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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1900
Page
8
The ad touts The New Process Laundry as the place to have shirts collars and cuffs laundered to look like new with color and finish alike. It notes they use filtered water and no chemicals and provides telephone numbers 66 and 2066.
The community eyes a busy slate with a Trinity rectory party, a Co. C Military Ball on Thanksgiving, a parade on Saturday, and musical entertainments by Nashville Students and Minstrels. Local shopping includes McKinley souvenir hats, Scheetz's Bargain Store tea strainer, Lindle's buckwheat flour, and Beach's World soap.
Hon A B Cummins of Des Moines will address voters in Muscatine at Stein's Hall tomorrow night. The speech promises insight into the campaign issues and Iowa politics from one of the state's most prominent lawyers and politicians. Cummins drew nationwide attention in the Gear Senate race, showcasing his eloquence and partisan insight.
Schmidt Bros introduces Rookwood stationery in a fresh display. Local shoppers can explore new designs and classic patterns as the Parisian style collection arrives this week.
Fully three hundred guests attended the Relief Hose Company twelfth annual ball at the Armory last night. Firefighters led the revelry with costumes from autumn to heroes, while prizes went to Miss Richards as Autumn Girl and Wm Purcell as George Washington with John Bowman as Roosevelt’s Road Rider.
August Wentz Post No 1 of Davenport has nominated George Metzger as candidate for Department Commander of Iowa. Pickaninny band performs Saturday afternoon and evening at Stein's. Read The Journal. 10 cents a week.
Muscatine residents plan to attend a Chicago horse show and a Roof Garden event while others travel to Buffalo and Des Moines. Local clergy host devotional series with stereoptical illustrations as townsfolk enjoy fairs, religious talks, and social gatherings.
H J Toher Co brokers report opening high low and close on Chicago board. Kansas City hogs 13 000 cattle 9 000. Omaha hogs 6 790 cattle 3 000. Liverpool wheat and corn 4d higher.
A countywide effort promotes the Titus constitution amendment to switch Iowa from annual to biennial elections at a November vote. Circulars claim annual costs of 500000 dollars would be saved each election cycle. Eleven states use annual elections. thirty five use biennial. The notice urges voting Yes on the yellow ballot alongside regular candidates. Local items follow about travel, dances, and social events.
The largest raft on the Mississippi River in the north passed Muscatine headed to Knapp, Stout & Co. of St Louis. It measured 52 cubes long and eight wide, holding 9,600,000 feet of lumber, laths and shingles valued at 625,000 dollars, in tow of the steamer John H. Douglass. The river level fell to 7.5 above low water, and the steamer Wauneta arrived at the city wharf this morning.
An advertising blurb claims Schmidt Bros agents offer a sewing machine that can do more than any other on earth, highlighting unmatched capability and urging purchase.
Prospective land buyers are urged to secure return tickets at one fare plus two dollars for trips to all points on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern line north of Abbott Shell Rock and Waverly. The offer applies to dates September through December 138 with a 21 day limit. Agents Ken and Brooks in Cedar Rapids Iowa provide full information on lands and rates.
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