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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1909
Page
17
Muscatine shoppers encounter a wide sale at Lilly's Quality Store with deep cuts on dry goods including linens laces embroideries nets and dress trimmings. The event features many 2.00 1.75 1.50 1.25 1.00 value items and 25c hosiery marked down to 15c.
Over the last year the Metropolitan District Railway ferried 91 million passengers. British engineers test electric propulsion for Atlantic liners as part of ongoing maritime experiments.
Miss Luke Noyes of Cedar Rapids was elected assistant principal of Springdale public high school at the Monday board meeting. Mary R. Pearson celebrated her eighty eighth birthday with a large postal card shower totaling 154 cards from across the nation. Local residents Mr and Mrs Ed Bailey of near Tipton visited Springdale friends as lawyers Mather and Todd attended District Court at Tipton.
The record lists residents and visitors including Lee Millett erecting a large barn near the village, J. W. Eves hosting a party for Ralph Montgomery, and several others mapping business in Springdale. Interurban railway prospects hinge on farmers granting right of way along the Iowa City and Davenport line.
The Hawkins hay barn in Cranston was struck by lightning at 6 30 Thursday morning and burned to the ground. Two horses a colt a gasoline engine a wood saw a top buggy a farm wagon ten tons of baled hay three tons of baled straw and a hay baler owned by Norrel Hafner were also lost. Estimated at least 1500 dollars with some insurance coverage. O E Townsley visited Letts Wednesday. Robert Bain painted for Joseph Meeker. Hazel Hafner rode to Muscatine Sunday to Leverich Normal school. L E Snyder spent Saturday in Muscatine.
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