South Muscatine Lumber workers donate funds in city drive
Employees of the South Muscatine Lumber and Box Company raised 35.50 in a Friday through Saturday subscription drive. The Kaiser plant and other South End firms plan to follow, with local residents hopeful Muscatine will become a leading giver in the state. The list names many contributors and amounts, with several local individuals noted.
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South
South Muscatine Lumber Company
Leuae
James —Adams
BO Corton
Ogio
I. Siestee
George Herwig
Track Laying Progress At Rock Island Yard Expansion
Rock Island Railway workers advance yard reconstruction in Muscatine with gravel trains and one mile of track laid. Right of way extended about ten feet toward the river as crews plan further outgrowth for dumping dirt and continuing the spur line.
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Rock Island Railroad Company
East Hill News Dismantles Noted Trotting Barn
Dismantling of the Dale property rear barn, once a leading trotting stable housing racehorses and famous names like Matchless and Frank V, is completed. Owners P F and J S Dale plan to build a residence on the site soon. Also included are items on a cyclone near Concordia, improvements to Mrs Matthews and son Arthur, and local road conditions after rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale
Frank V
Benidas
P. F
J. S. Dale
Phoebe Gilman
Dildine
Concordia
Kan
Matthews
Chicago
Arthur
John Clark
van Doran
Davenport
del Frye
Smalley Avenue
Coffee as a social ill and health risk discussed by professor
A professor argues that tea and coffee at meals are more injurious than liquor for some men and contribute to restlessness and health problems, warning students that coffee can signal stomach trouble weak eyes or bad blood and prompt quitting coffee for better health.
Postum as coffee substitute cited for health benefits
A testimonial endorses Postum in place of coffee, claiming headaches, kidney trouble, neuralgia, eczema and rheumatic pains improve after switching. The speaker asserts seven years of use shows Postum builds the system and offers urgent health benefits, with company attribution to Postum Co. of Battle Creek and a call to seek “The Road to Wellville.”
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Picnic day for Columbus Junction boys and visitors
Mrs. J. C. Kendrick and a dozen Sunday school boys enjoyed a picnic at Buzzard's day Saturday with boating fishing and ball. The group included Harry Jennings George Wilcox Ronald Curtis Eddie Bell Arnold Oats Bert Noland Paul Hamnan Harold Foster Harry Cobb Roy Drake Clinton Hendrix and Ralph Outcome. Nearby visitors from Sayre Oklahoma and Davenport called on relatives while others moved or prepared for future relocations.
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Columbus Junction
J. C. Kendrick
Kendrick
H. Russell
Sayre
Burlington
Louisa County
Wapello
D. H. Darrow
W. H. Langenberg
Darrows
S. B. Paxton
Wm. Burns
Fourth Street
Furnas
South Hill
Roy Fleming
Davenport
W. H. Gelatt
J. J. Russell
H. D. Rifenberg
Cranor
E. B. Tucker
Will
Peter Bretz
Winfield
Juanita Rabenold
Ainsworth
Local residents incur trips and visits across towns
Miss Alfie Armstrong from Crawfordsville visits sister Mrs Amor Kelly in Columbus City. Mrs David Rawhouser from Columbus City travels to Washington for her father Philip Schrader's illness. Schrader dies Saturday. E T Foster returns from a three week Kansas trip. Editor Bigger of Wapello Tribune visits Columbus Junction. Mollie Oliver goes to Davenport for a few days with daughter Ina. Esther Knaub, teacher near Centerdale, returns home after visit. G W Oakes ships tile from here last week.
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E. T. Foster
Kansas
Bigger
The
Wapello Tribune
Columbus Junction
Mollie Oliver
Davenport
Ina
Esther Knaub
Centerdale
G. W. Oakes
Stock swap plan details for merger and plant expansion
The $5,000,000 6 percent cumulative preferred stock and $7,000,000 common stock form the new capital. Old stockholders receive $11,000,000 of new stock at a rate of one preferred plus 1.375 common per old share. An additional $1,000,000 of preferred will fund enlarging the Waltham plant.
