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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1903
Page
3
The Rock Island System offers reduced rail fares for the August 7 gathering of Pythias in Davenport Iowa. Tickets cost fifty four plus one third percent, with exceptions noted at ticket offices.
The War Department honors soldiers for acts in Mindanao and Luzon, including Billy Ballou of the Fifteenth Cavalry who held off ten insurgents, Travis T. Bryan of the Twenty-second Infantry shielding a wounded officer, Otto Herter, Joan P. McSweeney, and others for bravery during campaigns in the Philippines and China.
An unclear OCR fragment lists scattered times and codes such as 02 am 21sp 2:09 p 58 po and 12:20 p 10:37 am with random letters and symbols. No coherent event, persons, or places can be identified from the legible text.
The Peary Arctic club in New York displayed a bottle found near Fort Conger by the ill fated Greely expedition. Commander Peary preserved the uncracked bottle with a note dated Grinnell Land June 1899 and tied a walrus tendon around it with a letter inside. The bottle was shown at a Brooklyn Hamilton Club family gathering with Mrs Bridgman and Mrs Peary present.
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