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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
10
Local ad promotes fine lace curtains at 3.98 per pair and four rolls of matting priced 35 to 50 cents per yard, with a yard or bulk option at one dollar.
Numerous residents leaving for home or visits. J. Boldy heads to Rock Island on business. Lulu Van Horn, Lizzie Brase, Bessie Westbrook, and others depart for Davenport Nichols Letts and Chicago. Local shops advertise Sleepy Eye flour ice cream cones and fireworks.
Oliver Eckel, a former Muscatine resident now living in Chicago, sustained slight injuries in a Tuesday morning collision on the Northwestern elevated lines. The wreck injured thirty people with three fatalities. Eckel was 72.
Iowa City game report shows Iowa overpowering Coe 6 to 1 on a Wednesday afternoon. Hanlon pitched brilliantly while Coe fielding miscues led to seven errors and seven unearned runs in the visitor’s side. Wantoned curveballs aided the attack as visitors collected four scattered hits.
Brink pitched seven solid innings before tiring and handing to Thomas who performed well. Neither Coe pitcher was hit hard yet defense failed them while the Hawkeyes played cleanly and supported their pitchers with solid fielding.
Rev D W Leach of Missouri conducts revivals at Bethal A M E Church with strong interest. Tonight's sermon is The Prodigal Son and tomorrow's topic will be The Devil's Excursion Train.
Ralph Williamson, an operator at the Burlington Postal Office, has arrived in the city to fill in for Irene Scofield, the local postal manager, who is on a short vacation.
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