Transportation Schedule for Montezuma Line
Traveler's Guide notes the B., GC. R. and N. Muscatine division offers a daily except Sunday passenger at 8:40 a.m. to Montezuma with freight at 8:00 a.m. Return from Montezuma arrives at 7:10 p.m. with freight at 6:00 p.m. Eastern going direction.
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Wilton Seanor
Muscatine
Wilton
Muscat
Serre
Kigeffe
Sagal Ly
Moon
Fruitland
Grandview
Wallo
Sundar
Muscatine North and South Railroad Time Table 1899
Muscatine North and South Railroad timetable for Monday July 10 1899 shows northbound trains No 2 and No 4 with stations and time columns including Muscatine departure and arrival times. The fragment indicates schedule listings with pass passenger and morning and afternoon times.
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Muscatine
Homes seekers' excursions run on Ill. Central lines winter
The service will operate on the first and third Tuesday of every month along the Illinois Central and Y. M. W. routes during the winter season.
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St. Louis
Illinois Central
Nashville
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Fla
Man laments lack of support in dry campaign
A man voices frustration at his inability to secure offers of help or support for his influence in the election, calling the effort a dry campaign with little activity or engagement.
Muscatine Journal Subscription Rates Printed
The Muscatine Journal announces subscription options with annual, tri weekly, and delivery details. Rates are payable in advance and remittances should be by draft express or money order to JOURNAL PRINTING Co Muscatine Iowa.
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Journal. Ae
Cssesee
Journal Printing Co
Muscatine
Iowa
Demoralizing Influences Alarm Iowa Teachers
The late State Teachers meeting in Des Moines passed resolutions urging action against demoralizing influences in cities. They call for restricting temptations to vice near the State University and endorsing laws to keep towns decent for Christian living, with schools, churches, and newspapers backing the effort.
County Supervisors Oppose State Incurable Insane Plan
In Iowa City the 2nd District county boards convention rejected the State board of control proposal to move incurable insane patients to state institutions. They argued counties built local asylums for the hopelessly mad and must retain inmates there, despite recognizing better treatment at state facilities.
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Board of Control
Defeat of Hardwick franchise bill shocks Northern press
The Hardwick franchise bill failed in the Georgia House 137 to 3, surprising Northern papers who expected expanded negro disfranchisement laws across the South. The measure mirrored Mississippi and South Carolina provisions.
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George House of Representatives
South
New York Mail and Express
Mississippi
South Carolina
Senator Allison Viewed as Patient Leader With Iron Will
The Marion Register credits Senator Allison with thirty years of hard work and patient practice of his rule of life. It notes his preference for the lines of least resistance and his suavity hides a firm, iron will guiding his approach to governance.
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Marion Register
Allison
Register
Ex President Harrison Leads Busy West Lawyer
Ex president William Henry Harrison is described as one of the busiest men in the United States with a vast income from legal work. Reports claim he earned 250000 dollars from the Venezuelan Government for arguing the boundary case, among the largest fees ever paid.
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Harrison
United States
West
Uncle Sam's Refridge in Manila Ice and Water Plant
The new U S refrigerator at Manila is a 250 by 250 foot square building rising 45 feet. It will preserve rations and daily produce fifty tons of ice plus 6000 gallons of distilled water for troops. Soldiers receive top treatment among all nations.
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Uncle Sam
Manila
United States
Patent drug ad offers refund for ineffective Cascarets
An old advert promises a full refund if Cascarets Candy Cathartic fails to cure constipation. It emphasizes quick relief and urges purchase with the guarantee.
England Likely to Raise Debt by War with Boers
England faces a likely $100,000,000 increase in national debt due to the Boer War while the current debt sits near $3,000,000,000. In 1816 it stood at $4,500,000,000, and since 1883 reductions amount to $640,000,000. A British victory could see gold mines as indemnity.
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England
Resting place of Maine dead in American soil described
The dead of the Maine lie in a U S resting place as Cuba faces an uncertain future and Cuban agitators seek to add another republican revolution to the Spanish American context.
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Maine
Cuba
New Year News From Columbus Junction
Sam Edmonson visited Cotter on New Year there is a pigeon shoot and many crack shots. Ollie Todd returns from Muscatine to home. A union temperance meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m at the M E church. Grandmother Ryan visited from Muscatine. Ice harvest begins and may exceed prior years. Ice skating improves with holidays. Harry Russell and Clyde Duncan go to Burlington for business college. The power house well is abandoned until spring due to wall condition. Residents debate the century we are in favoring 1899. N T Hendrix hosts New Year callers in a new South Hill mansion. Arctic cold slows work but stirs ice men. Rev J W Pool and family visit from Ft Madison. he preaches at the M E church. Principal Tompson travels to Des Moines for the State Teachers association. School resumes Tuesday with large attendance. Politicians ready for Des Moines battle naming Bowen and John Henry. A Normal Bible institute to study Scripture is proposed. Santa Claus classic visits brighten churches and schools with gifts. E F Brockway of Iowa City will address the temperance gathering. all invited. Cyril Carpenter travels to Wisconsin for cancer treatment. son reports improvement. H L Orris visits Crawfordsville and notes five saloons in his town paying 900 yearly each. David Orris undergoes bone surgery in Iowa City and returns hopeful. Isaac Welsh, recovering at home, is visiting by Rev Speers who recalls boyhood days and a seventy fourth milestone post. Rev Speers, a hard shelled Baptist minister, shares old times.
