World’s largest button factory rises in Muscatine
The McKee and Bliven Button Company opens a three story brick plant near Hershey avenue and Front street, costing about 150000, employing around four hundred, with 1000000? in equipment and new machinery. The firm expands to meet demand, with sanitary design and extensive internal departments for cutting finishing stock and storage.
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Muscatine
Mekee & Bliven
Io Kee
McKee & Bliven Button Company
Pearl City
Hershey Avenue
Front Street
Royal Pearl
Grandview Avenue
South Muscatine
Eppel and Schlosser Company Key Muscatine Firm
Eppel and Schlosser Company Inc successors to Corry and Vernentin at 417-419 East Second street. Frank Eppel 17 years in shop. Louis Schlosser 15 years. They handle plumbing steam and hot water heating, gas piping, sewers, and job estimates with prompt neat work.
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McKee & Bliven
J. R. Reuling
Mulberry Avenue
Charles Hagerman
W. E. Bliven
West Third Street
Joan Bartemeier
Eppel & Schlosser Co
Bell Phone
Mississippi Valley
Muscatine
Eppel & Schlosser Company, Inc
Corry & Vernentin Company
East Second Street
Frank Eppel
Louis Schlosser
Attorney Frank L. Bihlmeier Emerges in Muscatine Jurisprudence
One of Muscatine’s rising young attorneys, Frank L. Bihlmeier, operates a modern office above the Hershey State Bank. A Port Byron native, he studied at the University of Michigan and Stutsman & Stutsman in Burlington before being admitted in 1902. Since moving to Muscatine in 1905, he has built a strong general practice through diligence and a winning personality.
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Muscatine
Frank L. Bihlmeier
Hershey State Bank
Bihlmeier
Port Byron
Ill
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Burlington
Iowa
Stutsman & Stutsman
Board of Law Examiners
Des Moines
Bihlmeier Endorsed as First Class Lawyer in Muscatine
The passage attests strong faith in Mr. Bihlmeier from Muscatine residents. It describes him as conscientious and ready to assist clients, urging those needing legal services to call on him.
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Muscatine
Bihlmeier
Auctioneer Peto Cited For High Marks In Sales
E C Peto of 508 East Fifth street Muscatine Iowa praised as first class auctioneer who delivers. He cried a United States Express sale on September 28 in Muscatine and a follow up sale on October 12 in Oskaloosa where prices and speed set records, averaging a package every half minute. Call 64 Y on Bell for Capt Peto.
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F. C. Peto
East Fifth Street
Muscatine
Iowa
Peto
United States Express Company
Borgger
Oskaloosa
Muscatine City
Bell
Capt
Canada government revenue exceeds 100 million this year
Canada expects total revenue from all sources to exceed 100 million for the year. In the first seven months customs receipts fell by 6.5 million dollars, signaling a revenue gap.
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Canada
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M'Kee and
Eliven
Royal
Ing
Department of Muscatine
McKee & Bliven Button Factory
P. Stein, Furniture CO
O.d
Reikabie
West Second ST
Muscatine, IA
Maxwell
Maxwells
Jackson’s Garage
West 2Nd St
Muscatine, Iowa
Joseph E. Mills
Mills
Washington Arcade
Detroit, Mich
E. C. Peto
L. J. Horan
J. F. Devitt
Horan & Devitt
Attorneys-at-Law
Ratcliff Restaurant
Richard Houder
East Second ST
John T. Nester
Mulberry
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