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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
6
An appeal promotes a home remedy book claiming full symptom guidance for contagious blood poison with free physician correspondence and no cost. It touts S S S as a fifty year proven remedy from the Swift Specific Co Atlanta with promises of at home cures and ongoing medical support.
Levi Moss formerly of Sweetland now in Des Moines visits daughter Mrs Art Marsh. Harker cemetery association will meet in Sweetland Friday Aug 23 at 7 30 pm. Charley Hoag from Ames visits his parents. Adelene Klepper returns from Washington. Mr Fowler of Poweshick county visits daughter Mrs Les Allbee. Frank Van Camp to hold public sale Aug 29 before moving to Colorado for health. Mrs Gettert recovering with help from son Henry of Chicago and daughter Mrs Chag Lang of Story City. Mrs Miller returns to Missouri after visit with sister Mrs Sherfey.
Frank Benham canvassed for Fred Giesler of Muscatine selling corn binders. P Toole called here. Harry Boyler called on L Schwartz. Scott and McMichael expect to finish threshing this season. Fred Schwartz visited Nichols. Mrs Timberlake of Adams, and Louis Schwartz updating lumber yard. Reports say corn near Adams may be poor. some fields near Nichols may yield. Muscatine visitors gathered grapes in Cedar bottom. L G Coder and family visited Jno Idle near Letts. iindley Hoopes sought saloon signers. Walter and Elsie Raetz of Muscatine visit grandparents here. Mrs Rudolph Altekruse and sons pass through en route home from Iowa City.
The Muscatine city council convened at City Hall approving Fuller Bros low bid for paying work in improvement district No. 19. Aldermen discussed park policing requests, crosswalks, and new sidewalks, heard officer reports including weighmaster and arrests, and reviewed street and alley grading and walk repairs. The Lighting Committee reported on Peoria lamping systems and city autopsy of street lighting workings.
A visiting committee compared direct current open arc and alternating enclosed arc street lamps in Peoria and Averyville. They noted open arc lights provide stronger near illumination while alternating enclosed lamps offer steadier, eye-friendlier light though uncertain if the latest models were used. The study also described lamp hanging styles and praised Peoria officials for cooperation during the survey across Davenport, Moline, and Rock Island.
The text compares lamps and lights seen in Averyville with those in Peoria. It notes direct current open arc lights are similar and mentions market options seen by the committee as of now. The passage is a committee submission detailing observed lighting.
August 16 report from Tipton Iowa states John Collins aged fifteen on a farm three miles south of Tipton and a younger companion were hunting when Collins pointed a target rifle at himself and pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded and the bolt struck his forehead causing instant death.
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