Muscatine Journal notes and civic items across city
A long Muscatine Journal page lists residents and visitors including Mrs Clark Cocklin Grandview and Miss Grace Musser Iowa City. It covers births deaths business trips church notes and local ads plus reports on entertainment plans and a Hillsdale grave robbing case in nearby Rock Island county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island County
Hillsdale
Rock Island
Casper Maurer
Medical College
Keokuk
Sheriff Cralle
Farber
Jasperson
City Council Meets in Adjourned Session February 1900
City council meets at city hall in adjourned session with Mayor Fulham absent. Aldermen discuss assessment petitions, water works plans, and street improvements. They order a 1900 revised ordinances adoption and schedule next meeting for February 2, 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulham
Dale
Koehler
Schmidt
Gremmel
Busch
Washburn
Richards
Arnold
Ald. Gremmel
S. E. Hughes
City Recorder
Chas
Walk
Cook Street
First National Bank of
Chicago
Illinois
Gremme
Muscatine Water Works Co
Front Street
West Bluffs
Hershey's Barn
Spruce Street
Broadway
Spruce _ street
Bert. C. Benham
Crawford County Agricultural Association Meeting
The Crawford County Agricultural Association plans its annual meeting in Denison on January 30 and 31. Farmers stock raisers and breeders will read papers and discuss topics. On January 31 Rev Henry Wallace of Des Moines editor of Wallace's Farmer will speak on Twentieth Century Farming. A large crowd is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison
Iowa
Crawford County Agricultural Association
Crawford Country
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Wallace
Farmer
Institute
Flaggard Faces of Bygomen
A column of ad copy extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as relief for monthly menstrual torment. It cites testimonials from Miss Jore Savi of Dover Michigan and Miss Rosa HeEtpen of Canton Ohio praising cures and urging women to seek Mrs. Pinkham’s advice. The piece emphasizes suffering, relief, and Mrs. Pinkham’s free guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Park Avenue Community Notes and Local Updates
Local residents report building projects on Park Place including a cistern on the Batchelor place and a new stable and chicken house for a Park Place home. Neighbors welcome Howard Chandler back to Grand street and Scott Lane plans poultry farming ventures. Church services at Park Avenue M E church are announced with Sunday school at 10 and services at 11 led by Rev Breckon, plus an evening session and official board meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Harker
Batchelor Place
Park Place
John Duncan
Chas. Kleindauph
W. A. Allman
Musserville
Howard Chandler
Grand Street
Gus. Shilling
John Freeland
Ruth McDonald
Wapello
Ben. Oats
Dock Longstreth
Scott Lane
Scott
Shilling
Kansas City
North Park Place
Park Avenue M. FE
Chas. L. Breckon
Coxe
Ladies Aid Society
Mire
Blythe Eyes Congressional Nomination in Fourth District
Town, Jan. 26. Word spreads that James E. Blythe will seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth district. Editors report Blythe is building broad support with D. H. Bowen and party leaders backing his candidacy as the field forms toward the primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Lardner
Muscatine
Ft. Scott
Kansas
35Th
Iowa Infantry
Hubert
St. Matthias School
Mocen
James E. Blythe
Foam
Corerogomon Hongen
Blythe
D. H. Bowen
Hare
Musserville Chronicle items from Saturday notes
James Maloney of Chicago visited Musserville Thursday. Local items report pneumonia cases, plastering work, cancer illness, sick lists, barn foundations, road surfacing, burns, street cleaning, rain-water filters, and church notices. Mrs Moxley funeral, Epworth League gas upgrades, revival meetings, accidental flour mishap, and a corrected note on W H Franklin’s machinery plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Maloney
Chicago
John Moxley
Henry Food
Tra. Long
Robert Engle
Washington
Wesley Engle
Cora Royster
Tom Royster
Grandview
Hershey
George Randleman
Little Falls
Minn
Musserville M. E
High Prairie
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Green Street
G. M. D. Slocum
Musserville M. FE. Epworth League
M. E
Henry Schreurs
South Muscatine
W. H. Franklin
Local notes and happenings in Lettsville and Wilton
Lettsville reports tell of new rail rumors and a dry goods store, a Co-Operative store floor update, property transfers, and residents moving to Columbus City and Fredonia. Woodmen plan a Friday gathering with initiations and a feast, plus a rabid dog incident and dog control laws. Wilton commentary praises Logan Iowa road drainage funding and urges road fixes, ends with a joke about a Venus de Milo arms misalignment and a man’s fooling incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co-Operative
O. H. P. Linn
M. E
D. M. Cross
Columbus City
Mr. Cross
Fredonia
Woodmen Hall
W. Gage
Gage
Chicago
Wilton
Logan
Iowa
Shooting Fatality at Darrtown In Trap Field
Hamilton Ohio January 27 During a shooting match at Darrtown John Kulp was killed by John Willoughby of this city Kulp was working the traps and looked over the boards Both men are well known No blame attaches to Willoughby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Darrtown
John Kulp
John Willoughby
Kulp
Willoughby
Doans Ointment Proved to Relieve Skin Itch and Hemorrhoids
Muscatine residents report relief from skin itch and hemorrhoids after using Doan’s Ointment. Charles Tappe, an insurance agent at Second and Iowa, testifies that years of itching hemorrhoids eased with the product sold by Haverkamp’s pharmacy, price 50 cents, and distributed by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Charles Tappe
Second
Iowa Avenue
First National Bank
East Eighth Street
Havercamp’s
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
U. S
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ine Muscatine Journal
Clark Cocklin
City
Grace Musser
Iowa City
N. G. LaQuatte
Englewood, Ill
H. B. Chamberlain
H. P. Gibbs
Ft. Madison
W. F. Hays
E. M. Roberts
Pittsburg
W. E. Bliven
Columbus Junction
Geo. B. Albert
Marshalltown
Helen Achter
Davenport
W. J. Lee
Barnhart
John S. Sterneman
H. W. Miller
Grand Rapids
S. E. Walcott
J. M. Kemble
D. C. Anderson
West Liberty
Geo. Leutzinger
Kaiser
C. S. Bird
Fruitland
William
Lutheran Church
E. H. Finney
Eldon
Mr. Finney
Miss Harmon
Mr. Quinn
Geneseo
H. Coryner
Nichols Station
Shipman
Sherwood Kerr
R. B. Huff
Tipton
Charles Schulte
Moscow
Montezuma
Shinnabarger
Mr. Brush
Ottumwa
G. W. Pelton
West
Mr. Pelton
Portland
Oregon
Fraternal Aid Society
William Diercks
Teichmiller
Macon
Neb
Prof. Crendenen
J. A. McMullen
W. F. George
Lottie McAllister
C. W. Fracker
A. A. Clark
Henry Vail
John Powell
Susie Fitzgerald
Cedar Rapids
Will Rowe
Chas. Rich
B. Nievel
Kenana
Burdock
Norman Winters
Business College
Katie Berk
Bert Underwood
East Hill
F. L. Ciendenin
Weed Park Fund
Drury Township
Borger & Bliven’s
Letts Review
The
Muscatine Journal
Letts
John Butman
Mackintosh
Expres
ecxApress
Mackie
Peneie Davis
ARS, Roebuck & Co. Inc
Chic Co
Crawford County
Rosa HeEtpen
Cleveland Ave
Canton, O
Ste
Park Avenue
Congress
Vrisentine
Fournal
Lettsville
Larnard’s Model Laundry
Leowa Ave
Weinge
Sears, Roebuck & Co. ‘Inc
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Wittich Bros
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