Mary Dougherty Dies After Short Illness in St Louis
Mrs. Mary Dougherty a Muscatine resident for nearly forty years died after four days of pneumonia in St Louis where she visited her son John J Dougherty. Funeral held at St Mary's Church Muscatine with pallbearers J F Devitt Adam Opel Andrew Healey Lawrence Curry. Interment in St Mary's cemetery.
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Muscatine
John P. Dougherty
Muscatine County
John J. Dougherty
J. F. Devitt
Dougherty
Adam Opel
Andrew Healey
Lawrence Curry
St. Mary's Cemetery
St. Matthias
Numerous residents visit Muscatine for commerce and social events
Foster Illinois visitors Thomas Watson J Anderson D Kleist travel to Muscatine for business. Illinois City John Schell Letts Duncan and others also conduct affairs. Townspeople attend church events attend O E S meeting and Christmas visits with relatives and friends in Davenport Rock Island and Ice.
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J. Duncan
Illinois City Road
Muscatine
Christmas Day Congregational Church Parties Draw Large Crowds
Over one hundred children and as many adults gathered at Green street Congregational mission for an 8 o clock Christmas program with a Santa Claus tree and present distribution. About 300 people filled the First Congregational church social rooms for music games and festive costumes. The parties lasted late and were deemed a great success.
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Congregational Church
Green Street Congregational Mission
First Congregational Church
Bond Hardware Co Removal Sale
Removal sale urged by Bond Hardware Co due to moving year ahead. Store leans into drastic price cuts on hardware chinaware glassware and cutlery with a bold prompt to buy now as the greatest bargain chance of the year.
Removal Sale Forces Stock Clearance
On account of moving at the start of the year the merchant must reduce a mammoth stock of hardware chinaware glassware and cutlery. Everything must go regardless of cost and the sale is described as the greatest bargain chance of the year. The sale is now on and customers are urged to come and pick items.
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Bond Hardware Co
Death of Eight Year Old From Membranous Croup
Early this morning at the home of her mother Mrs. John Spillman on Clinton street the eight year old daughter died after a several days illness with membranous croup. The child was buried this afternoon in Greenwood cemetery.
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John Spillman
Clinton Street
Greenwood Cemetery
Burnside Returns Home From Oskaloosa Visit
E. O. Burnside arrived home at noon aboard the Firefly from Oskaloosa where he had been with his mother Mrs. S. R. Burnside. She suffered paralysis but is somewhat improved and well known in Sweetland township. Local friends are glad her condition is improving.
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E. O. Burnside
Oskaloosa
S. R. Burnside
Sweetland Township
Christmas Program Delights West Hill Sunday School
Despite cold weather the West Hill Reformed church Sunday school presented a detailed Christmas program with hymns recitations readings choruses and a gifts distribution. Staff and students included May Klap Cornelius Van Tryfel Lena Klap and Johnny Van Gent among others with Rev. Garret Flikkema delivering the invocation and multiple class performances throughout the evening.
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the Reformed Church
May Klap
Cornelius van Tryfel
Janie Holksema
Lena Klap
Michael van Tryfel
Christ Child
Willie van Gent
Bethlehem
Harold
Amelia Sy Wassink
Jessie Brandsma
Jacobus van Tryfel
Tina Nicola
Babe
Albert Brandsma
Johannes van Tryfel
Berndina van Gent
Haying
Garret van Gent
Sophy Grandsma
Bertha Holgsema
Alice Wilkins
Stella Teisman
Wilmot
Johnny van Gent
Janie Klap
Bernice Sy Wassink
Jennie King
Jakie Haeckrema
Guiding Star
Obituary of Christian C Camehl Emigrants to Iowa Farm Life
Christian C Camehl born February 15 1828 in Lentzen Elbe Prussia died December 24 1903 at his home in Sweetland township at age 75 years 10 months 9 days. He arrived in New Orleans December 8 1848 with his parents then moved to Bloomington Muscatine and settled on a farm in Sweetland township where he lived over 50 years. A wagonmaker by trade he later farmed. He married Sophia Binz March 20 1859. she died June 1 1869. They had two children George C and Sophie S Milner wife of Chas Milner of Des Moines. He remarried after 1869.
