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Labor Day Parade Draws Large Crowd in Muscatine
Labor Day festivities in Muscatine featured a grand parade led by the union march and a standout float of the Elks. Crowds swarmed fair grounds for bands, races, and the Rio Grande Bills exhibition, with at least 5000 observers and strong union support across a morning parade and afternoon bicycle and track events.
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Muscatine
Carl Evans
Typographical Union
Tom Grant
J. J. Engle
Fair Grounds
Trades Assembly Hall
Pauchet
Third Street
Lynn
Mulberry
John A. Mucha
Mechanics
Masons
Cigarmakers’ Union
Sawbuck Union
No. 1
Sawbuck Union No. 1
Buster
Sawbuck
Button Union
Paudiet
Barry Manufacturing Company
Royal Pearl Button
Vanatta
Union
Horse Shoers’ Union
Josie Fayle
van Nostrand Saddlery Company
A. Sanders
S. G. & P. Stein
Furniture Estab
A. J. Ross
Hershey Lumber Company
Reuben Band
A. P. O. N. T. Cigars
Muscatine Lumber and Box Co
Peerless Button Company
M. N. Bond
Singer Sewing Machine
Marshall
J. B. Hunt
Swain
West
Wood Sawyers
Wheeler
W. J. Vanatta
Marble Works
Rio Grande Bills
Second Street
Clarence Richards
Claire Chenoweth
Paul R. Loose
Henry Ficken
I. E. McElroy
Paul
Ficken
McElroy
Clyde Chinowith
Paul Loose
N. E. McElroy
Hautsch
J. L. Giesler
E. M. Warner
Stapleton
Elks
Trades and Labor Assembly
Horseshoers’ Union
van Nostrand’s Saddlery Co
J. W. Vanatta
Kuriger Bros’. Cigars
Royal Pearl Button Factory
Keystone Button Works
Wm. Miller
W's
Peter Jackson
Tilmots