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Muscatine’s Pioneering Growth From Lumber to Pearl Button Trade
The Muscatine Journal sketches a century of growth from lumber and sawmills to the pearl button industry and rail/telecom expansion. It records population rise from 1,600 in 1846 to 20,997 in 1960, notes key figures like J Purinton and William Petersen, and highlights institutions and firms shaping Muscatine’s development through 1964.
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Jad
Suel Foster
Bloomington Education Society
J. Purinton
Muscatine
Carvent
Keokuk
Mississippi
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Journal
Musser
J. W. van Sant
B. Hershey
Raithoat
Hershey Lumber Company
Silver Wave
James Fisk, Jr
LeClaire Belle
van Sant Ad Musger ‘Transportation Company
Musculine
Wgile van Sant
Glenmont
van Sant and
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Gee “Transportation “Company
America
John’ F.“Boepple
Germany
United States
Boepple
Clinton
de Witt
West 8
Towa
Webster
Brant Street
Turner Opera House
Muscatine Journal
Joseph Bridgmens
Bloomington