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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
8
A local laundry operation completes a discreet, thorough cleaning job for a customer seeking privacy and dependable results. The firm emphasizes careful handling of fabrics and timely delivery, aiming for minimal disruption and high trust.
Reed notes of Monuments by Vanatta and Scheetz sales. Multiple travel entries, arrivals, departures, and illnesses including Miss Lillian Fry and Miss Cora Hunt. Local auctions and sales of croquet sets, dishware, and music at Hirt & Griffith's.
Flowers Weiling and Street Hats at Wilmering Co located at 23 East Second Street Muscatine Iowa with items listed for sale.
Household goods to be sold Friday April 25 at 2 pm rain or shine. Items include steel kitchen range folding bed dining chairs rockers divan large arm chairs bookcase lawn furniture swing coal stove and kitchen and laundry contents. Capt E C Peto auctioneer.
Senator Geo M Titus returns home this morning from Chicago on the 7 58 train after a business trip. James Wilson, long ill at Sixth street, suffered a paralysis stroke affecting his right side. Dr J W Weddell to lecture on East London at the Baptist church on Wednesday April 30 with special music and 25 cent admission. Thursday to Saturday sheet music sale at Hirt Griffiths offering four thousand copies for 25 cents or ten for $1.00.
Card thanks friends for kindness during illness and death of wife and mother. Special appreciation to the Woman's Aid Society of the German Lutheran church and everyone who provided flowers. Henry Schlutz and Family.
Special market dispatch shows hog receipts at 26 000 with steady to firm tone and price ranges from 6 40 to 7 16. Cattle receipts 15 000 and sheep 10 000 opened and closed steady. Wheat and corn car-lot figures listed for tomorrow with modest gains noted in Minneapolis and Duluth comparisons.
Week 19 figures show Liverpool grain gains wheat 1d to 5gd, corn up to 6d. clearances list Wheat and flour 228000 bushels, corn 28000, oats 18000. New York stock table lists Atchison, Mo Pac, St Paul, L and N, Un Pac, So Pac, So Ry, Copper, U S steel, Sugar, B R T, and Manhun with varied closing bids and highs.
A donation from P M Musser funds six elm trees planted on the south side of the library building. The trees, sourced from the bottoms across the river, will add shade and beauty to the grounds and improve the corner’s appearance.
The Muscatine city board of health orders private property owners to place all refuse in proper receptacles for street collection. Anyone dropping refuse from wagons or placing it in streets or alleys will be prosecuted under city ordinances and health board regulations. W. R. Rice, Marshal.
Residents are invited to a Saturday evening gathering at the Muscatine Island church on the 25th at eight o'clock to form a Muscatine Island Cemetery Association. The group will oversee future care of the island cemetery and all interested are urged to attend.
The Johnson family expresses sincere thanks to Shelby Norman Post G A R and the W R C and many friends and neighbors for kindness during the recent illness and death of their husband and father.
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