Local Notes Include Visits, Visits, and Household Moves
Peter Olsen visits Columbus Junction on a business trip. Multiple residents travel or return to Muscatine and Letts for shopping, visits, or relatives. Dwellings on Mulberry Avenue offered for sale by John A. Robbins. A gold brooch with pearls and a diamond is lost on Second Street area. reward offered at Journal office. Jewelry and farm machinery ads conclude the short local items.
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Mulberry Avenue
John A. Robbins
Second Street
Iowa Avenue
Chestnut Street
Journal Office
Sherman Stock Company Opens Engagement at Grand
The Sherman Stock Company opened their engagement with The Wages of Sin a thrilling melodrama. The Grand audience enjoyed the well acted performance with prices at ten to twenty three cents and free admission for ladies tonight to fill to capacity.
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Sherman Stock Company
Musserville Methodist Youths Plan Permanent Club
South Muscatine young men attend revival at Musserville M E Church and signal intent to form a permanent Young Men's club. A future meeting will finalize the organization as Rev W B Ireland leads devotionals and revival may end soon due to cool weather and waning interest.
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Musserville Methodist Church
W. B. Ireland
Ireland
Musserville M. E
Two Funerals Held in South Muscatine
Two funerals were held today in South Muscatine. Mrs. Anna Facks was laid to rest at Greenwood cemetery after services at 1:30 at the Wisconsin street residence, led by Rev. J. Jans. Louisa Gebhardt also buried at Greenwood after a 3:30 service at the Gilbert street home. Rev. Jans officiated at both.
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South Muscatine
Wisconsin Street
Anna Facks
Greenwood Cemetery
Louisa
Charles Gebhardt
Gilbert Street
J. Jans
German Evangelical Church
Runaway Wagon Crashes in South Muscatine Hurts Team
A runaway wagon owned by Henry Daws frightened by an engine on Hershey avenue damaged the front of the wagon and dumped its contents after striking a curb and a telephone post. One horse was badly bruised, the other uninjured, and several chairs and a table were wrecked. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon near Front street.
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Hershey Avenue
Henry Daws
Rock Island
Front Street
Boats May Use the chute this summer
Shifting Mississippi currents and sandbars south of the city push rivermen to consider the South Muscatine Chute as the new route for big boats. Debris and wing dams have shifted flow toward Towhead Island, risking navigation and possible levee wear as water volume increases on the Iowa side.
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Mississippi River
Illinois
Muscatine
Towhead Island
Iowa
Letts Man Joseph Toland Visits Muscatine
Joseph Toland of Letts was a business visitor in Muscatine yesterday, meeting with local merchants and discussing trade opportunities.
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Joseph Toland
Letts
Muscatine
Golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Letts
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Letts, of Letts Iowa, was celebrated at their home south of Letts with about eighty guests including daughters Cora Markle of Cambridge Massachusetts and Ella McCreary of Kansas City. The couple married March 2 1859 with Brockway as bride. James Letts born 1820 Ohio and moved to Iowa in 1855. The couple’s ages are 88 and 70, and the event featured a large dinner and warm regard from neighbors and relatives.
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Brockwayville
Iowa
Muscatine County
James Robson Letts
Licking County
Ohio
Brockway
Towa
Letts
F. B. Letts
Clarendon
Texas
J. D. Letts
Fairport
Nellie Robinson
Vinton
Flora Schmeltzer
Washington
Eastern Star Lodge
Chas. Furnas
South Bend
Ind
J. H. Patterson
United Brethren Presiding Elder
Iowa Conference
Letts Church
Patterson
Roper
H. L. Trent
Davenport
William E. Hankey
Chicago
Chas. Burns
Omaha
Neb
J. A. McDaniel
Allie Brockway
Ed. Collins
Muscatine
M. K. Elmore
J. H. Collins
Columbus Junction
Louisa Eliason
Reany
Social notes from Conesville and nearby towns
Residents and visitors in Conesville Iowa and nearby communities share weekend activities. Families from Columbus Junction Muscatine Dysart and Cedar Rapids visit for graduations burials and social calls. The obituary of Mrs Mary Littick punctuences a funeral in Conesville with relatives traveling from Muscatine and Howard Kansas for the service.
Invitation to Visit Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Mass
An advertisement invites public inspection of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound lab and methods in Lynn Massachusetts. It emphasizes openness, invites verification of claims, and challenges doubters about the product’s exclusivity to roots and herbs and the handling of confidential letters from over a million women. The notice targets skeptical women while asserting widespread personal success.
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Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
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H. C. Snyder
Jennie Webb
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Hugh Barstow
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J. M. L. Payne
Dan Carney
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Ed. Coady
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M. L. Shellabarger
Dr. Crow
Chas. Wabnitz
Chas. F. Wabnitz
Rebekah
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Lola Collins
Nellie Shellabarger
Bruce Ellis
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Roy Paine
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O. L. Foster
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Joseph Hawkins
I. W. Gage
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J. L. Brown
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F. E. Ford
Clinton
E. A. Strain
H. J. Wilson
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Lewis Meyer
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Griffin Opera House
J. C. Robinson
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Carl Shearer
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L. E. Parson
Parsons
Rebekah Lodge
M. A. Shellabarger
Wapello
George Bailey
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E. S. Rabe
Ellis & Co
Gertrude Howe
Frank Fry
S. B. Furnas
Phil Westbrook
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F. B. Gay
Jennie Nolind
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M. F. Cronin
L. B. Smith
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Anderson Chapman
Margaret Buser
Minnie Ingraham
John Bowlby
W. H. Rowe
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George Norris
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W. E. Bliven
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Bertie Hagerman
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Mary Littick
David Horton
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S. S. Snyder
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