Summer Schedule of Street Car Services
The document lists summer street car service times for South Muscatine and nearby stops. It notes departures from the company office at 5:59 and 6:00 a m with 20 minute intervals to late evening, plus specific times from South Muscatine Park Place Fair Grounds Cemetery and other stops. Sundays show first car at 8:00 a m with half hour and then 25 minute intervals through the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Muscatine
Park Place
Fair Grounds
Wilton Brance
Muscatine
Wilton
Edecone
Mask Off at Lastr sibly Explains Chinese Operations
Berlin reports Chinese legations hold hostages as Sheng discusses dispatches from Peking. A Daily Express telegraph from London notes imperial edict urging peace while viceroys must defend territories and prevent foreign troop advances along the Yangtse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Shanghai
Daily Express
China
Li Hung Chang
Shan-Tung
Li Iung Chang
Tien-Tsin
Peking
Chi-Li
Chi- Li
Yu Lu
Sheng
Pao Ting Fu
Kwang Ping Fu
Massacre and intrigue reported in Asia and rail news
Shanghai reports speak of massacre of Italian priests and foreigners with missionaries fleeing toward Kiang Su. Boxers attack Pao Ting Fu killing a foreign physician and thousands of natives. U S notices crown railroad transfers in Illinois and Minnesota. St. John dies at 66 in Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Express
Shanghai
Jin Nan Wen
Chi- Li
Ning Po
Hong Chow
Kiang Su
Yang Tse Kiang
Fergusson
Sheng
Latto
Peking
Tokio
Pao ‘Ting Fu
Li Ho Keh
Rural free delivery set for New Boston Illinois
The post office department orders rural free delivery to begin August 1 at New Boston Illinois Rand The Nails Tournal the a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
New Boston
Ills
Rand the Nails Tournal
National Game of Ball League Standings and Scores
Baseball league standings show Brooklyn leading with 49 wins and .636, Philadelphia 48 35, Pittsburg 42 38, Chicago 40 38, Cincinnati 36 40, and New York 22 42. Sunday totals list Cincinnati 2 New York 8, Philadelphia 8 Chicago 4, Brooklyn 6 8 St Louis, Boston 9 Pittsburgh 2, plus American League games Kansas City 6 Detroit 2, Chicago 10 Buffalo 3, Milwaukee 5 Cleveland, Minneapolis 16 Indianapolis 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. C. Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Chicago
Cincinnati
New York
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Boston
Wittsburg
Kansas City
Detroit
Buffalo
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Minneapolis
Indianapolis
Novel election wager sale in Indianapolis tied to Bryan McKinley vote
Charles W Bridges & Co., real estate dealers in Indianapolis present a wager on the 1896 presidential election. They offer a 240 acre farm valued at 56600, a cottage worth 2200, twenty gas belt lots at 125 each, and eighty Indianapolis city lots at 800 each. Deeds and cash are deposited with the sale. if Bryan wins, ownership passes to buyers. if McKinley wins, deeds and cash go to the buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Charles W. Bridges & Co
Bryan
Cottege
McKinley
Population center of United States near Bloomington Indiana
From best data obtainable the center of population of the United States is about near Bloomington Indiana in Monroe county within a ten mile radius north of the city. The movement is slow and averaged six miles per year with westward drift over the past century keeping north-south variance small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Bloomington
Ind
Monroe County
Low Rates to Chicago Via B C R N Ry
Low rates to Chicago via the B C R N railway for the National Encampment of the G A R from August 27 to September 1. Good service, fast time and courteous employees. For rates and limits, contact the nearest agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Clinton Sterling
Dixon
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Iowa
Utah
Pacific Coast
Mull's Lightning Pain Killer Advertises Instant Pain Cure
