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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 26, 1902

Page

2

Muscatine City approves 1903 budget ordinance

The Muscatine City Council enacts a 1903 appropriation ordinance detailing funds for salaries, city hall upkeep, printing, health, police, fire, water works debt, street and sewer projects, bridges, libraries, and road districts. The city recorder will ledger each appropriation and warrants must not exceed specified amounts. Mayor R S McNutt and City Recorder Bert C Benham sign.

City of Muscatine Board of Health Water Works City Recorder

River Front Park Petition Moves Muscatine Council

A Muscatine council special session heard a large petition from business houses and citizens to create a river front park using a $10,000 government grant. W. L. Roach asked to keep last year’s water levy amid $14,000 of planned works. Aldermen approved multiple appropriations and referred street improvements and Maple Grove avenue repairs to committees.

W. L. Roach Board of Water Work Trustees Duffield Diercks Engel Riggs Spaethe Bartemeier Schenck Board of Water Works Trustees Messrs. Cohn and Fitzgerald Ald. Diercks Warren Street Bismarck Grandview Avenue Muscatine

City Council Proceedings August 25 1902

Official Proceedings from the council chamber note adjourned session at 7 30 p m with His Honor Mayor McNutt presiding and the council meeting in August 1902.

Council Chamber McNutt

Low Summer Excursion Rates to St Paul and Minneapolis

Iowa Central railway offers placer tickets to St Paul Minneapolis and Minnesota resorts at very low summer rates with return until October 31. Minnesota resorts promise superior health and recreation with fishing opportunities. Consult Iowa Central agents for details.

St Paul Minneapolis Iowa Central Railway Minnesota Iowa Central

Have You Traveled the Black Diamond Express

A promotional note invites travelers to ride the Black Diamond Express between Buffalo New York and Philadelphia praising its comforts and the scenery along the route and urging readers to experience the corridor on future eastbound trips.

Buffalo New York Philadelphia

Favorite Prescription Promises Strength For Women

An advertisement urges women to treat female weakness with Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription describing it as a safe regulator without alcohol opium or narcotics. It cites letters from users and notes a free Common Sense Medical Adviser offer with mailing cost covered by stamps to Dr R V Pierce Buffalo NY.

Rose Kilfether West Sharpnack St. Germantown Philadelphia Penna

Petition for river front park in Muscatine blocks 13 to 16

Alderman Engel presented a petition from residents asking the city to create a river front park in front of blocks 13 through 16 and to use the $10,000 government appropriation for river improvements toward this park. The petition was referred to the committee of the whole.

Ald. Engel River Front Ald. Diercks Muscatine Iowa

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