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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
8
H Bb Horst attorney and counselor at law offers general practice with emphasis on probate commercial and corporation law. Notary public located on the second floor of 121 West Second Street provides prompt collections and abstracts of title.
Frank Bowman wins major local haulage job moving cement steel sand and crushed stone for the Hershey building at Sycamore and Third. He will unload 16 000 barrels of owl cement about 50 car loads and haul all steel and rock products, using his fleet of scenery trucks and a building elevator to cover and expedite the work. He promises thorough handling and completion of the project.
A letter endorsed by President A F Balch of the State Bank confirms Consul General S McFarland of this city will return to duties in St Gall Switzerland after a long hospital stay for a broken knee. He first fractured the leg last fall at Lost Island and again this spring in St Gall when he slipped on a hotel stair. The bones have not healed, but the second break is expected to heal properly in time.
Amid showers about noon three hundred visitors attended East Hill resort events including the Sweetland M E Sunday school outing and a large German Lutheran and Maccabee Ladies picnic. Despite rain, the day ended with dinners at the club house and departures around 6 pm.
The First M. E. church Sunday school entertainment committee finalizes plans for a student excursion on Tuesday August 20. The steamer Columbia is chartered to stop at Linwood and Davenport with a return to the dock after 7 PM. The trip offers about seven hours at the Linwood picnic grounds and Davenport option for all riders.
Chariton Iowa completed its final $35,000 contribution to the Waterloo Pella Southwestern railroad fund this week, ensuring the construction of the new line through the town.
Markets and grain activity reported by Miner & Co with Chicago Board of Trade affiliation. Oct prices show wheat at 50, corn at 66, oats at 44, car shipments today and estimated cars for tomorrow list wheat 286, corn 222, oats 399.
Market quotations for corn oats wheat and related commodities plus special prices for eggs butter and vegetables. Livestock section lists shippers prices for choice and rough market cattle sheep lambs veal calves and bulls with per head and per cwt figures.
Steamers Helen Blair and Columbia depart weekly on weekdays for Davenport and nearby points at 6 30 a m. Sunday sailings at 7 30 a m. Weekday service to Bur ie and adjacent routes at 8 30 p m. Arrive Burlington 9 15 a m next day. Freight and passenger service with rates via W G Block Co agents and Blair, Mar.
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