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Sam Edmonson
Cotter
Ollie Todd
Muscatine
Union Temperance
M. E
Fouse
Ryan
Harry Russell
Clyde Duncan
Burlington
Elliott's Business College
N. T. Hendrix
South Hill
J. W. Pool
Ft. Madison
Pool
J. W. Tompson
Des Moines
State Teachers’ Association
Bowen
John Henry
Bible Institute
Santa Claus
E. F. Brockway
Iowa City
State Temperance League
Brockway
Cyril Carpenter
Wisconsin
C. A. Carpenter
H. L. Orris
Oxford Junction
Crawfordsville
David Orris
Riverside News Briefs Include Illness and Ice Progress
Mrs. Grant Hawthorn is on the sick list. Walter Shellady and his new wife were in town on New Year’s Day. Fred Moss has begun filling his ice house and Mr. E Nicola began filling his house at the creamery. The ice is nearly one foot thick.
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Walter Shellady
Fred Moss
E. Nicola
Ice at mill pond and holiday visit at New Year 1900
The piece notes clear ice at the mill pond west of town. George Hoffman traveled to Iowa City and reported a student’s death by suicide while there. Lewis Davenport and family from Lone Tree visited Mrs. Bradley Law for New Year, with singing and violin music for a pleasant start to 1900.
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Mill Pond
George Hoffman
Iowa City
Lewis Davenport
Lone Tree
Bradley Law
Lewis
Sandy Grove New Year News and Local Harvest Happenings
Local notes from Sandy Grove report illnesses, family visits, weddings, church events, school progress, and skater youth. Mentions include Ethel Johnston, Sella Blake, Miss Elsie Waltman, the Luptons, Cochran wedding, and Rev. Mull closing Cedar Rethel meetings with upcoming sermon.
Eva Lee Wedding at Columbus Junction
Eva Lee and Mr. Kite were married in a ceremony officiated after a wedding match. Forty guests attended a celebratory supper after fasting, with the bride in cream-colored brocaded cashmere and lace and a bouquet, and the groom in black. Guests left loving presents as they wished the couple well in their new Columbus Junction home.
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Eva Lee
Mr. Kite
Columbus Junction
Moralists Lambert on war and a tonic remedy
The article argues against needless loss of life in war while endorsing Ostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a life saving aid. It links constipation and digestive issues to broader health risks and promotes the tonic as a natural, permanent cure for digestion problems, urging readers to buy at drugstores.
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Transvaal
Ostetter
A Fat State Treasury News Tagline
In Des Moines, the treasurer notes a full treasury with $600000 to $700000 expected in the vaults when the legislature convenes. No large schemes have emerged yet to use the funds. Aside from the $230000 appropriations urged by the state board of control, silence persists on further allocations.
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Des Moines Register
Harriott
State Board of Control
Warranty refund notice for cough syrup and tar product
The undersigned promise to refund money on a 60 cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure a cough or cold. A 25 cent bottle is guaranteed to prove satisfaction or money refunded. Names listed include G. A. Reinicke and others.
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Greene
G. A. Reinicke
W. B. Barkalow
Nesper & Co
Jno
J. Havercamp
J. Theo. Kuechmann
Kidney cures and pest remedies ads in one clipping
An old advertisement notes Dr Hobbs asparagus pills claim kidney cures. It also promotes Sam Jie free and Sterling Remedy Co of Chicago. A stray line touts a raw potato removing mud stains from black clothes. Massachusetts spent 20000 dollars to eradicate the gypsy moth.
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Hobbs
Sparagus
Sam Jie
Add
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Massachusetts
Reform Work Aims At Prisoner Rehabilitation In Iowa
Cedar Falls described a reform effort aiding 1100 inmates across two state prisons. Rev J C George oversees a statewide program with district superintendents, focusing on employment for released prisoners and creating an industrial home for rehabilitation and recuperation.
Mull's Lightning Cough Cure Promoted for Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Mull's Lightning Cough Cure as a safe remedy for dangerous coughs chest and lung pains cured in days. Marketed as pure and safe for children at 25 cents with druggists carrying the product.
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Mull
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American Home Finding Association
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