuaint.
ance here it calls I'D visions
Oh modern, well appointed, progress.
I've city spread over valley and hill in
favored spot on the bank or a broad
rlVer-one Of trinity of municipal.
tiles that together take rank among
the foremost in the central west. To
those OF us whose lives are conferred
mere the name stands for all these
Things and more. 1t opens to memory
vistas OF a historic past, fraught
with tender recollections: quickens
the senses to a realization of a living
present that holds within its compass
all that is most dear and that demands
all that is best in US to bring to its
full fruition; calls up in the minds
eye visions of great future whose
promises are as real and as binding
as the eternal laws of nature.
Here in Rock Island are the busy
shops whose products go around the
world; the marts Of trade where thous.
ands come to sell and buy; through
1t lie, by land and water, leading ar
teries for the worlds commerce:
about it is spread landscape that is
fair to the eye and of unexcelled fer
tility; here are our homes in which
We find shelter from the elements and
rest from our labors. This is a place
In which to work. to play, to live to
draw from life the lessons 1t Is our
nilsson on earth to learn.
Is A FAVORED SPOT.
One whose lines are cast in Rock
Island may consider himself favored
OF the gods. Opportunity lies all
about him, opportunity for wealth,
health and happiness. There is work
to do and its rewards are the highest.
The climate is healthful and the city's
sanitation we'll looked after. There
are means OF diversion and entertain
ment Of sufficient variety to satisfy
the most fastidious.
Commercially and industrially
Rock Island has many advantages. It's
location midway between Chicago on
the east, Kansas City and Omaha on
the west, st. Paul and Minneapolis
on the north and St Louis on the
south makes it the center of an ag-
ricultural district of 100000 square
miles than which no other on earth
is more fertile or better cultivated.
AS part OF an urban community of
125, 900 souls it takes rank with the
large cemers that surround 1t and is
in position to compete with them
Three trunk railways,
and numerous branches, the Missis-
sippi river and navigable tributaries,
the Hennepin canal. and five interur-
bans give access to the city from all
side Land transportation rates, gov
erned by those on water, are lower
while quick through service north,
south. east and west Is to be had.
IMPLEMENT CENTER.
Rock Island and Moline are the cen
ter of the agricultural implement man.
industry of the United
States and consequently of the world,
being the homes OF great concerns
with a total capitalization of $780,
100000 whose output is distributed
wherever agricultural methods have
advanced beyond those of primitive
nan. These immense factories are
constantly adding new branches and
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