Muscatine Council Adopts Water District Boundary Ordinance
Muscatine city council passes an ordinance fixing the water district limits to tax residents for water bonds and interest. The lengthy description defines boundaries from the Mississippi river to various streets and additions, creating a special tax area to fund the water works.
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Muscatine Council
City of
Musca
Muscatine
Iowa
Mississippi River
Hershey Avenue
Nyenhuis’ Addition
Said Addition
Lucas Street
Whicher’s Addition
Whicher Street
Broadway
Maiden Lane
Said Street
Roscoe Avenue
van Horne Street
Fuller Street
Eighth Street
Chestnut Street
Iowa Avenue
Fulham Avenue
Fulliam Avenue
Sycamore Street
9Th Street
Cedar Street
Bartlett’s
Fletcher & Deshler’s
Mulberry Street
Mulverry Street
Woodlawn Avenue
Oakland Addition
Hope Street
Oak Street
Eleventh Street
Cypress Street
Block No. 8
North Muscatine
Lombard Street
Fourth Street
Riverview Addition
Park Avenue
McNutt
Rural Carriers Plan Des Moines Convention August 26
Several hundred rural mail carriers will travel to Des Moines on Wednesday, August 26, to discuss wage increases and improve their work conditions. The gathering at the Goldstone hotel will address salary, routes, and mutual support with G P Clark leading the Iowa association as secretary.
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Des Moines
Association
Goldstone
East Fifth Street
Locust
Walnut
G. P. Clark
Uncle Sam
Rural Mail Carriers’ Association of Iowa
Iowa
Iowa Rural Mail Carriers’ Association
Goldstone House
John Armstrongs First Case Trial Ends In Exoneration
In a crowded Illinois courtroom a dramatic turn returns belief to John Armstrong. Dr McDuff, defending Day, testifies alibi placing the prisoner away from the bank robbery. A Chicago telegram reveals Shorty Murphy’s confession and his death, sealing the acquittal.
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Armstrong
McDuff
John
Day
John Armstrong
Shorty Murphy
Pals
Dr. McDuff
Donald McDuff
First National Bank
Chicago
St. Mary’s Hospital, Chicago
Shorty
Murph
River Kid
Murphy
Ilinois
Lloyd
River clamming declines as pearl beds shrink and fleet relocates
Clamming in front of the city is decreasing with the shell bed nearly exhausted. While a few workers earn decent wages, most of the large fleet recently moved upriver seeking richer fields. Pearl bearing shells include mucket and nigger heads among others. hatchet back shells yield no pearls.
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Mississippi River
Mississippi
Dubuque
Davenport
FEO Skreees
Reed's Landing
Storrs Aveeaies
Prairie du Chien
Des Moines Reds
Kk Seis
EWR Oc
Sailor Tells Of Sham Battle Off Maine Coast
Navy sailor John Wiegand from Muscatine returns home on vacation after participating in a sham sea battle near Portland Maine aboard the Prairie. He describes six days of maneuvers with White and Blue squadrons, fog, a surrender, and says he plans to report to the Columbia by September 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
John Wiegand
Prairie
Journal
Wiegand
Mulberry Street
New York City
Mr. Wiegand
U. S
Portland
Olympia
Pomeroy
the Bay
John Parkinson
Aledo
Frances Crawford
A. Shoppa
Keithsburg
Muscatine
Craine
Millersburg
S. S. Boruff
M. C. Boruff
Marietta
Miner Miller
Drury Fisher
Oscar Bogart
Sarah Boney
Watson
Wm. Epperly
Marietta Boruff
Mount Pleasant
Hiram Kerch
Manion
James Kerch
Marston
Muscatine youths recount European trip highlights
A group of Northwestern University students and other Muscatine travelers describe their European tour from Glasgow to Paris, London, and England. They recount encounters with a German colonel, visits to castles, cathedrals, and Stratford on Avon, with vivid notes on scenery and experiences aboard the ship and in ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Mark
Europe
Glasgow
Northwestern University
Scotland
Locke
Sterling
Edinburgh
Holyrood
Scott
Leith
Antwerp
Belgium
Germany
Brussels
Paris
Rhine
Hudson River
Cologne
Bonn
Bingham
St. Goas
Ehren Breitstein
Drachenfels
Mainz
France
America
London
River log supply fuels Mississippi mills for seasons to come
The rafting season ends soon and the river shows few familiar boats. Downstream mills receive ample logs for this year and northern supply remains modest but sufficient to keep Mississippi mills running for several seasons.
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Washington
Mississippi
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A. K Raf
City Recorder
Judson Kempton
River News
Ses
Gulf of Mexico
Government Weather Service
Wisconsin
Parker
Sham
NSULT
Sailor John Wiegand
Muscatine Bay
U. S. Navy
Muscatine Boys
Mark Re
Weisenturm
Bologne
Folkstron
England
Oxford
Stratford-on-Avon
Shakespeare
Anne Hathaway
New York
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