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Waltham
Witte May Be Out Rumor Swirls Over Russian Leadership
In St Petersburg on May 1 reports circulated that Emperor Nicholas may accept Count Witte's resignation while Witte has again urged the emperor to choose between him and Interior Minister Durnovo. A rumor of Witte's retirement and a possible appointment as president of the council has persisted since Saturday, though attention has waned amid earlier claims he had defeated Durnovo.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Nicholas
Premier Witte
Count Witte
Durnovo
Winter Palace
M. Vouitch
Council of the Empire
M. Durnovo
Missing banker commits suicide in Quincy home
Walter W. Somers of the International Bank of Hulls Illinois disappeared April 14 with a $2,200 shortage. His body was found today in the cellar of a house adjoining his residence with a bullet wound to the head. A revolver lay beside the body. Somers' father John W. Somers, a St. Joseph Illinois banker, has made good his son's defalcation.
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Quincy
Ill
Walter W. Somers
International Bank of Hulls
Somers
John W. Somers
St. Joseph, Ill
Record price highs for Berkshire and Poland China hogs
Nicholas H. Gentry of Pettis county sold a Berkshire hog for 2000 dollars the highest price ever paid in America for a Berkshire hog at George W Null’s Lafayette county home a Poland China hog died for 1575 dollars this hog held the world record for farrowing the highest priced litter eight pigs bringing 3055 dollars
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Kansas City
Nicholas H. Gentry
Pettis County
America
George W. Null
Lafayette County
Poland
Hall's Catarrh Cure claimed as constitutional remedy
An 19th century advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offers a hundred dollar payoff for failed cases, and recommends accompanying Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
J Price Visits from Wapello for Day of Business
J Price of Wapello arrives on the morning train to spend the day in the city attending to business matters.
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J. Price
Wapello
Appendix Kept Busy by King’s New Life Pills Ad
An old fashioned drug store advertisement promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 25 cents. The copy touts the pills as a remedy for constipation and claims to keep the appendix busy warding off danger.
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Dr. King
Havercamp’s
Waltham to Increase Stock Capital Reincorporation
Boston May 1. The American Waltham Watch company with a capital of 4 million dollars is to be reincorporated into the Waltham Watch company with a capital of 12 million dollars. The move expands the corporate structure and capital base for the watchmaker.
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Waltham
Boston
Mass
American Waltham Watch Company
Waltham Watch Company
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Fh PE
Heimbeckel Chas. Graffe
Jno
Reinhart
Umland
John Delger
W. Hartman Seedes
Cheetah
Peter
Sietnnaet Bey
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Henry Aulf
W. Adaerminr
Claus Beckman Ek
Joseph Gardmeyer
CGC
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Bankee
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John Townsend
Elmer Ryan
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Hee
Dennis Flynn
Crake
Tadbreu Cine
Herve
Ruthenberg
John Lema
John Schrempf
John Westman
Henry F. Havemann
Esses Lewis Powell
Otto Elfers
Adam Butler
Maple Grove Road
Samuel Henry
Grace Hill
Mrs
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Nebraska Street
Tina Bierman
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Harry Freyermuth
Grandview
Fred Crow
Sweetland
Muscatine
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Chester W. G. Diercks
J. P. Diercks
Diercks
Minnie Hartman
William Diercks
Louise Diercks
East Hill News
Chicago University
Ruthenberg Clothing Co
Eder
Chas. Ruthenberg
Fred Ruthenberg
Sree
Seller Bros
Witte
Hulls, Ill
Missouri
Starclothing Co
M. Kautz & Sons
Iowa Ave
John Redmond
Walnut Street
Opera House
Cravenette
Haincoat
Anson Clothing Co
Home OF Good Clothing
Hirt & Fesler
East Second Street
Swan
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