Friday Notes From Muscatine Area Social and Trade
Friday's Daily records a flurry of city notices and social updates. Travels include Miss Hawley from the East and Miss Gretchen Stewart to Iowa City. Local commerce highlights West Liberty shops, furniture, clothing bargains, and a short-term sale at Nichols Purvis. Community events feature church services, Knights of Pythias funeral rites, and multiple gatherings at homes and clubs.
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Nichols & Purvis
West Liberty
Hine Bros City Hat Store Sells Warm Jeans During Sale
The store announces a 30 day sale on warm jeans kersey corduroy and cassimere with a 20 percent discount. Customers are urged to call and visit as they always deliver as advertised.
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Hine Bros
City Hat Store
The Great Reporter and the Power to Lead
The passage contrasts the average reporter who seeks popularity with the great reporter who shapes public taste. It argues true mastery lies in a guiding delight that inspires and unites the writer, elevating them to lead and transform what people want to read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
Quarantine Declared From Earlham Due to Smallpox
Mayor Gra ham led a Stuart board of health meeting to quarantine all travelers from Earlham during the smallpox outbreak after two Earlham deaths. Officials of the C and R L P railroad were notified. Mark Amsbaugh was buried today with M W of A rites. he left $2000 life insurance to his mother.
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Stuart
Graham
Our City
Board of Health
Earlham
C., R. L & P. Railroad Company
Mark Amsbaugh
M. W. of A
You can't tell a man's salary by the clothes he wears
A concise proverbic note on appearances versus earnings. The phrase warns against judging a man’s wealth by dress, suggesting hidden income or frugality may contradict outward presentation. Typically cited as a general social observation rather than a reportable event.
Railroad rumors of Iowa Central absorption by major lines
The Ottumwa Courier reports rumors that the Chicago Burlington & Quincy will acquire the Iowa Central from Oskaloosa to Peoria, linking Muscatine to the C B Q system. The remaining Iowa Central segments may be sold to the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul or Rock Island, boosting routes from Kansas City to St Paul and easing competition for Ottumwa.
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Muscatine
Iowa Central
Muscatine North & South
Courier
Perkins
Burlington
Oskaloosa
Des Moines Register
Des Moines
Peoria
Iowa Central Railway
Great Trunk
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Til
Burlington Company
Albia
Centerville
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Mason City
Newton
Montezuma
Milwaukee
Moravia
Pickering
St. Paul
Chicago & Great Western Railway
Wabash
Rock Island Company
Rock
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway
Rock Island
Kansas City
Milwaukee Road
Ottumwa
The Old Love Renewed in California Union
News from Oakland California reports the marriage of Thomas W Frontress and Mrs Sarah Greene. Once childhood sweethearts near Sioux City Iowa they separated for decades. Both remarried. Greene widowhood followed. Frontress later wrote guiding their reunion and marriage now at ages seventy five and sixty three.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Oakland
California
Thomas W. Frontress
Sarah Greene
Green Falls
Montana
Frentress
Armed Kentucky men flood Frankfort to demand political justice
A train bearing more than 1,000 men with Winchester rifles arrived in Frankfort, Ky., area on January 26. The assembly, from Bell, Allen, Knox, Harlan, Metcalf, and Edmonson counties, gathered at the state house and drafted resolutions asserting constitutional rights and warning against tampering with returns. The group, largely state guards, later left Frankfort at night after discussions with Republican authorities.
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Frankfort
Bell, Allen
Knox
Harlan
Metcalf
Edmunson
State House
Adjt
Collier
State Guards
Charles Finley
Stephen Sharp
Lexington
Kentucky
General Assembly
Stockton News Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
New houses rise in Stockton as roads improve. E F Jockbeck shipped a carload of corn. E F Winkelmar and wife visited Adair Iowa. Sunny weather prompted Sunday outdoor gatherings and many reported colds. A Denver Rio Grande snow plow may pass through town soon. Jockbeck found frost in one corner of his new foundation but not the other. G A Hansen plans to move to Sutherland by March first, reducing local stores to one. Pioneer Cure advertises remedies for kidney disease rheumatism and more.
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E. F. Jockbeck
E. F. Winkelmar
Adair
Iowa
G. A. Hansen
O'Brien County
Sutherland
Stockton
Comically Subjugated Husband Seeks Divorce Refused
A Philadelphia Press snippet humorously notes a hen pecked husband trapped in marriage. The punchline has him wanting a divorce but his wife won’t permit it, framing a light domestic joke about a dog’s life.
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Philadelphia
Henpeck
Mull's Lightning Cough Cure Ad Offer
An old advertisement promotes Mull's Lightning Cough Cure with a price of 25 cents, urging readers to stop a cough immediately. The small, practical promo highlights a simple remedy and a bargain price for quick relief.
