Grand Opera House Attractions Loom Large This Season
Lieut Gordon Kean stars in We are King with rapid five second transitions, aided by six stagehands and ten costumes. Hello Bill at Grand Aug 22 draws packed houses. The Two Little Waifs comes Aug 24 with strong cast and scenic lighting. Ellery Royal Italian Band performs a sacred and two concert programs Aug 16-17 with matinee Aug 17. tickets from 25 to 75 cents.
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Gordon Kean
Mr. Walker Whiteside
Mr. Whiteside
the Grand
Messrs. Goodhue & Kellogg
Lincoln J. Carter
Grand Opera House
Muscatine
Channing Ellery
Verdi
Wagner
Opera
Eastern schools offer prizes for city history essays
A movement spreading from eastern schools proposes rewards for essays on each city's history written by students. Muscatine may adopt the plan next school year, urging use of town records and old settlers’ memories to reveal authentic local facts and legends for future generations.
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Pompeii
Muscatine
Doubt Cannot Exist Investigating Proof in Muscatine
A Muscatine endorsement row cites J. G. Brum of the B and M railroad praising Deans Kidney Pills. He describes back pain, relief after using two boxes, and urges readers to visit Havercamp's drug store for testimonials. Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo supplies the pills.
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Iowa City
J. G. Brum
B., C. R. & N. Railroad
Dean
Havercamp’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
United States
Real Estate Transfers in Muscatine County Today
Eva C. Rexroth transfers lot 1 block 21 in Wilco to Albert Winsell and Edna Winans sells south 20 ton with Henry Jayne and Ella Jayne also transferring 8 feet in west addition to Muscatine for 410 dollars and 200 dollars respectively.
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George M. Titus
Muscatine County
Eva C. Rexroth
Albert Winsell
Wilco
Edna Winans
Henry Jayne
Ella Jayne Feet
Muscatine
Mrs Henry Chadwick Dies On Platform At Water loo
Mrs Henry Chadwick of Marshall town collapsed and died on the platform at the Great Western depot in Water loo. The cause is given as heart disease.
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Henry Chadwick
Marshalltown
Great Western
Waterloo
School Will Open on September 8
A local school announces its opening date of September 8. The notice indicates the start of classes and invites attendance from families and staff.
Muscatine Sets New School Start After Labor Day
Muscatine voters learn the board moved opening to September 8 due to an unfinished steel ceiling in the high school. Aaron Angle was elected tru ant officer. floors in Jefferson building will be replaced. Governor's Day camps draw crowds with rail excursions and band concerts nightly. Camp site scouting continues as regimental units consider Muscatine.
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Muscatine
Jefferson
Aaron Angle
South Muscatine
R. B. Haff
Angle
Jefferson Building
Allegorical picture contrasts folly with care for family health
An allegorical scene shows a girl on a grasshopper treading a snake, contrasted with a man who spends on a cyclone cellar yet neglects to provide his family with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It claims the remedy is the prompt, reliable treatment for bowel complaints and is sold by all druggists.
J P Davis Dies Bonaparte Postmaster at 65
J P Davis longtime Bonaparte Iowa postmaster dies at home after years of dropsy. He had served as postmaster for twenty years and was active in politics. His body will be taken to Hamilton for interment after funeral arrangements are set. Spencer family left for Bonaparte to be with his bedridden parent.
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J. P. Davis
Bonaparte
L. H. Spencer
Spencer
Mr. Davis
Hamilton
Davis
Garfield
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Mothers
An elderly-era advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for female weakness and a tonic for exhausted mothers. It claims benefits for regularity, draining weakness, and recovery after childbirth, with a testimonial from Mrs Henderson of Milwaukee.
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Pierce
Local residents on Western trips and visits noted
Mrs A C Hanna of Chicago visits her mother Mrs Clara E Batterson on East Front street. Louis Tiecke and William Scholten return from Chicago after a week away. Several locals travel for business, visits, or family events aboard the Western with notes on crop reports and a correction about J G Gunzenhauser not undergoing surgery in Iowa City.
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A. C. Hanna
Chicago
Clara E. Batterson
East Front Street
A. C. Walker
Nichols
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Ellery Royal Italian Band
Ellery
Davenport
Hurst
Pilgrims
Lombardi
Sig
Patna
DeAngelis
Sig. Sodero
Messrs
Cipriani
Ricci
Donatelli
Rossi
Posa
Signori Paima
Lamonte
Curti
Pilgrims’ Chorus
Wagner Bombardino
Faure Sig
Mascagni
Deans
Wittich
Pearl City Panitorium Club
Second St
Joe T. Cosgrove
Prop
Stead
Ing
Day
Small Boy
F. W. Bishop
Harry Kern
Dr. Pierce
Opera House
Chamberlain, Kindt&co
Frank Hurst
the World's Greatest
Ellerys
Rivella
Willis Maxwell Goodhue
LOCAL
Louis Tiecke
William Scholten
C. E. Crow
East Second Street
Lone Tree
Minnie Milholm
Logan Street
Wellman
Nellie Mapes
Adams
Lee Messenger
W. A. Townsley
Brook Street
Paul
Logansport
Ind
Will M. Narvis
West Fourth Street
Council Bluffs
K. of P. Lodge
E. Ross
Iown Avenue
Bayfield
C. C. McCaslin
Goodland
Kansas
Daniel
George Williams
Chas. C. Lindner
Oskaloosa
A. L. Lindner
J. G. Gunzenhauser
East Ninth Street
Gunzenhauser
Bakers
Monaca
C. B. Fuller
Dr. A. M. Lingo
Second Street
Ofice
Lingo & Clapp
Millighaires
California
Oregon
Warn- Wenenan
I¢ehe
Spokant, Wasringson
Barber Asphalt
Des Moines
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