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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1900
Page
2
Local notes from Muscatine include arrivals and departures on the Firefly and Wilton trains, visits by Davenport and Marshalltown residents, and social events. Sheriff activity, court cases, and a dismissal of the Davis & Davis coopers firm are also reported alongside weathered town news and advertisements.
A Sunday School speaker reflects on giving Bibles as gifts, recounting personal scenes from a high school classroom to farm life. The piece urges Bible ownership as essential, sharing stories of families, faith, and the lasting impact of gift Bibles. It links personal memory to spiritual lessons and the promise of a faithful end.
Ottumwa residents who invested in Granite State Provident Association of Manchester New Hampshire faced losses as the building and loan firm with national reach collapsed. A New Hampshire receiver handled the case Elizabeth Bosworth versus the association and Ottumwa court ordered $4000 turned over to David A. Taggart the assignee. The receiver received $800 as compensation.
The line captures a poetic reflection on inner sorrow and spiritual movement as a response to darkness, suggesting a transient, meaningful shimmer within suffering.
Muscatine records mark Company C joining the U S volunteer army at Des Moines on May 17 1898 and departing for Jacksonville Fla on May 21. Local memories recall April 26 1898 when mills shut for their send off and factory whistles blew.
In Southwest Muscatine residents report a forthcoming wedding nearby as well as new homes on Clinton Street. The area endures heavy rain with flooded cellars and wet ground hindering garden work and farm chores for children at the pickle farm.
Des Moines Iowa May 18 The trio Frank Utterson William Ferguson and Ida Ferguson now face four indictments for burglary to answer at the current term of the district court. All three detained in the county jail unable to post bond. Trial expected next week.
Eau Claire Wisconsin May 19. Miss Barbara Knobel aged 13 after three years of illness was found to have a steel hat pin three and a half inches long embedded in the right side. Doctors had treated floating kidney but nothing helped until X rays revealed the pin. The pin’s head is missing and no one recalls how it entered her body. The girl is now recovering.
Chicago burial association plans funeral policies payable with one dollar down and one dollar monthly until fifty dollars is paid. After paying fifty dollars the policy grants a seventy five dollar funeral including coffin shroud hearse three carriages and embalming. Policy lists claimant and all family members and covers use when any die. If death occurs outside the city body must be returned before services start.
Belle Plaine Union reports T. F. Prill finished a five inch artesian well for Walter Thomas on a sixty acre garden south of the river. The well reaches 162 feet, flows 3,700 gallons per minute with sand gravel and stones up to four pounds, nine feet above ground at peak. Gate valve weighing 150 pounds proved hard to insert against the water. Water will irrigate the garden in dry seasons.
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