Rise of the Pearl Button Industry In Muscatine Detailed
D A Willis of the Vienna Pearl Button Co argues tariff history shaped Muscatine industry. He cites pre McKinley duties, 1890s growth, Wilson and Dingley laws, and fears lower rates harming American workers while highlighting export shifts and shell sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Willis
Vienna
Muscatine
News-Tribune
Walsh
Grand Opera House
Dawson
Austria
Europe
America
New York
Newark
Detroit
Fred Boepple
Nester’s
Linn Street
Boepple
Wilson
Ways and Means Committee
Moritz
Philadelphia
United States
South Muscatine
East
Rock Island Road Earns Dividends Amid Expansions
The Rock Island road reports 6.2 percent earnings on 75 million capital, with 5 percent dividends and 788,317 added to surplus. Gross earnings reach 58,484,196, down 2.8 percent. net operating income 16,155,449, down 16.4 percent. Capital stock risen by 5,500 through exchange, funded debt up 6,268,000, property cost up 6,187,245, and additions and improvements totaling 3,902,698.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island Road
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Company
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
Rock Island and
Peoria Railway
Zem o claims cure all skin diseases in ad copy
An advertising notice from E. W. Rose Medicine Co. promotes ZEMO as a clean external liquid that draws germs and toxins to the surface and destroys them. It claims instant relief and permanent cure of all skin or scalp diseases and lists A. W. Moreegan of 107 W. as a seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ZEMO
E. W. Rose Medicine Co
St. Louis
A. W. Moreegan
Floater Found in Mississippi River Near Andalusia
An unidentified male body was recovered yesterday in the Mississippi River below Andalusia Illinois near the Sears farm. Rock Island police and the coroner responded to the scene as the victim’s identity remained unknown and late yesterday residents were unaware of the discovery.
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Mississippi River
Andalusia
Ill
Sears Farm
Rock Island
Local Social Notes From Stockton Area On Weekend Visits
Mr and Mrs Louis Gypson and son Lawrence of Littles Grove visited Geo Dittmers on Sunday. Families from Davenport Blue Grass Walcott Durant and Montpelier dropped by or traveled for visits and leisure. A ill notables include Mrs Emma Dittmers visiting Mrs John Frick in Walcott and Hazel Bohnsack returning home from two weeks with grandparents J P Cooper Blue Grass. Louis Meier improves after pleurisy and complications.
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Stockton
Iowa
Louis Gypson
Laurence
Little’s Grove
Ed. Dietz
John Rowe
North Prairie
Peter Paulsen
Geo. Dittmers
Peter Bollmann
Chas. Egel’s
Davenport
Wm. Cooper
Herrington
Kan
J. P. Cooper
Blue Grass
Hy. Bohnsack
John Hartz
Adolph Blank
Willie
Ella
Walcott
Louis Meier
Otto
William
Arthur Bohnsack
Montpelier
Evaline Broders
Durant
Gus Broders
Etta Wunder
Jas. Riessen
Geo. Riessen
Jack Broders
Center Grove
Otto Asmussen
Harry Bohnsack
Hy. Eichoff
Chas. Liebke
Walter
Buemann
Bereavement Thanks From Mrs. Wm. Placke and Family
The family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during their recent sad bereavement.
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Wm. Placke
Classified Ad Request Enclosing Two-Cent Stamp For Reply
Local notice lists names John Parker Kimball Dak Wy Nugen Kimball S Dak and A Gifford Inman Neb with instruction to enclose two cent stamp for reply. Address Dr H H De Pew Suite 531 Utica Bldg Des Moines and hours Sundays 9 to 12.
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Webster City
John Parker
Kimball
Not the Heart It Is Indigestion Ad
An advertisement explains that chest pains resembling heart trouble are often indigestion caused by undigested food. It promotes Kodol as a digestion aid, claiming quick relief, a money back guarantee, and that the product is prepared by E. C. DeWitt & Co in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. DeWitt & Company
Chicago
Foley's Honey and Tar Ad by Druggist A W Morgan
An advertisement warns married men about neglect involving family members taking medicines other than Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs colds and lung trouble. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as the best remedy noting it contains no opiates and comes in a yellow package.
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Foley
A. W. Morgan
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Hesrg-Ellis Drug Co
Memphis
Havercamp’s
Tion of the ‘‘Universal’’ Bread Maker
Ciate
Cleanli
Ness
McQuesten & Sawyer CO
Albia
H. H. DE Pew
Des Moines
Adam Crawshaw
R. F
V. L. White
West Chicago
Henry Schang
Lockport
David Hohensbell
Manville
Jackson Chamberlain
Tonten
B. H. de Dew
Utica
Tes Moines
de Pew
J. Town
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