City and Wilton travel notes list residents on morning trains
Short notices record E. J. Garard W I Blanchard Mrs Starr C E Chase and others leaving by morning trains for Wilton Moscow and Wilton Wilton residents Carmody McCroskey and Miss Witter also depart for various visits A ad for A B C Family Tea a 25 cent remedy appears Nearby Alberta Tamisica plans a visit to West Liberty The Washington Star reports Capt M M Lewis named acting adjutant general of the First regiment Minute Men, former Muscatine resident and Washington correspondent for the Journal.
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Washington
D. C
M. M. Lewis
Minute Men
National Capital
For Sale Farms in Sweetland Township Near City
For sale a fine grain and stock farm of 170 acres in Sweetland township eight miles from city and two miles from railroad station priced at 50 dollars per acre. A dairy farm of 93 acres four miles from city at 62.50 dollars per acre. An 80 acre farm six miles from city at 40 dollars per acre.
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Sweetland Township
City
Electric Bitters Promised To Prevent Self Destruction
A health advert claims Electric Bitters can prevent suicide by treating despondency and a weak system. It touts the tonic as strengthening nerves and regulating stomach liver and kidneys with a 50 cent price and satisfaction guaranteed by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havercamp
Residents Attend Reunions and Travels for Encampment and Funeral
Several local residents depart for Council Bluffs to attend the K P encampment including H S Howe and Mr and Mrs W M Narvis. Others travel to Wilton for the funeral of Mrs Mary C Moffit. John H Kaiser returns home to Bear Lake near St Paul after business in the city. Ray Batterson leaves Armour Institute for summer break then plans a fall return. Local notices include a tea ad and a rescheduled G A R veterans supper if weather delays Tuesday event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Cope
Horace Husted
Wilton
Mr. Cope
Mary C. Moffit
John H. Kaiser
Bear Lake
St. Paul
Ray Batterson
Armour Institute
Clara Batterson
East Front Street
John Eversmeyer
North Mulberry Street
Minn
Hulda Kaiser
State Board Rules On Vaccination And School Access
The State Board of Health meets in Des Moines and approves a rule allowing unvaccinated children to attend school unless an infectious disease epidemic exists. Dr G O Morgridge backs annual vaccination for ages one to two and suggests the board secure vaccine points from a single source to ensure quality. A court held the board lacks power to bar unvaccinated students, but Morgridge seeks to prevent school closures by preventing epidemics through better vaccination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Health
Des Moines
G. O. Morgridge
Morgridge
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Offering Reward
An old time ad offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh cure case that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It lists J Cheney and Co of Toledo as makers and credits West & Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin as endorsers. Claims the remedy is taken internally and circulates through blood and mucous surfaces. testimonials free. price one dollar per bottle. Hall's Family Pills also sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Toledo, ©. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall
E. T. Sims
Brooklyn
N. Y
Future of the automobile in urban transport plans
Sylvester Stewart argues the automobile will reshape cities by replacing manure yards with clean streets, preferring light steel rails for local and feeder lines. He predicts autos will accompany rail networks, using common roads only where traffic density fails to justify rail, with higher charges on non steel roads.
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Engineering Magazine
Sylvester Stewart
Stewart
W. H. Stewart
Muscatine
Striking Indian Nomenclature Advertising Feature
Describes Indian word names like Muskoka Kawartha and Magnetewan as fitting labels for scenic summer spots in North America. Free descriptive literature and timetables offered by the Grand Trunk Railway Advertising Department in Chicago with postal requests to Geo. W. Vaux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskoka
Magnetewan
Kawartha
Grand Trunk Railway System
Adams 8
Chicago
Geo. W. Vaux
Unwelcome Advice in a London Tit-Bits fragment
A fortune teller tells a girlish reader that her husband will be poor unless she marries a maiden who urges thrift. The dialogue quips that the bride would dress more economically after marriage, prompting the question what happens unless.
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London
Letter praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
A Canadian reader reports five years of ovarian trouble and discharge improved within weeks by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with avoiding surgery and urges other women to try it, noting a $5000 forfeit for fraud if authenticity is not proven.
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Lydia FE. Pinkham
Neal
Lydia EK
Pinkham
Laura Eumons
Walkerville
German Methodist Church Notices and Service Times
The First German Methodist Episcopal Church at Fourth and Cedar lists A H F Hertzler as pastor. Sunday school begins at 9 am, regular preaching at 10 30 am, no evening service, congregation to join the German union meeting at the German Congregational church. All welcome.
Friends Church Services Plan Advertised
The notice lists Sunday services at Friends' Church corner of Sycamore and Fifth Streets with preaching at 10 a m the pastor J Fry. Sunday school at 11 15 a m union service at 6 30 p m Y P S C E prayer meeting at 7 45 p m and Thursday prayer meeting at 7 45 p m. You are invited to attend.
