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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1902
Page
8
Local notices list guests and visitors in Muscatine as New Year events approach. Mentions include J B Berry’s Cleveland trip, Clara Ruff visiting Wilton, and Mrs Adem Wigim’s Chicago trip. Shops advertise New Year’s dinners and holiday foods at Bodman’s and St John’s.
Ad for a musical organ sale by J. J. Griffith at 120 West Second Street offering a compact organ described as a quick, affordable eight dollar bargain with bold selling language.
Columbus Junction dispatch reports Rev. Monroe Drew leaving for Chicago to establish headquarters. Local items include gatherings at Hare's hall for Emancipation day, New Year dance by Huttig Hose Co, Miss Della Steen ill, Miss Bessie Barry returning to Chicago, and town visits by numerous residents. Fire incident at Councilman Dotson residence, town factions, and plans to move post office discussed.
Rathbone Sisters invite full attendance Wednesday evening at 7 30. Meeting to cover business of importance.
Yesterday morning in Des Moines a student is taking a special pharmacy course. Claud Cleve and Alva Duncan of Iowa City visit relatives here for the holidays. F N Wilcox called Bard yesterday. A party of foreigners, traveling on a party ticket, were sidetracked here yesterday. Clinton Letts of Chicago was a business visitor. Many local teachers plan to attend the state teachers convention in Des Moines this week.
Captain William H. Reeder of the U S training ship Hartford and Lt Zeigmier were received by Pope Pius X in private audience in Rome. The officers in full uniform spoke with the pontiff who praised the American uniform and recalled meetings with Americans.
One day colonist ticket sales begin on the first and third Tuesday of each month through April 1992 for trips to Arkansas Southwest Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska South Dakota and nearby regions at very low rates. Contact any Iowa Central agent or A B Cutts Minneapolis Minn for rates and details.
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