Muscatine Chautauqua Grows In Popularity Each Year
The Muscatine Chautauqua at Citizens' Railway park, first held in 1906, draws larger crowds with a ten day 1909 program beginning July 23. Notables include William Jennings Bryan and Senator Gore, plus Bohumir Kryl with 42 musicians and eight soloists. The event promises a premier musical lineup and ample camping space.
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Muscatine
Citizens’ Railway & Light Company
William Jennings Bryan
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Col. Gearhart
Bohumir Kryl
Feather Plucking Blower Devised for Chickens
A powerful electric blower uses strong suction to remove feathers and down from dead chickens quickly, offering an efficient plucking method.
Local Links and Travel in Conesville Area
Conesville residents report family visits from Muscatine and Lone Tree. Chicago-bound cattle trips leave town as Mrs Mincher visits Wapello. Miss Ethel English undergoes surgery at Keokuk's Graham hospital and returns home. Grace Gunderson travels to Montezuma while Rock Island agent J A W Harper prepares to depart Maynard Iowa.
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Conesville
G. W. Tipton
Raymond
R. G. Tipton
Muscatine
Horatio Baker
Eva
O. H. Meredith
Walter
Lone Tree
L. M. Cecil
John Hankins
Chicago
Mincher
Wapel
Graham Hospital
Grace Gunderson
Montezuma
J. A. W. A. Harper
Rock Island
Maynard
Iowa
Decorah
L. McKee
Mattie Jean
Cedar Falls
Silas Northey
Waterloo
W. S
R. i G. Tipton
Opening for Interurban Builders in Muscatine
Muscatine faces uncertain near term interurban prospects with three planned routes including Cedar Rapids Iowa City extension and a Davenport link. Yet the city’s wealth and growing status as a terminal promise a major opening for future interurban lines and capital investment.
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Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Davenport
Tri-City
Sweetland Center
Rock Island Southern
Aledo
III
Local Social and Travel Notes from Orono and Nearby
Collected items report visits and travel by residents of Orono Columbus Junction and Muscatine area. Notables include Mrs Henry Krider and daughter Eva calling, L M Cecil and John Hawkins to Chicago, Dr H H English with Miss Ethel Buser for surgery in Keokuk Gra hm hospital, and various family visits. A newborn daughter to Will Reed is noted along with several motorcar and cattle movements and shop visits the week of May.
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Orono
Iowa
Henry Krider
Eva
Columbus Junction
L. M. Cecil
John Hawkins
Chicago
Cecil
L. S. Buser
H. H. English
Keokuk
Ethel Buser
Graham Hospital
Will Hawkins
Harold
Davenport
Milton Scott
Muscatine
Brandon
Cass Hawkins
Burlington
John Tarpy
Mary McCarthy
John
Will Brandon
Lone Tree
Will Reed
Larry Dean
Cone
C. B. Vail
Marie Tarpy
George Adams
Agnes Tarpy
Julia Lee
Cedar Rapids
John Gedney
Cedar
John Powell
Bert Emmerson
Port Allen
S. S. Buser
Leland
Jim Smith
Conesville
Arthur Jean
Will Hankins
Tony Pamxtis
Metropolis Style Hershey Building Opens Here
Muscatine unveils a new Hershey building described as highly metropolitan and nearly fireproof. It features solid concrete construction, terra cotta and brick veneer, and full modern office amenities for convenient quarters.
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Muscatine
Iowa
Hershey
Lamps illuminate Seattle Exposition and New York building
Eight hundred thousand eight candle power incandescent lamps illuminate the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opening June 1 in Seattle. In New York the Fifth Avenue Building on the former Fifth Avenue Hotel site glows with five thousand tungsten lamps.
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Seattle
Fifth Avenue
New York
Great Metropolis
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H.F. Barnard Co
Ing Jewelers of the
Pearl City
Barnard’s
H. F. Barnard CO
H. F. Barnard Company, Jewelers
East Second Street
C. T. Gremmel
West Second Street
Muscatine’s Wholesale
Fruit House
Geo. A. Hahn
Front Street
Muscatine, Iowa
Eral
Muscatine and Territory
Swan
Selis
Hershey State Bank Building
Fisher’s Garage
Mulberry Avenue
M. G. W. Fisher
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