Summer Schedule of Street Car Services
Street car service operates in multiple routes with frequent departures from the company office and local stops. Timings start at 5 50 a m and run every 20 minutes to 11 00 p m for South Muscatine and 6 00 a m to 11 00 p m for Fair Grounds with later extensions to 11 10 p m and 10 50 p m respectively. Sunday's table begins at 8 00 p m with half hour steps to 10 00 p m and 10 15 p m from end of line.
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South Muscatine
Company
Agai
Park Place
Fair Grounds
Bailey the Jeweler nine Optician nine
A mixed items column notes Bailey the Jeweler and an optician trade mention along with various local notices and person movements including departures to Winona Missouri and Harper Iowa. It also lists plans for the Labor Day event and a cholera infantum death of Hazel Adams in Tipton.
Temperance Union plans Labor Day stand and outreach
The Muscatine temperance group held a busy meeting at the Y M C A with plans for a Labor Day ice cream and watermelon stand at the fair grounds. They discussed organizing campaigns in nearby towns and invited Miss Abbie Thomas, a noted whistler, though dates were tight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Grounds
Goshen Republicans to Convene for Delegates and Ticket Nomination
Goshen township Republicans meet at Barkalow's hall on Saturday August 25 at 7 30 for the selection of eight delegates to the county convention and to nominate a township ticket. Committeeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goshen Township
Barkalow’s Hall
Properties for Sale or Trade and Big Bargains
Real estate listings advertise a 260 acre stock and grain farm near Wellman with a large 10 room house, bank barn, sheds, water and furnace, plus other bargains in the same area. Additional offerings include a 203 acre Illinois stock farm, exchanges for farms, and hotels for sale or trade. Call for details on properties for sale or exchange.
Pledge Aims to Shape Youth Habits Across Churches
The pledge to influence young people as they grow is gaining traction. Forty signers joined at Musser ville M E church. The pledge is also presented in Pilgrim Congregational Sunday school and Friends' church in Musser ville and in West Bill Baptist church, with all meetings reporting good success.
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Musserville M. E
Pilgrim Congregational Sunday School
Friends’ Church
Musserville
West Bill Baptist Church
Heavy weights barred in Chicago boxing after ukase
Acting Mayor Walker issues a ruling banning heavyweights from Chicago ring contests. Boxers weighing as much as or more than Kid McCoy are barred, upsetting Chicago promoters plans for fall engagements. Mayor Harrison reportedly objects to heavyweights gaining city notoriety while permitting lighter fighters.
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Chicago
New York
Walker
McCoy
Harrison
Bob Fitzsimmons
Tom Sharkey
Joe Choynski
United States
Climate and Crop Service Reports Mixed State Weather
The past week was hot and wet with daily excess temperatures of 3 to 6 degrees and showery conditions across the state from the 12th to 17th. Showers brought squalls causing some windmill and building damage, windstorm injury to apple orchards, but overall moisture brings benefits such as good fall plowing, potential winter wheat rise, strong pasture and clover prospects, and corn yields above average pending a dry spell to finish maturation.
Bread dyspepsia and the natural digesting element
A claim that white bread causes digestive trouble due to starch digestion in the intestines. It says Nature provides a diastase in wheat that modern milling removes, linking this to various ailments. Grape-Nuts is presented as a predigested alternative formed from whole grains, claimed to restore health after ten to fourteen days.
West Liberty notes of funeral and local seaside notices
The funeral of Mrs. N F Watkins conducted at the M E church featured Rev J B Schreckenzhaft and Rev J E Cooley with a quartet of singers. Deceased Rachel Amanda Gregg Watkins 48 left a daughter Mrs Frank Pingree and three sisters. Bryan A Beacon reported Soldiers Home in Marshalltown busy and overfull. Henry Negus and daughter Mary visited from Iowa City for Union District Agricultural Society meeting. Will Nichols visited Cedar Rapids relatives and Will Warrin fainted from heat at the Hise house construction site.
