Bargains and chatter flood Burlington stores and people
Items note bargains in chinaware and embroideries at Geo B Jacksons while photos at Grossheims Berlin Studio draw interest. Passengers Miss Chamberlain and Rev S H Parvin arrive by Firefly from Montpelier and Morning Sun. Bee Hive Green Ticket Sale looms Saturday with doubled force. sale prep leads to Friday closure. Local visitors Ada Smith, Mollie Oliver and others are mentioned plus a tensorial parlor opening by S R McElhaney and a near miss involving Pilot Smith on the steamer Winona.
Notice M B A Regular Meeting of Modern Brotherhood of America
The Modern Brotherhood of America announces a regular meeting on Monday evening August 4. Initiation and election of delegates to the district convention will take place along with other important business. Refreshments will be served. All members in good standing are urged to attend.
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M. B
Modern Brotherhood of America
Bargains in farms near Muscatine Iowa offer prime land
Bargains in farms within 25 miles of Muscatine advertise 5 acres and 16 acre parcels with fine land and improvements close to Muscatine. Also other good farm bargains for sale within the radius. Money to loan and city property availability noted by F. B. Pentzer of Muscatine Iowa.
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Muscatine
Local commerce notes and small ads in Muscatine paper
The notice sheet lists daily shopping bargains including Thiesen for pure drugs, Elfers ice, Geo. B. Jackson closing sale, and Bee Hive big sale with prices on green tickets. It promotes Wesley Peters clairvoyant, a minor injury for J B Conley, and Havercamp’s grape tonic laxative. Also streetcar stamps policy, Panitorium cleaning, and railway ads along with church travel by Rev and Mrs John Fry to West Branch.
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John Fry
West Branch
The
Friends Church
Muscatine
Wheaton Weighs Sites for New Government Building
Government representative Mr. Wheaton travels to Centerville to review sites for a new federal building. He has an option on the Lilly corner at Fourth Street and Iowa Avenue and may also consider the Stein lot on West Second Street. The Y M C A and city officials debated selling their recently bought lot but kept the current site.
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Wheaton
Iowa Avenue
Richards
Lilly
Fourth Street
Bishop
Journal Man Today
Muscatine
Department
Lilly Lot
Stein Lot
Avenue
Stein
West Second Street
Front Street
Wisconsin Republicans urge Spooner reelection pledge
Milwaukee July 31 an address to Wisconsin Republicans signals early Spooner reelection effort. It urges supporters to back legislators who will pledge to unconditional return of Senator Spooner. The letter is signed by thirty Republican leaders, many allied with Gov. La Follette.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
John C. Spooner
United States Senate
Spooned
Repubilicans
la Follette
Cuban Planters Session Ends Quietly in Havana
In Havana on July 31 the Cuban Planters society met as planned by annexation supporters, but the gathering produced no notable moment since the annexationists stayed away from the meeting.
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United States
Havana
Cuban Planters’ Society
BOER GENERALS GO TO ENGLAND ENTHUSIASTIC FAREWELL
In Cape Town on July 31 General Botha General De Wet and General Delarey departed for England. Dutch schoolboys pulled carriages carrying the generals to the steamship dock amid cheering crowds.
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Botha
de Wet
Delarey
Cape Town
England
A Hint About a Boy Chicken in a Humorous Rhyme
A playful line suggests a boy chicken described as piggish and selfish, with a humorous tone. The quote centers on a curious label Har-Why and remarks on the bird’s supposed traits.
Injunction Sought By Iowa Telephone In Strike Case
Des Moines July 31 government by injunction entered in Iowa Telephone case when the company asked for a writ to restrain the executive and advisory boards of the Trades and Labor assembly from acting against it. Judge McVey granted a mild restraining order and served it on the defendants last night.
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Des Moines
Iowa Telephone Company
The
Trades and Labor Assembly
Advisory Board
McVey
Yost Named for Congress at Illinois Democratic Convention
Bloomington Illinois July 31 In the first convention of the democrats in the new Seventeenth congressional district Z F Yost of Pontiac Livingston county was nominated for congress over John Edmunds a newspaper man of Lincoln Logan county on the first ballot Livingston county attorney is chosen by democrats and will seek the seat in congress.
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Livingston County
Bloomington
Ill
Seventeenth Congressional District
Z. F. Yost
Pontiac
John Edmunds
Lincoln
Logan County
Girl Missing From Pocahontas Home At 15
Ella Butler, 15, vanished from her Pocahontas home on Sunday. She is described as slim with dark hair and was last seen wearing a white waist, purple skirt, and a straw hat adorned with pink flowers. No trace has been found.
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Pocahontas
Ella_ Butler
Chicago Markets and Live Stock Report Dispatch
Special market dispatch from H. J. Toher & Co. with McKay of Muscatine, notes open high low close quotes for Wheat Corn Oats Park Lard Ribs and Chicago live stock markets. Includes receipts, car lots, and next day estimates. adds a tomato and tomato toast recipe as a culinary aside.
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H. J. Toher & Co
H. E. McKay
Muscatine
Newfly
NewSep
NewDec
Chicago
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Daily Journal
Reliance Loan Co
Joe E. Kranz
West 2d St
Geo. B. Jackson's
Grossheim
Berlin
the Grand
Miss Chamberlain
Montpelier
Ladies of the Maccabees
S. H. Parvin
Morning Sun
Bee Hive
Messrs
C. D. Gibson
D. Pingrey
West Liberty
Ada Smith
Davenport
City
Charles Conaway
H. Johnson Dean
Philadelphia
Josephine Wyant
Wilton
Margaret Dwyer
Mollie Oliver
Columbus Junction
M. J. Kennnelly
Catherine
Altamont
Fairport
S. R. McElhaney
Freeman Building
East Second Street
Burlington Gazette
Pilot Smith
Winona
Rock Island
Pentzer
Muscatine, Ia
R, A, Holmes
Journal Building
Thiesen
P. H. Elfers
Charles Gobble
Geo. B. Jackson
Clairvoyant
Palmist
Wesley Peters
Chestnut Street
J. B. Conley
East Second
Mull
Havercamp
Luellen Bros
Grand Hotel
Hirt & Fesler
Thiesen’s
Citizen's Railway & Light Co
Mr. Wheaton
Centerville
Spooner
Dillaway
Yost
Congress
Boston
Northwest Wheat Receipts
Minneapolis
Duluth
Liverpool
Swan the Jeweler
Wittich Brothers
Fast Second
Muscatine, Iowa
H. H. Arnold
Theibbrand
Ryan & Co
Batiste
Lawaus
McCall
McCall Magazine
Leibbrand, Ryan & Company
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