The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.

After a seven-month strike, on July 9, bombs went off beneath the cars of two Argus employees, destroying property and slightly injuring an infant.

[8] It was started by Oliver and Louise White, who were publishers of The Molly Stark, a weekly newspaper in Toulon, Illinois.

[8] The Daily Dispatch was purchased by Len H. Small on February 28, 1969,[8] and the newspaper then started the conversion from the “hot metal” method of composition to computerized photocomposition.

This made the Dispatch and Argus sister publications to Lee's flagship title, the Quad-City Times, which has long been the major newspaper on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities.

[2][10] From 1986 through 2007, a weekly total market coverage newspaper called The Leader circulated in Scott County, Iowa, location of Davenport.

Distributed on Thursdays, the newspaper contained re-printed content from the Dispatch and Argus, plus exclusive features and hard news stories from Davenport and the Iowa side of the Quad Cities.