Muscatine Socialists Name Candidates for Office
At a Muscatine county socialists meeting on Mulberry street last night a county and township slate was set and a platform adopted reaffirming international revolutionary socialism and opposition to private ownership of production tools. G J Peck named for representative. other county posts include Rabedeaux, Kramer, Kent, Othmer, Hopkins, and Kiesenwetter. township trustee J J LaGrille. The platform pledges socializing production and distribution and aims to unite workers under socialism for a cooperative commonwealth.
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Muscatine County
Mulberry Street
G. J. Peck
Martin Rabedeaux
Verdinand Kramer
J. G. Kent
A. G. Othmer
J. M. Hopkins
Albert Kiesenwetter
Muscatine Township
J. J. LaGrille
Socialist Party
Cooperative Commonwealth
Harvest laborers offered reduced one way tickets
Due to an expected bumper crop in Minnesota and the Dakotas, Iowa Central Railway sells special one way tickets at very low rates. Applications through local railway agents available daily with liberal return arrangements.
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Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa Central Railway
Burglary Attempt on Latham Street Home Sparks Alarm
Last evening at 8:30 Wm Selitzer 209 Latham street faced an attempted break in as an intruder struck the door panel with a knee and fled over a back fence after Mrs Selitzer’s alarm. Neighbors pursued but the man escaped. A gas lamp at Middle and Main exploded later causing a small fire. George Fitzgerald on Kemper avenue injured a finger while repairing a lumber raft at the South Muscatine Box Co. yard.
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Wm. Seltzer
Latham Street
South Muscatine
George Fitzgerald
Kemper Avenue
Oregon Street
Fitzgerald
South Muscatine Box Company
Reward for Catarrh Cure Promoted by CHENEY & CO
One hundred dollars is offered for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. The advertisement asserts the product works internally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Subscriptions claim endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and other Toledo druggists. Price five cents per bottle. Hall's Family Pills also recommended.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Taft Named Secretary of War to Succeed Root
Governor Taft of the Philippines is reported to have accepted and will become Secretary of War, succeeding Elihu Root. The announcement, from Oyster Bay, confirms the appointment and marks a transition in the Wilson administration era.
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Taft
WAR
Philippines
Oyster Bay
L. I
William H. Taft
The
Mr. Root
Newhouse Lectured For Neglect At Police Station
William Newhouse faced Deputy McElravy and Overseer Beach after neighbors complained he abused and neglected his wife and two year old child. The couple’s baby cried hungry, while Newhouse admitted drinking and leaving home. officers ordered him to work and care for the child, and his wife to quit her job and return home.
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Marshall James McElravy
William Newhouse
Newhouse
McElravy
Mr. Beach
Overseer Beach
Dysentery Cured Without the Aid of a Doctor
A Drummond Tennessee merchant, T. A. Pinner, reports using one bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to cure a severe dysentery without a doctor. The ad touts the medicine as best for bowel complaints for children and adults and notes it is pleasant to take and sold by all druggists.
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T. A. Pinner
Drummond, Tenn
Diamond Jo Packet Changes Burlington St Louis Route
Muscatine reports the Quincy will leave the St Louis St Paul trade and switch to the Burlington St Louis run on August 29, replaced by the Sidney. The Sidney, freshly overhauled, will make its first northbound trip from St Louis that day. Business across the Mississippi remains strong as steamboat trade thrives amid hopes for a deeper Keokuk to Gulf channel.
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Muscatine
Quincy
St. Louis- St. Paul
Mississippi
Burlington
St. Louis
Keokuk Gate City
Saint Paul
New Orleans
Keokuk
Gulf
Special Summer Excursion Rates to the West
The Iowa Central railway announces special summer excursion fares from Elrick Junction valid June 1 to September 30, 1903. Destinations include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Colorado at 24.25 dollars Glenwood Springs 36.25 Salt Lake City Ogden 37.25 and lower rates to Deadwood Lead City Hot Springs and Custer South Dakota.
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Iowa Central Railway
Elrick Junction
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Colo
Glenwood Springs
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Utah
Deadwood
Lead City
Hot Springs
Custer
S. D
Travel routes and agent contact for Iowa Central services
Vantages are offered in the way of diverse routes going and returning and stop overs. For folders rates etc call on any Iowa Central agent or address A B Cutts GPF and T. Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Iowa Central
A. B. Cutts
GPF
T. A
Minneapolis
Minn
Steamer Dubuque Reaches Muscatine Late
The steamer Dubuque arrived at Muscatine at eight o clock this morning an hour late. She carried a fair passenger list and a light freight amount.
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Dubuque
Muscatine
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Hershey State Bank
Pentzer Drug Store
East Second ST
Masselville
Wm. Selitzer
Latham
South End
A. J. Weisham
Strawbridge & Clothier
New York
McColm Dry Goods Company
RUM His Choice
Wm. Newhouse
Babe
Polic
Him
Homjon
W. R. Rice
Ort
Louis-Burlington
Sidney
Busi
Ness
Port
M. Benham
Oghae
L. Cohn
Wholesale and Retail Clothiers
Chas. C. Braunworth
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