Local News Gossip and Daily City Visits
The column lists local residents traveling to and from the city and visiting relatives. Dessie Cocklin Ruth Nelson Hazel Hill Ruth Nelson Mary Anderson Mary A Thauren Clara, 936 Lucas St Mrs. Mary Shoemaker Lulu Barton W. H. Koopping Mrs. Barton home visits and trips to Iowa City Moscow Letts Mae renga and other nearby towns referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra
Mary A. Thauren
Misg
Clara
Lucas Streat
Iowa City
William Reddick
David
Arthur
W. H. Koopping
Molina
Mary Shoemaker
Stewart Road
First Hydroplane Launched Last Eve in City Harbor
The first hydroplane of the local fleet was launched at about midnight. Owned by Ben Batchelor and Alfred Gazell, the 12 foot craft with a four foot beam and two foot planes is powered by five horsepower and travels up to 12 miles per hour. Other vessels are expected to follow soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Batchelor
Alfred Gazell
Races expected for near future in city waters
Unofficial word last evening indicates motor boat fans will see exciting races in the coming weeks. Four hydroplanes and four fast displacement boats are ready, with launches set in the water within two weeks. A handicap race is planned to heighten the excitement. Also included is a testimonial about Chamberlains Tablets aiding stomach trouble from Mrs G Stengle of Plainfield New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Stengle
Plainfield
N. J
Chamberlain
West Liberty News Roundup and Local Events
West Liberty Iowa items list social visits events travel and minor mishaps. Mrs Amanda Lenard of Lone Tree visits Prairie Ave friend Mrs George Sanders. Lyle Duple Dale Hazelett and others travel to Iowa City Columbus Junction Muscatine for exams and games. A Wapello at West Liberty baseball result is reported with unclear outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
Andrew Anderson
Wm. Belle
Downey
Town
Marie Kimberly
Davenport
Jessie
Lyle Duple
Dale Hazelett
Everett Coleman
Floyd Westfall
Iowa City
Ernette Taze
Valley Junction
Amanda Lenard
Lone Tree
George Sanders
Prairie Ave
Bessie Mosher
Town City
Sam Buckman
Albert, Scott
Floyd Knauss
Columbus Junction
Muscatine
Frank Speight
Wapello
Wanwllo
Pepper Senatorial Campaign In M iaking
Washington reports a growing rumor that Representative Pepper of Iowa Second district may seek the U S Senate in 1914. Pepper has not declared, but colleagues and editors favor him with strong support from county chairmen and Democratic papers statewide. He plans to discuss the matter after the extra session ends, while friends promote the nickname Pep to emphasize his pep in politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Pepper
Washington
Iowa
Fred Davis
Sioux City Journal
Journal of Yesterday
Pepper
Jerry B. Sullivan
Claude R. Porter
Sullivan
Lfe
General Appraisers
New York
Porter
Davenport
Muscatine
Town City
Pep
Woolverton Leaves for California to Start New Home
Howard Woolverton of Ideal Printing plans relocation to the Sacramento Valley California where he has purchased land and will pursue agricultural work for a time. In Letts Iowa on June 28 the M B Ladies Aid met at Mrs Lintner’s home with 13 members and 8 visitors. Officers were reelected: President Dosia Fry Vice President Emma Linn Secretary Bessie Bland Treasurer Mattie Shellabarger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Woolverton
Ideal Printing Company
Sacramento Valley
California
Mr. Woolverton
Bessie Bland
Mattie Shellabarger
Assield
Hazel Thompson
Lella Lintner
Stearns Electric Paste Exterminates Cockroaches
A vintage advertisement urges immediate use of Stearns Electric Paste to kill cockroaches and waterbugs. It promises dead roaches by morning, lacks powder mess, and offers a money back guarantee with pricing 26 cents or 1 dollar plus prepaid direct charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stearns
Experience of Motherhood and Its Challenges
The article discusses motherhood as a major trial for most women and notes that many face this time unprepared. It emphasizes nervous strain, recovery shocks, and advocates Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic to support health, urging women to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn, Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Dr. BR. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Local social and community notes from Letts area
Mrs Elizabeth Wolcott of Chicago arrives in Letts from Muscatine and will visit until Tuesday with Mrs Edwin Williams and Mrs Small before heading to Fargo South Dakota to spend summer with Miss Anna Love of Chicago. Miss Irma Evans and Miss Jean Darrow hosted by Mrs Gertude Schweitert. George Bailey accepts position with Henderson Drug in Waterloo. Mrs George Hagermian of Muscatine visited Bloomer family. Dr Eland and wife visited the doctor's mother in Mediapolis. J E Reimers and wife spent Sunday in Davenport. H H Westbrook reports another runaway without injuries. Nelle Shellabarger and guest Miss Irma Evans entertained at Mrs Eland's Friday. George Shaner and daughter with Snyder relatives left for Crawfordsville. George Pfeifer family plans reunion in Wapello. Rev T F Berry to lecture on Breweries Barrooms and Bootleggers at U B church Sunday. Nelson Meeker and wife visited Thomas Meeker in Columbus Junction. Rebekahs to decorate cemetery graves Sunday June 25 at I O O F hall. John Shafer returned from G A R encampment at Des Moines and visited friends in Nebraska. Mrs C G Snyder left for Roy to visit relatives. Misses Gladys and Beulah Johnson visited Lone Tree and attended chautauqua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Thompson
