Local Iowa City Visit Summarizes Short News Notes
Judge D W Jackson visits Iowa City to reconnect with university friends. Miss Louise Steinmetz attends a state university graduation. Several residents travel to Davenport Griswold Red Oak Wartburg college events and relatives for visits and coursework.
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D. W. Jackson
Iowa City
The
State University
Louise Steinmetz
F. M. Eis
Marie Stennett
Linn Street
Griswold and
Red Oak
City Physician Chosen and Fumigation Ordinance Approved
Dr. J. D. Fulham elected city physician to succeed D. P. Miller after board ballot. Board approves new fumigation ordinance and stricter rules for physicians reporting infectious diseases to the city marshal with notices and time frames for payment.
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Ed City Physician
D. P
Cabbage crop outlook boosts Muscatine growers
Island growers plant a large cabbage acreage and market a home grown variety for the first time. With floods in Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois harming those crops, demand is expected from northern markets including Chicago Minneapolis and New Orleans. Local growers foresee higher prices this year.
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Kansas
Missouri
Illinois
Chicago
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Unclaimed Letters at Muscatine Post Office 1903
Week ending June 16 1903 Muscatine Iowa list of remaining letters includes men Noah Bolest Henry Boch Cecil M Brown Carl Cline Thomas Fry M D Godfrey T E Granger Charles Kroh C O Long or B Cornell Henry O Brien Fred Olin Larry F Stevens Oscar Wolfe Magnus Yengerson 702 5th street Ladies Mary E Campbell Gail Herlein Mrs John Krause Mrs C Schram Miss Rebecca Williams Advertised
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Muscatine
Iowa
Noah Bolest
Henry Boch
Cecil M. Brown
Carl Cline
Thomas Fry
M. D. Godfrey
T. E. Granger
Charles Kroh
C. O. Long
B. Cornell
Henry O’brien
Fred Olin
Larry
F. Stevens
Oscar Wolfe
Magnus Yengerson
5Th Street
State College Bits Armstrong With Honorary Degree
The State college at Ames conferred upon R. B. Armstrong, assistant secretary of the treasury, the honorary degree of Master of Philosophy.
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State College At
Ames
R. B. Armstrong
Secretary of the Treasury
Plain tale of beauty marks and a drugstore product
The speaker notes admiration for a beautiful mother and her daughters, claiming they gain glory by using A. B. C. Tea. The ad highlights Havercamp's prescription drug store selling the 25 cent package.
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Havercamp
Interurban Line Between Davenport and Muscatine Confirmed
Dan McGuigan the Davenport and Suburban Companys general manager confirms the Davenport to Muscatine interurban line will be built. Contracts and bonds are in place and cars are specified: city cars 40 feet long, interurban cars 50 feet, four regular cars with 75 horsepower motors reaching 50 mph, plus an express car for produce and packages.
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Davenport
Muscatine
Davenport and Suburban Company
Dan McGuigan
Davenport Times
Davenport & Suburban
McGuigan
Sioux City con artist fleeces businessmen under false church aid
A group of Sioux City business men were swindled by a Black grafter who claimed to be raising funds to help needy colored churches. He used the ruse to collect money from local merchants, promising charitable distributions that never occurred.
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Sioux City
Have New Ward Fifth Ward to Be Formed
Petition signed by 200 voters requests creation of a new fifth ward. About 450 voters would reside in the area bluff road and south of the city limits. Residents say the present ward is too large and polls are distant, hindering attendance at primaries and caucuses, and an alderman would give better attention.
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C. Mosqua
C. Dale
C. F. Cadle
L. Simmons
J. W. Chiles
W. G. Barry
Peter Musser
C. BE. Batterson
J. G. Dougherty
D. Connell
J. McCrosky
A. F. Hutchings
A. L. Lindner
Board of Health
City of Muscatine
Bluff Road
Petition to divide Muscatine Ward One for next meeting
Over 200 residents sign a petition to split Muscatine Ward One. The proposal targets the area west of Pine street to the city limits and north of Lucas street, with about 1 000 voters in the current ward. If granted, the new ward would run from Cherry street to the city limits northward.
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Pine Street
Lucas Street
Cherry Street
Fourth of July Rates on Iowa Central Railway
For the Fourth of July the Iowa Central railway will sell round trip excursion tickets on July 3 and 4 at one and one third fare to all points within 200 miles. Return limit July 6. See ticket agents for particulars.
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Iowa Central Railway
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Monarch
Thomas
G. E. Tubbs
J. H. Carl
Rock Island
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Helen Blair
Dean
C. A. Reinemund
Clinton
Wartburg College
S. N. Garlock
Nevada
Henry Jayne
Mitchelville
E. Klepper
William Weigland
Oquawka
A. R. Hoover
West Third Street
George M. Titus
J. M. Scott
Atalissa
J. A. Townsley
East Seventh Street
Frank Giesler
Winifred Giesler
Washington
Lulu Palmer
East Second Street
H. L. Jones
Mildred
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Lewis Maxon
East Fourth Street
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Nellie Cline
Smoke House
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A. Boydston
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C. Iverts
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J.D. Fulliam
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Arthur Hoffman
John Bartemeier
Dr. Fulham
J. D. Fulliam
E. B. Fulliam
Fulliam
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Muscatine Board of Health
F.E. Winans
Sherman St
Timothy
Ture
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