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Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 3

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Quad-City Timesi
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Davenport, Iowa
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Thursday evening THE DAVENTORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADER april m. 1921 Press Photo Identifies AMUSEMENTS BIG SPEAKER SECURED FOR DINNER MONDAY DENIAL OF ANY CONSPIRACY IN OPEN SHOP MOVE NAB MAN HERE FOR THEFT OF SAVANNA AUTO DRAMA Uttie Theatre. Friday Hawaiian i'Uyers. VAUDEVILLE Columbia. Start! nr tadltv Ma Ptiwa.

anil Mystery Woman Forger as Escaped Prisoner Alice Sher In "a Jamea Etta Mitchell: Kevins Mack; Doris Duncan; FoUette'a Monkeys. WIDESPREAD publicity of the pany for $3,500 and rot away with the money. Later at Parsons, r'iu(nliu ui uie gin cnecs. New York, April 19. Denial that turger.

wooifl lripntltv nuz the open shop movement was in Merle Smith, Prominent Kansas City Booster, to Give Address. Grover Snowberger, Arrested as Suspect' Taken Over River. any sense a "conspiracy of employ- Kans she cashed another for $250. She used the name of Lillian M. Hudson and Catherine O'Bryan.

Federal officers traced ber to Denver, where she was ar Corner Second and Brady Streets era" was made today by George W. zled ponce for nearly a week, brought to light today the fact that she escaped three weeks ago from the Kansaa penitentiary at Lansing, where ahe was serving a term following conviction in federal SIsson, president of the American rested, and returned to Oklahoma Pulp and Paper association, in ad Charged -with the theft of a Ford dressing the convention of that or sedan at Savanna, 111., a week ago court, on a fraud charge. She was ganization. The name of another speaker of great prominence has been added to the lifct pf those who are to address the "Forward Davenport" din-. ner next Monday evening which I to mark the beginning of the mem- Grover Snowberger, 2716 Davenport Liberty.

Tonight "Deuce Take It." Liberty Concert orchestra, under direction of Earl Barr. PHOTOPLAYS Capitol. Starting today Godless Men." Special musical program Capitol Symphony orchestra, Claude Mac-Arthur, conductor "Pique Dame" (Von Suppe.) Garoen. Now playing Fatty Arbuckle In "Brewster's Millions." Family. Now playing Mack Bennett flve-part comedy, "Love.

Honor and featuring Fora Sterling and Phyllis Haver. Also Mary Miles Mlnter and Jack Holt in "All Souls' Eve." Casino. w. playing "Don't Ever Marry." with all star cast. luenunea as Bertha McArron of Hannibal, Mo, a telegraph operator.

"I believe." he said, "that the rap avenue, was arrested last night by Officer Eugene Ceuervorst, and id spread and spontaneous support Davenport Danera rlrrniarin City, to stand trial on charge of embezzlement. Sentenced she' served ten months in jail, and then at Kansas City was tried in federal court for cashing the spurious draft on the Western Union company. For the last offense she drew the five-year sentence. Admits Charges. The girl, again questioned by local authorities this morning, finally bersbip campaign in the interest of of the open shop movement is but a Hannibal, were responsible for the this morning was taken to Savanna to face trial.

Kenneth Hamra of natural reaction' to the extremes of identification. Local oolice receiv conduct and assertion, local and ed their first clue last nirht from Mollne, who is charged with the the Davenport Chamber of Commerce. It is that of Merle Smith of Kansas City, a man who has played an important part in the de- velopment of the wonderful Court; national, of closed shop unionists. same theft, was picked up yester the prosecuting attorney at Hanni- It is not in any sense a 'conspiracy day morning in Mollne. Dai, wno over long distance tela- of employers, but flows from an in According to the story told by pnone ioia officers that he had try club residential section of that creasingly insistent and very sig recognized the girl as a former res- city.

nificant popular demand and from tbe Savanna sheriff who was in Davenport for the prisoner, Snow Mr. Smith is chairman of the the restoration of principles as old berger and Hann, who had been as our Institutions. went or tbe city, who escaped from the Lansing prison a few weeks ago. Verify Story. 'A labor policy that is economi speaker's bureau of Kansas City and a very active member of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

around Savanna for a few days prior to the theft, took the Ford to confessed that her name was McArron and that she was guilty of the crimes. She said that she had escaped from the penitentiary three weeks ago and had been evading the police ever since. "I was convicted last September and sent to the prison at Lansing," she told police, "and didn't have an opportunity to get away until a short time ago. They left the back cally unsound cannot long endure, for it can only result in disaster to the industry which attempts to "I'm going to transfer you from dress goods to books. And Just a little word." "Well?" "When a gent asks for Shakespeare, sell him Shakespeare.

You can't convince him that what he want is one of the snappy books Letters from Ft. Leavenworth re Chicago and sold It for $100. Efforts to trace the car have failed. Recently be took a leading part in a membership campaign staged by maintain it The final test of ceived this morning by police verified the story told by the prosecuting attorney, and gave a history of the case. She walked out nf th tbe Kansas City Chamber of Com merce which brought its member labor policy is its success, in bring A tip resulted in the arrest yesterday of Hatnm, and when he weakened after a grilling, he gave the name of Snowberger as bis ing about a higher degree of indi ship up to 6,000.

