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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1900
Page
8
Daily Journal notes the benefits of using New Process Laundry for shirts and collars with careful finishing and no rough edges. It emphasizes satisfaction from spotless laundering and well-kept linen suitable for the fastidious wearer.
For Sale new six room house with half lot $1 000 and new five room house with full lot $800. Instalment plan available like rent at $8.00 per month until paid. When finished paid, property is yours. For further particulars see 7.
Numerous individuals depart for Lone Tree Iowa City West Liberty Cedar Rapids and Fairbury Nebraska aboard the Western and Wilton trains. Many visit relatives travel for holidays or business with notes on assigns like Jeunes & Rice Hershey’s and Sheetz Bargain Store.
A notice announces a Tuesday 8 30 PM gathering in Assembly Hill near the Post Office for all local barbers interested in forming a Barbers Union. Participants are urged to attend.
Morning arrivals and departures include Howard Bartlett from Davenport and Mrs M Arvy for Rochelle while Stella Sargent visits Ed Gobble. Meetings of Iowa Lodge No 2 and Y M C A events appear along with rail fares for the Saengerfest. Local gains include real Indians sighting, Brakeman Davis leaving the Firefly and a Des Moines fair preview.
The notice advertises a round trip fare of $1.50 to Cedar Rapids with the August Special train leaving Muscatine at 7 00 a m via BCR and N R R Everyone welcome The remark about men who do not go to church implies a local social quip attached to the notice
The annual Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias opens in Waterloo Iowa with delegates from across the state. Muscatine delegates J M Butler A C Strong Frank Gould and J W Eells depart tonight. Rathbone Sisters and Knights host events including a reception and a grand ball at Chautauqua Park.
Two Rock Island freight trains collided near the Moscow bridge east of West Liberty at 5 45 am. Engine 804 driven by Shepperd avoided worse by stopping after reversing his engine and four cars. Engine 833 under Kinsley could not stop, sending three stock cars into a ditch. No lives were lost and no traffic delay reported.
A runaway rig on Third Street injured Miss Kate Heussner, part of a party of nine. The wagon struck the horses, causing a sprint toward the Court House. Heussner fell, struck her head and shoulder, and lay unconscious. She was taken to a police station then home at 713 Locust Street. her condition remained critical.
Rev Zenas L Martin superintendent of Friends Mission in Cuba will give an address on Cuba and Its Needs tonight at eight o clock at the Friends church corner of Fifth and Sycamore streets. He recently returned from Cuba and understands conditions there. Everyone is invited to attend.
Riley Cooper from near Columbus Junction resisted Officer Zeug after arrest Saturday night. He toppled a stove, turned off gas, and defied officers before being handcuffed and jailed for 20 days on intoxication with a pending charge of resisting an officer.
All members of the Champion Hose Hook and Ladder Co. are asked to report to headquarters tonight or Tuesday evening to register their names for tickets for the Cedar Rapids trip on August 8. Per order Foremen.
A reflective quote contrasts grip size with enterprise and notes many pretend to fish while questioning how many fish remain. The remark suggests skepticism about effort versus outcome.
Real estate notice advertises farm bargains in this and neighboring counties. Titus and Jackson invite inquiries by call or letter for details and listings.
In the August Ladies' Home Journal Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady laments western missionary bishops face crushing burdens. He argues the church starves them of funds and adequate pastoral help while expecting heroic leadership, calling the role exhausting and heartbreaking and noting many bishops fight on until death.
The Burtington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway promotes summer travel to major destinations including Chicago for the National Encampment G A R and Detroit for the Knights of Pythias Biennial Conclave both Aug 27 to Sept 1. Booklets like Okoboji Outing are available. Jno G Farmer, A G P T A, Cedar Rapids IA. Nickel Plate connections at Buffalo and Brocton with no extra fare on trains Nos 4 and 6 to Chautauqua lake. Up to date drawing rooms and sleeping cars. Club mail service priced 25 cents to one dollar on dining cars. Contact J C Calahan, general agent, Chicago.
On July 9, 17, and August 1, 1900 the Town Central Ry offers round trip excursion tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden and parts of South Dakota and Wyoming at one fare two dollars with return valid until October 31 1900. Tickets available via ticket agents or Geo S Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa. Read the Daily Journal 10c a week.
The Nickel Plate Road promotes its daily No. 4 from Chicago at 2 30 pm as a preferred route to Niagara Falls St Lawrence River regions Thousand Islands Adirondacks Catskills and Canadian points plus Rochester Syracuse Rome Utica and Mohawk Valley. It also serves northern and eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey including Scranton Wilkes Barre and the coal region with Chautauqua destinations. In car dining menus range 35 cents to one dollar. Contact agents or General Agent J Y Calahan at 111 Adams Street Chicago for rates and reservations.
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