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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1903

Page

8

Wilton Fair and Races Promoted With Discounts

Local notice urges attendance at the Wilton fair and races on September 8 9 and 10 with reduced rates. Mrs BE H King traveled to St Paul on the steamer Dubuque this morning. A 20 percent discount is advertised on popular low cut shoes at Wilson Shoe Store. The Independent Club plans a Thursday meeting at Mrs Mollie Wiles home on East Seventh Street.

Great Wilton Fair BE. H. King St. Paul Dubuque Wilson Shoe Store Independent Club Mollie Wiles East Seventh Street P. H. Boyd Columbus Junction Ollie Dean

Madam Betts and Columbus Junction Fairs Advertised

Notices announce Madam Betts palmist in Chicago at 323 E Second St for a week starting Aug 24. Fair schedules list Wilton September 8–10 and Columbus Junction fairs September 1–4 with promotions. Travelers include W E Reuling in Davenport and Melvin Moyer visiting Muscatine. 20 percent discount on low cut shoes offered by Madam Betts and Mrs J T Martin.

Madam Betts Chicago E. Second Street

Fall Merchants Offer Bargains Across City

Local dealers promote fall stocks with 20 percent discounts on low cut shoes and a flood of new arrivals. Haddorff pianos, large crockery and dry goods ads highlight specials as Leibbrand Ry an Co and McCorm Dry Goods showcase fall lines.

Hirt & Fesler Muscatine Haddortt Dillaway Crockery Co West Leibbrand, Ryan & Co Chicago McCorm Dry Goods Company

Broad Street epicurean stop hawks Macon Coffee

A Yale professor visits a Broad Street restaurant with a broker friend. Their coffee discussion turns to markets as the broker recalls September wheat losses. The ad promotes Macon Cereal Coffee as a healthful, nerve-boosting drink.

Broad St Yale

Band Concert and Lawn Sociable at St. Matthias

Tonight at St Matthias a band concert and lawn sociable are planned with all arrangements complete for an enjoyable evening. Attendees are invited to join in the event and socialize on the lawn.

ST. Matthias

Not Over-Wise Allegory Warns of Natural and Domestic Risks

An old allegorical image shows a girl frightened by a grasshopper while stepping on a snake, paralleling a man who builds a cyclone cellar but neglects to provide Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for his family. The remedy is praised as the prompt treatment for bowel complaints and is sold by all druggists.

Chamberlain

Pension record reveals 1818申请 for Franklin County man

The document shows a man applied for a pension on June 2, 1818 while living in Franklin county Indiana. He was sixty six? fifty six at application and died May 30, 1852 at ninety one. Granddaughter recalls his Yorktown surrender tale and marching with bleeding feet. The Timothy Brown American Revolutionary society met and named Elm Grove cemetery burial officers. Officers include Judge A R Dewey president Mayor A N Alberson vice president A R Miller secretary and SS A White treacher. Railway Commissioner DP J Palmer A Wallace and M P Miller serve on the board.

Franklin County Ind Lord Cornwallis Yorktown Timothy Brown American Revolutionary Society Soldiers Circle Elm Grove Cemetery A. R. Dewey A. N. Alberson A. R. Miller SS. A. White Treacher DP. J. Palmer A. ¥. Wallace M P_ Miller

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A Haviland China Libbey Bradley & Hubbard Center Dillaway Crockery Store Piaso Ud St Reliance Loan Co Sore Es J. E. Kranz West Second Street Nellie Realing St Paul Abe Journal Building R. A. Holmes Wilton W. E. Reuling Davenport Great Columbus Junction Melvin Moyer Conesville Columbus Junction Fair Col Charles H. Bartlett Kansas City Wilson’s Shoe Store J. T. Martin Swan Bogard’s E. Second ST A. M. Persons H. C. Humphress Montpelier Valentine Geltz Peter Geltz Lucas Street Minnie van Gent Wm. D. van Gent Fifth and Chestnut Streets Chas. F. Gray Smalley Avenue C. A. Mitchell Letts John A. Seiler Winterset John Seiler West Eighth Street Mattie Guy Old Ladies’ Home Mulberry Street Dora Sturm Edwin Bauer Buffalo N. Y Samuel Beardsley Edgington San Francisco A. R Lodi California F. C. Demorest Albion Michigan Helen Fuhlman Rose Fayle Cora Martin Hannah Bersch Helen Springborn Lillie Springer Iva McCrosky Emma and Mollie Fuhrman Either Way T. H. Gottbrecht Jacob Bing Chas. Braunworth D. B. McKenzie D. C. Berntheisel J. H. Elfers Geo. Leffingwell D. L. Dulgas Fred Switzer L. L. Lane A. S. Lawrence A. W. Scott T. W. Cherry W. F. Chevalier L. E. Clark Ed. Zeidler E. H. King Chas. Schuer G. A. Riemeike F. O. Block C. B. Fisher Geo. Kranz Wm. Appel H. W. Zeidler M. O. Starwood The Order of Eastern Star Anson Leibbrand Ryan Weißbrand, Ryan & Co Fladdorfef Seiler Bros Umscheid & Seiler Rad Compan Bond Bond Hardware Co M. N. Bond, Mgr
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