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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1903
Page
2
Iowa Central will run annual Home Visitors Excursions to Ohio and Indiana on September 1 8 15 and October 6. Tickets go on sale on those dates with returns limited to thirty days from sale. For rates and details contact A B Cutts G P T A Iowa Central Ry Minneapolis Minn.
A weekly correspondence column gathers letters and notes from readers and friends. Relatives update kin about happenings in town and among neighbors, reflecting community ties and local events through shared exchanges.
A local event titled Vid Setters featured a playful poemic reading on a Saturday in the city park. Organizers invited residents to attend the gathering and enjoy a neighborhood cultural moment.
Residents arrive and depart for duties visits and social events. Mabel Stanwood resumes teaching in Muscatine while Mrs Zetick visits Iowa City. Myrtie France returns from Pennsylvania. Wayne Smith hires as clerk in Mediapolis. Gertrude Lenz funeral held in German church. Miss Jean Love returns to Kansas City. Nell and Jessie Robison host friends from Conesville. Mrs Link Smith entertains sister Mrs W L Benter of Bennett. Holdemans return from Peru. H P Loring visits sister from Boston. M E church chicken pie supper next Saturday on Front street. Louie Skolnik visiting Muscatine.
Oak Grove notes Sept 1 mention Miss Kittie Cornell beginning fall term near Moscow on the 31st. Rev. Clapp preaches a farewell style sermon for the year as readings suggest a hoped return. Sunday school follows at 10 with class meeting to follow. Miss Hitchcock delayed Chicago training due to her father’s illness. Louise Cornell leaves for stenography job in Chicago. Addie Shoemaker hosts Sunday school scholars for her birthday. Barnard family visits Wapello.
An elderly Versailles Ohio veteran, J. J. Havens, bedridden and destitute due to kidney disease, found relief after using Electric Bitters. He credits the remedy with putting him on the road to recovery and endorses it for liver kidney and stomach bowel ailments. Sold by Havercamp's Prescription drug store with a 5 cent guarantee.
The Western Passenger Association faces a sharp rift over adopting a new 2000 mile mileage book. Rock Island backs credential continuity and threatens reprisals if rivals switch, while others push ahead. The split risks wrecking the association as long standing friendships fray and business aims clash with policy.
South Cedar Sept 1 delegates H T Swart Loring Aikins W F H Phelps and Frank St Gibson were selected for the republican county convention held Saturday at Tipton. Nearby residents Frank Port and family visited near Wilson. Miss May Leonard of Springdale stayed with Miss Hattie Clute over Sunday.
Bloomington residents hosted and traveled this week with visits from H H Rockefellow and family near West Liberty and Mrs Maria Hoopes and Charles C Thompson of Pasadena en route from Boston. The Christian Endeavor meets September 6 and Dunkard services are planned for September 6 at North Star schoolhouse.
An Iowa City photographer, P. D. Wertz, cites Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble relief, urging readers to ask Havercamp's drug store for customer reports. Doan's Kidney Pills are sold by all dealers 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co. sole US agents.
Peter Elfers files warrants for Chas Faulhobber and John Faulhobber after a heated dispute over missing ice chippers leads to accusations of abusive language. The pair are due to face Justice Eversmeyer on Wednesday. Nearby notes report returns from California and shelling trips, plus local industrial and social updates.
The Iowa Central will inaugurate its regular winter tourist car service to Southern California on October 21 continuing each Wednesday during the season. The car departs Train No. 2 from Albert Lea at 1 30 p m and stops at Mason City Hampton Eldora Marshalltown Grinnell and other points before reaching its final destination.
Fort Madison Iowa Sept 1 Marshal Rider of Donnelson shoots and kills Dave Blackburn formerly marshal after a quarrel in a saloon Blackburn defied arrest during the confrontation in Donnelson authorities report user
Cure dandruff by killing its germ with Newbro’s Herpicide. Claims to stop irritation and grow hair, with the product marketed as the only genuine germ destroying preparation. Sample offer in stamps and a local drug store as a special agent.
The Muscatine North & South Railroad announces round trip excursion tickets to Louisville and all Indiana and Ohio points west of Sandusky including Columbus Washington Court House Wilmington and Cincinnati. Tickets go on sale September 1 15 and October 6 1909. Valid for thirty days from sale. Inquiries at the M N S depot.
The Iowa Central Railway announces special summer excursion rates from Elrick Junction to Denver from June 1 to September 20, 1902. Return fares apply for travel to western points this season.
The notice lists travel rates from Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden and related southern stops with low return routes. It promotes various routes and stop overs and directs readers to Iowa Central agents for folders and details, addressed to A. B. Cutts in Minneapolis.
Tour brochure promotes superb service and scenic routes to Niagara Falls Muskoka Kawartha Lakes St. Lawrence River and Rapids Thousand Islands White Mountains and Atlantic coast resorts via the Grand Trunk Railway System. Advertisements note copies available from Advertising Department 135 Adams St Chicago.
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