Fraternal lodge and post notices from Muscatine area
A local fraternal notices page lists meetings for Bro. of American Yeomen Muscatine Homestead No 436 and Miriam Lodge No 27 Daughters of the Republic, Prairie Encampment No 4, Valley Forge Post No 2, and various lodges and camps with meeting nights, places, and officers. Also includes Iowa Legion of Honor Argus Lodge No 17, Major Johns Circle Daughters, Woodbine Camp No 142, Fraternal Bankers Reserve, Shelby Norman Post No 232, and G A R headquarters details with meeting schedules and welcoming visitors.
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Muscatine Lodge
Miriam Lodge
D. of R
Prairie Encampment
Meetings and travel notes from Des Moines state teachers event
Miss Mabel Stanwood attends the State Teachers association meeting in Des Moines. Dr. Westcott of Kalona visits the city and returns home. Mrs. Chas Haifleigh returns from Adair county after attending A. M. Sager’s funeral in Gibson Nebraska. The Champion Hose company holds its monthly meeting January 5. Y M C A Ladies Auxiliary urged to assist at this evening’s public reception. Mrs. Dr. C N Harris returns to Muscatine after visiting Davenport. State Teachers association leaders F M Witter W F Chevalier Thos McCullough Sylvan Plumly travel to Des Moines for the meeting. The Schaefer family is released from quarantine for scarlet fever with fumigation of the home.
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Mabel Stanwood
Des Moines
State Teachers’ Association
Chas. Haifleigh
Adair County
Ladies’ Auxiliary
F. M. Witter
W. F. Chevalier
Thos. McCullough
Sylvan Plumly
State Teachers’ Meeting
Nine Candidates for Witter's Iowa Teachers' Chief
Nearly a dozen possibilities surface as successors to F M Witter of Muscatine as president of the Iowa State Teachers Association. Nine secondary school men are named including W F Barr, George H Betts, J A Bennett, C V Findlay, BE Ensign, W D Wells, F L Smart, W F Barrett, and Maurice Ricker. Chevalier of Muscatine is noted as a power in shaping the election and attends the Des Moines meeting with Witter.
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F. M. Witter
Muscatine
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Prof. Witter
W. F. Chevalier
Witter
Co. V. Findlay
Fort Dodge
BE. F. Ensign
Council Bluffs
W. D. Wells
Davenport
F. L. Smart
Dubuque
W. F. Barrett
Fort Madison
Maurice Ricker
Burlington
Chevalier
Register
Des Moines
Supt
Markets Report Grain and Produce Prices Decline Mix
Wholesale and retail price list for grains fruits vegetables and livestock includes oats wheat rye barley straw apples onions potatoes sugar and various meats with figures per bushel per ton per sack and per pound. Multiple items show price ranges and unit details across wholesale and retail sections.
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Barrows
Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Eases Uterine Troubles
Mrs May Harte of Edgerton Wisconsin reports health improvement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for irregularities and uterine pain. Within a week backache eased, menstruation less painful, weight increased, and she endorses the remedy. The letter promises a $5000 forfeit if authenticity cannot be produced.
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Mrs. Pryezxamu
Lydia E. Pinkham
May Harte
Edgerton
Wis
Pres. Household Economics Club
Enuineness
Local Produce and Fuel Prices List
A price list shows bananas at 15 to 25 cents per dozen, oranges 20 to 50 cents per dozen, figs 10 to 29 cents per pound, white grapes 15 cents per pound, cranberries 10 cents per quart, oysters 40 to 50 cents per quart, catfish and carp priced at several cents, salmon 12 cents, lake trout and croppies around 10 cents. Fuel costs include hard wood 5 to 6.60 dollars per cord, soft coal 4 to 5 dollars, and hard coal 9 dollars.
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Snesen
RAE Siadek Saetnen
Graham
Chicago Livestock Receipts Change Week and Year
Chicago receipts on December 29 show 8,800 more cattle than the prior week, 23,500 fewer hogs and 4,700 fewer sheep. Compared with last year cattle are 600 lower, hogs 6,500 lower, and sheep 7,000 lower. Against two years ago cattle up 8,500, hogs down 4,600, and sheep down 700.