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Christian C. Camehl
Lentzen
Elbe
Prussia
Germany
Sweetland Township
New Orleans
St. Louis
Bloomington
Muscatine
Sophia Binz
George C
Sophie S
Chas. H. Milner
Des Moines
Obituary of a Father and Husband with Church Faith
Margarette Hahn notes his March 20 1871 date of death and surviving family. Four children Louisa Anna John William Matilda and grandchildren gathered at his bedside as he remained conscious to the end. He was praised as a devoted husband and father with a life of good deeds and faith in his Savior until a peaceful passing.
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Margarette Hahn
Louisa A
Anna B
John K. Freeland
Wm. H
Matilda M
George Brownlee
Letting Him Down Easy
The chief announces the termination of an employee with a blunt duty ahead. The office boy reacts with relief, exclaiming he would have faced a firing. The scene captures workplace tension and a moment of reprieve.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Brother Defends Sister After Apple Squabble
A child replies to his mother with a vow to always take sister Ethel’s side after he took her half of the apple. The exchange reflects family discipline and sibling loyalty in a domestic scene from the era.
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Johnny
Little Ethel
A Moment of Talk With Father Sparks Risky Choice
A character contemplates confronting her partner’s father, arguing he can only eject her. The scene contrasts a risk to status with the sense of duty and a good suit’s fragile dignity.
Unfavorable Conditions For Study
Two students, Hazel and Dorothy, recount how talking overshadowed their study plans. The Chicago Post quote notes their distraction by conversation. A moral line urges reflection: remember you must die and do good while there is time.
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Hazel
Dorothy
Chicago Post
Quote on business focus from Brooklyn Eagle
The Brooklyn Eagle quotes a thinker urging focus on one’s own business by praising disciplined execution. The remark emphasizes channeling attention to core operations rather than concerns outside one’s control. It frames entrepreneurship as rigorous self management.
Real Comfort in a Well Furnished Secoral Floor Flat
A Buffalo Express note contrasts rustic hearths with urban living, praising a well furnished lower floor flat heated by steady fires as preferable shelter during a storm. The quatrain hints at comfort found in city dwellings over country scenes.
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Buffalo Express
Against Her Principles Judge Pokes Fun at Mrs Alimony
A courtroom quip sets the tone as a judge remarks Mrs Alimony contemplates another divorce and notes she resists allowing any husband to be permanently identified with her. The exchange hints at ongoing marital strains and social expectations around divorce.
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Leibbrand, Ryan & Co
East Second Street
Mrs
Mary Dougherty
Rive
St. Mary’s Church
Genia
John J. Dough
Erty
J. J. Grieser
J.l.mcolmis Hurt
J. L. McColm
The
McColm Dry Goods Com
Pany
Utes
East Fifth Street
McColm
Pjor
Salvation Army
Walnut
Third Streets
South Muscatine
H. D. Rice
Lyon County
Lanier Knapp
Cedar Falls
3CITY
Thomas Watson
Foster, Ill
J. Anderson
D. Kleist
John Schell
Illinois City
Mrs. J. Vannatta
Buffalo Prairie
Nuetzman
Wrayville
John Fry
Letts
Townsend's
J. Scott Blackwell
Cherry Street
John C. Miller
Fletcher Avenue
Davenport
Edward McColm
First Methodist Church
Libbie Adams
Bloomington, Ill
Mrs. M. O. Stanwood
East Second Streeet
Gertrude Tyler
Rock Island
Arthur Wagner
Burlington
Alfred Wagner
RE. O. Burnside
Woodlawn Ave
Henry Sawyer
Chicago
Amelia Schmidt
West Seventh Street
George Meier
Sycamore Street
Mary Lagora
Mary Accordia
Frank Hautsch, Jr
Walnut Street
Cedar Rapids
Grace Schwertsfeger
Oak Street
Hershey Memorial Hospital
S. B. McNutt
Samuel McNutt
West Eighth Street
Henry Elfers
Bert Hill
Cedar Street
Lone Tree
Mrs. F. Hill
M. C. Binwalter
E. C. Daily
Muscatine Western
Whittamore
Fred Nesper
Fern
Fairfield
McCampbell
Ben Black
Nichols
M. J. Welch
Helen Davidson
Beatrice Edminston
Bessie Letts
Electa Chapter No
Toben, Malone & Co
West Hill
Rev
Garret Flikkema
Seiler Bros. Book Store
Brooklyn Eagle
B. Schmidt Cut
Steet
Her
Toronto News
Washington Star
Creek
Slash
Slash—Dearest
Boston Globe
Michigan
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Mulberry
Lake and
Cedar Townships
J. W. Kerr
J. T. Kuechmann
E. Second St
Butz’s Fair
Cotter
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