Local notices recount malaria illness and travel updates
Ben Beach is off duty this week owing to malaria. J M Appel and H W Huttig are reported ill with malaria fever or back from Chicago. J Scott Blackwell and Geo B Jackson return from trips and repairs proceed on a West Second street store. John Powers visits from Waukon. Mrs A W Morgan travels to Letts. Charles Lindner returns from St Louis for South Muscatine Lumber. Ben Pratt recovers from blood poisoning after a hand injury. OUTINGS promote Grape-Nuts as ready to eat for summer ease and cool meals.
Notable Local Travel and Family News
Dr. Pentzer sight specialist on East Second street. The steamer Mary B. passed up the river yesterday afternoon. Ernest Ruckdeschel left last night for a two weeks South business trip. Mr and Mrs A J Weaver were passengers on the 7 58 train to Letts for a visit with parents. Miss Mollie Othmer confined at Mrs Paul Geibel home ill. Born to Aleck Eierman and wife a son Alexander Ejierman Jr. Elmer Jennison family visit to Grandview. Grace Gertrude and Linda Musser returned from Chicago. Mrs Arthur Baggs and son from Leavenworth en route home from Grinnell. Miss Sade McQuesten departs for Chicago to resume stenographic work. Lelia Lieberknechts visiting Geneseo and Grandview before returning home.
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Arthur Baggs
Little Son
Leavenworth, Kan
Grinnell
Sade McQuesten
W. W. McQuesten
Chicago
Great Western Cereal Company
Lelia Lieberknechts
Geneseo, Ir
Wm. Stamler
Fletcher Avenue
Grandview
Rumor of Milwaukee control of Muscatine line revived
The Dubuque Times reports an old rumor that the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad seeks entry to Burlington and would use Muscatine North and South as a branch. It notes the line progress toward Ottumwa and Davenport and possible Rock Island cooperation. Firemen on the Rock Island threaten strike amid wage and work disputes.
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Dubuque Times
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Burlington
Muscatine
Milwaukee
Ottumwa
Davenport
Rock Island
The
St. Louis
Missouri City
Colorado
Upper Bridge
Venice
Cedar Rapids
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Ant Pest Plagues Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas
A reader from Muscatine notes widespread ant problems across Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas. He describes large red ants that bite painfully and warns they could become a serious nuisance if not controlled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Kansas
Muscatine
Bryan's Bitterness Explained in Curtis Letter
William E. Curtis reports a New York letter claiming President Cleveland called Bryan a mountebank in a Mississippi missive. The tale suggests Bryan reacted to the alleged letter, tying it to his reaction to the Til den club speech.
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Bryan
William E. Curtis
New York
Chicago Record-Herald
Col. Bryan
Mr.Cleveland
Mississippi
Tilden Club
School House Construction Bids Sought in Moscow Township
Proposals for the erection of a school house in Moscow township Muscatine County will be received by C. Martens one half mile west of Wilton where plans and specifications may be viewed until six o clock p m July 25 1902. The contract will be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. The board may reject any or all bids. Dated June 25 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow Township
Muscatine
C. Martens
Wilton
Muscatine Record Rainfall Past Fifty Years Notes
Mrs. J. P. Walton reports Muscatine’s rainfall for fifty years averages 27.81 inches annually with 1851 cited as a high water year. The current period shows 4.14 inches from July 1 to July 9, and June recorded 8.79 inches, amid a long continuous weather record dating back to 1839.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Walton
Muscatine
T. S. Parvin
John Ufford
Nichols Wins Judgeship Prize at Des Moines
Des Moines Iowa July 10 at the judicial convention Earlham Judges Applegate and Gamble were renominated by acclamation Ed Nichols of Perry was nominated to succeed Judge Wilkinson on the first ballot receiving one more vote than J A Gusher of Winterset
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Nichols
Des Moines
Iowa
Earlham
Applegate and Gamble
Wilkinson
Ed. Nichols
Perry
J. A. Gusher
Winterset
Pleasant Ways for Summer Days
Grand Trunk railway system publishes a new summer tourist folder titled Pleasant Ways for Summer Days along with other descriptive literature. Available on application to Geo. W. Vaux A. G. P. T. A. 135 Adams St Chicago.
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Grand Trunk Railway System
Adams St
Chicago
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Daily Journal
P. M. Musser
Iowa Avenue
Third Street
Robinson
McBride & Cope’s
W. E. Battey
West Second Street
Ben Beach
J. M. Appel
Hershey Avenue
H. W. Huttig
J. Scott Blackwell
Geo. B. Jackson
John Powers
Waukon
A. W. Morgan
Letts
Charles Lindner
South
Ben Pratt
Troy, NY
Dr. Pentzer
East Second Street
Mary B
Ernest Ruckdeschel
A. J. Weaver
Mollie Othmer
Paul Geibel
Newell Avenue
Aleck Eierman
Alexander Ejierman, Jr
Elmer Jennison
Mrs. Jennison
Grace
Gertrude
Linda Musser
Verry
Chinatown
Atrip
San Francisco
California
Omaha
Los Ange
TOC Huis
J. Francis
Omaha, Neb
Muscatine North
Bravo
Clara
Eveansz Post
Clara Bruce
Traubenkurs
Germany
Rhine
Johnson
Cyclopaedia
Europe
Mull
America
Lightning Medicine CO
Rock Island, Ill
C. B. Fuller
Sterling Remedy CO
Choice Investments
Titus & Jackson
the Journal
Capita
J. L. Giesler
J. H. Kaiser
S. L. Johnson
F. H. Little
Gus Schmidt
John UH. Kaiser
A. Baird
F. W. Swan
F. W. Eversmeyer
J. L. Geisler
C. A. Mull
Blackwell
Via
Great Rock Island
Jno
G. Farmer
G. P
T. A
Cedar Rapids Division
RIL
Post Ofice
Board of Trade
C. C. Collins
Jackson Boulevard
Clark Street
Oskaloosa
Iowa Central
Marshalltawa
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