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Chicago
Representative Sales Cattle and Hogs Report
The report lists yesterday’s representative cattle sales with numbers, averages, and prices across lots. It includes hogs and horse market figures from Chicago on December 29, noting quiet holiday trade but steady demand and price levels for drafters chunks farm mares and other draft stock.
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Chicago
Holiday Excursion Rates From Iowa Central Rail
The Iowa Central Railway offers reduced rate excursion tickets at one and one third fare on December 24 25 31 and January 1 with a final return limit leaving destination January 4. For details and folders, contact agents.
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Iowa Central Railway
Ruskin as a refined connoisseur and host in a domestic setting
Sir Leslie Stephen recalls John Ruskin at home, praising his courtesy and wide interests. He notes Ruskin’s generosity in sharing a periodical and his delight in Alpine travels mentioned in Fors, while recounting a humorous clash over tobacco and the Alps, as described in Atlantic.
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Ruskin
Scott
Turner
Alps
Sir Leslie Stephen
Atlantic
Swinton and Dana on pay and first class journalism
Arthur R. Kimball cites a Swinton quote about editorial value and pay. The exchange weighs the idea of being a first class writer and whether Dana’s offer matches true talent. The anecdote underscores how compensation reflects perceived status in journalism.
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John Swinton
New York Sun
Mr. Swinton
Mr. Dana
Dana
Swinton
Arthur R. Kimball
Atlantic
Harvest Thanksgiving Absence Sparks Scotty Inquiry
In a rural Arbroath area church a harvest thanksgiving service proceeded as usual despite a grim farming season. Mr Johnstone, a longtime churchgoer with failing crops, was absent. The minister questioned him and he replied that he did not wish to approach his Maker in a spirit of sarcasm.
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Arbroath
Johnstone
Lombard Street Significance and Medici Ball Crest
The article explains Lombard Street's name from the Longobards, rich bankers who settled there during Edward II's reign. It notes the three golden balls, linked to the Medici arms, remain a pawnbrokers sign. It mentions blue Medici balls historically and gilding since the 19th century and a superstition about two to one chances of redemption.
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Lombard Street
London Street
St. Nicholas
Crosses at Road Junctions and Burial Customs
An old custom placed crosses at road junctions on consecrated ground. Suicides and notoriously bad characters were buried nearby to grant them a form of charity, as they were excluded from holy rites yet laid to rest near sanctified soil.
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Westminster Gazette
Balm of Gilead described as scarce Syrian shrub juice
The dried juice of a low Syrian shrub yields at most sixty drops daily and was valued as the balm of Gilead. Josephus cites it as a gift from the queen of Sheba to Solomon. Ancient Jewish physicians prescribed it for dyspepsia and melancholia.
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Gilead
Syria
Josephus
Sheba
Solomon
Shop worn remark spurs light home joke
A humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Ledger features a wife tired from shopping declaring she feels cheap and her husband replying that she looks it, labeling the shopping as shop worn in a playful domestic moment.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Generous Patrons Pledge European Music Education
A Cincinnati Times-Star quote notes old man Gotrox pays for the girl next door to receive musical training in Europe. The arrangement is described as very generous yet conditions her study abroad.
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Gotrox
Europe
Cincinnati Times-Star
Not the Same Thing
Quote from Smart Set about Mrs Lowboy and her thoughts on marriageable daughters implying a humorous misunderstanding.
Expert says paper dollar lasts about over years
An expert in the New York Telegram questions the longevity of a paper dollar, urging readers to doubt the claim and reconsider the currency's durability.
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New York Telegram
California Prune Wafers Advertises Health Cure
An ad extols California Prune Wafers as a natural, gentle remedy for indigestion biliousness constipation and torpid liver. It claims the wafers regulate the liver and stomach cleanse the system purify the blood ease bowel movements and cure various stomach and skin ailments.
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California
River rises seven inches in 24 hours at low water
The river today stands 6.1 feet above low water mark after a 7 inch rise in 24 hours. In the prior 48 hours the water fell over a foot and rivermen expect further declines with no rain. Ice beneath surface may be causing the rise and the Mississippi shows greater winter variability due to ice gorges melting snow and rain.
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Mississippi
A Simple Eczema Cure Promoted by Local Seller
A Muscatine seller touts a problem skin remedy claiming tepid bath with castile soap followed by Sandholm's Eczema Cure can cure even severe eczema. The note asserts the creator cured himself after doctors gave up and advertises the medicine for sale.
