Newfoundland Dog Trek Home After 1100 Mile Journey
Faithful Newfoundland named Frankie belonging to C W Franklin returns to No 151 Boone Street Des Moines after a 1100 mile trek from El Reno Oklahoma. The dog traveled on foot in wagons watchful for family and collapsed at the doorstep exhausted yet revived by restoratives. The Franklin family declines any price for the animal and resumes life at home with their loyal pet.
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el Reno
Mr. Franklin
Boone Street
Floyd
Frankie
Frank
C. W. Franklin
Oklahoma
Franklin
Melvin Franklin
Oklahoma Land
Muscatine
Kansas City
Newfoundland
Iowa
Land Lottery District
Happy Leverich school crowd sails aboard Juan on river trip
A lively party of twenty Leverich normal school youths led by Prof Leverich boarded the launch Juan despite threats of weather. They rode to Batchelor's park for a bounteous supper, then returned singing patriotic tunes. Attendees included Emma Hunter Mayme Othmer Jennie Burnside Lulu Ogilvie Louise Cross Neddess Huff Cora Fitzsimmons Pearle Van Tuyl Rose Neff Carrie Schellhorn Kittle Hess Tillie Neff Blanche Eliason Bertie Dodge Minnie Lane Floy Eliason Dottie Danz Edith Van Tuyl Lizzie Weise and R W Leverich.
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Batchelor’s Park
Emma Hunter
Mayme Othmer
Jennie Burnside
Lulu Ogilvie
Louise Cross
Neddess Huff
Cora Fitzsimmons
Pearle van Tuyl
Rose Neff
Carrie Schellhorn
Kittle Hess
Tillie Neff
Blanche Eliason
Birtie Dodge
Minnie Lane
Floy Eliason
Dottie Danz
Edith van Tuyl
Lizzie Weise
R. W. Leverich
Portrait of Electa Gifford Highlights Opera Demands
The New York World features Electa Gifford, an American soprano visiting Muscatine. It notes how singers master many roles rapidly, recalling eight Dutch language parts learned in eight weeks for a Royal Opera of Holland engagement. She plans to return to Europe in March after winter American engagements.
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New York
Royal Opera of Holland
Rivermen Hopeful as Logging Flows Resume on Chippewa
Logs are reportedly piling along the Chippewa river with many awaiting float to mills. Deck-hand shortages are easing, easing steamboat traffic worries as more boats resume operations. U S lighthouse boat Lily travels upriver to replenish keepers with aid from Paterson who sent $300 to sailors in need. Clinton Daily Herald notes Inspector Geo B Knapp’s Saratoga barge outing with family near Glen Haven aboard the Nentame.
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Clinton Daily Herald
Geo. B. Knapp
Saratoga
Knapp
Trusdell
Taylor Falls
Minn
Ike Cheetham
Glen Haven
Wis
Glenhaven
Nentame
Treasury denies million dollar Pole heir story
The Treasury Department states there is no truth in a published report that a young Pole named Dembitsky, alleged heir of Baron Ludwig Napoleon Dembitsky, holds a credit exceeding $2,000,000 in the U.S. treasury. The government notes it never accepts private deposits.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Dembitsky
Ludwig Napoleon Dembitsky
United States Treasury
Jarvis Bound Over After Stabbing at Elrick Junction
The preliminary trial of Jesse Jarvis, accused of stabbing George Seever, the Elrick Junction station agent, was held in Wapello Iowa Aug 10. Jarvis was bound over to the grand jury under a 400 dollar bond.
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Wapello
Jesse Jarvis
George Seever
Elrick Junction
Young Jarvis
Grace English Lutheran Church Services Announcement
Grace English Lutheran Church at the corner of Iowa Avenue and Sixth Street invites worshippers to a 10:30 a.m. morning service with a gospel sermon by Rev. J L Murphy on The Appropriate Use of God's House. Sunday school begins at 9:15 a.m. No evening service.
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Grace English Lutheran Church
Iowa Ave
Sixth Street
J.L. Murphy
Y M C A Plans Big Fall Program And Enrollments
Sunday evening August 18 union services at the courthouse square will be led by the Y M C A with Hon E M Warner delivering an address to young men and the association quartet providing music. Fall and winter work begins about September 15 with large gym enrollment expected as Hackett brings new training ideas. Fire shop meetings, short term study clubs, open houses, popular nights, and an exceptional entertainment course are planned. The Sunday Gospel service aims to draw men to the room and out of town pastors will contribute talks. Boys work will feature regular gym classes, social events, and Bible study led by the secretary, who hopes for a large senior Bible class enrollment with a rally late in September.
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Court House Square
Young Man’s Christian Association
E. M. Warner
Association
Hackett
Notice to Make Connections for District 19 paving
City of Muscatine Iowa orders Improvement District No 19 paving with brick. Property owners must connect to sewer water and gas mains within 15 days or the city will do the work and assess costs as a special tax plus penalties. City Engineer James J Ryan, August 3 1901.
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City of
Muscatinne
James J. Ryan
Muscatine
Iowa
First German M E Church Service Schedule
Corner of Fourth and Cedar streets hosts Sunday school at 9 a m prayer meeting at 10 a m sermon by Rev H Zimmerman presiding elder Burlington District followed by holy communion Love feast at 2 30 p m No evening service due to German Union services at Evangelical church on Sycamore street All invited A H F Hertzler pastor
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M. E
Fourth and
Cedar Streets
H. Zimmerman
Pressding
Burlington
Evangelical Church
Sycamore Street
A. H. F. Hertzler
First Congregational Church Weekly Schedule
No preaching service Sunday at church. Sunday school at 1 30 a m. Y P S C E at 7 45 p m. Weekly prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m.
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First Congregational Church
Skull Unearthed in Brick Yard by John Neibert
A skull of a woman, found about 30 feet down by John Neibert at Muscatine Pressed Brick on Woodlawn Avenue, is described as ancient. The owner has not decided its disposition but museums may bid. placing it in the Musser public library could be ideal. An expedition to locate additional bones is planned.
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John Neibert
Muscatine Pressed Brick Company
Woodlawn Avenue
New Musser Public Library
Nerbert
Grape-Nuts and Postum Cereal Claim Health Value
A Pullman car man touts Grape-Nuts as a coffee enhancer and suggests Postum Cereal Coffee as a morning alternative for coffee drinkers with digestion issues. He claims the combination aids digestion and helps rebuild the body, promising energy and vigor.
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