Fire and accident insurance at Kem ble's
A column lists a succession of visitors and travelers in the city, noting Frank Kincaid aboard the Firefly to Davenport and Charles Ruthenberg from Wapello on business. Others include John Bennison, Mrs. G. W. Weippert, Mrs. A. H. Gatton, John Miller, and more, with various return trips and social visits. An ad for Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry and Dean's Ointment appear amid travel notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Gatton
Fairport
John H. Dayton
U. S. Navy
Norfolk Yards
Geo. Reeder
F. H. Little
Local items highlight births travel and business notes
Grandview resident D M Bridges spent a day in Muscatine. A son born July 7 to Mr and Mrs Aleck Eirman. Kemble's advertises the county's only complete abstract books. The Quincy steamer was late arriving from the north yesterday. Diptheria treated with Dr Thomas Electric Oil. Hannah Nyenhuis departed for Oostburg Wisconsin to visit her uncle. Elmer Becker takes a factory post in Newport Ark. Newport shell dealer W F Kath visits Muscatine. Burdock Blood Bitters promoted for health. Mr and Mrs John Murer visited GS Wold Iowa, then left on the Firefly for Buffalo. Davenport Times notes Thomas Fell restaurant in Fruitland closed by creditors. bankruptcy possible. Mrs J A Beckey and children return from Tipton Missouri where crops look favorable.
Deafness Cure Claims in Local Advert
An advertisement proclaims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness largely to inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, and promises $100 for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sold by Druggists, 75 cents Hall's Family Pills advertised.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
C. Hall
Twice Daily Trains To Cincinnati and Louisville
Through trains depart Chicago mornings and evenings for Louisville Indianapolis and Cincinnati via the Pennsylvania Short Lines. Morning service offers vestibuled cafe parlor coach and standard coach. night service features vestibuled coaches and sleeping cars with private rooms. Reserve space with H R Dering at 248 South Clark Street.
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Cincinnati
Louisville
Chicago
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Short Lines
Pennsylvania
H. R. Dering
A. G. P. Agt
South
Clark St
F. A. A. Meeting Invites Members and Guests Tonight
All members of the F A A and friends are invited to attend this evening. Prof W E Higgins of Kansas State University and Bro J W Skepper of the general council will speak briefly. Attendees are welcome after eight o clock.
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W. E. Higgins
Kansas State University
Bro
J. W. Skepper
General Council
Editor's Wife Jessie Thompson Dies in Iowa City
Mrs. Jessie Groscup Thompson of Winterset, wife of Homer Thompson editor of the Winterset Madisonian, died today at the state homeopathic hospital in Iowa City. Funeral plans not yet announced.
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Jessie Groscup Thompson
Winterset Passes Away
Iowa City
Homer Thompson
The
Winterset
Madison
Homeopathic State Hospital
Guard Mount Drill Of Company C Near Pine and Chestnut
Company C trains for camp at Oskaloosa set for August 5. Guards patrol a city block in a novel drill with eight veterans guiding pickets while the armory squad also drills. Adjutant General Byers urges a permanent Iowa state camp near the new army post for efficient mobilization and cost savings.
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Second
Third
Pine and
Chestnut Streets
50Th
Oskaloosa
Byers
Iown
52Nd Regiment
Fonda
Iowa
Milan Abolishes Street Car Service Soon
Milan will lose all street car accommodations as negotiations over toll bridges and track use fail. Searle Marshall and Rock Island officials met with Tri-City Railway representatives. no agreement allowed continued Milan track use. street car lines to be dismantled amid ongoing Rock Island boycotts.
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Tri-City Railway Company
Milan
City of
Searle & Marshall
Rock Island
Tri-City Railway
Jackson and Hurst
Misses Attend Six Weeks Course at Leverich Normal School
In Foster Illinois on July 11 the Misses Nellie Wray Sophia Anderson and Mae Reynolds begin a six weeks program at Leverichs normal school. Local residents Ira Reynolds visited the Ridge on business and Rahn Hayes recovers from a recent misfortune. Eda Leach of Muscatine vacationed with Carrie Spickler while Ella Reynolds visited the Fourth at Mardocks grove with Floyd Spickler.
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Muscatine
Carrie Spickler
Ella Reynolds
Ridge
Floyd
Sam Spickler
Mardock’s Grove
People of Odd Delusions in Jerusalem
A Chicago Record-Herald piece notes Jerusalem attracts religious cranks with visions and salvation schemes. It profiles a penitent sailor with a cross, a lamb-sacrificing man, and a wealthy woman feeding Ishmaelitish dogs, while citing Moslems and American Indians as viewing eccentricity as sacred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Chicago Record-Herald
Famous Women With Small Families Throughout History
The article notes Elizabeth Barrett Browning had one son, Mrs. Somerville two children, Mme. George Sand two, Lady Mary Montagu two, Mme. de Sevigne two, Mme. de Stael three with a second marriage bringing another son, while George Eliot and Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Craig had no children. It also mentions Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Opie as childless.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mrs. Somerville
Mme
George Sand
Mary Montagu
Mme. de Sevigne
Mme. de Stael
George Fliot
Cross
Craig
John Halifax
Barbauld
Opie
Board of First M. E. Church to Convene at 7:45 PM
The official board meets tonight at 7 45 in the church parlor. All board members are urged to attend due to an important agenda item.
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First
M. E. Church
Local Market Prices for Grain and Produce
A historical price list shows corn 63 to 66 cents, oats 42 to 48 cents, wheat 65 to 70 cents, rye 55, barley 55, hay up to 17 dollars, potatoes 40 cents per bushel, apples 75 cents per bushel, onions 1 dollar per bushel, cabbage 5 cents per head, and various dairy and meat quotes. Includes live stock, poultry, fruit, vegetables, fish, and fuel prices with numerous per unit details.
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Illinois
Graham
Rio
Perfect Logic of a Lunatic
In the London Chronicle a visitor to an asylum meets a man riding a stick as if on a horse. The lunatic calls it a hobby and jokes that if it were a horse he could get off.
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London Chronicle
Lawyer’s tangled finances spark church hush
A Philadelphia lawyer’s dire pecuniary mess shocks his community as persistent creditors learn there is nothing to garnishee. During a church revival a member asks if the lawyer has religion. Another lawyer quips that religion may be in his wife’s name.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
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Frank Kincaid
Davenport
Charles Ruthenberg
Wapello
John Bennison
W. J. Young
Burlington
G. W. Weippert
City
Jennie
Belle Hanna
John Miller
Heinz Pickle Works
Western
Nichols
John Powers
Waukon
Wis
Dean
C. F. Nevins
Philip Stein
Mrs. Stevenson
Keithsburg
Helen Blair
Temple's
J. F. Clark
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W. J. Grady
Co. F. Cadle
Cadle
May Howard
Bessie
Platt
T. C. Platt
Empire
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Joe Mitchell Chapple
National
Ocean Hotel
Asbury Park
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American Plan
Geo. L. Atkins & Sons
Hotel
D. M. Bridges
Grandview
Aleck Eirman
Muscatine County
Quincy
Thomas
Hannah Nyenhuis
Oostburg, Wis
Elmer Becker
Newport
Ark
W. F. Kath
John Murer
Thomas Fell
Fruitland
J. A. Beckey
Tipton
Missouri
Foster
Uneeda Biscuit
National Biscuit Company
Rwuouatale
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Joe Wilson
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