Because of his oi tne season. Louisville Courier- successful leadership the drive -has vidual development in the worker and more general contentment in Jouprnal. partner. been continued and 8,000 has now been set as tbe goal. 4 Mr.

Smith has assisted in a num liiliUlililltlllllllltHlllMllltlililiiliiililiilllllllllillllllilillilillllllllllillllli ber of campaigns staged by the door of our cottage open, and I left. I walked six miles to Leavenworth and took a train out of there. "I knew that I couldn't go to work as a telegraph operator and I had to have money, so I took a Return Her Soon. Officials of the federal prison have been notified and it is probable -that a guard will arrive In commercial organizations of cities other than Kansas City. A short time ago he aided In the campaigns back door of a prison tottage three weeks ago, changed clothes in Leavenworth, Kansas, and took a train for Kansas City, escaping.

She waa serving an indeterminate sentence of from one to five years. According to the record at Ft. Leavenworth, the McArron girl while employed as manager of the Western Union office at Yale, Okla absconded with $200 casb. and stole several blank drafts. Cashes $3,500 Draft At Kansas City she cashed a forged draft of the telegraph com- at Pueblo and Colorado Springs, industry." REVIVAL AT MT.

ZION CHURCH IS A BIG SUCCESS The revival meetings being held at the ML Zion Baptist church are proving a wonderful success. Four new members have been received Into the church since Monday evening and great enthusiasm is being displayed nightly. The meetings are being conduct Colo. Members of the team of Four Davenport to return the girl to Minute Men met at the chamber yesterday afternoon with their prison, within th next few days. According to word from tbe mother of the girl is now living at that place.

Just at the Height of the Season We Offer Our New Spring Wraps, Coats chairman, Ross Beedee, and made plans for the part they are to take in the campaign. They rehearsea their four minute talks and re ceived their assignments for Satur even more to his innate sense of ed by Rev. R. Booker, an evangelist of Omaha. His subject for tonight day and Sunday at the various is "Strike for Higher Wages." The theaters.

They are as follows: Corner Second and Brady Street NEW BOOKS IN CIRCULATION AT PUBLIC LIBRARY The following list of books will text is "The Wages of Sin is Death Columbia Theater Saturday af but the Gift of God is Eternal Life." ternoon and evening. MaJ. A. at Atkinson: Sunday afternoon and Collinsville, IUs. Art Fletcher, evening, C.

Burgess. be ready for circulation at the pub Phillies shortstop, announced be Capitol Theater Saturday after lic library, Saturday, April 1: was considering retiring from base ball. Andrews Across Mongolian Plains; naturalist's account of China's 'Great Northwest." A record of the Chicago Catcher Bob O'Farrell 2m of the Cubs knocked the first ma second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Labor History. jor league home run of the season off Jess Haines of the Cardinals Cody Memories of Buffalo Bill, bv irutn rrerace. Hodge Principles of Accountihg; 1920.

Koos Junior High School. "In six chapters Prof. Koos has presented an analysis which is a striking example of what can be done by "way of giving information with being encyclopedic." Uppincott Economic Development of the United States. Mills Waiting in the Wilderness. Some of the chapter headings are: "The Lion Plays Soft Pedal," "Happy-Go-Lucky Black Bear," "Tramp Days of Grizzly Cubs," "A Collie In the Desert." Wade and others Elementary Americanism: the short constitution being a consideration of the guarantees of life, liberty and property contained in the constitution of the U.

S. Wera Human Engineering; a study of the management of human forces In Witte Memoirs of Count Witte; translated from the original Russian manuscript and edited by Abraham Yarmolinsky. Fiction. Bailey Trumpeter Swan. Dell Rocks of Valpre.

Leverage Ice Pilot. Lindsay Golden Book of Springfield. Williamson Great Pearl Secret. his wife, Ixmala, Ferderid Cody; in collaboration with C. R.

Cooper. with one man on base. Delano How Shall I Take Exercise and Set-Up? A physician's analysis of ROCK ISLAND TO COLORADO Speaking of Colorado: Let the me wny ana wherefore, what what and what's worth while In exercise; wiy illustrated movements. Rock Island tell you something about Rock Island service. Glass Machinists' Blue Book: a especially the Rocky Mountain Lim practical hand book for mechanics.

noon and evening, C. W. Burgess; afternoon and evening, Roy Bruce. 5 1 Family Theater Saturday after-j noon and evening. Harry E.

Ved-der; Sunday afternoon and evening. Roy Fisher. Casino Theater Saturday afternoon and evening. Lester Sidney; Sunday afternoon and evening, Lester Sidney. Garden Theater Saturday afternoon and evening.

