West Liberty names A P Lamborn city engineer
A P Lamborn of West Liberty arrived in the city Saturday as the new city engineer. The item notes neighborhood visits, church events, and local notices including a sermon at Court Square union services with Dr. C L Stafford and mentions of various residents traveling on the Firefly to Chicago Davenport and Keota for visits ahead of the upcoming week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Lamborn
West Liberty
Ralph Hix
Stewart
Miss Hix
Frank Kintzie
Soe First Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Stafford
Christ
James Elwood
Tipton
Iowa
Ben Tufts
Chicago
F. S. Pentzer
LeMoyne Porter
Baby’s seizures end after Miles’ Nervine claim
Mars J. Penner of 459 N. Meridian Ave Anderson Indiana states that after the first dose of Dr Miles Nervine his baby boy ceased epileptic spasms and never had another attack, asserting the remedy’s effectiveness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Nervine
Mars
J. Penner
Meridian Ave
Anderson, Ind
Mail Carriers to Meet in Des Moines
B Pitts Wood chair man of the executive committee of the Iowa Rural Mail Carriers Association announces a meeting of the Iowa Rural Mail Carriers Association at City Hall Des Moines on Wednesday August 27 at 10 90 o clock a m. Rural carriers and postmasters are invited to attend and become members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Pitts Wood
The
Iowa Rural Mail Carriers Association
Iowa
City Hall
Des Moines
Cane of elk horn dazzles in Canon City rumor
George O'Brien brought a rainbow hued cane to the Journal office. He said it was bought at Canon City’s convict institution a year ago Labor Day where the convict who made it also produced two others. O'Brien notes many handsome articles from the prison sale. The piece hints the cane industry may be growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George O'Brien
Journal
O'Brien
Canon City
Colorado
Enjoying His Liberty Mart Woods Released From Prison
Mart Woods, convicted dynamiter, who was sentenced to ten years for dynamiting the home of FE M Kessinger on May 11, 1893, was released from Ft Madison prison Saturday morning, returning home by steamer Helen Blair. The term was shortened by three years and nine months for good behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mart Woods
FE. M. Kessinger
Ft. Madison
Helen Blair
West Liberty Notes and Arrivals Amid Autumn Warmth
West Liberty Iowa reports ideal autumn weather following a pleasant spell. Mrs W L Gibson returns from Kansas City after visiting her sister Mrs L D Pensinger. Miss Marie Jacoby, recently in Minneapolis with Frank and family, stays with the Chase family and will teach at Sweetland starting September 1. Miss Alice Junkin leaves Muscatine after a two month visit with I B Childs and daughter. Mr and Mrs Clarence Barnhart and children of Oskaloosa extend a visit to local relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
W. L. Gibson
Kansas City
L. D. Pensinger
Marie Jacoby
Frank
Minneapolis
Chase
Fast Sixth Street
Sweetland
Alice Junkin
I. B. Childs
Muscatine
Clarence Barnhart
Oskaloosa
Local notes on visits and travels amid fair week events
Several weeks pass as residents depart for Des Moines and Minneapolis for the state fair and school duties. Families and friends gather on East Third and Fourth streets with updates on health, travel, and suiting out for the trip north. Aged Mrs. Given remains ill while Ruth Mead is quarantined with scarlet fever. WPRC meals at the fair yielded a profit of £135.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Ditmars
Bingham
Oklahoma
New Hampton
Mary
Ella
Clara Mead
F. C. Mead
East Fourth Street
Minneapolis
Frank Leamon
Iowa City
Geo. Kelsh
East Third Street
E. S. Evans
Des Moines
R. A. Griffith
Fast Sixth Street
J. A. Evans
Kate Davis
Little Boy
Omaha
Bodies may be sold in Davenport murder case
Davenport residents question fate of two Leonidas men killed July 10 on the packet Dubuque. Lawyer Edward Yates, representing a widow, asks Davenport police chief Henry Martens for burial details and the cemetery sexton’s name, hinting at possible valuables and an estate in Texas. The inquiry prompts a police review of whether the bodies were buried at Pine Hill Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Leonidases
Leonidas
Davenport Times
Henry Martens
Davenport Police Department
Edward Yates
Pittsfield
Pike County
Ilinois
Leonidas and Son
Ellsworth
Dubuque
Yates
Leonidas Or Taggert
Texas
Pine Hill Cemetery
Prices of grains fruits and livestock in local market
The list covers corn oats wheat rye and barley prices in markets and hay and potatoes with per bushel and per peck figures. It also lists live stock prices for hogs cattle calves sheep and lambs, and a wide array of fruits vegetables and essentials with unit prices for butter lard eggs sugar coffee and other staples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Graham
Rio
New York
Hocking
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Peosta
JAS. Beach & Sons, Mirs
Dubuque, Iowa
Daily Journal
W. E. Battey
West Second Street
GRADU
Ptician
Glover
Joooomn
J.C. Thomsen
Chestnut St
John A. Robbins
Mrs. Loomis
Bevier, Mo
J. B. Lee
West
Howard Warfield
Pentzer
East Second Street
Dr. Thomas
Margaret Jayne
First Baptist Church
Muscatine County
Kemble’s
Iowa Avenue
Burdock
Frank Benham
Buffalo
John Randolph
W. F. Foulke
New Orleans
Front Street
David Grant
Rock Island
Gladys Hudler
Eldon
Birdie Bradshaw
Ora Bradshaw
James McElravy
John C. Strause
Clara N. Bird
James E. Archer
Emma P. Schmuck
Grace Leyda
Wapello
Elsie Hubacher
Alice Lange
Fred Shafit
Colfax
Henry Butz
Elsie
Court Square
DR. Stafford
Ciates
C. L. Stafford
L. B. Hix
U. B. Church
A. F. Meyers
Baby
Joseph Reager
Maywood
Ini
Ethel Stancliffe
Dessa Huffman
Kewanee
Ill
William Loeb
Dean
C. W. Lenhart
Bowling Green
Charles Hutting
Peter Musser
St. Louis
WU. PB
Keota
Holy City
Hix
Hershey State Bank
Frank Warfield
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. W. Gleasuon
T.c. Hall
Remedy CO
Dr. Miles
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
Uneeda Biscuit
Colorado Penitentiary
Caesarelle Macarris
Clear Lake
Iowa Central Railway
Uczen
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