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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
8
The Guarantee Loan Co offers loans on your own property including horses cows carriages pianos household goods and other personal property with goods kept in your possession. Business confidential and they stay open Wednesday and Saturday evenings from 7 to 9.
Muscatine items list numerous travelers. many go to Chicago and Davenport with carloads of stock or on business. Residents visit relatives, sample beverages, and announce license to wed for Charles Lemkau and Mable Hennig. Also mentions brick sale, Chautauqua engine agent, and Texas land prospects with public notices and fair shipments to Des Moines.
An advertisement claims osteopathic treatment can cure Bright's disease and all kidney troubles even after other systems pronounce them incurable. It says rheumatism sciatica and neuralgia also yield relief, with Dr Crow, osteopath, at Muscatine, charging $17.00.
South Muscatine reads that the melon crop will be about half the average due to vine damage from parasites and frost. Experts warn prices will rise as supply shrinks and farmers rush fruit to market while several large farms ship fruit out of town. Local notes list residents visiting, moving, or ill, with updates on families in the South End.
Thousands gathered as a crowd surged toward the incline where a girl rode a dangerous loop. Eyewitness accounts describe a chaotic scene with people pressed close to the moving equipment and safety concerns raised about crowd control.
Republican delegates from this county prepare for the second district congressional convention at Clinton next Wednesday. A full delegation will attend along with Dawson supporters hoping for his unanimous renomination. Train service is poor, forcing early travel via Davenport. Temporary chairman will be Charles Grill. Dawson is expected to be named by acclamation and start a campaign for a strong return to the house.
Dan Sayre and Robt. Hunter announce a buying event at Bowman's stables in Muscatine Iowa on Friday and Saturday August 17 and 18. They will purchase horses of all classes in marketable flesh and good condition and pay the highest market prices. They buy good horses with slight blemishes and can use small querns and drivers that are smooth and fat. Bring in your good horses and get their value.
Advertises recruitment for harvest work across Minnesota and the Dakotas. Low wages offered from $1.75 to $3.00 per day including board, with tickets sold daily August 1–31 1906. Rates available from agents or by addressing A. B. Cutts G. P. & T. A. Minneapolis Minnesota.
August Unkel’s butcher shop on Walnut street will close until noon tomorrow due to the funeral of Vincent Maurath, the father in law of Mr. Unkel.
W P Paugii, cashier of the Farmers Merchants Bank, is in Chicago for a week or ten days, with Wyatt Sprague helping at the bank. Local residents attend gatherings, visits, and travels including a Baptist grove meeting near Shellbark schoolhouse starting Aug 18. The National bank building is being brightened with interior paint and exterior paint.
Program lists a 2:00 p.m. concert by the Royal Italian Band with shows opening at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The lineup includes The Girl From Abilene, Leap the Volcanic Gap, and various attractions such as the animal circus, Creation, Electric Theater, Hale's Tours, Katzenjammer Kastle, Carry-Us-All, and Ferris Wheel, operating from 2:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Continuous entertainment.
Mason City Iowa August 15 Walter L Jones a young tailor of Mason City holds No 4844 in the Shoshone reservation drawing and will claim a quarter section of the newly opened land. Jones visited the drawing at Landon Wyoming two weeks ago.
Bids will be received by the P M Musser Public Library Board through noon on Tuesday August 21 for 60 or 75 tons of third-vein La Salle coal or coal of equal quality. Deliveries as trustees require. bids filed with secretary. Right to reject any or all bids reserved. W L Lane Secretary.
An old time advertisement claims Dr. King's New Life Pills keep the body well with a promise that the slightest bowel issue makes one ill. The copy runs through Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the selling venue and price of 25 cents.
Muscatine crowds packed the street for the New Parker Amusement Company show. The Girl From Abilene rode the Loop of Death as spectators pressed close near the track while the Royal Italian Band and Carriage acts drew full houses.
The Ferris wheel drew crowds as pleasant weather and a thriving town boost business. With quality attractions provided by a reliable company, this week could mark the peak period in Muscatine amusements history.
A brief note states an unusual car incident caused injuries but Pucklen's Arnica Salve quickly healed all wounds. The ad promotes the salve at Hav ercamp's Prescription Drug Store with a 25 cent price and a guarantee.
The Iowa Central will sell round trip excursion tickets every Tuesday to Minnesota Wisconsin the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian northwest and on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to the south southeast west and southwest. Rate one fare plus 2.00 with liberal limits and stop over privileges. For rates and details contact A. B. Cutts G. P. & T. A. Minneapolis Minn.
Glen Evans departed this morning aboard the Western bound for Kalona to visit relatives and friends for a short stay.
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