Local Muscatine News Teems With Visits and Ads
Miss May McCormick of Letts visits Muscatine friends. Doctors E H King and Cal W Smith advertise practice. Vernon Legler near Arden returns home after visit. Fred Roach referees West Davenport game in Muscatine. Various residents shop, travel to Wilton Wilton revival, and sample Gulf Coast crops. Local buy offers for shoes cigars buggies and furniture.
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Saga
May McCormick
Letts
E. H. King
Vernon Legler
Near Arden
Muscatine
Muscatine Native Ellis Parker Butler Portrait in Des Moines Tribute
The Des Moines Register and Leader prints a full tribute to Ellis Parker Butler born in Muscatine. It chronicles his rise from Muscatine roots to a career as a humorist and author with titles like Pigs Is Pigs and The Incubator Baby. Butler lived in Flushing Long Island and published eight books with translations in England and upcoming French edition talks.
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Register and Leader
Des Moines
Muscatine
Ellis Parker Butler
Indiana
News-Tribune
Mr. Butler
Hank Lewis
Saturday Mail
Lewis
Dickens
Browning
Bob Burdette
Iowa
Tona
Butler
New York
Tom Masson
Life
Charley Fuller
East Second Street
Paris
America
Flushing
Long Island
Perkins
Portland
Great American Pie Company
England
Golden wedding dinner honors G W Sanders couple
West Liberty Iowa guests celebrated a fifty year marriage for Mr. and Mrs. G W Sanders with a large dinner. The event featured autumn decor and gifts of gold and silver from relatives including their children Will Nichols and Jeff Sanders who added electric lights to their home.
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West Liberty
G. W. Sanders
Prairie Avenue
Local society notes recount weddings and visitors in West Liberty
A long list details a wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Sanders of South Prairie with many relatives from Ohio Michigan and Iowa attending. Guests include Ezra Owen Chas Owen and Mrs. Latty along with numerous friends. Several residents are noted hosting dinners and planned visits, with travel to Davenport Muscatine Cedar Rapids Mediapolis Moline and Rock Rapids. The piece also mentions a death in Carnegie and ongoing work at the Rock Island stockyards.
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Liberty
Will Nichols
Jeff Sanders
South Prairie
Carr
Kansas
Sanders
Ohio
Iowa
Thomas
Michigan
A. P. Teel
Alliance
Ezra Owen
Iowa City
Chas. Owen
Moscow
Joe Latty
Tipton
Chas. Gantz
Morris Kelso
Howard Huskins
Jake Baker
Lone Tree
E. Owen
Bertha Owen
Sam Jones
Abbie
Sam Johnson
Mont Owen
Phoebe Latty
Sue Lewis
Fourth Street
Charlie Keith
Des Moines
Esther Harrison
Emma Anderson
Martha Wright
Belle McElravy
Mary Gauze
Corrie Harrison
M. A. Wyant
Haswell
Col
Howard Sneichen
West Branch
Michener
George Beyers
North Calhoun Street
Anderson Chapman
Mediapolis
Rita Shannon
Davenport
C. M. Nichols
Calhoun Street
George Griffith
Elizabeth Barnes
Sarah Gibson
Etta Gregg
Ina Garrison
Muscatine
Eva Phelps
Laura
Velva Kennedy
Springdale
Crawford
Neb
Albert Kennedy
George Gause
Jane Berry
Moline
Ill
George Baxter
Rock Rapids
Con. Brugman
Jackson Evans
Chicago
Rev
P. H. Green
Carnegie
Margaret Hedley Green
Elmer Anderson
Mary
John Conley
Frances
Burlington
Thomas Gray
Independence
Boyd Eves
East Third Street
Alice Moore
Citizens’ Bank
Lucretia Smith
Elmer McGowan
William Ribbink
William Bodman
Rock Island
Spirit of Chivalry Lecture Highlights Selfish Age
Dr. Howland Hanson of Des Moines delivered a forceful discourse at the Family Theatre on the Y M C A program titled The Spirit of Chivalry in an Age of Selfishness. He traced migration, social evolution, and the shift toward communal care, urging a new social order guided by the crucifixion as a motive for social service.
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Howland Hanson
Des Moines
Wapello Social Visitors From Nearby Iowa Towns
Wapello Iowa residents recount visits from Mrs. R. I. Butler and daughter Mrs. E E Higginbottom who spent Friday and Saturday in Muscatine and Davenport. Mrs. O I Jamison of Columbus Junction and son W D Jamison of Shenandoah were calling on friends in Wapello Thursday evening and left Friday morning.
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Braunworth
S. M. Shellabarger
Columbus Junction
Edward Baines
East Seventh Street
Ida Mayweather
Wilton
A. H. Cobb
Ing
Jamison
Louisa County
Wapello
Ed. Foot
Burlington
Rachel Foot
W. E. Cilley
J. A. Bigger
Merritt
Brighton
E. F. Christie
Christie
Grandview
Will Colip
Council Bluffs
D. C. Thomas
H. V. Hunt
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Chicago
Marsh Ochiltree
Jennie Johnson
Ministerial Union
Mediapolis
C. E. Hoag
Hurley
Silverthorn
Tucker
Mayfield
Volkmer
C. L. Mosier
Jefferson Township
F. M. Mossberry
W. C. Williamson
Muscatine
C. E
Presbyterian Church
J. S. McChesney
M. E. Church
New London
J. E. Newsom
Ed. Miller
Kittie Wright
Morning Sun
Herman Vollmer
Fred Schwartz
Sigourney
Schwartz
Tillman
Vollmer
Fort Madison
Tarry Awhile Club
John Deihl
J. B. McCullough
Rush City
Minnesota
J. B. Martell
Frank Deford
W. J. Woodruff
Dallas County
Ruth
Harry Shephard
Shephard
Marshal’s Club
H. W. Baker
Oakville
Miss Edwards
Shakespeare
Crescent Club
H. O. Weaver
Fred Coutts
R. I. Butler
E. E. Higginbottom
Davenport
O. I. Jamison
W. D. Jamison
Shenandoah
The Remarkable Will Of A Doctor
A physician declares the stomach holds life secrets and a vault yields the warning Do not abuse the stomach. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets promise digestion aid after meals and claim to restore stomach health, with a free trial offer by mail from F. A. Stuart Co.
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Stuart
F. A. Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall, i Miche
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Herman Huesen
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Stirlen & Rowan
J. M. L. Payne
J. R. Hanley
Cal. W. Smith
H. G. Austin
Jack
Nola Walker
M. Ously
Caroline Schomberg
Oak Street
Tri-Cities
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H. R. Newell
Columbus City
H. C. Brandt
Olive Henderson
Frank Ashcraft, E
H. G. Thompson
R. H. Hutchinson
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New Boston, Ill
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Orris
William Milton
Willaim Mee- Gee
Drury Township
Sue Mason
St. Joseph
Ed. Angerer
Atalissa
W. J. Hickey
East Eighth Street
Clifton Richards
W. W. Richards
Front Street
Charles Giffey
A. C. Shifler
Shifler
Clement Welch
State University
M. J. Welch
Citizens’ Railway & Light Co
Ellis
Parker Butler
Des Moines Register and Leader
Lucretia
DR. Howland Hanson
Clergyiman
California
Southern
el Paso
New Mexico
Scenic
Colorado
Rtrd Island
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Chas. H. Gobble
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