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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1906
Page
7
Local notes show many short visits and arrivals from nearby towns with several readers seeking to sell second hand furniture and household items via A Journal want ads. Entries mention Mi o Na products, drug store cures, and travel to California or Davenport for relatives.
The Milwaukee Road plans extensive improvements in Iowa this year, upgrading tracks and facilities. The announcement emphasizes added service and better infrastructure across key routes within the state. The article notes ongoing development by the carrier amid regional rail expansion.
Reverend B C Preston led a splendid afternoon gathering at the Y W C A yesterday. Mrs E L McColm sang a solo as Ellen Hanley directed a song service, making the meeting most interesting.
Dubuque reader reports on Panama Canal prospects and Milwaukee road upgrades in Iowa. Major projects include rebuilding the Turkey river branch to Lawler and extending to Dubuque, plus new Cedar river bridge at Covington and dual-track work between Marion and Omaha. Motor car experiments spread among large railroads, with Rock Island denying coast extension and time-card cuts noted. Sanitation issues in the Isthmus described with labor conditions, housing, and bribery concerns in Panama.
On Tuesdays in March and April Iowa Central offers cheap second class settlers tickets for northwest settlers. Contact agents for rates or write A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
Endorsed letters tell how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound assisted women with tumors and reproductive illnesses. Patients report relief from pain, restored periods, and tumor reduction or disappearance without surgery, prompting appeals to other women to seek guidance from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn, Massachusetts.
Martin Beuthien former president of New Liberty Savings Bank was acquitted of receiving deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent. The jury rendered the verdict after a hard fought trial with the County Attorney Hamann prosecuting the case.
Louis Block for the defense delivered a faultless challenge in court, and the jury acquitted Martin Jeuthien amid limited evidence. The result marks Block as one of the county’s top criminal lawyers and boosts Jeuthien’s standing in the bar.
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Iowa Central railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Minnesota, the Dakotas, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest, also to points in the south, southeast, west and southwest. Rate one fare plus two dollars with liberal limits and stopover privileges. For rates and further particulars call on agents or address A. B. Cutts, G. P. & T. A., Minneapolis, Minn.
Last night's storm caused several washouts with the worst at Ninth and Mulberry where shells were dumped to make the street passable. Local street commissioner received the report and ordered repairs to continue.
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