City approves 1910 budget with new fund allocations
Muscatine city council passed the 1910 appropriation ordinance detailing salaries, grounds and buildings, health, police, streets, sewers and utilities. The tax fund from over $20,000 will be distributed into the general and special funds, with accounts opened for each appropriation and warrants charged accordingly.
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City of Muscatine
Board of Health
Sim
Fire Department
Cpm
Doc
iPor
City Recorder
Wm. Grossklaus
Mi-Oena stomach remedy promises quick cure
An advertisement touts Mi-Oena as a guaranteed cure for stomach indigestion and related ailments. It claims relief within minutes, states money back if not satisfied, and lists Havercamp’s Drug Store in Buffalo and a testimonial from Mrs. Mary Hutchinson.
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Dorior
Havercamp
Booth
Mmi-O
Buffalo
N.Y
Mary Hutchinson
AQS
Pearl Street
Ypsilanti, Mich
Wellman Daily Notes and Neighbor News
Wellsman notes report Dee Wellman 17 with Joseph Chalupa planning a near future sale and move to town. Revival meetings continue at MM B church. Mrs Joy returns home from Newton after a pleasant visit with C B Hamilton. Mrs Henry Strickler and granddaughter travel to Oklahoma to visit daughter. Florence Kirkendal of University spent Saturday at home. W H M S earned 26 from apron sale. Dr W Miller returns from Los Angeles after tending his father’s farms. Mrs Joseph Fisher of Pierre visits Schomberg family.
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Wellman
Dee
Joseph Chalupa
Everette Curl
KL. Kirkpatrick
J. A
C. B. Hamilton
R. H. Garr
Florence Kirkendal
HE. H. Hucke
W. ©. Miller
Los Angeles
Cal
Henry Strickler
Oklahoma
Strickler
Frank Shrader
Joseph Fisher
Pierre, S. D
Schom[berg
Primer on Explosives Issued to Reduce Mine Fatalities
The United States Geological Survey released a plain language primer on explosives for miners and others to reduce deaths in coal mines. It warns against black powder in gas or dust mines and promotes safer, tested explosives from the Mime Accidents station in Pittsburgh.
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Washington, D. C
United States Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
Mime
Pittsburg
Mr. Smith
Railway Bureau
Charles TW. Munroe
Axnerf
Clarence Hall
Technolasio
United States Geological Sure Vey
Cascarrets advertise bowel and liver relief by nature's work
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for constipation and liver trouble, claiming millions use the product. It promotes Life Bank Cascarets as a weekly treatment and notes the product is sold by druggists, calling Cascarets the biggest seller with millions of boxes sold monthly.
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Life
Cascarets
Jalse World
Oak Grove Briefs and Winter Adventures
Oak Grove Ta December 17 Mrs William Fishburn shows improvement from illness. George Shields and family visited Wash McGrear in town. Sleighing has been excellent with sleighbells jingling. County farm completed winter butchering earlier in the week. Spangler Chapel Sunday school plans a Xmas tree and program on Christmas Eve. Ed Fishburn left Saturday night for a western trip. Robt Toyne and family spent Sunday with Robt Shields.
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Oak Grove
William Fishburn
George Shields
Wash. McGrear’s
Spangler Chapel
Kmas
Fishburn
West
Robt. Toyne
Robt
Shields
Bethlehem Star Halley’s Comet theory gains steam
Waldermar Kaempffert argues in Cosmo politan that the star of Bethlehem may have been Halley’s Comet seen at the era’s end. The piece notes ancient expectations of comets as omens and outlines Halley’s periodic return, with details on comet structure and historical fear and awe across civilizations.
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Bethlehem
Halley
Waldermar Kaempffert
Coscopolitan Magazine
Bethicheny
R. A. Proctor
Edmund Halley
Constantinople
Christendom
Orient
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Ons Funds
Gustav Weis
Oures
W. 2Nd St
Muscatine, Iowa
Santa Claus
Butz’s Fair
Muscatine
Wellsman
Prgomavt Department
The
Cosmopolitan
Star
Danort
Dlv.cy
Star Clothing CO
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