Local merchants offer 25 percent off on muslin underwear
A stream of local shoppers and travelers frequent the Firefly and Helen Blair trains as Toben Malone Co and other merchants advertise mass discounts. Various residents travel to Davenport Fruitland Clinton and Chicago while Toben Malone Co promotes 25 and 50 percent sales on skirts silks and ready to wear items. The ad style highlights prices available at Toben Malone and Co and Roach Musser Sash and Door Co with multiple passenger notes between towns.
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Toben, Malone & Co
Picnic crowds boost Weed's Park after chautauqua lull
East Hill residents report evenings filled with picnics and social gatherings at Weed's Park as crowds return to normal levels after the chautauqua. Fred Johnson was badly bruised when kicked by a horse while hitching it behind a Grant street home. he will recover in days.
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Weed's Park
Maennerchor
Fred Johnson
Grant Street
Klebe
East Hill
Harry Kautse
Fairport
Chicago
Etta Wiese
West Liberty
Columbus Junction Chautauqua Week Ends With Praise
The 1906 Columbus Chautauqua closes after a well attended final day with choral recitals, Weslayan performances, and Chaplain McCabe’s lecture on the Libby Prison. The event, praised for management and programs, saw many attendees and some purchase of lots for the 1907 meeting.
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Columbus Junction
Cc. C. McCabe
G. A. R. Day
Libby Prison
Misses Inn
Mabel Duncan
Mt. Pleasant
Bishop McCabe
Columbus
W. H. Hale
California
Mrs Pinkham Helps Women with Confidential Advice
Thousands write to Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts and receive free confidential guidance for female ills. A Manning Iowa woman credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring health after two years of ineffective treatment.
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Mrs Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Pinkham
Chautauqua Guests and Local Visits Across County
Residents and visitors move through the area with Chautauqua events drawing relatives and friends. Mrs. Hale’s family travels to Hampton to stay with Hal Hale. Bishop McCabe rode Train No. 3 after speaking at the Chautauqua. Many locals return home or visit kin in Washington Burlington Elmore Morning Sun and Winfield.
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G. D. Harrison
Hampton
Hal Hale
W. H. Hughes
Washington
R. L. Hughes
S. G. Robertson
Morning Sun
Robertson
Bishop McCabe
Bessie Holida
Gale
Goldie Crow
Cotter
Editor Brown
Letts
Alma Shearer
R. F. Duncan
Burlington
O. G. Orentz
Packwood
Chautauqua
Ella McSweeney
Edgar McWilliams
J. J. Jones
Elmore Minn
Ann McCoy
Columbus City
R. R. Hunt
Oakville
Will J. Reaney
Muscatine
Bishop Denies Involvement In Endless Chain Prayer
Boston August 10. Right Rev William Lawrence of Massachusetts denounces the so called endless chain of prayer. He says he has no connection with it and knows nothing about it. He describes the letters as vexatious and the whole matter as the work of a demented or mischievous person.
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Boston
Mass
Wm. Lawrence
Massachusetts
One Cent a Mile for G A R Encampment Travel
The Town Central offers tickets at one cent a mile to Minneapolis or St Paul and return for the National Encampment of the G A R on Aug 13 to 18. Return limit Aug 31 with extension to Sept 30 on 50 cent fee. For details contact agents or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Town Central
St. Paul
A. B. Cutts
Grand Army of the Republic
Church News aims to publicize Epworth League publication
The Epworth League launches a new monthly paper titled Church News to publicize church activities in the city. It will feature church photos, a forthcoming pastor portrait, poems, a church directory, and notices of sickness, marriages, and new members. Subscriptions are free, or 25 cents per year by mail.
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Church News
M. E. Church
Epworth League
Church
League
Bro. Potter
Joe R. Hanley
Mae Villa Patten
Roosevelt hears oil pleas from Standard Oil
In Oyster Bay on August 10 President Roosevelt received Standard Oil representatives James K. Jones and Barnesdale about a dispute with the interior department over oil line leases in Indian Territory. They did not discuss the visit.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Standard Oil Company
Department of the Interior
Indian Territory
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Barnesdale
Pittsburg
Sagamore Hill
Green's Japs to visit for weekend baseball clash
The Muscatine Independents prepare for a two game series with Green's Japs starting Sunday and ending Monday. Tony Foster, an Illinois shortstop, has signed to join the local club and arrives tonight. Sunday's contest starts at 3 30, Monday at 3 45.
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Green
Hayes
Tony Foster
Illinois
Muscatine Independents
Man and Woman End Lives in Macomb Double Suicide
Edward L. Delaney and Amanda Erwin McDonough agreed to die together after deciding life had grown dark. Delaney shot McDonough and then himself late last night. both died later in the hospital.
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Macomb
Ill
Edward L. Delaney
Amanda Erwin McDonough
Delany
Thousands of Men Wanted to Harvest Crops in Minnesota and Dakotas
Thousands of laborers are recruited for harvest duties across Minnesota and the Dakotas. Low rates apply from all points on the Iowa Central Railway. Tickets on sale daily August 1–31, 1906. Wages quoted from $1.75 to $3.00 per day including board. For rates contact agents or write A B Curtis G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa Central Railway
A. B. Cutis
Minneapolis
Minn
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