Mount Vernon visits and steamer arrivals dominate local news
Local resident Tom Fagan visits Mount Vernon while several passengers travel on the steamer Quincey and Helen Blair. Multiple Davenport trips and social visits unfold as residents depart for St Paul Des Moines and other western points, with a river stage report and lodge meetings noted.
Need More Lights Streets Are Dark After Nightfall
Residents of South Muscatine urge city council and lighting company to install street lamps on corners to improve safety after dark. They demand arc or gas lighting similar to up town, note petitions circulating in Musserville, and expect action soon. Also reports on Missionary society meeting, church floor completion, blackberrying trip, and relatives being entertained at the Smith home.
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South Muscatine
Fourth Ward
Musserville
Missionary Society
Friends’ Missionary Society
Will Snider
Indiana Street
Lenham Avenue
Social Roundup From Muscatine Street Scenes
A long column notes a family dinner party with Misses Osie Lake Rita Herrick Bertha Sherwood and others. It then covers residents visiting Davenport Burlington Iowa City and Moline, local train and steamer trips, plus Paudhet's band at City Railway park and a Baptist minister praising the park.
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Oregon Street
Osie Lake
Rita Herrick
Bertha Sherwood
Harry Boiler
Fred Boiler
Henry Hoke
T. B. Michel
South End
Burlington
Andrew Cracker, Jr
Philip Street
Moline
Barbara Roth
East Eighth Street
Ada Nagle
Oregon Steet
Diamond Jo St. Paul Delay Moons Boat to Water
The Diamond Joline is unlikely to be ready this year to launch the remodeled St. Paul in time for the river season. Workers are on the ways but far from finish due to missing parts and materials. With only a month of favorable business left, the St. Paul may miss sharing the line’s end of season traffic.
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St. Paul
Pleasant Afternoon at City Railway Park Concert
Several thousand people enjoyed a first class band concert yesterday at City Railway Park. The pleasant afternoon drew large crowds to the park for the outdoor event with music and social gathering.
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City Railway Park
Mrs Percival Hummel Dies at 72 in La Porte
Mrs Percival Hummel died at her home in La Porte at age 72. She had been married 55 years and is survived by her aged husband.
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Percival Hummel
la Porte
Des Moines Engineer Fairman Disappears Leaving Family Destitute
W. J. Fairman a stationary engineer from Des Moines has vanished leaving a wife and two children in desperate need as his whereabouts remain unknown.
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W. J. Fairman
Des Moines
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Schaefer’s Laundry
2Nd St
Reliance Loan Co
J. E. Kranz
Tom Fagan
Orange Street
Mount Vernon
Quincy
T. J. Fay
Quincey
Lizzie Thiesen
Durant
H. C. Thiesen
Albert St. Clair
East Third Street
Davenport
Helen Blair
Royal Neighbors Sunshine Club
Henry Dunker
Elm Street
Harold Purdon
West Seventh Street
Bayfield
Fd. Wild
Lute McBride
New Hampshire Street
Keotu
John C. Miller
Heinz
Nichols
Havercamp's
Geo. Volger
Lulu
Germany
Fred Miller
Fred Switzer
Louis Heberly
East Hill
Court of Honor
John Mahin
West Second Street
Knoxville
Geneva Little
Chicago
Margarette Nichols
Wilton
Shirley Johnson
Locust Street
Frank Neidig
Cherry Streets
Tamisiea
East Sixth Street
Elsie Jones
Hugh Selman
Alpha Wabnitz
Griff Johnson
Hilbert
E. E. Mull
Chestnut Street
Oskaloosa
Omaha
A. P. O. N. T. Lodge
Batterson P Building
East Second Street
Clarence Schmidt
East Seventh Street
West Liberty
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Pittsburg
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Pine and
Second Streets
Lillie Kell
Frank Hinkle
Kansas City
Muscatine Lodge No
W. M. Bowman
Coon Rapids
J. L. Klein
Iowa City
Treven Blair
Ellen Waltman
Columbus Junction
William Blasimner
Cedar Street
Mildred Ruffner
Little Brother
Mt. Pleasant
S. A. Wymer
Front
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West Branch
Harden
George N. Lane
Mary Anderson
Harry Anderson
Marengo
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D. B. Huffman
East Fifth Street
Grace Johnson
St. Joseph
Missouri
Pearl Davis
T. B. Prosser
East Fourth Street
G. A. Moore
Diamond Jo Line
C. C. Smith
Edna
West Sixth Street
Weavercamp
Lettie E. Anderson
Minersville
Pennsylvania
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Hoopesville
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Edward Eberling
John Faulhaber
Owen Smith
Goll
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M. C. Hayes & Co
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Butz’s Fair
Home Savings Bank
Paudhet
Muscatine
Judson Kempton
First Baptist Church
Mississippi
Chas. Whitmore
Boatman
Barnard's Model Laundry
Blanchard
Blanchard Packing CO
H. F. Barnard Co., Jewelers
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