Around $200000 Spent on Muscatine Building in 1929
The Muscatine Journal reports about $200000 was spent on building operations in Muscatine and vicinity through Dec 1 1929. Major projects included the Lutheran Orphans Home brick structure, the Iowa Sheet Metal Products plant on Milwaukee avenue, and the Fairbanks Home for Funerals expansion. Remodeling of the Armory front and new apartments were under way, with numerous business and residential additions authorized throughout the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Lutheran Orphans Home
Conesville Road
Milwaukee Avenue
Iowa Sheet Metal Products Company
Fairbanks
Armory
Lady Boston
West Second Street
Fred Mavis
M. Kautz Baking Company
East Third Street
Cedar Street
J. Sissel
George L. Jehring
East Second Street
Walnut
Cedar Streets
Hahn Brothers Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Firm
Five Hahn brothers Harry Walter Fred Robert and Bernard operate Hahn Brothers Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable at 207 West Front Street. Founded 1885 by father Henry B Hahn and incorporated January 1925. They specialize in car load shipments of cabbage sweet potatoes cantaloupe and watermelon in season. The rotary engine was invented by George Westinghouse at 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Five Brothers
Hahn Brothers Wholesale Fruit & Vegetable Company
West Front Street
Midwest
Harry
Walter
Fred
Robert
Bernard
Henry B. Hahn
George Westinghouse
McKee Feed and Grain Firm Serves Farmers in Muscatine
Mc Kee Feed and Grain at 500 to 508 East Second Street Muscatine highlights custom grinding for farmers and livestock feeds. L A Mc Kee reports 1929 sales rose over 1928 and prior years with November and December gains of 10 to 15 percent. The firm handles Purina Conkey’s and Omar Wonder flour with Pollyanna whole wheat, oats products, and hog and poultry feeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
McKee Feed and Grain Company
East Second Street
McKee
L. A. McKee
Pollyanna
McKee House
Purina Feed
Conkey’s
Omar Wonder
Public Health Bureau to Offer More Clinics in 1930 Muscatine
The Public Health Bureau in Muscatine outlines plans for 1930 with more child welfare and tuberculosis clinics. Miss Margaret Matheson notes expanding work through 1929 and seeks an assistant nurse to support increased preventive medicine, including home visits and school cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Health Bureau
Muscatine
Margaret Matheson
Bureau
Health Bureau
Jefferson
Matheson
Lawn Illumination IIs Advertisement for Electric Shop
Louis J. Elfers owner of South Side Electric shop lights up Muscatine with festive lawn decorations and a city district decorating project. His high line construction brings farm homes wired like city residences and includes Town Sheet Metal works Hawkeye cutting plant and local storefronts in recent contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis J. Eifers
South Side
Canon Avenue
Mas
Elfers
Muscatine
South Side Electric Shop
Hawkeye
Larson, Kinney, Waltman and West
I. and J
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aaa
Muscatine Journal and News-Tribune
Mits
H. H. Fitzgerald
F. A. Neidig
W. J. Phelps
Orange Street
Third
Fourth Streets
J. G
W. F. Elfers
Liberty Street
Bleeker
Warren Streets
Nelson Graham
Green Street
Mill Street
Hershey Avenue
Henry Havemann
Oregon Street
Dewey
Benham Avenues
L. C. Kautz
Lord Avenue
Park Avenue
River Road
George McGaughey
Climer Street
Maiden Lane
High Street
E. A. Criger
Washington Street
B. Layton
Broadway
Gene Rosenthal
Fred Hahn
West Fourth Street
Cherry
Green Streets
Washington, D. C
H. E. Robertson
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn
The
Nile
Lagomarcino Grape Co
Kingsbury
Davenport
Clinton Ottumwa
Keokuk
Iowa City
Ft. Madison
Cedar Rapids
Creston
Burlington
Roach & Muller CO
A. By
Makers OF
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!