Prairie pioneer memories at Columbus Junction reflect today
The 1857 C., R. L. & P. railroad linked Columbus Junction to Washington via The Sand Bank. The piece recalls Military Road crossings, ox plowed sod fields, and heavy May June plowing yielding 15 to 35 bushels per acre. It notes farms modernized with irrigation windmills and rural mail delivery. Marriage of Roy Parsons and Pearl Ogier and Saturday band concerts are mentioned among community updates.
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Washington
Clifton
Ainsworth
Long Creek
McCormick
Uncle Sam
Spirit Land
Roy Parsons
Pearl Ogier
James K. Blair
R. J. Reaney
Samuel
Emmett County
Train accident wrecks eggs and injures passenger
In Riverside on Saturday a Cedar Rapids freight train switching on a side track derailed 27 cases of eggs and damaged coal cars. A young man riding in a car was injured and taken to Iowa City for treatment as yolks leaked from broken eggs.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Hickory Grove Social Notes and Local Travel
Mrs Frank Hovenagle and daughter Miss Effie visited sister Mrs Hy Drumm. A B Raub and A N Eis made a flying trip to Muscatine last Monday afternoon. Frank Hovenagle helped Eis with his work last week. Chas Dreese attended the Pleasant Prairie meeting last Sunday night. Mr Chas Fridley and family passed through enroute home. Chas M E Patterson passed through the burg. A B Raub lost a prized trotting horse last week. A Paul was a county seat caller last Saturday. John Jenkins spent Sunday with his best girl.
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Frank Hovenagle
Effie
Hy. Drumm
A. B. Raub
A. N. Eis
Muscatine
Eis
Chas. Dreese
Pleasant Prairie
Chas Fridley
Chas
M. E. Patterson
A. Paul
John Jenkins
French Tansy Wafers Promise Relief for Painful Periods
The ad touts French Tansy Wafers from a celebrated French physician’s recipe used in private practice for years to ease painful and irregular menses. It claims ten years of sale and thousands of cures, urging purchase only of genuine red wrapped pills at two dollars, via La France Drug Co. and J. J. Havercamp's drug store in Muscatine Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la France Drug Co
San Francisco
J. J. Havercamp
Muscatine
Iowa
Williamston Cruelty Case Involving 9 Year Old
In Williamston Michigan on July 23 a case of alleged extreme cruelty to Lois Mead a 9 year old led to the girl taking an overdose. She survived after physicians treated her. Her father C Mead and wife were arrested and held on $1000 bonds for examination on a cruelty charge.
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Williamston
Mich
Lois Mead
C. Mead
Convention Set for Aug 1 in Des Moines After Fire
Des Moines Iowa July 23 The progress in rebuilding the Auditorium leveled by fire after selection as the Republican convention meeting place convinces Chairman Weaver of the Republican state committee that it will be ready in time and he formally announces the state convention will be held in Des Moines on Aug 1 as initially decided.
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Des Moines
Weaver
Republican State Committee
Banker J R Clements gets ten more years in Minnesota case
In Caledonia Minnesota banker J R Clements of LaCrosse Wisconsin received an additional ten year sentence on a second indictment for wrecking the Fillmore County bank at Preston Minnesota. His co defendant M R Todd died before the second trial ended.
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Caledonia
Minn
J. R. Clements
LaCrosse
Wis
Fillmore County
Preston
M. R. Todd
Mull's Lightning Pain Killer Ad Proclaims Instant Cure
An old advertisement touts Mull's Light ning Pain Killer as a universal pain cure, claiming it kills any pain instantly whether internal or external. It promises absolute purity and lists 25¢ or 50¢ prices at all druggists.
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Mull
Syrian-born pastor forms New Age church in Morenei
Rev A M Rihbany once pastor of Morenei Congregational church announces withdrawal from the orthodox church. He severes ties over disbelief in Christ's divinity and Bible criticism, launching the First Ray and planning a new Bible edition with pure teachings replacing legends.
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Morenei, Mich
A. M. Rihbany
Morenei
First Ray
New Age Church
Rihbany
Assault on an Editor in Indiana Court
Clare E Little wife of Rev J C Little a deposed Baptist minister from Rossville was fined five dollars and costs for assaulting Charles M Walters editor of the Populist Journal and lieutenant governor nominee. Walters caused Little’s arrest on a peace warrant and the case was dismissed after Mrs Little pleaded guilty to assault and battery while her husband encouraged her. Little will stand trial.
