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Muscatine Journal in Muscatine, Iowa

23 Aug 1902

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Muscatine Journal

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Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 23, 1902

Page

9

Iowa town names traced to origins across the state

Historian Harold J. Mahin summarizes Prof. Henry Gannett’s Geological Survey bulletin listing about 10 000 place names and their proposed origins. The article highlights Davenport Rock Island Moline Ottumwa Muscatine and hundreds more Iowa towns explained by Indian, French, Spanish, and settler influences with notes on authors and contributors.

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Harold J. Mahin Washington, D. C Henry Gannett Geological Survey United States Geological Survey Department Warman Davenport Thayer County Neb Rock Island Moline Ottumwa Muscatine Iowa Ackley Hardin County J. W. Ackley Adair County John Adair Kentucky Adams Adel Dallas County Baccon Afton Union County Illinois Spain Appanoose County Audubon John James Audubon Badger Creek Baldwin Jackson County Judge Baldwin Beacon Mahaska County Lord Beaconsfield Bennett Lancaster County Chet Bennett Benton County Thomas Benton Missouri Berea Macedonia Bethel Palestine Blackhawk County Blairstown Warren County John I. Blair Blairs Gap Bonair Howard County Bonaparte van Buren County Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte. Bondurant, Polk County, For A. C. Bondurant Boone Capt. Boone Des Moines Coon Forks Bowen Jones County Mugh Bowen Bremer County Fredericka Bremer Buchanan County James Buchanan Buena Vista Burt Kossuth Union Pacific Railway Butler County Wm. O. Butler Cass County Lewis Cass Michigan Checagqua River Clarke County James C. Clarke Clay County Henry Clay, Jr Clayton County John M. Clayton Delaware Clinton DeWitt Clinton New York Coralville Johnson County Commodore Stephen Decatur Decorah Winnishiek Decorie Deep River Poweshiek Delaware County Lord de la Warr Virginia Denison Crawford County J. W. Denison Winnebago County Woodbury County Levi Woorbury New Hampshire Wright County Silas Wright Zwingle Ulrich Zwingle Gannett Dewey Hobson Schley McKinley Mississippi M. W. Davis State Histrical Society iCity
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Pearl buyer reaps rich harvest from Wisconsin pearls

Louis C. Bunde returns from western Wisconsin pearl fisheries with a quart of gems mostly perfect in color and form. He bought a $10,000 Mississippi river pearl near Prairie du Chien, plus three others totaling $6,500, amid $31,000 in pearls found by Prairie du Chien fishermen in four weeks. Most pearls came from the Mississippi bed. luck, not knowledge, governs the trade as many finds go to Bunde, who has invested a fortune in Wisconsin pearls over fifteen years.

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Milwaukee Wis Louis C. Bunde Mississippi River Prarie du Chien Bunde Prairie Au Chien Wisconsin Sugar River Europe
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Terror at the Beach Turns to Alarm as Ship Captain Arrives

Bathers cry Save us as sea monster fears spread along the shore. Hotel proprietors and reporters rush to the beach with cameras and pencils, only to learn the visitor is Mr. M Jeerpoint Porgan arriving in his cruiser and ordering bathers out of the ocean.

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Expert Milkman, Not Musician, Pumping Organ at Church

A judge notes the claim that an expert will pump the church organ. The exchange reveals the expert is a milkman, not a musician, shaping the understanding of his role.

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