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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1905
Page
5
South Muscatine reports melon shipping to end within a week as island gardeners rely on purchases from nearby towns. Sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and cabbage crops show strong prospects while funeral notices and local travel mark a busy community scene.
Word reached last evening of a small wreck on the Rock Island road near Drakeville in the southwest division. The track was torn up for some distance and several cars were thrown over a high embankment. Passenger train No. 4, due at 10 o clock, did not arrive until this morning. No specifics on the cause were available. The raft boat Isaac Staples stopped here briefly on its way upstream.
A small fire broke out yesterday afternoon at 4 30 in the dry kiln above the engine room of the Huttig Mfg sash and door plant. Residents on East Second street raised the alarm, factory whistle sounded, and a hose from the upper floor quickly extinguished the blaze.
A historian or medical note explains that foci is the plural of focus, a term Kepler introduced in 1604. It traces the word from hearth to central point and defines its use as the center from which yellow fever outbreaks radiate.
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