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Brockman & Scheel will erect the new dancing hall in Schuetzen Park. The cost will be $1, 650 and it will be completed by May 1st next.
Davenport Weekly Tribune, Thurs., Dec. 1, 1887, pg.4 [C. Horton]

The Farmer's Mill s have been shut down and will not be put in operation again until the Warnebold estate is settled.
Davenport Weekly Tribune, Thurs., Dec. 1, 1887, pg.4 [C. Horton]

About two weeks ago some tramp abducted a boy from the city and probably now has him begging. The boy's name is John Missel, is about ten years of age, dark hair and blue eyes and not very bright. By coping this notice our exchanges may assist in returning the boy to his sorrowing parents.- Muscatine Tribune.
Davenport Weekly Tribune, Thurs., Dec. 1, 1887, pg.4 [C. Horton]

Davenport Items
Tri-City Star (Davenport) Friday, September 23, 1904 [C. Horton- 2009]

Christian Goettig celebrated his 64th birthday at his home yesterday.
H. F. Petersen returned this morning from. Kew York, where he has been on a pleasure trip.
Mrs. Henry Matthey and daughter Jessie left yesterday for Colorado to spend a short time there.
The Helen Blair and the Winona were the only packets to tie up at the Davenport levee today.
Our framing is the best and the cheapest in the city. Nagel's Art store, 107 West Fourth street.
Miss Alice Maude Snider has returned to her position in the office of Balluff & Snider? after taking a vacation,
Mrs. G. C. House of Williamsburg, IA., arrived in the city last night to celebrate her birthday with her sister, Matron Hill.
The democrats will open their campaign at DeWitt tomorrow evening. Judge Wade and Gustav Donald of Davenport will be the speakers.
Bl[iek] Peters who has been confined to his home since winter because of an injury he received through a fall, has so far recovered that he is able to be out.
Mrs. Fred Homer of West 6th St., Davenport, entertained 20 of her friends at Grand Island yesterday afternoon. Cards were the order of the afternoon.

General real estate index No. 50 was opened today in the recorder's office.
No. 1 was opened June 3, 1838, when the county seat of Scott County, in Wisconsin Territory, was located in Rockingham.

In the case of Ferdinand Owens vs. City of Davenport, the plaintiff dismissed the case at his own costs.

Deacon Darden, Junior, is well known through the West as a very superior animal. He is on the farm of Hon. W. L. Cook, Davenport, Iowa, where he can be
seen, or any information respecting him can be had, by addressing Mr. Cook by mail, or P. O. Box, 3,725, New York, City.
[New York Illustrated News, Feb. 15, 1862 - transcribed by C. Horton - 2009]

In the Lellan House, Davenport, Iowa, one of the girls of the house was in the habit of teasing the watchman, playing tricks on him, and once blacked
his face. Watchy got indignant, at last, and took Miss across his knee, and spanked her. Miss. prosecuted for assault, but the complaint, on a hearing,
was dismissed.
[New York Illustrated News, April 12, 1862 - transcribed by C. Horton - 2009]

Schultz, Philip aged 7 years was run over by a beer wagon driven by John Dettman in Davenport, Iowa on Wednesday and is not expected to recover.
(Rock Island Daily Argus, Thursday 11 January 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007

Malone, William aged 32 years, son of an Irish farmer, long a resident of Scott Co., Iowa left there in April, 1876 for New York City
and planned to leave from there to make a visit to his old home in Ireland. When they landed at Queenstown, Ireland,
he was arrested along with several of his fellow passengers also from Iowa:
Mr. O'Neil of Belle Plaine, Benton Co., Iowa; Wm. O'Donnell of Cedar Co., Iowa; Wm. Hickey of Boone Co., Iowa; and John Raynard of Sac City, Iowa.
They were confined in the Harnold Cross Prison in Dublin and convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
After 6 months they were sent to Dartmouth prison in England and there another fellow prisoner, John Fitzgerald, of Neponset, Illinois died aged 26 years.
He was pardoned on 1 January 1877 and returned to Ireland to stay with relatives for a time and then return to America.
Malone was 16 years old when he came to this country with his father and is a Civil War veteran, serving with Company D, 69^th New York.
He has now returned to his home in Butler twp, Scott Co. Iowa.
(Rock Island Daily Argus, Monday 26 March 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007

Bennett, Francis R., an old Rock Island Co., Illinois newspaperman, was born 27 November 1827 near Montreal, Canada. His parents were natives of Brattleboro, Vermont and were married in 1822 and then moved to near Montreal. In 1826 the family returned to Brattleboro and in 1832 they removed to Montrose, Pennsylvania and in May, 1837 to Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa. Frank was then aged 12 years and in 1841 he went to work for the Davenport Gazette. In 1845 he worked here (Rock Island Co., Ill.) for the Upper Mississippian and in the fall of 1847 he bought the Northwest Advertiser. In 1853 he sold the paper and went into farming with his father in the western part of Scott Co., Iowa. In 1857 he moved to Princeton, Iowa and was in merchandizing; in 1859 he moved to Lyons, Iowa and was in merchandizing. His wife died in June, 1861 aged 32 years and in 1862 he went to Colorado but returned in the fall and was married in January 1863. The following spring he took his family to Denver and was in the lumber business there. He returned to Lyons, Iowa in November, 1867 and in 1872 worked for the newspaper there. In 1874 he bought the Delmar Journal and is now running it.

(Rock Island Daily Argus, Monday 5 March 1877) submitted by: K. Torp- 2007

Curtis, (item from Orion, Henry Co., Illinois) Mr. and Mrs. W.H. McWhinney are here on their wedding tour to visit his parents.
(Rock Island Daily Union, Tuesday 26 June 1877).
(Daily Union of Thursday, June 28^th; Mrs. McWhinney is the daughter of J.F. Curtis, formerly of the Davenport, Iowa Business College and now of Chicago.
Mr. McWhinney is the nephew of A.M. Guild. The new couple lives in Chicago).

submitted by: K. Torp- 2007

Le Claire iron foundry of Davenport, Iowa was destroyed by fire with the patterns & c. Loss from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars;
Insurance four to five thousand.
The Pittsfield Sun.; 10-06-1853; Page 3 [transcribed by: Candi Horton -©2007 ]