Local Travel and Entertainment Notes in Muscatine
Local items report numerous residents boarding trains to Summit Cranston Des Moines Bayfield Davenport and Rock Island for visits and returns. Promotions include a Sunday steamer trip to Oquawka with 50 cent round trip fare and an 8 pm lecture Through Palestine on Horseback by Rev J W Potter.
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J. W. Potter
Muscatine
Palestine
Sweetland Center
Oquawka
Ill
W. W
Great June Ribbon Sale at Muscatine store
Advertisement details a one day only sale on June 23 offering thousands of yards of silk ribbons at 10c to 25c per yard, plus embroidered linens and linen items at 25c each. Includes a Boston Store note on heatherbloom petticoats for $1.50.
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Muscatine
Special domestic fabrics sale features Turkish towels and cotton toweling
A local sale offers Turkish towels at 8S cts and 4 cts each and cotton toweling in check or husk goods. Andy Reed's satin tab and Lonsdale bleached muslin are advertised with high value. Prices emphasize yard and piece terms with 9-4 sheeting noted as seamless.
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Andy Reed
Lonsdale
Hosiery Sale At The Boston Store Muscatine
Saturday June 23 sale offers white lace hose 11 5c pair for misses and children in all sizes 115c pair. Children black hosiery 10c and 15c. Ladies white hosiery 20 25 35 and 10c. Fancy black and white hose 15 25 35 50 100. Gents silk lisle hose 25c pair. Boston Store touted as Muscatine’s best hosiery source.
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Boston
Muscatine
Great Sale on White Dotted Swiss Fabrics
White dotted Swiss leads the season with deep reductions. 25e fabric cut to 15e per yard and 20e fabric reduced to 19c. Finest 35c and 40c qualities now 25c per yard. White goods in large variety all offered at reduced prices.
Corset and Dress Sale Sets Saturday Event
A retail notice advertises a Saturday June 23 sale on corsets priced from 25 cents to 2.50 with white options and styles from Royal Worcester. also fifty new white dresses and white Eton suits in multiple sizes with long or short sleeves and lace trim, offered at various price points.
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Royal Worcester
Handsome Wash Goods Reduced Prices
Yard by yard sales of linen and wash goods offered at deep cuts. It lists white India linen, lawns, batiste, Swiss lawns, Linwood batiste, and drap de linde with notes on patterns, colors, and new styles. Pricing shows halves and 25 to 40 cent ranges, urging value and quality.
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Aehi
South Muscatine Readsied for New Waterworks Station
Bricklayers near completion on the waterworks station below the city expect to finish in about a week with the roof then installed. Machinery ordered a year ago will arrive soon if no delays occur, and no mishaps have interrupted the progress. A separate note reports four intoxicated youths racing on Oregon street and Stuart road last night, prompting police vigilance after a prior similar incident.
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Oregon Street
Stuart Road
South Muscatine
Claude Miller
Thomas Fitzgerald
Kemper Avenue
Will Shermer
Fruitland
South End
B. F. Boyd
Latham Street
Fairport
Mayme Edling
Omaha
Neb
Sudbury Switches Underway as Rock Island Labor Shifts
About 100 Rock Island laborers moved to Sudbury to install new switches and connect recently laid tracks. They spent the past month in the upper yards surfacing track and laying miles of 85 pound rail. The crew expects to stay in Sudbury about a week.
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Rock Island Road
Sudbury
Missionary Society
Lake couple return home after Musserville visit
Mr and Mrs Charles Lake of West Burlington returned to their home on Oregon Street after a brief visit with relatives in Musserville.
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Elien Judge
Cranston
Milwaukee
Geo Sager
Stanberry
B. Comer
Waynesborough, Pa
E. Weir
Letts
E. K. Bruce
Thornburg
Iowa
J. H. Sibley
Rock Island
Helen Blair
Julia Gabel
Nichols
Miss Z. Varney
Wellman
Chicago
E. N. Terrett
Buxton
S. Siegel
Davenport
Henry Stickney
Andalusia
John Schillig
Kalona
Helen Hainkel
Kansas City
Geo. W. Wing
Aledo, Ill
Columbia
Ladies Home Missionary Society of the
Musserville
Curtis
Carrie Pfieffer
Bismarck Street
Scott
Oregon Street
Charles Lake
West
Burlington
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Wm. O'Keefe
Summit
Wilton
S. Larcas
Witton
Des Moines
Melita
C. T. Gremmel
Rose Duffy
McCord
DeNa Geer
Bayfield
Brudebaker
Babcock
Bowman
Dr. S. Chesbrough
Frostam
Mass
National Medical Association
G. M. Titus
Iowa Avenue
Clara Nelson
W. E. Field
Wapello
J. W. Schooley
W. B. Hopkinson
Iowa City
A. J. York
C. C. Smith
Roach & Musser Sash & Door Co
Clarence Hahn
C. & S. Sanitary Milk Company
Corner Cedar
Third
P. Lanfian
Arden
B. F. Weir
Bessie Simmons
Columbus Junction
Tony Mucha
Mier
Leysen
J. E. Kranz
Florist
Opp. Journal
Iowa Ave
Lowe Brothers
Mish
Lillyyy’s
Heatherbloom
Red Sea
Cts
Annabel
Ed. Anson
J. P. Diercks
Willis Terry
Harold
Henry Jepson
Grand Junction
Colo
South Muscentine
Carrie Curtis
West Branch
Sarah Jepson
Clarence Pace
Grandview Avenue
Arsenal
May Jayne
Beverly, Ill
Xe Fay
I. Nierel & Son
Nierel & Son
Muscatine’s Ideal Jewelry Store
Xateye
HEP
Lexa Tolle Isi
LVL
FETI
Cees
Cohn Mercantile Company
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