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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 21, 1902

Page

6

Republicans Take Power In Muscatine 1902 City Council

Muscatine experiences a new council as Mayor Schmidt ends term and Mayor-elect McNutt begins. The record includes finances, street plans, cemetery bids, and bond approvals while committees propose water legislation and street openings and discuss the Champion hose house and crosswalks.

Ald. Engel Champion Council Ald Riggs Gremmel Muscatine Eighth Street Maiden Lane Roscoe Avenue Weed Park Road City of McNutt Ald. Schenck Diercks Engel Bartemeier Seller Spaethe Duffield Roach Board of Water Trustees Weth Des Moines Kornemann Str Schenck Aid Sycamore Street Quincy Street Peter Geltz Cere Eee Nyenhuis Cemetery Committee Herm. Gremmel J. Bartemeier R. Schenck W. Riggs People's Light and Power Co J. W. Riggs Iowa M. J. Flannery Seiler Riges David Vanatta E. E. Davidson Ald. Seiler Jno B. Hudson Deutscher Anzeiger Gustav Weis Louis Tiecke Second Ward Adam Korte First Ward Ald. Diercks Hanover Street Grandview Road City Fire Committee Schmidt Bert Benham City Recorder

Two Fine Specimens of Physical Development and Digestion

An examination of how athletes reach peak form cites James Jeffries and Tom Sharkey pursuing training focused on perfect digestion. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are praised by both fighters for aiding digestion, preventing acidity, and maintaining health without laxatives, with James Jeffries and Thos. J. Sharkey endorsing them.

James Jeffries Tom Sharkey Iine Stuart Ampion Jeffries Trengthen James J. Jeffries Sharkey Iart Thos. J. Sharkey

Fruitland notes on illness growth and local life

The Fruitland local column reports John Shultz gravely ill at his Island home, Elsie and son unloading a new traction engine for a portable saw mill, and a cold wave bringing many robins. It covers school board swearing in of Robert Mittman and others, new stores and fertilizer shipments, duck hunting, and local improvements near Fruitland.

Fruitland John Shultz X. Elsie Holcomb and Vail Fruitland Township Robert Mittman R. F. Parmilee R. F. Hummell Chas. Beatty T. F. Fell Fell Milwaukee A. F. Kemp W. L. Clapp Muscatine Davenport J. W. Rankin Ottumwa Phillips Farm J.S. Garnes Equalizing Board G. H. Corwin Emerson Bowman Geo. Richie Frank Walker J. H. Vail Messrs Dayton the Lightning Medicine CO Rock Island

Weather, depth of Holtz well resets local notes

Sweetland Ila reports varied week with temperatures from zero to 60 above. Farmers reconsider wheat sowing plans amid the weather shift. The well at C A Holtz's now measured at 260 feet deep, not 60 as last week indicated.

Sweetland Ila C. A. Holtz

Local Notes from Sweetland and Nearby Towns

Sunday visits by J. E. Van Camp and Ed Chamberlain family are recorded. Mrs. Ed Chamberlain tours Wilton this week. Katie Deitrick of Muscatine visited Sweetland. Wm Moots took possession of the new store. George Pantel to work in carpentry with Tony Bersch. Sweetland folks praise Judge Brannan over Gettert divorce. County supervisors order a new Mad Creek bridge near F Burnside. John Foster moves to Campbell Ia. Fred Klepper traveled near Burlington. Willie Sinkler travels to Colorado for summer. Elzie Hessen visits from Wilton. Peter Gettert returns from Blue Grass.

J. E. van Camp

Black Diamond Express Named for Comfort and Speed

The Black Diamond Express becomes a byword for luxury among travelers. The service runs between Buffalo and Philadelphia via the Lehigh Valley Railroad, signaling swift and elegant rail travel in this corridor.

Buffalo New York Philadelphia Lehigh Valley Railroad

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