New Boston Ferry Opens Season Marking 100 Year History
New Boston ferry resumes Sunday May 25 under new ownership George A. Mason and Walter St. Ores who bought the boat from Hartzell ODeil. The service will run seven days a week from 6 am to sundown with 24 hour operation possible later. The ferry, the upper Mississippi’s last, aids Chicago to Omaha traffic via highway 17, and has been in operation for about 120 years. The boat has been overhauled to carry four to six cars per crossing depending on loading.
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New Boston
George A. Mason
Oakville
Walter St. Ores
Dallas City
Fil
Upper Mississippi
Hartzell Odeil
Mason
Chicago
Omaha
Kankakee
Til
Mississippi
John W. Anderson Dies at 81 Resting in Joy
Funeral services for John W. Anderson 81 will be held at 2 p m Sunday at the Sherrard Funeral home Aledo with Rev Charles Johnson of Joy Presbyterian Church officiating Burial will follow in Aledo cemetery Anderson born December 22 1870 in Sweden came to the United States as a child he retired to Joy 39 years ago from the Millersburg area He married Mary Ellen McDonald November 25 1907 Surviving are his widow two sons Clyde Rock Island and Charles Detroit Mich plus other relatives
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Joy
John W. Anderson
Charles Johnson
Joy Presbyterian Church
Sherrard
Aledo
Mr. Anderson
Sweden
August
Matilda Sallie Anderson
Millersburg
Mary Ellen McDonald
Galesburg, IL
Anderson
Presbyterian Church
Clyde
Rock Island
Charles
Detroit
Mich
Mrs Dusterhoft of Lone Tree Dies After Illness
Mrs Gladys Riggs Dusterhoft of Lone Tree died at her home after a lingering illness. Born January 1, 1901 in Lone Tree, she attended Lone Tree schools and the University of Iowa. Survived by husband Julius A. Dusterhoft, five children, brothers John Riggs and Herbert Riggs, and one sister, she will be buried at Calvary Cemetery in Victoria after services at St Marys Church.
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Lone Tree
Gladys Riggs Dusterhoft
Mary
Dayton Riggs
Julius A. Dusterhoft
Portland
Ore
University of Iowa
St. Mary’s Catholic Church of
Altar and Rosary Society
W. A. Walsh
Calvary Cemetery
Victoria
Soreen and Adams
Family mourns loss of a local man with large kinship
The obituary notes a man survived by a grandchild two nephews and two nieces and mentions he was preceded in death by a son.
C C McCullough Called in Death Funeral Monday
C C McCullough 72 formerly of West Liberty died Friday in a Columbus Junction doctor's office. He was born near Conesville December 21 1879 son of Albert and Minnie Harper McCullough. Surviving are three sons Ray Nichols and Lloyd and George McCullough two daughters Elva Zoller Neva Oeter and Bessie McCullough eight grandchildren and two nephews. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Monday at Stephens funeral home Columbus Junction. Burial Oakridge cemetery West Liberty.
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Columbus Junction
O. C. McCullough
West Liberty
Conesville
Mr. McCullough
Albert
Minnie Harper McCullough
Blanche Hallock
Odd Fellows Lodge
Ray. Nichols
Lloyd
George McCullough
Muscatine
Elva Zoller
Davenport
Neva Oeter
Bessie McCullough
Stephens Funeral Home
Oil movement dominates U S shipping tonnage share
On a tonnage basis the movement of crude oil and petroleum products accounts for about 65 percent of the ocean shipping of the United States and 35 percent of traffic on its inland waterways.
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U. S
Inspection of Island Levee Slated for Monday
John Hendriks announced that a Rock Island district Army Corps of Engineers representative will inspect the Muscatine Island levee Monday to assess damage from the April Mississippi River high water. The visit follows a request by Hendriks earlier this month.
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Muscatine Island
Rock Island
Army Corps of Engineers
John Hendriks
Board of Supervisors
Mississippi River
Hendriks
For Sale Various Farm and Garden Items and Services
Multiple farm ads offer two registered Guernsey bulls, a 1949 John Deere corn sheller, a John Deere 2 row cultivator, purebred Hampshire boars and sows, a Guernsey bull, White Rock pallets, and Red Hampshire stock. Also church services at the Church of Christ, hedge removal and ditch work quotes, and Miller Greenhouse cemetery wreaths with contact phone numbers.
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Mediapolis
Vernon Stoller
Hampshire
Guernsey
Orville Smith, Jr
Nichols
Kenny's Refrigeration Service Ad Moves Local Needs
Classified ad for Kenny's Refrigeration Service offering domestic and commercial repair in Muscatine Tipton West Liberty Wilton Junction and Durant with the phone numbers Durant 169 and Wilton 147.
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Kenny
Muscatine
Tipton
West Liberty
Wilton Jct
Durant
Wilton
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J. Case
J. I. Cease Co
Bettendorf
T. E. Stahl
Lincoln School
Tarpit
Cora Bennett
Mexico
Central American
West Indies
Mrs. Dusterhoft
C. C. McCullough
Phelps Bros. Laundry
Journal
Muscatine Journal
Robert Bauer
Hotel Muscatine
Grant Smith
Atalissa
Carroll Kistler
Buffalo Prairie
Raymond Satterthwaite
Arlene Mohnssen
Cranston
E. E. Shellabarger
Concord
J. R. Schafer
Grandview
R. E Duffield
Illinois City
Marion Hildebrand
Letts
Margaret Smith
Moscow
James van Camp
Sweetland
Charlene Meacham
Clinton Meyers
Cedar Valley
Mary Dell Hintz
Farmer's Market
Iowa
C. Earl Smith
Harry P. Schneider
John Deere
Brugman
Hampshire Boars
Ernest Yedlik
East
Church of Christ
Miller Greenhouse
Hope
Cook
Roy Brewer & Sons
Claude E. Webb
Bugs
Deieeuw Rug Cleaners
Singer Sewing Machine Co
East 2Nd
America
Spencer
Lille Schreurs
West 5Th
Schmelzer
East 9Th
Hinkley
Rooter Sewer Cleaning Service
One
Ray Oldham
Rock Road
C. E. Richards & Sons, Inc
Gebhardt Farms
John Pace
G & P. Stein Furniture CO
Stein’s
Mrs. William Lord of
Winthrop Harbor
Illinois
Stein
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