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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
8
Leverich Normal & Training School opens September 4 for a 12 week term. The program promises rapid certificate attainment, practical business and arithmetic instruction, personal recitation by R W Leverich, and affordable tuition and board.
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and conducting business in Davenport Chicago Ottumwa and St Louis. Many travelers depart on Firefly Milwaukee El Paso Wilton and Diamond Jo liners with plans to return soon. Advertisements include ice cream brick and household goods for sale.
Sayre and Hunter announce at Bowman's stables in Muscatine Iowa on Friday August 17 and Saturday August 18 they will buy horses of all classes in marketable flesh and condition paying top market prices. They seek good horses with slight blemishes and can use small chunks and smooth fat drivers. Bring in your good horses and get their value. Dan Savre Robt Hunter.
Tickets go on sale August 28th and 29th for a Chicago to New York round trip with return validity through September 4th. For full details contact M. 8. Giles T. P. A. Chicago and W. J. Lynch Passenger Traffic Manager Chicago.
The Iowa Central Railway advertises abundant harvest labor across Minnesota and the Dakotas with daily tickets sold August 1–31, 1906. Wage rates from $1.75 to $3.00 per day including board. Contact agents or write A. B. Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota for full details.
The Bramdt family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during their bereavement and expresses heartfelt gratitude from Ernestine Bramdt and family.
The M. N. & S. roundhouse south of the city is active as engines undergo overhaul in the large machine shop. New boiler pipes and valves are installed, engines will be repainted, and the work will continue for months to prepare for winter service. Local notes list residents traveling, visiting, and reports on illnesses and recoveries.
The Muscatine slough area near Hershey's pasture attracts large crowds every evening with rowing parties forming and boats rented for leisure. Sunday attendance far exceeds weekday crowds as locals from South End and the upper end gather for picnics, supper, and fishing along the big creek.
A group of about twelve girls enjoyed a forest picnic west of Columbus Junction. The column also records multiple family visits, train journeys, and local movements including Burks's remains sent from Minneapolis, and various residents traveling to Muscatine and Davenport for visits and excursions.
In Rio de Janeiro on August 16 a Bahia fireworks factory exploded, killing 21 workers and injuring many others. Local authorities investigated the blast and the cause remained under study.
The piece notes a bumper red tomato harvest rivaling cabbages, with good weather driving large local shipments. Heinz pickle works consume much of the yield, aided by crops at Heinz farms and on the island, while residents and area families visit or relocate, including Miss Marguerite Will and others around Sherman street and Smalley avenue.
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