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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1900
Page
2
Henry W. Metzgar, a former Muscatiner, describes Montana campaign routines. Candidates caravan through towns from Glendive to Dillon, sharing whiskey and cigars, sleeping in barns, and staging bonfires for speaking. The piece notes hospitality, rowdy nights, and flouting Montana’s strict campaign finance law.
Rev D B Abbott and wife left for Chicago Thursday night and sail from New York next week to India via London where he will head a 700 child famine orphanage and she will do terrain work. Mrs Abbott formerly Martha Day served six years in India with the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society including Moradabad and Calcutta.
Transfers recorded for the week ending Friday Oct 26 1900 include Nicholas Achter to Catharine G Hetzel parcel on Park Place blocks 19 and 30, Jas F Stoops to Thos Hawker blocks 13 Oak Park add West Lib, James Weed to Charles Walton lot 8 Weed Park 2nd add, John J Havercamp to Henry Husen lot 22 Cypress add, A L Winn to Lee Burgess lot 13 block 28 Park Place. The values shown include 150 00 and 200 00 in several entries.
Property deeds list multiple transfers to and from Muscatine area residents. Notable entries include James F. Stoops et al to James M. Romley for lot 7 block 20 Oak Park add West Schroeder & Zoller to Geo. B. Fisch for a 60 ft lot in Gordon's add Muscatine. Edith A. Crull to Wm. Pontell half acre in ney sec 4 sec 4 two 77 rlw. Fred Maurer et ux to Anna M. Hahn net sec 18 twp 78 es ves Abben sek aden in ee H. M. Bartlett to Eliza J. Bond lot 11 Bartlett's sub O. L. 29 and 30 sec 35 two Oe a weadad acne wet 400 00. Fred Maurer et ux to Fred A. Maurer 298 acres in secs 15 and 16 twp 78 r2w. 100. Chas. L. Peasley to M. E. and A. M. Pinkham land in secs 13 and 24 twp 77 r2w. 2723 80. Fred Maurer et ux to J. L. Maurer e% ne4 and e% se% sec 14 twp 78 r2w. 100. A. B. Adams by sheriff to W. D. Adams and 15 let 5 block 29 Muscatine.
Chairman McKee calls Republican college students out of county to come home for voting. Free transportation will be provided to those who submit an application naming their travel routes. Muscatine County seeks to mobilize voters in school to be at home for election day.
Tickets available within 150 miles for November 28 and 29 at a round trip fare of one and a third. Return by November 30. The line runs three through trains daily to Ft. Wayne Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York and Boston with vestibuled sleeping cars and dining car service. Individual club meals priced 35 cents to one dollar. Reserve with John Y. Calahan general agent 111 Adams Street Chicago for sleeping car accommodations at Chicago passenger station Van Buren Street and Pacific Ave elevated loop City ticket office 111 Adams Street.
Expositer Express offers luxurious sleeping cars on the Buffalo to Lehigh Valley route with an 8 00 P M departure.
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