Elusive Local Notices Highlight City Events and Losses
Maple syrup sale and miscellaneous shop deals abound across Wheeler's Choice and Geo B Jacksons with big cuts on goods. Dr W S Norton travels to Nichols to tend a patient while John Berg of Adams Express recovers from a cold. Shore Acres season opens at 8 PM. Agnes St John buys Robbins Lot 1 Block 50 at Third and Broadway for 2600. Thiesen's promises pure drugs. Harris couple depart for Oxford Iowa with hope of recovery. Reed widow loses home by fire, insured for 600. Earl Monger prepares for April 1 2 3 1902 C E district event in Cedar Rapids.
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Agnes St. John
Joseph Anson
Robbins
Third and Broadway Streets
Earl Monger
Cedar Rapids
Christaan Endeavor Societies
Wilson's Shoe Store Annual Clearing Sale Ad
Warm goods must go in our annual clearing sale. Warm lined shoes slippers felt boots German socks over-gaiters and more. In order to make room for our mammoth stock of spring goods all up-to-date stock. Open Wednesday and Saturday nights. Wilson's Shoe Store.
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Wilson's Shoe Store
Purity and travel notes mix in Muscatine city items
Local notices mention Thiesen and Wheeler pure drugs, Scheetz glassware, Kemble's abstract books, and a Geo Leffingwell property sale. Travel updates include P T Smith and A L Lindner aboard the Firefly to Chicago. Socials note Laura Junkin and Addie Stiles visiting Davenport and friends, with Y M C A basketball plans brewing.
Avoid icy toes at our winter clearance sale
Attend our clearing sale of warm lined winter goods with cut prices that tempt. Open Wednesday and Saturday nights, allowing shoppers to buy now even if funds are tight.
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Guarantee Loan Co
Wilson’s Shoe Store
Inter-urban Electric Line From Davenport to Muscatine
City residents await clarity on a Davenport based plan to build an inter urban electric line to Muscatine. Competing groups from Davenport pursued franchise rights and capital interests from Ohio investors while Muscatine Fast Hill residents push for the linkage this year.
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Davenport
Muscatine Capital
Muscatine
Ohio
Fast Hill
Piles of People Are Pilea Say Local Advertiser
An unclear ad promotes a remedy for piles claiming cure with money back guarantee. It states a pile pipe free with each package and offers samples free. The seller signs as J J slavercamp with a 50 cent price.
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J. J. Slavercamp
Snow Arrives With Ottie Snyder for Sleighing Fun
Ottie Snyder brings real snow into town for sleighing, delivering fresh white fun as residents enjoy a wintry surprise that feels like a festive season start.
Snow forecast boosts Muscatine sleighing and trade
The east portion of the state is predicted to receive heavy snowfall tonight with colder temps in the west and strong north winds. Muscatine expects good sleighing benefits and a welcome rise in merchant trade as cold weather boosts coal and wood orders.
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Wewest
Muscatine
Cox
Pearl City
All kinds of sleighs and springs at Snyder's livery
Weather says colder and more snow with a real sleighing season. Ottie Snyder promotes a full display of sleighs and car loads of snow ready last night, boasting springs on every model and bargains that won t be repeated. Visit Snyder s livery on West Front Street to pick a sleigh now.
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Weather Dispatch
Ottie Snyder
Snyder
Snyder's
West Front Street
Company C and Fairfield Team Set for Tonight's Contest
The Company C basketball team and Fairfield college boys prepare for a city game tonight at Old Congregational Church. Company C expects a hard battle after a prior victory and plans a return meeting next week in Fairfield. The bowling alley reports Cyclones defeating Hawkeyes 2282 to 2009 with high scorers listed. Mrs Emma Sterneman leads the city ladies bowlers with a 130 score.
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Company C
Business College
Old Congregational Church
College
Fairfield Boys
Ed. Stuart
Ed. Schmidt
Faye Bennison
M. Thompson
Carl Schumaker
Parsons
Cyclones
Hawkeyes
Gillmore
PD. Mull
E. F. Gobble
F. Funk
Emma Sterneman
Chicago Markets Dispatches On Open High Low Close Totals
Market report from Chicago through J J Hoher Co with wheat corn oats pork lard ribs prices and daily ranges. Cattle hog sheep receipts noted with open and close figures and car load movements for the day plus Northwestern wheat arrivals and international market shifts in Liverpool.
