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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
5
The South Muscatine region expects a record home grown strawberry crop this season, aided by spring rains. Blackberries are beginning to show, and buyers are flocking to the market as the fruit arrives.
In Muscatine county May marriages totaled twenty couples, slightly up from April. The county clerk lists twenty wedding pairs from May 1 to May 26, with thirty-four individuals named across multiple ceremonies and a note predicting a larger June for Cupid’s matches.
Floods and high water disrupt rail service across Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory delaying trains beyond El Reno. Rock Island plans focus on betterments not extensions with heavy investment in track upgrades ballast and double tracking from Chicago to Lincoln and toward Salt Lake City.
Wilkesbarre Pa May 31 The court of common pleas today restrained Nan Patterson from appearing on the stage in Pennsylvania on application by Irving E Pinover of New York The injunction cites breach of contract and fraud asserting a written contract dated Dec 14 1904 bound her to appear exclusively under his management
The body of a healthy infant was found in a valise floating in the Mississippi River below Burlington Iowa on May 31. It was wrapped in a striped shirt and believed to have been dropped from a passing steamer.
Ferdinand remains ill on May 31 as John Zollner fails to improve quickly. Local farm and social mentions include John Price and John Lutz transacting business in Muscatine, Anna Zollner visiting Mrs. Krueger, and several Krueger family visits. Farmers are planting corn. Minnie Krueger returns to Reynolds. Lydia Krueger returns from Marston. Mary Umscheid returns to Muscatine after helping her sister.
The Muscatine M W A monthly bulletin states the society cannot loan money on benefit certificates. Cash is held to pay death claims and contingencies. loans require security. Certificates are renewable term contracts that may be voided for nonpayment or disqualifying acts, making loans reckless. A Western Union messenger will collect want ads.
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