Garden seeds on sale at E L Grahams store
Local notes report bulk seed sales at E L Grahams 301 E 2d St. Co Utter returned home after a city visit. C W Kemble left on the Firefly for Burlington on a brief business trip. J B Hamilton went home to Rock Island after visiting his sister Miss F A Hamilton. Mrs Thos Fahey returned from West Liberty. Mrs C Brunke and family planned an extended visit in San Francisco with cousin G L Casselman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Graham’s
E. 2d St
Co. Utter
J. B. Hamilton
Rock Island
F. A. Hamilton
Cedar Streets
C. Brunke
San Francisco
Cal
G. L. Casselman
Local residents travel and visits noted in Muscatine
Several Muscatine residents are reported in the city on various errands and visits yesterday. J W Oakes of Columbus Junction, C Erwin, Mrs EB Letts, John C Wilson, D McRoberts and wife, O H Erwin, Miss Kate Wintermeyer, Mrs John Morse, Mrs M Willis and family, J N Dale and R C Wibber are all mentioned with short trips to or from the city and nearby towns. Townsend's show window on East Seventh Street is highlighted for photography needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Oakes
Columbus Junction
M. Willis
Ainsworth
James Spangler
East Seventh Street
Muscatine
Townsend
Gibson Heater stock sale postponed in Muscatine
Muscatine leaders at the Commercial Club discuss delaying canvassing for Gibson Heater stock. They expect a factory to yield at least 500,000 machines first year and substantial city profits, with stock offered at 25 cents on the dollar to local and outside buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Gibson Heater Company
Commercial Club
Muscatine
J. H. Munroe & Son
Kemble & Kemble
Gibson Heater Company
Colored Circle Notes From Cameron Mo Dunbar Club Meeting
Mrs Abram Seabrooks visits Cameron. Miss Addie Lord ill with typhoid fever. Dunbar club hosts papers on The Emancipated Negro and its progress. Members prepare for Iowa Federation conference in Davenport May 26 27. Officers listed and social at Mrs Townsley raises funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Seabrooks
Cameron
Addie Lord
Dunbar Club
Alice Thompson
State Federation of Iowa Colored Women
Davenport
Mand Owsley
Fannie A. Grooms
C. Owsley
Mary Bain
Catherine Owsley
Eliza Townsley
Maud Owsley
Frances Walker
Mesdames
R. J. Watson
M. Simmons
Leona Jordan
Connie Carr
Frances Wilson Suicide in Sioux City At 24
Frances Wilson a 24 year old woman from Sioux City ended her life by taking poison. The report notes she was known locally as a scarlet woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Wilson
Sioux City
Test Pigeons to Speed From Muscatine to Rock Island
The Rock Island Homing Pigeon club will release three coops of pigeons on Muscatine's levee at 8:30 AM Sunday to time their return to Rock Island. The plan includes precise release timing and multiple directions to measure speed and routing. These birds serve on ocean vessels and expeditions beyond mail networks, akin to the pigeons used by Arctic explorer Andre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Rock Island Club
Andre
Fifth Street Bridge reconstruction and Welsbach lighting plans discussed
City committees met with G. E. Wilson of Clinton Bridge Co to evaluate using old iron for the Fifth Street Bridge but it was deemed unsuitable. A new bridge will be built over Mad Creek with plans to start soon, possibly ready before summer. The lighting committee, with R. H. Bingham of Chicago, may install about forty Welsbach lamps on a busy street for one month at $28 per year per lamp if results are satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
United States Court
Dubuque County
United States Marshal
United States
McCabe
Mr. Winans
Mars
Burlington
Barnes
Mr. Moir
G. E. Wilson
Clinton Bridge Company
Fifth Street Bridge
R. W. Bingham
Chicago
Welsbach
Clinton
Wilson
Mad Creek
Fifth Street
East Hill
R. H. Bingham
St. Louis
Bingham
Cheap Round Trip Rates to Los Angeles
The Iowa Central R. A. offers round trips to Los Angeles or San Francisco from Pluick Junction at 59 dollars. Sale dates May 3, 12–18 with final return July 15, 1903. Tickets allow diverse routes and stopovers. contact local agents or A. B. Cutts, G P T A, Minneapolis for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Manitoba
Iowa Central Railway
A. B. Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
Los Angeles
Presbyterian Assembly
Iowa Central R. A
Pluick Junction
San Francisco
Minneapolis, Minn
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America
Qood Ki
Arthur
Harold Austin
Kershaw School
Battle Creek Breakfast Food CO
Battle Creek
Mich
Quincy, Il
Quincy, Iil
W. E. Battey
West Second Street
McBride & Cope
C. W. Kemble
C. Erwin
Grandview
EB. C. Letts
John C. Wilson
Letts
William
D. McRoberts
O. H. Erwin
Kate Wintermeyer
Thos, Brazel
John Morse
Foster, Il
J. N. Dale
Fruitland
R. C. Wibber
H. R. Wibber
East Sixth Street
First Mortgage
Iowa Farm Loans
Iowa Avenue
J. E. Stevenson
The
Rapid Transit Company of
Waterloo
Charles City
Rootbeers& Tt
Charles E. Hires CO
Malvern, Pa
C. W. Cowles
Mississippi River
Empire Coal Company
Fulton, Ill
Upper
Mississippi
Joseph Buisson
Wabasha
Mima
Winans
J. Linn Hoopes
Insurance and
W. 2d Street
Sela
Eenea
Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Ass’n St. Louis, U.S. A
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