Columbus Junction Joins Great Western Racing Circuit
Columbus Junction enters the Great Western Circuit with purses totaling 8000 across August dates. The circuit spans Detroit Joliet Milwaukee Des Moines and more with 15 trotting meetings and about 250000 in purses.
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Columbus Junction
Detroit
Milwaukee
Joliet
Illinois
Iowa
Des Moines
Davenport
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Pekin
Ill
St. Paul
Galesburg
Hamline
Minn
Rural Route Petition Filed for Washington Iowa Area
John W Campbell Ed McCaulley and others filed a petition for a new twenty mile rural free delivery route southeast of Washington Iowa. About 100 households would be served and nearly 500 people would gain free mail service once approved. The petition is now with Postmaster J A Cunningham and awaits department review in Washington DC.
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Washington, Ia
John W. Campbell
McCaulley
City of
Washington
J. A. Cunningham
Washington, D. C
Paine's Celery Compound Promises Spring Health Gains
The article extols Paine's Celery Compound as a successful spring medicine curing nervousness sleeplessness and various ailments. It notes a house to house belief in its benefits and urges replacement of substitutes while detailing wholesale supply and rising potato and produce prices amid poor roads. It ends with a brief live stock market update listing hog calf prices and grain values.
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Paine
Times
Paine’s
Market Prices for Grain Farm Produce and Live Stock Today
Grain items list various prices for corn oats wheat rye and barley with hay and straw figures. Live stock and poultry show hogs cattle calves sheep lamb turkeys dressed and live chickens ducks geese and market weights with fluctuating per pound or per head values. Retail and wholesale prices cover sugar coffee butter eggs cheese vegetables fruit and fish with fuel costs noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
5SWA FARMS $ PER ASH BALANCE SCROP TIL PA
Unable to determine readable facts from the provided OCR fragment.
Muscatine Seeks Public Building Amid Washington Hearings
Commercial club members met to hear updates on a Muscatine public building bill stuck in Washington. A competing Iowa City request was discussed, with optimism that Muscatine has a strong claim. The bowling alley project was completed and praised, and Charles Schnier joined the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commercial Club
Muscatine
Munroe
J. M. Kemble
W. D. Burk
Mr. Munroe
Committee On Public Buildings
Iowa City
Congressman Rumple
House
Allison
Dolliver
Senate
Bowling Alley
Stevenson
Irving RB. Richman
Richman
Charles Schnier
Run on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at Glade Springs
A. F. Clark, a druggist in Glade Springs Virginia, sold twelve bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy between eleven in the morning and closing time on January 25 1901. He reports exceptional customer satisfaction and cites long standing use and numerous testimonials from Virginians. The remedy is advertised as a quick cure for coughs colds and grip and is available at all druggists.
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A. F. Clark
Glade Springs
Chamberlain
Virginia
Quiet School Election Sees Low Turnout in Rain
Yesterday afternoon a single-ticket school election produced about 450 ballots in a heavy downpour. Polls opened 1 to 7 pm with Capt. A. K. Raff presiding and several board members present. Directors term three years John M. Appel 449 votes G O Morgridge 448 votes Treasurer term two years A F Nemorest 442 votes Unknown rival 4 votes.
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A. K. Raff
John M. Appel
G. O. Morgridge
A. F. Nemorest
SF Mawel
Settler's Low Rates to California on Great Rock Island Route
Through tourist sleepers daily to California via El Paso on the Great Rock Island Route. Rates to Salt Lake City Ogden Helena and Butte Montana. Tickets on sale March 1 to April 30 1902. Inquiries at C R I L & P ticket office. G M Gould Agent.
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Great Rock Island
California
Potatoes Surge in Wholesale Market Trade
Market notes reveal broad price moves across commodities with potatoes leading gains. Wholesale potato prices rose 5 cents last week to 95 cents, signaling potential further increases while eggs, celery, calves, and hogs show mixed shifts.
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William GT
York
Western Circuit of Racing
Fine Racing
Anteed
Freeport
Indianapolis
Ind
Springfield
Southeast
Grocery Department
Pacific Slope
Shiloh
S.C. Walls & Co
le Roy
Karl
the Journal Muscatine
the Journal
Atlantic
Journal
Rm. Neidig
E. 2d Street
Kansas City
Jacksonville
Florida
Sam
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