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Sandholm
Sandheim
Abandoned LaCrosse Custom House Affects Dubuque Item
The LaCrosse Wisconsin custom house near Dubuque has been ordered abandoned by Secretary Shaw due to nonpayment. Joseph Mexner and H. McDonald, hurt in the Haverhill dynamite explosion near Marshalltown, are expected to recover.
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Dubuque
LaCrosse
Wis
Shaw
Joseph Mexner
H. McDonald
Haverhill
Marshalltown
Guarantee on Tar Syrup Cures Cough Sickness
A group including N. B. Barkalow G. A. Reinicke J. J. Havercamp Mesper & Co. and J Theo Keuchmy signs a refund pledge for Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar a 50 cent bottle and a 25 cent bottle option if not satisfactory or does not cure coughs and colds.
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Greene
N. B. Barkalow
G. A. Reinicke
J. J. Havercamp
Mesper & Co
J. Theo. Keuchmy
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Society ‘Cards
Musctine Homestead No
Reuling’s Hall
East Second
Garnes
Grace Parcell
Cor
Musquitine Tribe
O. BR. M
Dennis O'Keary
Riley M. Wishart
C. of R
Masonic
Washington
A M
G. A Hiemcke
Iowa
A. F
G. A. Riemcke
W. B
DE McLay
KTF
R. A. Holmes
BE. C
W. H. McCoy
Webb Council of Royal & Select Masters
Stein's Music Hall
Lawrence
Geo. C. Winn
Mollie &. Wiles
Crouch
Mull
Muscatine Camp
Woodman Hall
J. A. Knight
J. C. Coster
M. B A. Bend City
A. O. U. W. Fagle Lodge
A. O. U. W. Hall
Second Street
Ce Eé
P. Ingham
M W. H
Howe
E. H. Deisen
K. O. T. M. Muscatine
Maccabees
Ladies OF the Maccabees
Rathbone Sisters
Stella Malone
M. R
Frances Rosenbaum
Fraternal Aid Association
Bloomington
Shammo
F. A A
Jd. J. Reind
P. Day
Dankers’ Pioneer Association
Valley Forge Post
W. C. Strong
G. C. H. Garnes
E. S. Finctaa
A. L. Ito
Emme Nealove
Suscatine Camp
Modern Woodmen of Americas
Woodman Ball
Olds’ Block
W. B Ashton
W. C J. A Teyda. Slerk
Kingip
S OF
Legion OF Honor
Argus Lodge No. 17
A. &. Ball
W. W. Millett
C. Hopkinson
Woodbine Camp NO
Gal Neighbors of America
F. A. McElroy
Oracle
Tie Parvin
Emma Bierman
Freserve Eets
G. A. R. Hall
Clyde Randleman
J B. Vanatta
Shelby Norman Post NO
East Second Street
Wella A
Cvuir
Henry Kneess
Gus, Schmidt
Sozodort
Sozgdont
F. Battey
GRA UA Ptician Examination Free
West Second Street
Max Giesler
Parrot Food
Bird Seed
Bird Biscuits
McBride & Cope’s
John A.robbins
UFE
First National Bank
H. G. Gould
Moline
The
Electrical Workers’ Union No. 208
Florence Fox
Sycamore Street
Clinton
Dr. Westcott
Kalona
A. M. Sager
Gibson, Neb
J. B. Hunt
North Mulberry Street
Champion Hose, Hook and Ladder Company
H. Schaefer
A. Griffin
West Front Street
Commercial
Schaefer’s Laundry
S. Hamilton
Way of
W. F. Barr
Drake University
George H. Betts
Cornell College
J. A. Bennett
Upper Iowa University
Professor Chevalier
Teachers’ Association
Mr. Witter
Oklahoma
Texas
Greer County
Okla
Coleman
Daniel Hayes
John Ruskin
Swinton-Dana
Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store
Muscatine, Iowa
Pecvuimicuu
T H. C. Thiesen
Marcel
Lowa
H. Gremmel
Llershey State Bank
the Necessary Magazine
the Times
Review OF Reviews
Industry
Times
America
the Review OF Reviews CO
Astor Place
New York
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