Local residents listed in and around Muscatine
Numerous brief items record residents visiting or returning home across nearby towns. Names include Miss Maud Smith Nichols Mrs G Jahnke Iowa City Miss Ethel Altenberg Conesville Miss Faith Funk Deep River Miss Lola Lewis Columbus Junction Clarence Brown Wilton Miss Bertha Scull Wilton Miss Mildren McColm Letts Mary Rider Fairfield Mrs D M Meyers Chicago Miss Mary Regan East Liberty Mrs Mary Bell Washington Rev H M Strong Martinsburg John Bradley Wilton and others. Also notes on real estate financing First mortgage loans for sale by Titus Loan & Investment Co.
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Mary Bell
Washington
Titus Loan & Investment Co
Women’s Home Cure Promised for Leucorrhoea and Ailments
An advertisement offers a free ten day home treatment for women’s illnesses including Leucorrhoea and menstrual disorders. It promises easy cures without doctors, details costs, and urges readers to mail name and address to receive the treatment and a medical adviser booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FONE
Oman
Lise
German Churches Union Meetings Planned For Summer
A series of union services will be held in the German Evangelical churches with pastors preaching in their own houses of worship. Evening gatherings run July 2 through September 3 with a rotating schedule of congregational and denominational hosts each week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E
Bankers Picnic Plans Set For August 23 In South Muscatine
The Bankers Picnic Association executive committee of the Bankers Reserve met at William Appel's home at 515 Grandview Avenue to finalize plans for the Eastern Iowa District picnic. The outing is slated for August 23 likely at Weed Park with committees named for reception and solicitation and invitations to all lodges in eastern Iowa. William Johnson was named reception chair and Claus Lemkau soliciting chair with other executive members listed.
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Bankers Picnic Association
Bankers Reserve
William Appel
Grandview Avenue
Iowa
Weed Park
William Johnson
Appel
Claus H. Lemkau
Isabelle Norton
Claus Lemkau
George Luckhardt
Lucy Kent
J. W. Winning
Clyde Randleman
Carl Quandt
Sunday School Picnic At Slough Grounds
Muserville Methodist Episcopal church Sunday school pupils and members held their annual outing at Hershey pasture on the slough. They gathered at the church at ten, marched to the grounds, and enjoyed a basket luncheon. Women from the church ran the cakes pies and ice cream tables while other committees managed games boating and candy stands.
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Muserville Methodist Episcopal Church
Hershey
Slough
Euting
George LeCornay
Frank Casper
William Johnson
W. H. Randleman
Frank Stohr
Charles Washburn
M Kee and Bliven Start New Plant in Pat City West Virginia
Edward Jones former manager of Block Company will manage the new Mc Kee and Bliven cutting plant in Pat City West Virginia. A 50 machine cutting facility is being installed with plans for a shell crusher soon. The southern plant will be overseen by Edward Jones of 213 Baker Street who previously managed F O Button Company on Benham Avenue.
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Mc Kee & Bliven
Paten City
West Virginia
Southern
Edward Jones
Baker Street
F. O. Button Company
Benham Avenue
Crystal Palace to be sold in London after decline
London’s Crystal Palace, a landmark for over 50 years, is set for sale. The 200 acre site valued at about 7 million dollars has failed to turn a profit in recent years due to inaccessibility and competition from new amusement centers.
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New York
N. Y
London
Crystal Palace
England
Madison Square Garden
Great Britain
Jones to Open New Plant and Move Family South
Mr Jones returns from Paten City after completing the necessary details to operate the concern there. The force is partly engaged and will be ready by his arrival. He leaves with his family Monday. Household effects are being shipped tonight and this morning in anticipation of permanent residence. The Kappa Delta society plans a Monday meeting to decide the club’s assembly location. Mrs Frank Faulkner and husband plan to locate in Ottumwa. Mrs Mary Arnold returns home from Letts after visiting Mrs Cora Schneider. John Sneath returns from Oklahoma with his wife, possible south end relocation. Rev Waters, former Musserville church pastor, is visiting old friends.
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Jones
Paten City
Main Street
Ottumwa
Mary Arnold
Letts
Cora Schneider
John Sneath
Oklahoma
South End
Waters
Musserville Methodist Episcopal Church
Daughter Named Heir in Gordon Will Favoring Alice Gordon
By James J. Gordon's will filed for probate Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon is named sole heir to an estate valued at $2,000,000. She is 19 and linked to society through Debutante circles and is an intimate friend of Miss Helen Taft. Her father once worked with W S Huntington in railroad construction.
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Washington
James J. Gordon
Alice Gertrude Gordon
Helen Taft
Miss Gordon
W. S. Huntington
Monkeys With Scarlet Fever At Large In Manhattan
Police officers backed by scores of schoolchildren hunt two scarlet fever infected monkeys that escaped from a hospital within the past 18 hours. Authorities fear the animals may have been adopted as pets by well meaning individuals.
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New York
Manhattan
Bowman’s Garage Showcases 1912 Buicks and Fords
A. G. Stephens, official demonstrator, will demonstrate the merits of Bowman's new 1912 Buick and Ford models. The cars are touted as the best yet from Bowman's garage.
German Home Association proposes 10 dollar bonds for new Front Street house
Directors announce bonds at ten dollars each with five percent annual interest to finance a large new home on Front Street. Plans call for spending about 15 to 18 thousand dollars with Architect Zeidler submitting designs. Over four thousand dollars in contributions already received toward the property on West Front Street.
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The
German Home Association
Front St
West Front Street
Zeidler
Nitrogen Factory Destroyed in German Explosion
A nitrogen recovery factory at Trostberg Bavaria was wrecked by a huge blast from an unknown cause in a reservoir today. Three people are dead and six more are seriously injured.
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Munich
Bavaria
Trostberg
City Builds Largest Dance Floor and Public Hall
A new project aims to construct the city’s largest dance floor that will double as a public hall. The venue is expected to serve as a revenue source through public events and gatherings hosted by local authorities and groups.
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Madam X
Iowa Telephone Company
Ahon
E. 2Nd St
Dr. Norton
W. 2Nd St
Bye
Maud Smith
Nichols
G. Jahnke
Iowa City
City
Ethel Altenberg
Conesville
J. H. Baker
Snyder's
Bert Poole
L. Poole
Faith Funk
Deep River
John Binhoff
P. C. Erwin
West Liberty
R. W. Crawford
Keota
M. Wheeler
East Eight Street
Halstead
Carl Whitt
Rock Island
J. Prutton
Lola Lewis
Columbus Junction
Clarance Brown
Wilton
Bertha Scull
Mildren McColm
Institute
Mary Rider
Fairfield
C. H. Romtree
D. M. Meyers
Chicago
Kalona
Mary Regan
Eastith Street
Margaret Dougherty
A. B. Ramford
Creston
F. B. Ramford
H. M. Strong
Martinsburg
Ed Smith
Moscow
G. Jepson
John Bradley
M. Summers
Box H
Notre Dame
Ind
U. 5
L. A. McIntosh
German Churches Union Meetings
Muscatine
Picnic Asso
Ciation
Will Appel
M’kee & Bliven
Virginia Factory
Pat City
Binder’s
Philadelphia
Newbro
Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store
Special Agent
Herpicide Co
Yil
J. Co
Park Square
Third National Bank
Sedalia
Tri-City Loan CO
Brady St
Davenport
Muscatine State Bank
Kool
Kandy Kitchen
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