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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1909
Page
17
Local notices list Delicate home made candies at Slaugander's and various residents from Nichols to Wilton visiting friends or returning home. People travel for short visits, shop, and attend concerts while mortgage loans promotion and Musical Union Orchestra tickets appear among ads.
City council, city attorney report details refund petitions and wire removals. Grade changes proposed for Parham Street and a temporary sidewalk ordered in front of J. M. Smith property. Finance committee approves numerous bills and warrants. Cemetery and remonstrance items discussed with bids for Rescue hose house painting.
A fragmented payroll ledger itemizes payments including Detective Pub Co 2.09, Eppel-Schlosser Co 2.25, Barnard Co 1.90, Chaudoin El Sup Co 7.40, and doctor B. Eversmeyer 2.00. It shows city payroll totals around 315.00 for city pay, 366.33 for engineers, and 600.09 for eight aldermen, with various minor line items and local newspaper Muscatine Herald charges.
An advertising note claims Lane's Family Medicine tea preserves beauty and restores roses to faded cheeks. Sold at druggists and dealers for 25 cents.
A fragmented OCR list shows names such as McQuesten Sawyer Co. John Beare Keuffel Esser Co. Chaudoin Waller Bowman Richards and others. The text hints at a county record or directory of individuals and firms with partial titles and notes, but lacks full context or dates.
After Christmas helper offers to loan from 5 to 50 dollars on personal property with no removal. Weekly or monthly payments are small, such as 60 cents a week for 25 dollars or 1.20 a week for 50 dollars over 50 weeks. Agent will call within 40 miles of Davenport. Reliable-Private.
The Muscatine City Council reconvened and approved an appropriation ordinance for 1910 expenditures. The measure sets salaries, facilities, street and sewer work, health and police costs, and debt service, with funds allocated by specific accounts. The ordinance passes after readings and committee review.
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