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Tod Y-Y
Chicago
Supreme Court Rules for Kent Against M. N. S. Railroad
The Supreme Court sustains the Muscatine District Court ruling awarding J L Kent a $300 judgment against the M N S Railroad Co for labor lien claims tied to a tax vote. The case arose from time checks issued to sub contractors on the Muscatine North and South Railway and assigned to Kent. Seevers & Seevers defended for the railway. Arthur Hoffman represented the plaintiff.
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Supreme Court
M. N. & S. Railroad
J. L. Kent
W. F. Brannan
Kent
Muscatine District Court
John 8S
Wolfe
Balch, Peppard & Johnson
Muscatine North & South
Wolf
Brannan
Seevers
Railway
Arthur Hoffman
Local notices and ads from a city page
A pane of short items notes installment home purchases from N. Rosenberger, a claim that pure drugs are scarce with Thiesen selling them, Pitchforth's offering extra fine canned corn at 3 for a quarter, Miss Etta Brenner traveling to Davenport for a visit, and the city river gauge showing 2.8 feet above low water mark today.
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Margaret Kulp
Davenport
L. B. Lafferty
Pitchforth’s
Etta Brenner
City Water Works
Mardi Gras Carnivals Set in New Orleans Moline and Pensacola
Mardi Gras carnivals will be held in New Orleans Moline and Pensacola from February 4 to 11. The Louisville and Nashville Railway offers round trip tickets to these cities at a single fare with sale from February 4 to 19 and limited to February 28. An illustrated booklet on Mardi Gras history is available from Co. L. Stone General Pass. Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Louisville Ky.
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New Orleans
Moline
Pensacola
Louisville & Nashville R. A
Mobile
Co. L. Stone
Louisville & Nashville
R. R
Louisville
Buy a Home with Titus and Jackson Bargains
Real estate offer urges quick action with a few hundred dollars for the first payment. Titus and Jackson advertise first class locations and invite immediate contact to secure affordable home purchases.
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Titus & Jackson
Miss Lizzie Fox Weighs Post at Great Western Cereal
Miss Lizzie Fox contemplates accepting a position with the Great Western Cereal Company. The curtain will rise promptly at 3.
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Lizzie Fox
The
Great Western Cereal Company
Remedy Claims 98 Percent Cure Rate for Piles
Recto advertises a remedy with a 98 percent cure rate for hemorrhoids. It promises free trials and samples if the treatment fails. J. J. Havercamp is named as the contact.
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J. J. Havercamp
FOR NEW SIOUX CITY BISHOP CHOSEN Garrigan named bishop of newly created diocese
Sioux City reports an authoritative telegram from Washington announcing Very Rev Philip J Garrigan vice rector of the Catholic University in Washington to be the first bishop of the new Sioux City diocese His elevation likely at Easter and he has served thirteen years at the university in administrative roles as assistant treasurer.
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Garrigan
Catholic University
Sioux City
Philip J. Garrigan
Catholic University At Washington
Washington
Father Garrigan
Ingenious trumpet lets voice travel ten miles in England
A man named A R Brichton of England invents a magnifying trumpet that carries the human voice ten miles. The item is touted as a marvel and the plan is to shout delinquent subscribers’ names from rooftops each morning using the device.
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R Brichton
England
Automobile Frown: A New Stage in Facial Contortion
The phrase describes a modern trend in facial expression where the car era reshapes how people show displeasure. It notes a shift from traditional scowls to a more mechanical, standardized look reflecting urban life.
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Daily Journal
East Second St
Reliance Loan Co
Joe Kranz
Ia. Ave
Wheeler's
Kemble’s
F. C. Stocker
Geo. B. Jackson's
John Berg
Adams Express Company
Shore Acres
Thiesen
Oscar Harris
Oxford
Harris
HEERD
Dougherty’s
Geiss’, Graham's
Busch’'s
J. F. Heerd
W. 8Th St
Scheetz's
Geo. Leffingwell
East Eighth Street
Geo. W. Keckler
P. T. Smith
Laura Junkin
B. J. Libbe
Santa Fe Railroad
Addie Stiles
Fruitland
Noah Letts
Grandview
Miss Bessie
A. L. Lindner
Muscatine Y. M. C. A
Kansas University
Lhe
Kansas
Snyder’s
Sports
J. J. Hoher & Co
H. BE. McKay
Post Office
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Liverpool
New York
Cloce
Atchison
Mo. Pac
St. Paul
UN. Pac
Chigas
Manhattan
Postum
N. Rosenberger
FP. X. Schaeffer
Prop
New Sioux City
Stein Furniture Comp
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