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Indianapolis
Clare E. Little
J. C. Little
Rossville
Irwin
Frankfort
Charlies M. Walters
Populist Journal
Walters
Little
Mystery of a Dead Baby and Other Trials
Milwaukee reports the arrest of Dr. Charles Sb McDonald and his wife over the baby found in a satchel at Plankington drug store. They admit leaving the body, claim it was the daughter of a nearby wealthy farmer, kept it in their room for two weeks, and McDonald attempted suicide. In Terre Haute a jury acquits Dr Casto of insurance arson after a heated trial. Two Rivers records the drowning of 11-year-old Mabel Jarvis of Milwaukee and 12-year-old Beatrice Pearson of St. Paul while walking on a boom stick in swift river current.
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Milwaukee
Charles Sb. McDonald
Mineral Point
Wis
McDonald
Mineral
Clipper House
Jabez Casto
Terre Haute
Ind
Casto
Two Rivers
Mabel Jarvis
Beatrice Pearson
St. Paul
Lightning Strikes Near Franklin Men in Narrow Escape
In Franklin Michigan on July 23 William Wood and his son Bateman were leaning against a wire fence when a bolt of lightning struck nearby. They were knocked back several feet and stunned but are expected to recover.
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Franklin, Mich
William Wood
Bateman
National Union Senate Elects Officers at Alexandria Bay
At the final meeting of the nineteenth senate of the National Union held at Alexandria Bay Friday, officers were elected with W. L. Wild of Detroit named president and J. W. Meyers of Toledo named secretary.
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Watertown
N. Y
Nineteenth
Senate of the National Union
Alexandria Bay
W. L. Wild
Detroit
J. W. Meyers
Toledo
Fire Destroys Huttig Sash and Door Warehouse in Muscatine
A warehouse of the Huttig Sash and Door company in Muscatine Iowa burned yesterday causing an estimated loss of 50000 dollars. Fire officials reported extensive damage to stock and buildings as crews fought the blaze through the night.
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Muscatine
Huttig Sash and Poor Company
Emperors Prize Lamp Duel and Paris Necklace Theft
Reports include Emperor William offering a prize for a practical alcohol incandescent lamp, Count Boni de Castelane dueling Count Orlowski in Paris with the assailant reportedly wounded in the neck, and Mrs. Potter Palmer losing or having stolen emeralds valued at 17 000 in Paris.
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William
Count Boni de Castelane
Paris
Count Orlowski
Count Boni
Potter Palmer
American Federation of Labor
Jefferson Park
Chicago
Bessie McDonald
John R. McDonald
Baron Rudolph de Hirsch
Munich
Bavaria
Sarah Sears Woolsey
Theodore Woolsey
Yale University
New Haven
Executive Council
The
Federation of Labor
Denver
J. P. Hoffman
Secret Service
Philadelphia
Julia Stone
John Hay
Cleveland
New York
Republican State Committee
Saratoga
Niles
Australia
Summer Schedule of Street Car Services
The schedule lists street car departures for South Muscatine Park Place and Fair Grounds with first trains at 5 50 a m and 6 10 a m respectively, running at 20 minute intervals to late evening. Cemetery and Sunday tables show start times and repeated intervals, noting no passenger delivery after 11 10 p m and adjusted Sunday service from 8 a m to 10 p m with half hour stretches.
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Geo. W. Dillaway
Haviland
China
Dillaway’s
Sterina
Remington
Maesne
Huttar
Waehburn
Tadies O
Star Plug Tobacco
Clatfese
Continental Tobacco CO
St. Louis, Mo
F. A. Neidig
East 2d St
Muscatine, Iowa
McTugr
Morner
Bradfield Regulator Company
Atlanta
Georgia
News
Journal
Columbus Junction
Roggin
Davenport
George Hoffman
Bayfield
Klondike
Mr. Green
George Green
Buffalo
John Newton
Newton
George
Rice
Davis
Lewis Critz
Down City
Rev
Emerson
Pennsylvania
Blanch
Mellie Hawthorn
West Chester
Ben Elliot
Riverside
Hickory Grove
Burlington
P. Dahlman
St. Louis
Partita
Harlem River
Ottumwa
National Union Senate
Daily Journal
Ottie Snyder
West Front St
Street Car Company
South Muscatine
Park Place
Fair Grounds
Louisville
Ad Nashville
Great Central Southern Trunk Line
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
R. J. Wemyss
General Immigration and Industrial Ag’t
Louisville, KY
Wen Ey
Wycol, Seamans & Benecicl
Madison St
Sycamore
Hay Market
M,. Shaw, Prop
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