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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
8
The Rev Pathe John Marhalek is to be relieved of the pastorate of St Marrs and St Peter and St Pauls churches near Solon due to climate affecting his health. Bishop Cosgrove will likely reassign him northward to a new charge.
Bo Craig, George Alt, and George and Abner Hamilton depart Tuesday night for a western tour ending in Portland Exposition. The group plans to split briefly to visit relatives before reconvening in Denver for the return trip home.
Will Kisor buys one house from Dr. Frank Newberry for 1700 dollars and James Disns buys another for 1700 dollars. Both residences lie on South Clark street and will be occupied at the earliest possible time.
Citizens discuss removing brush and willows along the riverbank ahead of the dam completion. Opinions split on whether cutting back the lower bank would improve appearance and health, while some warn the willows will die anyway from submersion and ice flows.
A voter voiced uncertainty about who should undertake a proposed work project. The speaker avoids asserting whether the city or neighboring property owners should bear responsibility, but notes that action is needed and someone ought to proceed.
Matilda Novak reports attending the Iowa Rathbone Sisters grand lodge in Davenport held this week. The event conferred the grand temple degree on 225 past chiefs amid heat, with Iowa totaling 199 temples and 5 049 sisters and 3 435 knights. Twelve new temples were started this year. the grand lodge will meet here next year.
Iowa City spectators watched Larry Ginter in the 2:07 pace at Davenport. The Broncho won the fast heat in 2:05 with Ginter close behind, in a $500 purse race featuring multiple horses and times 2:05 2:06 and 2:07.
The Improvement League offers 147.50 in cash prizes for floats and novelties at the coaching parade to be held at the fair grounds east of the city on Wednesday August 30. Prizes listed include various categories for business and society floats, autos, carriages, saddle horses and riders, bicycles, baby carriages, and novelty classes for children with go carts and coast ers. All prize money is cash and nonreturnable.
An Alabama man reports swift relief from a diarrhoea attack after one dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He had tried nine days of other medicines with no success and endorses the remedy as best for bowel complaints. The note mentions Stewart & Bro. of Greenville, Alabama, and references sales by druggists on Monday and Friday in September.
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