Muscatine Local Notes and Travel Snippets
Tobias Toben returns from St Louis after a two week business stay. Miss Rabel Bitzer visits Tipton for a few days with friends. Kemble's abstract books are current for Muscatine county. Mrs. Wm McCampbell departs for Oskaloosa from Mulberry street. Mrs. K Jamison leaves Muscatine with Miss Anna Wier for Minneapolis. Titus Jackson advertise real estate bargains in town. Muscatine cited as best town in the Mississippi valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Mississippi Valley
Titus & Jackson
K. Jamison
James Wier
East Front Street
Minneapolis
Anna Wier
A. E. Collins
Fannie Hudson
Winona Lake
Ind
John B. Hudson
St. Louis
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Pills Offer Cure Claim
An 19th century advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy that reaches the disease in the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims medical backing, lists ingredients as tonics and purifiers, and notes testimonials and Toledo makers F. J. Cheney. Sold by druggists for 5 cents. also Hall's Family Pills praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Over Half Way to Europe by Rail in 1902 Real Estate Bargains
Special correspondence from Placentia Newfoundland details a coastal voyage to St John’s and notes cod fishing as a major industry with women curing fish for markets in the United States and the West Indies. The piece discusses sealing, whaling, and ship life along the southern coast, including a stop at Cape Race and observations on local trade and bait taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Placentia
Newfoundland
St. John’s
Glencoe
Reid-Newfoundland Co
Cape Race
Port-Aux-Basques
Atlantic Ocean
St. John's
England
United States
Iowa
John Morrell & Co., Ltd
Ottumwa
Ilinois
West Indies
Leviathians
Cape Broyle
Delano
Hamburg
Baltimore
Placentia Life Described as Quiet Island Out Port
A. W. Lee portrays Placentia on Newfoundland’s Pla centia Bay as a slow moving town with 5 362 inhabitants a single waterside street no sidewalks no streetlights and winding lanes. He notes a free pony drawn ferry old drays and a Protestant church with William IV silver service dating from 1787 and reflects on a peaceful future visit by rail and sea to North Sydney after a journey across Cabot Strait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s
Placentia
Placentia Bay
Church of England
William the Fourth
William Heary
Piacentia
Reid-Newfoundland Company
Whithorne
Bruce
Reid-Cumberland Company
Cabot’s Strait
North Sydney
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
United States
Canada
A. W. Lee
Low Rate Excursion to St Paul Minneapolis by M N S and Iowa Central
Travel offer to St Paul and Minneapolis via M N S and Iowa Central on Saturday. Sept. Round trip Muscatine to St Paul Minneapolis and return priced at $5.50. Depart Muscatine 6 PM arriving Minneapolis 8 05 AM. Inquiries at M N S depot or with A L Lindner General Agent.
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Minneapolis
St. Paul
Muscatine
A. L. Lindner
Iowa Central Railway Adds Sleeping Car Service
The Iowa Central Railway launches a sleeping car service from St. Paul and Minneapolis to Kansas City St. Louis and Peoria aimed at travelers seeking quick time and convenience. The Limited departs Elrick Junction daily at 7 57 am for Peoria and points east. See local ticket agent.
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Iowa Central Railway
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Kansas City
St. Louis
Peoria
Elrick Junction
Multifold Market Prices for Grain and Staples in Local Trade
Comprehensive price list spans grains and produce from corn at 63 to 66 cents to oats at 30 to 32 cents per bushel, wheat around 51 to 66 cents, hay values, livestock quotes, and assorted goods. Includes eggs, butter, lard, potatoes, fruits, vegetables, canned items, fish, and fuel costs with units and ranges, reflecting regional commerce.
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Illinois
Bartlett
Rio
Also Mentioned on This Page
Uneeda
Daily Journal
W. E. Battey
West Second Street
Ricksecker's
John A. Robbins
Tobias Toben
Muscatine County
Kemble
Iowa Avenue
Wm. McCampbell
E. M. Kessinger
Mulberry Street
Oskaloosa
E. P. Day
East Second Street
Taxx
Empble's
Reinemund
Davenport
Agnes Delehan
Chicago
August Deitrich
Montpelier
William Wilson
Letts
John C. Wilson
East Fifth Street
J. E. Stevenson
Racine, Wis
Andrew
Edward Healey
St. Ambrose College
Abe Snyder
West Liberty
Albert Carson
Freers
Kemble’s
John Irwin
H. N. P. Small
F. H. McDaniel
City
A. J. Weaver
A. W. Morgan
Washington
Wm. Hoffman
Harry Waltz
Memphis
Tenn
Dean
East Eighth Street
Mrs. Waltz
Julia Fuller
Citizens’ Railway Park
Laura Koll
Kate Schaefer
Grace Schneider
Della Steinbault
Anna Webb
Emma Below
Alice Moxley
Bertha Ludman
Mary
Margaret Fahey
Clara Fleitz
Elsie McCurdy
Europe
the Cod Fisheries
Slaugter
Iowa Central
Peosta
JAS. Beach & Sons, Mfrs
Dubuque, Iowa
Concord
New York
Hocking Valley
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