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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
11
Sam and Tom flee a pursuing bear after Sam shoots and fatally wounds it at close range. They climb trees to escape. the bear loses ground, is killed at 100 yards. They return home with the bear and skin it, earning $40. Narrator Mat Houdek, 10 years old.
In July a west storm scared Mazie Anna and Isa Lockhart three sisters ages ten seven seven then Raymond the three year old asked what made it thunder. Mrs Lockhart comforted and soon all six shared a porch romp after the storm lapsing into laughter.
A woman meets a crying two or three year old girl in the street. The child says she is going downtown to find her papa whose only name is papa. The interchange highlights a parent's absence and a hopeful search.
A child cried for her papa and refused to go with a woman. A sister found the girl, revealing the father had recently died, and the child wandered out hoping to locate him. The scene comes from a Reformed Church record with a hopeful, poignant tone.
Keota reports a busy period with Rev. D. D. Proper to speak Sunday at the Baptist church. Delegates A. W. Hamill, A. F. Schreckengast, S. S. Wright, Jim White, and William Nelson returned from Des Moines after attending the republican convention. Several residents arrived or departed for visits, including Mrs. J. A. Y. Ashby, Master Gerald, Mrs. Nellie Eaton, Mrs. Joe Masters and children, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shurts, Mrs. Fountain, Mrs. James Glover, Mrs. Millie Palmer Cole and kin, and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Henderson who picked 110 quarts of blackberries in North English.
An account of the Parker Amusement Company's Leaping the Volcanic Gap thrill ride with a rider on a steel tower bicycle clearing a wide gap and racing along a road to ropes and pulleys. The piece also notes local social updates and visits around Keota including residents traveling to Colorado, Clinton and Muscatine.
Giants beat an unspecified opponent five to three in a high scoring game. Keota traveled to Washington Friday to play the local team. The final score was not available at the time of reporting.
Indian words such as Muskoka Kawartha Temagami and Bright Water describe delightful summer spots, with the Grand Trunk Railway system linking Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Descriptive literature and timetables can be mailed free to Geo. W. Vaux at 135 Adams St., Chicago.
Iowa Central offers round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Wisconsin the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and Canadian northwest with first and third Tuesdays to southern and eastern regions. One fare plus 2.00 with liberal limits and stopovers. For rates contact agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
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