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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1905
Page
7
Reading and notices from Muscatine area including visits by Mrs. Luella Hill of Chicago and Mrs. Minnie Blake of South Muscatine. Miscellaneous ads for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and local services, theatre and church supper announcements, and travel notices for several residents.
Travel deal advertised for a round trip from St Paul to Iowa Central with a popular excursion on September 9th. Return tickets available September 12th. agents can provide details on availability and pricing.
Report notes Rock Island line enhancement with doubling and track work planned at South Muscatine. Authorities discuss construction timeline and potential service impact for local trains and freight movements.
The Rock Island system and partners will start a double track project from Muscatine to Sudbury in September, including a 3000 foot passing track and Sudbury interlocker to streamline switches. South Muscatine crews now at Davenport prepare fills, with completion planned before proceeding south.
Labor Day committee of the Muscatine Trades and Labor Assembly met at the Assembly hall to organize a large celebration on the first day of September. Three horse races are planned at the fair grounds, with a regatta under discussion with launch owners. An open fare of one and a third is arranged for travelers into Muscatine from nearby towns. Eben E. MacLeod of the Western Passenger Association confirms the open rate and hopes for a strong turnout.
A combined sale list from Jacob Fisch and Sons, Thompson Bros., and McQuesten and Sawyer Co. indicates a major for sale event featuring multiple items and consignors reaching regional buyers.
Religious meetings filled the week at the Dunkard church on Bridgman street led by three elders. After Sunday services, the three departed for Flora Indiana Des Moines and Illinois for future work. Locals report illnesses relocations repairs and a barbed wire accident on Lucas street with Emma Busch improving from neuralgia.
A playful editorial prompts readers with riddles about counts in everyday objects. It notes how questions about holes in shoes ribs in umbrella covers and worm counts reveal limits of knowledge and the expectations on a journalist to quantify and explain.
Excursion fares from Pomets to Muscatine offered with a maximum one way rate of $1.59. Tickets selling September 3 and 4 1905 good for return travel through September 5. Going tickets limited to sale dates and continuous passage in each direction. Eben E. MacLeod chairman.
Fearful carnage described daily with cuts and injuries urged to stop bleeding and heal wounds using Bucklen's Arnica Salve sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 25 cents.
Summer season notice announces one fare plus two dollars round trip tickets to select northern Minnesota and Dakota points with return by October 31. Limited low fares to St Paul and Minneapolis start after June 1. For details contact A. B. Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
The superintendent said the Muscatine plant will begin package department operations tomorrow starting with two and five pound packages. New machinery is installed and oats are on hand with over 100 car loads en route. The milling department started today and the plant aims to run indefinitely with package workers to be hired.
Engineer Gust Jacobson formerly on the Muscatine Western freight run has been promoted. He is reassigned as engineer on the Rock Island line between Cedar Falls and Waverly Iowa, moving from freight to passenger service.
A bull snake eight and a half feet long has been killed near West Union. It is estimated that this year s honey crop in Monona county will aggregate 100000 pounds.
Mansfield Massachusetts resident Helen S Williams reports 27 years of hay fever ending after using Hyomei. She says the germ killing inhalant provides immediate relief at home or office and praises the remedy as a lasting cure. The Hyomei kit costs one dollar with additional bottle fifty cents and a refund guarantee by J J Haverkamp.
A call for a Chickamauga National Park reunion September 18 to 20 1905 bringing veterans from 12 states including Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Missouri Kansas and Kentucky. The event promises the largest gathering yet with one cent per mile rail rate via Louisville and Nashville Battlefield Route and appeals to families to visit and learn battlefield markers and history from former generals and veterans. Representatives J H Milliken F D Bush J E Davenport and H C Bailey coordinate logistics.
Three thousand people attended the annual bean day celebration in Geneva on Tuesday though rain fell in the morning. Local organizers reported strong turnout and noted the weather did not dampen community interest or participation.
Committees from the Christian and Baptist churches of Storm Lake are negotiating with a view of merging the two religious bodies. The talks aim to unite congregations under a common structure and shared leadership.
A critical, ironic meditation on Japanese women at a party, contrasting perceived and real traits. The author asserts Japanese girls possess grace and modesty, noting fashion sense and restrained beauty while dismissing stereotypes of physique and elegance.
Women and Ping Tt search for pine to mend a torn dress aboard a car. Passengers assist, yielding sixteen pins with fourteen donated by men and two by women, highlighting the practical and social exchange during the moment aboard.
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