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N. F. Watkins
M. E
Rp. m
J. B. Schreckenzhaft
J. E. Cooley
Lena Lane
Mabel Hogue
Arthur Mead
Bert Hogue
Woman’s Relief Corps
King’s Daughters
Fred Fisher
Theo. Jones
S. T. Mitchell
E. McIntosh
C. Aiken
E. G. H. Byers
Rachel Amanda Gregg
Iowa
West Liberty
Frank Pingree
Lizzie Odell
Ada Stearns
Atalissa
Lucy Watkins
Keota
Watkins
Bryan
Marshalltown
John
David Smith
Henry Negus
Union District Agricultural Society
Iowa City
Mary
George Heppenstall
North Clay Street
Will Nichols
Cedar Rapids
Rachael Nichols
Will Warrin
Hise House
Residents and visitors from local families share news
The text notes Mr Hoover is recovering at home on East Third Street and plans a ten day stay to wrap up business before moving to Kansas City with his wife and daughter Gladdes. Mr and Mrs Smith of Iowa City visited their father on North Elm Street, while Miss Mamie Holloway hosted her Sunday School class on the west school campus and Mr and Mrs John McCann visited in Springdale.
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Hopkinson
E. C. Ingraham
Liscomb
Alaska
Musserville Union
Manlove
Musserville Society
Friends’ Church
Musserville
East Third Street
John Hoover
Kansas City
Gladdes
Hoover
Robert Smith
Iowa City
North Elm Street
Mamie Holloway
West School
John McCann
Springdale
Sunday Wheel Gatherings Noted Around County Line Church
County Line residents Bert Lowe and Eldra Estle traveled to Sunday school on wheels but did not enter the church. Lelia Lowe suffered a hard fall near Sam Johnston's while turning a corner on her wheel. Eva Lee and Monica rode together Sunday evening with Mrs Charles Estle attending Columbus Junction church. Maud Foster had dinner with Lula Littrell. Ina Lupton visited her cousin Eva Lee. Sam Littrell's eldest child was very ill Saturday. Henry Weener hosted a gathering Sunday.
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Bert Lowe
Eldra Estle
Lelia Lowe
Sam. Johnston
Eva Lee
Monica
Charles Estle
Columbus Junction
Maud Foster
Lula Littrell
Ina Lupton
Sam Littrell
Henry Weener
Biennial Meeting Notice of 1st Iowa Infantry Veterans
The 1st Iowa Infantry Veteran Association invites members to a biennial gathering in Chicago during the National Encampment. Report Wednesday August 29 1900 from 2 to 5 PM in Room 406 County Building Chicago. Dues 50 cents for two years. treasury short. Signed Geo A Stone President J O Stewart Secretary Treasurer.
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1St Iowa Infantry Veteran Association
Chicago
Geo. A. Stone
Des Moines
Iowa
J. O. Stewart
Sec
Treas
Cedar Rapids
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills advertised as blood cure
An advertisement warns that mistreatment of the blood leads to disaster, touting Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood and cure pimples sores weak nerves and fatigue. Hood's Pills are promoted to relieve constipation at 25 cents.
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Hood
Exposition Express Luxurious Sleeping Cars
Leave Buffalo at 8:00 P M arriving via Lehigh Valley Railroad. Exposition Express features luxurious sleeping cars.
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Buffalo
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Exposition Express
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Street Car Company
C. F. Cable
East Second Street
Baker’s
Baker
C. B. Fuller
Wittich Bros
Parker
F. Giesenhaus
Daily Journal
McBride & Cope’s
Beecham
Beepple Button Co
Jones & Rice's
Charles Switzer
Winona
Missouri
J. L Grieser
Harper, Iowa
Dr. Lyon Med Co
Coldwater, Mich
H. H. Arnold
Washington
D. B. Morehouse
Davenport
Robert Thompson
Titus & Jackson
Marie Rankin
Wilton
Ellen King
John Webb
Nancy McCroskey
Tipton
Clara Smith
Tekla Eichoff
Rock Island
J. Lee Mahin
The
Mahin Advertising Co
Garden City
Florence Nevens
G. A. Simpson
Cocago
John W. Kaiser
Fred Giesler
East Seventh
R. S. Wheeler
Muscatine
Keokuk County
Miss Ester Batterson
Lawrence
Kansas
Miss Ester
Arkansas
Larned
Elmer Batterson
Labor
James Adams
T. B. Holcomb
Hazel
A. J. McColl
Wife
Temperance Union Aggressive
Devel
Business For the Society
Miss Thomas
Abbie Thomas
Lotus
Wapello
Long Tree
Nichols
Goshen Republicans
Ilinois
Live Town
Cedar County
Arnold & Weidlein
Sco
Climate and Crop Service
Weather Bureau
Death
Gray Heirs
May
N. J. RatLeoap
tiair-Health
Express
Loxponn Suprrig Co
Broadway
N. Y
College Fanfield
Dort
B. Fisch
C. B. Long & Son
E. P. Day’s
Second Street
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