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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1905
Page
9
A small advertisement touts an accident policy offering four thousand to six thousand dollars for loss of a hand foot or eye caused by someone else carelessness while handling fireworks. It urges readers to buy coverage for a few cents.
Local items list residents and visitors. Edward Canfield starts business trip to Minneapolis. many arrivals and departures for visits and travel to Chicago, Fairfield, Denver, and Kansas City. G. M. Titus offers safe real estate mortgages. Hampe brothers plan a grand trip visiting Colorado gold mines and sights.
A lumber and log raft is expected today for the South Muscatine Lumber and Box company. The rafter Isaac Staples will oversee operations as the raft arrives from the north. The Roach and Musser Sash and Door Co plans extensive sanitary upgrades adding 12 closets and a large river-connected outlet system. Local residents Joe Lorber, Mrs. August Bierman, John Gauler, Mrs. Purcell, James Harris and family, W. W. Young, Joe Truit, and John Gurtenberg and family visited or were noted in South Muscatine yesterday attending events and errands.
Muscatine yesterday ran beyond normal as 3000 dinners were served in restaurants and hotels on Farmers Day. Crowds filled streets, alleys, and feed yards with 10 000 visitors estimated. Horses and buggies lined the routes while bakeries and eateries stayed packed from early morning to parade time.
Three underage Letts men Dalton Jacobs and Collins entered a major show and caused trouble at the entrance and in the management tent. They assaulted an elephant keeper and were restrained by about fifty employees before being escorted from the grounds.
Week ending August 29 1905 list shows remaining names in Men's Ladies and Foreign lists. Names include Andrew J Casper D E Dixon N D Mittleberg R F Murchison Nathaniel Petty Blaine Ramsey B L Ransey Ernest R Berghuson Geo D Ward Mrs J W Black Miss Louise Drugg Mrs Lulu Hahn Miss Matty Johnson and B Barenblat. Parties calling for letters should say Advertised. W D Burk P M.
An advertisement promotes Hyomei as a home climate change cure for hay fever. It claims heat, dust, and pollen as causes and asserts Hyomei soothes mucous membranes and kills germs. The outfit costs $1 with a 50 cent refills option and a money back guarantee from J. J. Havercamp.
A drunk boy provoked a fight at a traveling show. Dozens of show employees swarmed the line of youths, striking faces and bodies until officials halted the assault. One escapee fled toward the city while partners regrouped after the brutal melee.
Advertises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a remedy for pimples ulcers and sores with a guarantee of healing without a scar at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store for 25 cents.
The W G Block Co adds a superior stock of lime cement and fire brick to its offerings. The old reliable firm promises best quality at prices similar to inferior goods and has signed a one year advertising contract with the Journal to keep the trade informed. It is described as one of Iowa's oldest and most reliable firms.
Mrs. W. R. Chariton of Keota Ia died Monday at 1 PM after a period of illness. She and her husband and grandson Cloyce Hamilton had traveled to Western Kansas two months earlier seeking relief, but her condition worsened and she returned home. Funeral plans set for August 30 at 2:30 PM from the home with burial in Keota cemetery. The community offers condolences to Mr. Chariton and relatives. Hulda Taylor arrived Monday.
Notices from a Western Kansas community recount visits to the state fair in Des Moines, arrivals for Grandpa Hulse’s seventy fifth birthday, and family gatherings. The piece mentions Mrs. Charlton’s illness, Roy Warrington’s Des Moines trip, Omer Kearney leaving for Des Moines, and Ruth Giffen’s improving health.
The Iowa Central offers a single fare round trip excursion to Des Moines Iowa for the State Fair from August 24 to September 1 1995 returnable until September 2 1905. Ask agents for rates and train times.
On Tuesdays until December the Iowa Central Railway will sell home seekers round trip tickets to points in Iowa Minnesota South or North Dakota and the Canadian northwest at one fare plus two dollars. Tickets valid 21 days with stop overs allowed. For rates call agents or write A. B. Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
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