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Friends’ Church
Sycamore and
Fifth Sts
J. Fry
Musserville M. E. Church Services
Sunday school at 10 15 a m with M Stark as superintendent Class meeting at 11 15 a m led by J E Hoopes Preaching at 7 30 p m by Rev Lincoln Hughes of Durham la Epworth League devotional service Tuesday at 7 45 Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 45 A cordial welcome awaits the public W L Clapp pastor
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Musserville
M. E
Mm. M. Stark
United Brethren Church Evening Service Planned
Ill pastor causes morning sermon to be delivered by C. F. Nevins at 9 30 a m. Union services set for court square at 6 30 p m. Y P S C E meeting at 7 45 p m led by Rev L B Hix with special choir music. All welcome. W S Beatty pastor.
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United Brethren Church
C. F. Nevins
Court Square
Rev
L. B Hix
W. S. Beatty
German Union Services Scheduled for Sunday Evening
German Union services will be held at the German Congregational Church on Sunday, August 9, at 7 p m. All are cordially invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
German Congregational Church
Michigan Central Summer Tours Offer Family Friendly Trips
The ad promotes Michigan Central summer tours to Mackinac Island Niagara Falls Thousand Islands St. Lawrence Montreal and more. It invites families seeking a comfortable route with a red stamp and lists L. D. Heusner as General Western Passenger Agent based in Chicago.
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Michigan Central
Mackinac Island
Michigan
Detroit
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Thousand Islands
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Quebec
Saguenay
Adirondack
White Mountains
New York
Seashore
Boston
New England
L. D. Heusner
General Western
Adams St
Chicago
Interurban Route Favors Weed Park in Muscatine Debate
Muscatine council delay leaves Davenport and Suburban Railway uncertain about city entry route. Detroit Davenport investors toured Weed park and will decide in a week or ten days. In Davenport poles are being laid toward Muscatine and stockholders plan to haul twenty new cars from St. Louis.
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Davenport and Suburban Electric Railway Company
Council of
Muscatine
Weed Park
Lancaster, Murran and Lawrence
Detroit
Messrs
McGugin
Steffer and Priester
Davenport
J. M. Kemble
E. J. Dougherty
Davenport and Suburban Company
St. Louis
Willionaires
Ereat
California
Western Stats
Investors
Oregonington
Montana
Idaho
South Dakota
Columbia
Imrest
Vestria
Investors” Magazine
Spulrane
Washington
Washing and Baldness Cure Praised as Hair Germicide
An advertisement argues against using substances like Canthrarides and Vaseline to treat dandruff and baldness. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as the original scalp germicide that kills the parasitic germ feeding on hair roots. Sample requests and availability are noted through Detroit company and Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newbro
Heppicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Havercamp
Umscheid and Seiler Dissolve Partnership in Iowa
The firm Umscheid & Seiler dissolves by mutual consent with L. J. Umscheid retiring. E. E. Seiler continues the business and assumes all liabilities, with bills payable to Seiler. Muscatine, Iowa, August 1, 1903.
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Umscheid & Seiler
L. J. Umscheid
E. E. Seiler
Muscatine
Iowa
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University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
St. Edward's Hall
A. Morrissey
W. E. Battey
West Seconi Stras
Muscatine’s
West Second Street
Jasin A.robbins
Eiast National Bank Room
E. J. Garard
East Second Street
W. I. Blanchard
West Third Street
Mrs. Starr
C. E. Chase
Moscow
Wm. Carmody
East Eighth Street
Jule McCroskey
Ludlow
Nature
A.B. C
M Havercamp
Alberta Tamisica
East Sixth Street
West Liberty
Meduesten & Sawyer
Havercamp & Tyler, Olds’ Block
H. S. Howe
East Ninth Street
Council Bluffs
K. P
W. M. Narvis
West Fourth Street
Thomas Wilson
Thomas Keenan
Pittsburg
Mason City
R. J. Cherry
Havercamp’s
Independent Club
G. A. R. Circle
Citizens’ Railway Park
State Board
State Seerch of Health
Ayer
C. Ayer
German Union Services
Clly
Council
Inter
Try Pierson
G. A. Pierson
Richards
J.W. Richards & Son
C. E. Crow
Osteopath
Muscatine, Iowa
F.E. Winans
Commission
Chicago Board of Trade
Sherman St
Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store
Muscatine, Fa
Carthage College
Denbat Hall
Carthage, Il
Els
Varese Daily
C. B. Fuller
Missouri
Oklahoma
Lindle & Daut
F. Giesenhaus
Big Chief
A. M. Lingo
Second Street
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