An old advertisement claims Mull's Lightning Pain Killer cures all pain instantly whether internal or external. It promises absolute purity and lists 25 cents and 50 cents as prices available at all druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mull
Miss Helen Gould Denies New York Invitation Story
A New York telegram reports that Helen Gould invited Phoenix Michigan youth William Jackson to come to Detroit. Miss Gould has no recollection of the event and, via her caretaker, asked that anyone mentioning a Michigan boy who held her horses be told she did not invite or promise to educate him. Jackson, returned to Phoenix sobered, sought aid after being turned from Miss Gould's door and directed to the Soldiers' Relief association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
New York
Helen Gould
William Jackson
Phoenix
Mich
Michigan
Jackson
George Robert Sullivan
Miss Gould
Illinois Cavalry Camp Reorganizes at Camp Lincoln
Colonel Edward T. Young takes command of the first cavalry at Camp Lincoln and orders a thorough reorganization. He plans a week of advanced training in guard duty scouting and outpost operations with field expeditions to collect road and terrain details and return maps and sketches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ills
Camp Lincoln
Edward T. Young
First Cavalry
Young
Wedding Delayed by Honest Found Property Return
Seattle groom Andrew Finsland faced a mistaken pocket-picking charge in Sioux City. He returned a found pocketbook, was arrested, but the case settled in court and his wedding proceeded the next day. Miss Mary Flatten traveled from Bradley to attend the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Andrew Finsland
Seattle
Mary Flatten
Bradley
S. D
Finsland
Five more street cars dynamited by strikers in St Louis
Reports say five additional street cars in St Louis were dynamited by strikers with no injuries. The blasts come as tensions rise during labor unrest in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Lady Randolph Churchill
London
George Cornwallis-West
New Orleans
Hillsboro
Cummings
Caledonia
Mayville
Jamestown
North Dakota
Willis Grimes
Groesbeck
Tex
Grimes
Ohio
China
Panama Canal Company
Colombia
Wolcott
Massachusetts
General Draper
Italy
Continental Iron Company
Niles
Wheatland
Cutech
Vancouver
B. C
Skagway
Kansas City Fire Department
Paris
New York
United States General Appraisers’ Board
Hawaii
Turkey
Krupp
Chicago
Holst
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
Also Mentioned on This Page
Office of
Street Car Company
Cascaret
Cascarets
Fred Wariman
Germantown Ave
Eterling Remedy Company
Montreas
Pos
Sibly
Berlin
Railways and Telegraphs
Tung Fuh Siang
Legations
Krevort
Do and
Iowa Railway
St. Paul
Rogers
Miller
Great Northern Railway
Willmar and
Sioux Falls Railway
Inventor St. John
H. R. St. John
St. John
Bloomington, Ind
Anderson
Chicago and Southeastern
Lapel
Lambert
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Washington, D.C
National Organization
Building Trades Council
Rercy
Grand Forks
S.D
James Elton
Grand Forks County
Inlaw
J. H. Bird
T. E. Clarke
Iowa Central
L. F. Day
Minneapolis and
Clarke
Will Jackson
Illinois Cavalry
Crystal Falls
Milton Stowell
Tod” Sloan
Liverpool
Maluma
Mall
America
S. Es Hoods
Ottie Snyder
West Front St
Denver
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Pueblo
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Missouri River
Omaha
St. Joseph
Rock Island
Colorado
John Sebastain
V. A.skeo
W.A_SHEPARD
Colorado Springs Colo
Sycamore
Hay Market
Pros
Traveler’s Guide
Rende
Sunea
Evangustead
Davenport
Rock Island & North
SI A.M
Colo
Neb
Clinton
Sterling, Ll
Jane Nke Boguee
D. Dally
B. Dally
L. F. Berry
Muscatine North & South Railroad
Gol No
Arr
Roundhouse
Fruitland
Grandview
Wapello
Elrick Jet
Clas
Burlington
Town
Louisville
Ad Nashville
Great Central Southern Trank Line
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Misseissippi
Florida
Adress
R. J. Wemyss
General Immigration and Industrial Agt
S G. Stein
E. P. Day’s
Second Street
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