Local society notes and visits across Iowa and Illinois
Thiesen invites the ladies to inspect his line of toilet waters and powders. Mrs. Ida M. DeLisle visits Davenport area. Miss Lola Bear and Miss Helen Platt return from New Boston. Frank Hautsch travels to Davenport on business. Lesley D. Harker returns from Mineral Springs Wisconsin. Miss Mollie Murphy reports recovery from typhoid fever. German Baptist Sunday school picnic planned at Citizens Railway Park August 6. Miss Louie Geihaus expected from Colfax for visit. Mrs. D. O Leary and Mrs. Ella McBride return from Muscatine after visit. Rev. A A Pratt departs for Muscatine after visits in Atalissa area. Champion Hose Hook and Ladder holds monthly meeting at Davenport City Hall. no further business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louie Geihaus
Iowa City
Colfax
Iowa
Chas. Zelner
East Fifth Street
Champion Hose Hook and Ladder Company
Council
Local residents travel and a nighttime break-in reported
Miss Blanche Fox departs for Moline on the Firefly to visit friends. Mrs. James Sargent and two children leave for Athens Illinois to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Reaney head to Columbus Junction to visit relatives. Families of Titus Weaver plan a Colorado Springs trip. Townsend family travels from Muscatine to Imperial Nebraska. A Baptist excursion on the J S steamer is advertised for August 18 1908. A theft attempt and arrest on West Second street ends with a jail stay for a man from Montezuma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Fox
East Second Street
Moline
James Sargent
Athens
Illinois
West Second Street
Ziffron
First Ward
Montezuma
Chicago Markets Special Dispatch From Toher McKay
Market report from Chicago dated August 5 shows wheat corn oats and livestock prices and receipts. Wheat futures advance with Sept and Dec bids while corn and oats display mixed gains and losses. Hog and cattle receipts in Chicago push prices steady to lower with mixed animal classes. Liverpool notes slight gains in wheat and corn futures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Muscatine to Supply Northwest With Home Grown Melons
Sioux City reports Walker’s Island melon crop failed due to bugs and heavy rains. Muscatine will begin shipping melons mid month to meet Northwest demand as Walker’s Island and Grand Island decline. Local growers faced crop losses last year and three leading growers on Walker’s Island died recently, reducing production. Read The Journal. 10¢ per week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Sioux City
Walker's Island
Muscatine Island
State Agricultural Department
Walker’s Island
Grand Island
Nebraska
Samuel Wilson
James Pressy
Fred Miller
Mrs Greenman Hosts Big Birthday Party at Fruitland
Mrs. Wm. M. Greenman entertained about 30 friends at her Fruitland home for her twenty fifth birthday anniversary on a well lit lawn. Guests arrived around eight and stayed until midnight enjoying music by local performers and refreshments of ice cream and melons. The event drew visitors from miles around and featured Japanese lanterns, generous gifts, and well wishes for future celebrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. M. Greenman
Fruitland
L. L. Lane
Miss Blanck
Red Book Keeps Publishing Records With Summer Appeal
The Red Book continues to break records by issuing more editions monthly. It adapts to summer sales trends with outdoor reading appeal and vacation stories. The August issue features over a dozen fine stories, vivid color illustrations, a striking cover, and portrait art studies.
Interview with Jack London in The Reader August issue
The feature profiles Jack London with a portrait and biographical notes. The interview centers on his own words and ideas, including his early struggles after returning from the Klondike, noting advances and hardships and his resolve to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack London
Fannie K. Hamilton
Mr. London
Klondike
Fall from building injures Donald Rockefeller at Muscatine Island
Donald Rockefeller son of Mr and Mrs Frank Rockefeller living five miles south of Muscatine fell from a small building near the barn yesterday. He struck protruding nails and lacerated his thighs but the injuries are not serious and he is expected to recover in a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald
Frank Rockefeller
Muscatine Island
Muscatine
Work and income in writing echoed by Mr London
The narrator recalls magazines paying ten dollars per thousand words and regards writing as safe income. Mr London stresses four pillars of success: good health, work, a life philosophy, and sincerity, to reach greatness and stand among giants.
Roosevelt Nomination Seen as Nearly Certain in 1908
Leslie's Weekly reports that critics quarrel with Roosevelt over a printing office dispute but predict his renomination next year. State conventions have endorsed him, Virginia even backing 1908. All other plausible candidates step aside, Roosevelt to be nominated by acclamation and likely elected by an unprecedented margin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Public
Virginia
Leslie
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Schaefer
Schaefer’s Laundry
East 2Nd St
Reliance Loan Co
J. E. Kranz
Thiesen
Ida M. DeLisle
St. Louis
H. C. Madden
Iowa Avenue
Lola Bear
Helen Platt
New Boston
Frank Hautsch
Walnut Street
Davenport
Lesley D. Harker
Cutter
Mineral Springs
Wisconsin
Mollie Murphy
The
German Baptist Sunday School
Citizens’ Railway Park
R. P. Schmidt
Ethel Baker
D. O’leary
Ella McBride
A. A. Pratt
Presbyterian Church
Atalissa
Gray Home
W. R. Sawhill
Washington Journal
C. E. Crow
Osteopath
Muscatine, Iowa
Ih. F. Oat
Second Street
W. J. Reaney
Columbus Junction
Geo. M. Titus
A. J. Weaver
Colorado Springs
C. F. Townsend
T. W. Townsend
Imperial
Neb
Iowa City Republican
J. S
Rock Island
Hine Bros. and
Swan's
Thiesen’s
John Cosgrove
Tri-cities
Red River Valley
Canada
Missouri
Oklahoma
Lindle & Daut
Nora Wier
Lena Lightfoot
Tillman
John Schnier
Anna Murdink
William Murdink
Jacob Murdink
Henry Eckhart
Fargo, N. D
Berlin
J. Toher & Co
IF. McKay
Texas
Western
Liverpool
Northwest
Journal
Ccerman
Prutpland Party
Mrs. Greenman
Sporting Goods
M. C. Hayes & Co
Goes
Donald Rockefeller
Labor Unions
NcOuesten & Sawver
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