Elizabeth Wolcott
Chicago
Letts
Muscatine
Edwin Williams
Small
Fargo
S. C
Anna Love
Irma Evans
Jean Darrow Werte
Gertrude Schweitert
Geo. Bailey Boas
Henderson Drug Company
Waterloo
Iowa
George Hagermian
Sfuscatine
William Bloomer
Eland
Mediapolis
JE. H. Reimers
Davenport
H. H. Westbrook
Neily Bennett
Nelle Shellabarger
Hew
Irma Vans
George Shaner
Snyder Brothers
Ino
Snyder
Crawfordsville
George Pfeifer
Wapello
U. B
T. F. Berry
Nelson Meeker
Thomas Meeker
Columbus Junction
Rebekahs
I. O. O. F. Hall
John Shafer
Des Moines
Nebraska
C. G. Snyder
Roy
Gladys
Beulah Johnson
Lone Tree
Best Medicine for Colds and Lung Troubles
Marion Ohio druggist C Lower endorses Dr King s New Discovery as the best threat and lung remedy. He claims it cured his wife’s bronchial cold after other treatments failed. The home doctor helps with colds bronchial throat and lung coughs. Price 60 cents and 1 dollar. Guaranteed by Hav ercamp a Prescription Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Lower
Marion
Ohio
Dr. King
Hav
Ercamp
Turner Prizes to Be Awarded Tomorrow
Denver June 28 The thirty first Bundes Turnfest of the North American Gymnastic Union closes with prize contests. Tomorrow morning the 36 member technical committee led by Alfred Miller will compute averages and prizes are awarded in the afternoon. Senior dumbbell, ladies dancing, young men wand exercises highlight the program. A banquet for visiting singing societies and press representatives is planned at East Turner Hall tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
North American Gymnastic Union
Alfred Miller
Milwaukee
East Turner Hall
Comerse
Gettysburg Veterans Brace Heat For Reunion Parade
Gettysburg Pa June 28 veterans from north and south endured 98 degree heat as they parade and reminisce before the upcoming reunion. hospitals, Red Cross stations, and ambulance detachments line camps to safeguard health while state leaders forecast large attendance and a banner memorializes peace and unity between former foes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
State Department of Health
Red Cross
U. S. Army
Huntingdon
Simon Boliver Buckner
Confederatse Army
Normoyle
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Virginia
North Carolina
Michigan
West Virginia
Indiana
Illinois
Connecticut
Oregon
Idaho
Long Lane
Seminary Ridge
General Lee
Pickett
Manassas
Getysburg
Manassas Pickett Post
Wall Camp
C. V
Bull Run
Taft
Lee
Lease land as site of college congress in Potomac Park
Washington June 28 Steps toward the new university movement to be known as the college congress were taken today with an option on land in Potomac Park near the Pan American Union to build an amphitheatre and offices. Traxton Beale, former minister to Persia and ex-chairman of UC Regents, leads the effort. He plans a political study center and clearing house for idea exchange among university faculties and undergraduates. Beale said he has an invitation from Colonel Roosevelt to Oyster Bay to discuss the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
College Congress
Potomac Park
Pan‘American Union
Y Traxton Beale
Persia
Board of Regents
University of California
Beale
Roose Feft
Oyster Bay
Family Wiped Out by Fire in Lexington Home
Six members of a single family perished in a nighttime blaze that destroyed a Lexington, Delaware City? home. The bodies were recovered from the ruins this morning, officials said.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
D. C
Columbia
Sister of Local Resident 15 Dead
Death shocks Muscatine relatives as Mrs J B Miller of Minneapolis dies after brief illness at 55. She was Matilda Kuhn before marriage, daughter of Louis Kuhn of Louisa County, lived near Wapello, and resided in Muscatine during high bridge work. Survived by husband, two sons, siblings in Iowa, Washington, and Wisconsin. Funeral plans unknown. Also an old-time product advertisement notes Chamberlain's remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Nicklas
East Seventh Street
J. B. Miller
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Wis
Willard
Arthur Miller
Louisa County
Muscatine
High Bridge
Miller
Dubeque
Roosevelt Carries A Gun In New Fork Report
The districts Col Theo dore Rosevelt and district attorney Charles Whitman received permission to carry pistols. Magistrate Corrigan disclosed that permits were issued with waived requirements and without affidavits of good character at a Brooklyn meeting. The irregularity was forgiven and no reprimand was given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Fork
Theodore Rosevelt
Charles.Whitman
Corrigan
Brooklyn
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Senses
Pearl City Fuel Company
Fred
Pentzer
Ger. Bank Bldg
Muscatine, Ia
Misa Dessie Cocklin
Grandview
Ruth Nelson
Hazel Hill
Sycamore Atreat
Washington, Ta
Thao Wilson
C. Snyder
Ady
J. Mekkee
Mark
Sop
Mary Anderson
John A. Robbing
Lulu Barton
West Front Street
Moscow
R. E. Barton
Maerenga
Barton
Martin H. Scharnhorst
Palmer School
Third St. Muscatine
Motor Mainefacturers
Banker Auto Co
Grand Hotel
Cedar Street
B. Batchelor
Alfred
Pred ‘Davis
The
H. Woolverton
Turner
Fota Fraternize—Veterans of
North
South Crowd
Streets of
Westinghouse
Muscatine Lighting'Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Louisa
William Orvis
Clare
Mich
Roosevelt
C. Fi Jappe
Bommlat Bidg
Iows
Colorado
Colorado Rockies
Rocky Mountain Limited
Rock Island Lines
E. Ferguson
HAL & Bay
Collins Lumber Co
E. E. Collins
Bt PO Cuglass
Bt Telephone
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