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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 30, 1902

Page

5

Rock Island and Milwaukee Railroads Face Muscatine Negotiations

In Muscatine the Rock Island railroad chief engineer B. B. Brayton visits city hall to study past records as talks resume on entering the city. The Milwaukee road cites a contract to use facilities and may demand depot, tracks, and loading rights if Rock Island stalls. The council faces a stiff proposal with paving implications on Front street and potential rail costs.

Muscatine Great Rock Island B. B. Brayton Rock Island Road Davenport Milwaukee Milwaukee Road Rock Island Journal Chicago Milwaukee Company Rock Island Company Beneft Front Street Linn Street Hershey Avenue

Free trial bottles of Dr. David Kennedy kidney remedy offered

Over two hundred thousand trial bottles and pamphlets are being sent free by mail under a special arrangement with the manufacturers. Readers may obtain a trial bottle by sending full name and post office address to the Dr. David Kennedy Corporation in Rondout New York and mentioning the paper.

David Kennedy

Jayhawk basketball brings Kansas to Muscatine next Tuesday

The University of Kansas team tours the east and plays Muscatine on Tuesday night. Local favorites train hard and have new shirts in old gold and royal purple. Potential opponents listed include Fairfield Ottumwa and Rock Island with selected local players named. Another game is set with Parsons College on the 26th.

Muscatine University of Kansas Lawrence Fairfield Rock Island West Side Chicago Ottumwa Nevius Kansas Pearl City Howard Parsons James Patterson E. Thompson Louis Kautz Walter Kautz Will Appel Andy Asthalter Arsons College of Fairfield

Italians Returned Home From Davenport Labor Project

About 25 Italians employed by the C R L P R R to build a double track east of the city departed for Davenport. City officials protested the use of cheap labor saying it would unemploy local men, and their stance prevailed as the workers left town.

C. R. L & P. R. R. Company Davenport

A Successful Sale by S Collins Near Lone Tree

S Collins, four miles south of Lone Tree, held a stock sale yesterday that proved highly profitable as all stock sold well despite high feed costs. He also sold his farm, signaling rising land values in the area, moving from a 180 acre farm bought five years ago at 25 dollars per acre to a 180 acre sale at 50 dollars per acre and plans to relocate to 160 acres in Henry County Missouri around early March.

S. Collins Lone Tree Mr. Collins Collins Henry County Missouri

Devil's Auction to Expand Theatrical Interests This Season

Manager Chas. H. Yale plans a large growth of his shows next year. Besides the Everlasting Devil's Auction and The Evil Eye, and Al. H. Wilson in The Watch on the Rhine, a mid season comic opera with over one hundred cast members is planned, followed by a pantomimic ballet spectacle in spring at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday February 5.

Chas. H. Yale Tennyson Sidney R. Ellis al. H. Wilson

A. O. U. W. Lodge Photographs At Townsend Studio

Members of the A. O. U. W. lodge pose for group photographs at Townsend's studio. The photos will be framed and hung in the lodge room, and those who have not yet sat are urged to do so at once.

A. O. U. W. Lodge Townsend

Epworth League to Host L. U. B. A. Social

The Epworth League of the First Methodist church invites members and friends to a L. U. B. A. social at the church parlors next Tuesday evening with free admission and refreshments. A Box Makers dance at Assembly Hall drew a large crowd and a good time last night. Baptist young people enjoyed a sleighing party ending with an oyster supper at Miss Rosa Brandt's home.

Epworth League of the First Methodist Church Box Makers Rosa’ Brandt

Rathbone Sisters hold success meet at Iowa avenue hall

The Rathbone Sisters hosted a well attended meeting at their Iowa avenue hall with business items discussed and a social supper afterward. The gathering featured cards music and dancing and ended with a pleasant social mood. The Muscatine class of 1904 celebrated with a bob sled parade to Wilma Holcomb’s home chaperoned by Mrs. Lydia Ruckdeschel and Mrs. M. Drever.

Rathbone Iowa Avenue Muscatine Wilma Holcomb Wilma Lydia Ruckdeschel M. Drever

Second Comus Dancing Club Dance Set At Maccabee Hall

The second in a series of dances under Comus Dancing club will be held tomorrow evening at Maccabee hall on Iowa Avenue. The U B church ladies plan an all day sewing event tomorrow at Mrs Andrew Mull's home on Cedar Street.

Comus Dancing Club Maccabee Hall Iowa Avenue U. B Andrew Mull Cedar Street

Chicago Markets Open High Low Close and Grain Prices

Markets in Chicago show data for wheat corn oats and pork livestock. Prices move across futures with May July and Jan contracts and daily open high low close figures. Leathering volumes for hogs cattle and sheep as well as shipments from Minneapolis Duluth and Liverpool noted with clearances for wheat corn and oats.

Chicago Tod Northwestern Minneapolis Duluth Liverpool

Buy a Home With Small Down Payment Now

Real estate ad announces Titus & Jackson offering first-class homes with affordable down payments. Call Titus & Jackson promptly to secure bargains listed in The Daily Journal.

Titus & Jackson

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