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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
4
A jolly crowd gathered at the new Davenport armory hall for a social dance under Prof. Clendennen. Despite bad weather, nearly 30 couples attended and enjoyed a pleasant evening with the dancing master and his pupils joining in with older dancers.
Last night the ladies of the Maccabees held a meeting disposing of several matters. They approved a $25 gift for Mrs. L. J. Hurlbut to aid her son in a Chicago hospital where he is being treated, likely to remain a year. A ward donation was discussed but direct aid prevailed. The program featured music, a dialogue, a guessing contest, and a supper.
The Pearl City Panitorium advertises cleaning press and repair of clothes for 1.00 per month at 222 Iowa Avenue.
John Roeth, a 45 year old German descent employee at the M N S railroad, vanished Wednesday night after leaving the depot. He was last seen about 6 pm with around 75 dollars on him and had no known relatives in the area.
The undersigned offers a free copy of Illinois Central Circular No 3 by J. F. Merry Assistant General Passenger Agent of Illinois Central Railroad Dubuque Iowa. The notice requests noting what the circular says about truck farming in the South and whether it pays.
A minor slide yesterday on the Milwaukee cut off embankment built by McDougall and Yale west of the city broke a wing wall at a culvert and wasted material. The slide, about 2 percent of the fill, will be repaired in two or three days and will not delay track laying.
The speaker plans to go south for the winter and leaves the business under the supervision of son Frank R. Halstead while noting William R. Halstead in the family.
A vintage ad from Hine Bros promotes hats and fur furnishings. It touts steady weekly wages or salary payments and urges shoppers to value savings by buying from the store at 217 East Second Street.
Captain Fred L. Kennedy of the steam er Lotus, long active on the White river in Arkansas, was in town on business and calling on friends before departing on the Firefly to Burlington.
Muscatine Federation of Women’s Clubs hosts a Tuesday evening program at the library to celebrate a new piano donation. The varied program includes piano pieces by Schumann and Chaminade, quartette performances, a recitation, violin obligato, and a boatman’s song with artists Miss Rider, Mmes Einhausen Saint John McQuesten Davis, and others. Tickets not sold at the door. no vacant seats. concert starts at 8 o’clock.
Davenport visitors and residents are noted amid typhoid illness reports. Eastern Star meeting canceled for Oct 22 due to Grand Chapter, with funeral notices for M O Harrington and infant Francis Healey. Masons prepare for Martin Harrington interment with lodge details.
Want ads list prices 77 7 816 9 10 11 percent and note Vienna Pearl Button Mfg Co in Muscatine Iowa. For rent new modern house on Oak Street. Contact editor Ozilvie at 518 East Fifth Street.
A farmgirl Mary lingers on the attic roof as family life hums below and a restless longing rises in her. At dawn she harvests in the garden where Alvy, a neighbor and former classmate, helps and they share a shy, evolving bond amid whippoorwill calls and the scent of cornfields.
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