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Mull
The Plague in Honolulu Breaks Out
A Victoria dispatch reports 38 deaths in Honolulu from plague with a white woman among the dead. The city is panicked as an armed mob blocks steamer landings at Hilo. Honolulu health official Cooper had ten blocks burned. Dr Carmichael ordered to Manila. About 3400 Japanese residents there are in quarantine.
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Seattle
Wash
Times
Victoria
B. C
Honolulu
Hilo
Cooper
Board of Health of
Carmichael
Manila
David M. Magee Dies at 89 Originator of Poland-China Hog Breed
David M. Magee, 89, died at his Oxford Ohio home after a long career as the founder of the Poland-China hog, the breed that put Ohio on the map for swine breeding. He amassed a large fortune as many of his hogs sold for as high as 1900 dollars each.
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Oxford
David M. Magee
Ohio
Soldiers bodies moved to presidio awaiting disposition
In San Francisco on January 26 the bodies of 156 soldiers who died in the Philippines were removed from Pekin to the Presidio. They will be held there pending a decision on their final disposition.
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San Francisco
Philippines
Pekin
Presidio
Isaac Epperly farm in Muscatine County for sale
The Isaac Epperly farm near Letts Iowa offers over 300 acres of prairie land mix of meadow pasture and tilled soil with a good house orchard and strong improvements priced at 65 dollars per acre. An additional 148 acres of timber land in three parcels can be sold with or separately from the farm. If not sold soon the farm may be rented for the coming year. Administrators Mall and Shellabarger of Isaac Epperly deceased invite inquiries from Letts Iowa January 23 1900.
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Isaac Epperly
Muscatine County
Letts
Louisa County
Iowa
Mall & Shellabarger
Letts, Ia
An Ideal Health and Winter Resort in Hammond Louisiana
The Illinois Central Railway promotes Hammond Louisiana as an ideal health and winter resort. The passenger department offers a free illustrated folder detailing benefits for asthma catarrhal and bronchial troubles and wintering south at nominal cost, available by mail from J F Merry assistant general passenger agent Dubuque Iowa.
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Ilinois Central Railroad Company
Hammond
Louisiana
Northwest
Dubuque
Iowa
J. F. Merry
Ill
R. R
Closing Out Sale At S. G. Stein Farm
Public sale at the residence on Muscatine Island one mile west of Musserville and four miles north of Fruitland. On Saturday February 3 1900 at 10 oclock in the morning. Ten head of horses six head cattle fifty hogs about five hundred bushels of corn one hundred bushels potatoes hay oats and straw wagons harness plows and other articles. Ross Reynolds Johnson and Giesler.
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Muscatine Island
Musserville
Fruitland
S. G. Stein
Ross Reynolds
Notice of Election in Atalissa Iowa January 190
Notice to voters in Muscatine county Iowa that by order of the District Court an election will be held January 190 at the Post Office poh store in Atalissa for electing a mayor clerk treasurer and six commissioners A B Barkalow L S Perper A Heberling Emmerson Lamb V Lambet Commissioners
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Atalissa
Iowa
Muscatine County
District Court
Tesday
Poh
A. B. Barkalow
LS Perper
A Heberling
Emmenson Lamb
Ss. V. Lambert
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Schmidt Bros
Miss Hawley
Kavenaugh
Dr. Weaver
Lettsville
Ed. Gabriel
Wilton
Belle Eeis
Judge Rowan
John Baker
Chicago
Eby
Giesler
Dere
Garrett Robes
Las Vegas
N. M
Thompson's
G. W. Webster
Gretchen Stewart
Iowa City
Shaw
John Evitt
Davenport
J. A. Nelson
Muscatine North and South
Minneapolis
Claude Hubacher
U. S. Express Co
Ed. Bell
Fairfield
Floyd & Smith
Stein
Stafford
First Methodist Church
N. A. McAulay
Knight Sherwood Kerr
Knights of Pythias
P. G. C. Will. M. Narvis
E E. Palmer
Journal
John Bretz
National Military Home
Kansas
John van Buren
A. G. Tyler
J. J. Legler
Susie Fitzgerald
Iowa Falls
J. F. Doty
W. E. Ashton
Dittmar & Ayers
Geo. Randall
Beyer & Wright
Tom Brannan
East Third Street
Frank Gottbrecht
Imperial Dancing Club
Armory Hall
Vanatta
Mrs. Bielefeld
Rachel Hupp
A. Sander
Quandt & Otto
White Horse
Market Square
Comas
Reporter
Arnold & Weerdlein
Real Estate Exchange
East Tenth Street
East Seventh Street
East Eighth Street
Iowa Avenue
Fifth Street
East Hill
East Fifth Street
Arnold & Weidlein
The
C. B. & Q. System
Elrick
Thomas W. Berry
A. W. Razor
Claude Chinn
State Guard
Roger D. Williams
First National Bank
Tcorige
Johnson & Giesler
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