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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1905
Page
5
A partial clipping reports a four foot fall at South Muscatine with crews set to perform repair work. Details on cause, property impact, and timeline remain unclear from the readable text. Local authorities coordinate the response with safety measures as repairs proceed.
Nearly 100 people attended the Roach and Musser Hose Company picnic at Milumans pasture amid rain and a strong breeze. The river’s four foot rise delays trenching for the new Muscatine Island pumping station but two more blocks of pipeline remain with work set to resume.
A Kansas City businessman W H Hoffstot of Universal Pump writes Mayor McNutt of Muscatine Iowa seeking Muscatine Island cantalopes for Kansas City sales after a Rock Island dining car meal highlighted their taste. He offers to buy and urges local growers to arrange supply and distribution.
The Apollo quartet, famed over the Temple and Shubert groups, sang three sacred numbers in fine voice under Rev. Holland. They headlined Beautiful Bagdad at New Parker Amusement during carnival week, after which workers hinted they might perform at the church.
Report from Columbus Junction Iowa details multiple livestock deaths after Rock Island trains. J Roll Johnston loses three cattle near Old Clifton, Edgar Rabernold's two year old colt is struck, and R F Duncan reports four head killed in pasture. Nearby rain boosts late crops and several residents travel on No 3. A cattle sale afterward draws buyers, with 138 head sold at the stock yards.
Iowa pension figures show $7,870,444.46 paid to veterans or widows and orphans and army nurses for the year ending June 30. Iowa recipients totaled $5,173,187.47 with Nebraska at $2,021,300.40, and other states $675,964.59. The Iowa office reports 54,710 pensioners under R. P. Clarkson, a net gain of 37. The nation has 18 pension agencies, and Iowa ranks sixth in payments.
Muscatine market notes show retail and dealer prices for wheat oats corn and barley, eggs butter and meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts and fuels. Local live market results and flower market prices are included, with representative Chicago sales figures for hogs and other meats.
A local meeting features a contrasting exchange where one speaker calls another mean while a woman defends him as the dearest, sweetest old thing that ever happened. The note ends with a prompt to telephone Blanchard Packing Co for meals.
A week of uneven gains in cattle with Choice up 10 to 15 cents, medium and light classes steady, cows down 25 to 30 cents, feeders steady, calves dropping, hogs unevenly higher, and sheep up 10 to 25 cents. Lambe trade weak since Thursday despite feeding lambs 31.25 higher than a year ago.
The Halter property on Chestnut street will be sold at public auction at the court house door on Tuesday morning August 15 at 11 o clock in the forenoon. B Schmidt Administrator.
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