Local notes mix sales trips travel and visits
Thiesen sells pure drugs Mrs Holmes novels Scheetz Hammock sale at the Maze Charlie Knott returns from a shelling trip Mrs Owels builds a large barn Miss Norma Otto visits Davenport Miss M and Jarvis travel to Englewood Chicago for Englewood trip Titus Jackson offer a $2000 room house F Boston adds to his South Muscatine button factory New Panitorium Luellen Bros offers cleaning and shoe shining Minnie Beitel ill son Earl Hartman sisters visit Davenport ice cream social July 9 at Jno Valet Cedar County Page and El Paso Flyer trip to Aberdeen Kan family departures to Kansas City
Ice from P H Elfers and local notices in Muscatine
The column lists local commerce and daily life items. Pure ice from P H Elfers is mentioned along with book sales, flour quality, passenger travels on the Firefly to Rock Island and Montpelier, property sales on easy terms, street repairs by the city, a forthcoming eye clinic, and social visits. It also notes a jury trial in a fine case and mentions residents returning home after visits.
Twentieth Century club hosts rain or shine launch ride
The ladies of the Twentieth Century club enjoyed a rainy evening ride aboard the Mignon with hostess Mrs. W. Mull. Despite the weather, the group embarked at 7 pm for a river trip, some disembarking at dorms while others continued downriver. all returned damp but elated and proceeded home by wagonette. Members present include Mrs. W. L. Mull and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Century Club
W. L. Mull
W. F. Brannan
J. L. McColm
W. L. Roach
Emerson Hoopes
Elora Colt
C. Coldren
Carrie Shammo
Just to Clean Out Sell Defiance starch 8 cents a package
Geo W. Reuling advertises Defiance starch at 8 cents per 16 oz package with a deal of 3 packages for 20 cents claiming it as a bargain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Defiance
Geo
W. Reuling
Rain Delays Cedar River Bridge Construction In Iowa
Contractors face record rainfall hindering grading and filling on the Milwaukee cut-off near Muscatine. Dan McIntosh reports the grade is soft, delaying completion by months while crews stabilize a bridge area downstream as floodwaters threaten piers and debris poses risk to ironwork. Flooded districts report crop and livestock losses and farmers rush to protect stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan McIntosh
McIntosh Brothers
Journal
Milwaukee
McIntosh
Muscatine
Mr. McIntosh
McDougall
Yale
Conesville
Cedar River
John W. McKee
McKeown Bridge
Chicago Markets Wheat Corn and Live Stock Report
Market dispatch from H. J. Toher & Co. with H. E. McKay of Muscatine managing Chicago office notes open high low and close prices for Wheat Corn Oats Pork Rib and Lord contracts. It cites Chicago hog cattle and sheep receipts, freight car projections, Northwest wheat receipts, and rainfall impacting Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Missouri with conditions worsening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. J. Toher & Co
H. E McKay
Muscatine
Chicago
Tod-Y-Y’s
Northwest
Minneapolis
Duluth
Liverpool
Nevada county exhibit to showcase gold brick at San Francisco fair
A Nevada county display for the San Francisco street fair next August will center on a half million dollar gold brick guarded by police. It also features virgin gold nuggets worth thirty thousand dollars, a quartz pyramid, mining tools from primitive to modern, an electric hoisting plant and quartz mill, plus abundant county fruit and timber specimens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Francisco
Knights of Pythias
Nevada County
Argonaut
Mother Lode
Chief Operator and Manager Exchange Pun About Ring
A light exchange has the Chief Operator asking why telephone operators are good jewelry patrons. The manager responds with a puzzled look and the punch line that operators get a ring every time they plug in.
Tramp and Lady Exchange Humble Cash at Martinique Scene
A brief street chatter vignette shows a tramp asking a passerby for help after a Martinique reference, the lady gives a dime and questions the man about the trip. The tramp recalls a distant visit, about fifteen years past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinique
The Real Thing Versus Imitation Panama Hats
Dialogue contrasts genuine panama hats with cheaper imitations. First Kid asks the cost of a panama hat while wearing one. Second Ditto replies a genuine hat costs ninety nine cents, noting cheaper imitations exist.
Mary MacLane Enlivens Chicago Visit With Bold Talk
Montana writer Mary MacLane arrives in Chicago and stirs interest with her confessed views and quirky remarks. She dismisses newspaper men, plans chemistry study, and jokes about parks, stock yards, and rain while chatting about fame and oddity during a city stop in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mary MacLane
Montana
Miss MacLane
Radcliffe
East
Eden
Monroe
Mary
Butte
Also Mentioned on This Page
Daily Journal
F. X. Schaefer
Prop
Reliance Loan Co
Joe Kranz
Thiesen
Mrs. Holmes
Scheetz’s
Charlie Knott
Mr. Owels
South Muscatine
Norma Otto
Davenport
Cora Hinkle
M. &. Jarvis
Englewood
Titus & Jackson
F. Boston
Luellen Bros
East Second Street
Grand Hotel
Minnie Beitel
Earl
Bessie
Florence Hartman
Charles Page
Kansas City
Aberdeen
Kan
West Hill Cash Store
H. H. Sharrar
Mgr
Tel. Ne
P. H. Elfers
J. L. Murphy
Rock Island
E. B. Fulham
Montpelier
Charles E. Crow
K. King
Los Angeles
Cal
Hummel
Elsie Narvis
Wm. Narvis
Keota
A. E. Duty
Nell and
Frank
Cleveland
Ohio
City
Mulberry Street
H. T. Fiske
Freers
Second Street
Harrison
Margaret Dwyer
Wilton
Geo. McMahon
N. W. Meyers
Banker's Union of the World
Anna Bohling
John Bohling
F. E. Fisher
J. L. Hubbard
T. J. Hubbard
H. S. Hubbard
Captain Burrows
Bonnie Bell
Julia Hess
Charles
Mrs. Dempsey
Mary Hess
Burlington
Helen Blair
Charles Klaffenbach
West Eighth Street
Klaffenbach
Justice Court
H. S. Howe
Fairport
Jack Bassett
Edna Goddart
Bassett
Experi
Ence
Nevada
Sierra Nevada
Nevada City
Grass Valley
Pacific Coast
Overland Railroads
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Concordia
Wichita
Des Moines
M. C. Hayes & Co
F. Second St
Ture
Stein
G. & P. Stein Furniture Co
West Second Street
UMSCHIED @ SEILER’S
H. F. Barnard
R &P
East Second Steet
Muscatine Lbr. & Box Co
EV. Brandenburg
Paint Man
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