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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1905
Page
6
J Dwight Lamb, a Clinton lumberman and head of Lamb Lumber Co, is reported dead after a fall from a deck along the Mississippi. His death removes a prominent capitalist and employer known across Muscatine and the river trade, where his name is familiar to lumbermen.
Committees were named to organize the fortieth annual state Sunday school convention and primary junior teachers’ institute to be held in Ottumwa June 18 to 16. Major Samuel Mahon of Ottumwa will give the welcome address with noted workers including W. C. Pearce, Mrs. J. A. Walker, Rev. A. P. George, Dr. Stephen Phelps, and Rev. T. B. Turner listed for the program.
The death of Artemus Lamb grandson of Chancy Lamb founder of Clinton Lamb Lumber is reported. He sailed on the Margaret from Clinton, steered to a point near Sun Prairie, sat beside a chair that tipped, and disappeared in the river as the boat sped downstream. Searchers expected to recover the body in about 25 feet of water near Bellevue.
A letter from Dublin announced gifts totaling 17000 dollars for Parsons College in Fairfield Iowa. Andrew Carnegie provides 15000 and Foster 2000 with possible additional 3000 and a 20000 library to follow. The donor Foster built Foster Science Hall at Parsons and urged Carnegie to donate during their shared voyage to Europe. A June 16 excursion to Fort Madison to tour the penitentiary was approved by the Ladies Improvement Association to raise funds for beautification and city improvements.
The funeral of Mrs Clark Brown was held at the Wilton Presbyterian church at 2 PM conducted by Rev N A McAulay. Obituary recounts her life from Warren County Illinois to Taylor County Iowa and locally in Wilton. She engaged in church activity and various civic groups and died May 11 1905 after surgery at St Luke's Davenport with family by her side.
An advertisement touts Liquozone as a powerful germ killer not destroyed by conventional medicine. It promises a $1,000 reward for a disease germ it cannot kill and describes extensive testing, large investments, and a free bottle offer to prove its claimed benefits.
Iowa City hosts a homeopathic banquet at the Berkely Imperial on May 18. John B. Young of Clinton, aged 82, will be guest of honor and deliver an address. Young is described as the only known man in America who was a pa
Narrator recalls Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homeopathy, saving a boy named Young at age twelve from presumed incurable tuberculosis in Paris, about 70 years ago, after his family sent him from England for treatment.
Miss Ann Holmes of Waterloo, a YWCA worker and University of Iowa student, burned Saturday when a gasoline stove ignited after a companion left the fluid on. Doctors report she will not lose her sight, though her hands face and head suffered burns including hair and eyelash loss.
A friend recalls Karl as a model Christian, energetic and firm in convictions yet gentle. His kind acts and short life are urged as a standard for Muscatine’s young men to emulate, promising a better world if more deserve such character.
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