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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1903
Page
6
A Muscatine resident warns that boys boarding moving trains near Cedar Street risk serious injury or death. Police vow enforcement of an ordinance banning boarding moving trains as accidents increase from Letts to Columbus Junction, with communities urged to curb the dangerous practice.
A Baltimore News quip runs a light exchange about mineral water charges at a courtier. The customer asks if the water is charged and the girl responds that it is not and directs him to the cashier.
Rock Island System carpenters work on a new depot replacing the April burned structure. Foreman Myers says it will be ready by August 15. Operator McCulley jokes he will not burn this one down and local residents note the ongoing activity amid summer routines.
Mrs Showers and her children from Iowa City spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr and Mrs Jeff.
Several locals attended the Johnson county common schools commencement in Iowa City on Friday. The town heard the threshing machine from nearby farms while Maud House helped with housework. Will and James Ostendorp visited friends Sunday and Stella Hanlon joined a teachers' institute in Iowa City.
Bloomington notes report a delayed mail batch from the Journal office, a June wedding between Miss Mary Hodgin and John Milhous, social visits by Mrs. Abbie M. Pinkham and others, plus a Christian Endeavor meeting on the topic Religion Between Sundays. Farmers celebrate a unusually heavy hay and oat harvest across the area.
The line offers a round trip from Minneapolis to Portland Seattle Tacoma Victoria and Vancouver for 46.55 with travel in August and return by October 15 1903. Stopovers allowed and travelers may use different routes for outward and return legs. Contact A R Cutts G P A T Minneapolis for tickets.
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