Rejuvenated Muscatine Commercial Club Plans Growth
The Muscatine Commercial Club outlines a drive to ease housing shortage by building 50 to 100 low rent homes on Park Place and seeks to extend the Citizens' Railway & Light line. With a goal of 25,000 inhabitants by 1910, leaders promise future gains and new club quarters.
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Muscatine
Park Place
Citizens’ Railway & Light Company
Aa. Commercial Club
Sterling Organization
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Elks Club House Highlighted In Muscatine Portrait
The article portrays the Elks club in Muscatine as a well furnished interior space and notes the lodge’s strong membership including many prominent businessmen.
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Elks’ Club
Elks In
Inside the Hershey building club rooms on top floor
The top floor quarters include five large rooms the billiard room bowling alleys reading room parlors and the card room serving as lobby A private committee room setup with sliding doors allows confidential conferences plus a private office for Secretary Ogilvie with cloakrooms toilets and storage shown in accompanying cuts for details of furnishing.
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Hershey
Ogilvie
Mrs Carnegie’s Indorsement Shapes Philanthropy
The laird of Skibo notes Mrs. Andrew Carnegie supports her husband before new philanthropy. He calls her a gentle, motherly figure who knew little of hardship, likening her to John D. Rockefeller's wife. The romance of their union began when she was 11 and he 35, with Carnegie already successful.
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Andrew Carnegie
Carity
Skibo Castle
Louisa Whitefield
New York
Carnegie
Whitefield
Carnegie and the Young Woman’s Quiet Engagement
The text describes a close association between Carnegie and a young girl who learned horsemanship, grew fond of him, and later became his wife. Their engagement surfaced when Carnegie was 50, creating a sensation, and they married in 1887.
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Carnegie
Electric vehicle praised as ideal for daily trips
The electric vehicle is presented as proper equipment for shopping, medical needs, and busy city travel. It appeals to doctors who need ready access to transport, women for ease and noiseless control, and businessmen for short trips through traffic.
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Cook, Musser
W. E. Bliven
State Bank
Cook Musser & Co. State Bank
Iowa
Ss. B. Cook
C. Cook
E. C. Stocker
Manager Savings Dept
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Elk’s Club
Oscar Grossheim
East Second Street
Batterson Stores
Musser
Greenwood Cemetery
Elks’ Club House
É. T. Kuech
Muscatine, Iowa
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Central Park
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E. J. Zeidler
Toben Malone & Co
W.J. Moylan
Jones & Rice
Wingold
Challenge
Moylan
3Rd Street
Muscatine, Ilewa
Iowa Avenue
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