Rev. Arthur Buckner; Sunday afternoon; and evening, Robert Getman. Liberty Theater Saturday after-'noon and evening, Roy F. Bruce: Sunday afternoon and evening, RealfT Ottesen. The announcement that the Chamber of commerce has engaged the services of Wrlxon's Jazs archestra for the "Forward Daven-'port" dinner next Monday night has made a great' hit with the members of the organization and the team 'workers.

They are looking forward to a "poppy" meeting and ited and Colorado Express, to Den Hawkes Factory Chemistry: prep ver and Colorado Springs. These trains are popular very popular aratory to courses in metallurgy and metallography. and tney merit their popularity. As tor Rock Island dining car meals, if IswolHky Recollections of a Foreign Minister: memoirs of Alexander Is-wolsky. (treat value of M.

Iawol- you traveled around, the world you For Friday Only Wraps and Coats $30.00 Wraps and Coats at $24.00 $25.00 Wraps and Coats $20.00 $20.00 Wraps and Coats $16.00 Suits could find nothing better. C. C. An sky's book Is not due only to his having been one of the most prominent and effective statesmen concerned in European political affairs but derson, Division Passenger Agent, man with a lobster appetite has often a prune income. Rock island Station, Davenport.

378 BLOUSES will be placed on sale Saturday at 8:30 SWlk -a sk iiiiimmiiitmiiiiiuiiiutititiMiMM at I know that "Doc" Wrixon's joy mak ers will help achieve this end. SAYS POVERTY IS CONDITION OF THE MIND Store fSs. SPCdalt7 Women JwAffjf 1 1 AJjli One Children 'Ns(. Roof. $36.00 $32.00 .1 $45.00 Suits at.f.

$40.00 Suits $35.00 Suits at $30.00 Suits at $25.00 Suits at i. "Poverty is a condition of thought," said Dr. Bush, psycholog I ist, last night at the Blackhawk hotel ball room in a delightful presentation of the Law of Abundance, How to Cure Poverty. r'i "To experience lack is a denial ht God, equivalent to saying 'Here I Corner Second and Brady Dresses is a condition where God is not. EXCEPTIONAL VALUES FROM THE i We must first be positive.

Hold positive thoughts. Hold such af- firmations, as I am health, energy, fvitallty, I am prosperous and $30.00 Dresses at $24.00 $25.00 Dresses at. $20.00 Dresses at. $16.00 $15.00 Dresses $12J00. I Corset Shop plenty.

Everything I do Suceeds." we do not claim that you will become rich over night or They are not regular sale blouses, but we 1 must reduce our tremendous stock. These blouses will go quick at this ridiculous price, Formerly sold as high as $7.50 1 Included are Georgettes Crepe de Chines 'that money is going to come to you 'in a certain way. But if you have FOR FRIDA faith and work in accord with the Law of Abundance, you can overcome poverty. For all Is abundance and their is plenty for all." Remember these garments are all new, fresh, clean, spring merchandise, just purchased-on sale Friday only. PINK COUTIL CORSET Front and back lace, elastic top, long skirt," for A A slender figure; sizes 19 to 27.

Very special at. $xUy I Tub Silks Pongees, Etc. Now on display in our entrance windows. i "There is always a supply before there is a demand. We cannot overcome poverty and be happy without giving.

Hold thoughts of "harmony and loving relationships 'with everything and everybody." Corset Covers Tonight at 8:15 speaks on a subject of vital interest, Im- 59c lamination. The Power of Visualiza of white nainsook, built up Discontinued Numbers in -tion. How to Make Your Dreams Langbein Special Come True. When a woman recommends her physician to some other woman and he falls to effect a cure she Bon Marche Corsets 1 style in elastic top, mercerized brocade; another style in plain pink coutll; another in elastic top, plain pink PA coutil; sizes 19 to 36. aSeUW i C00ew0 iCMlswtr? camOvco Pink Brocade Corsets v- Inserted elastic top, sizes 19 to 25, for medium figure.

1 r7f? Specially priced at. I Safety Vaults iorgives me omer woraau. Did you read the want ads today? i'ii trfisMiifmrhiiiaiasssrsn-i A Sale of Sailors From the Big Millinery Shop Enjoyed a package of these delectable chocolates lately? Why miss all the good things in life? Tonight ask your dealer for a package oi Velma 'Milk Chocolates. .98 in much demand Citizens of Davenport are becoming more careful as to where they keep their valuables. Call today and select one of our boxes for your valuables.

Cost less than a cent a day. "The Old Reliable" SCOTT GOUNTY SAVINGS BANK N. W. Cor. Third at Brady 4.

Davenport, Iowa 2 am Stop that pacinl QUICK, warming, soothing, comforting relief follows an application of Sloan's In this assortment are tailored hats and sailors of every description. AH the leading colors included. On special sale Thursday and Friday, $1.98 and $2.98. jinunsni. 1 ubi imp ii vd wi.

snrnme ovsnroTKM moscn. uooa tot rc too, wtMB wnitoul mount. "Roddewig Schmidt 'Davenport SH(Dl: linimenteS3.

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