Summer Schedule of Street Car Services
The schedule lists street car times for South Muscatine Park Place Fair Grounds Cemetery and Sunday service. Buses run from 5:50 a m to 11:90 p m with 20 minute intervals and additional morning and evening departures. No deliveries after 11:10 p m as last car returns to the car house. Sunday service starts 8 a m with half hour then 20 minute intervals until 9 p m and extends to 10:15 from end of line.
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South Muscatine
Fair Grounds
Letter claims Germans may vote for Bryan to thwart imperialism
A Des Moines letter from Sept 1900 discusses Scott county politics in the Second district. Democrats rally farmers to defeat Republicans by turnouts and anti imperialism talk. The writer predicts three quarters of Republicans may abstain, cites German and Dutch voters opposed to imperialism, and backs Vollmer for Congress.
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Des Moines
Scott County
Secon
Scott Couny
Vollmer
Democratic State Central Committee
le Claire
West Liberty
Jones
Pleasant Valley Township
Bryan
Congress
Scntt
Farmers Busy With Harvest Plans In Duncan Illinois
Duncan residents report corn cutting, potato digging, and corn picking setup for mid to late October. An aunt of Mrs. Frank Walter of Kentucky will visit relatives. One year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Warman died Thursday with funeral Saturday at Buffalo Prairie Baptist Church. Mercer county fair starts the 18th for four days with large premiums. Co. C. Waiters and family visited Arch Kile at the fair, praising him as the prince of entertainers. Town represented at the street fair hopes for advertising benefit and hogs heading to market amid market optimism. Carrie B. Walter and Ray Walter returned from a brief visit to Iowa last week.
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Frank Walter
Kentucky
Carrie B. Walter
Ray
Towa
Hair Renewer Claim From Humeston Advert
J A Linder editor Advocate Humeston Iowa cites a hair loss remedy claim stating erysipelas caused hair loss and two bottles of Beggs Hair Renewer restored growth and color. Product advertised as guaranteed for scalp diseases available at J J Havercamp's.
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J. A. Linder
Advocate
Humeston
Iowa
J. J. Havercamp’s
Travel Help Connecting Paris Trips Through New York
The notice offers passenger services for travel to Paris via all stations on our line through New York and any steamship line. It promises good service and ticketing assistance for international trips.
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Paris
New York
Indiana Men Strike It Rich In Alaska Gold Fields
Frank C. Lory and Max Beaver of Petersburg Indiana return from Dawson City with $100000 in gold. They plan to sell nuggets in Philadelphia and hold several Dawson properties with rents of 50000 a month. Last year they mined 135000 in gold and expect higher output next year using new mining machinery.
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Evansville
Ind
Frank C. Lory
Max Beaver
Petersburg
Philadelphia
Lory
Beaver
Dawson City
Dawson
Alaska
Blind Lead mine captain may lose sight after accident
Captain Grant Tod of Lead was struck in the back of the neck by a mining hammer at the Hidden Fortune mine north of St. Paul. The blow shattered the nerves and left him totally blind, raising fears the condition may be permanent. Tod, once a Jameson raid troop captain, had aided Otto Grantz in locating a rich ore pocket and is a prominent local figure.
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St. Paul
S. D
Otto Grantz
Grant Tod
Ted
South Africa
Grantz
Postoffice watch on Michigan offices fails except two
Detroit reports Inspector Parsel found twenty eight Michigan counties surveyed. twenty six in good shape while Michie Bay county post office shows chaos with an illiterate postmaster and deaf clerk. Elsewhere burglars strike Green Bay homes stealing jewelry and cash.
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Detroit
Mich
Parsel
Michigan
Michie
Bay County
Paramedic typhoid threat after telegraph operator case
Lansing reports that Parma in Jackson county faces a serious typhoid outbreak linked to a Michigan Central telegraph operator. The six predecessors of the man have died from the disease, believed caused by unsanitary conditions. The state board of health was advised of the alarming pattern and contagion concerns.
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Lansing
Mich
State Board of Health
Parma
Jackson County
Michigan Central Railroad
Lake Michigan waves undermine Racine railroad track
A southeast gale at Racine causes Lake Michigan waves to wash into the river and a dock, undermining 100 feet of Milwaukee Railroad Company track and a large oil house. A 300 foot breastworks is built and hundreds of sand bags are used to save the structures.
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Racine
Wis
Milwaukee Raiilroad Company
Lake Michigan
Baseball Scores and Local Tragedy Report from Chicago
Yesterday's League results showed Phillies losing to Cincinnati 2 4 in two games while New York beat Pittsburg 12 3 and Brooklyn topped St Louis 7 5 in two games Chicago swept Boston 8 4 and 4 4 in the second game American League scores list Milwaukee over Cleveland 4 1 and Kansas City over Buffalo 2 1 Chicago defeated Indianapolis 3 1 Ferman Catholic Church in Minonk Illinois saw the Polish Roman Catholic church dedicated by Bishop Spalding with excursions and a parade by Polish societies from nearby towns
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
New York
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Boston
Milwaukee
Cleveland
Kansas City
Buffalo
Indianapolis
Minonk
Ills
St. Barbara’s
Spalding
Peoria
Peru
SaaSile
Rutland
Toluca
Death of Dublin Youth From Riding-Cutter Accident
John F. Lightner, a young man three miles southeast of Dublin, fell from a riding corn cutter while cutting corn on Saturday afternoon. The machine’s knives lacerated his leg and he died shortly after from blood loss.
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Dublin
Ind
John F. Lightner
Annual meeting of Liquor Dealers Association in Springfield
The Liquor Dealers State Protective association held its annual meeting at Chatterton's Opera House in Springfield Ila with 400 to 560 delegates expected to attend.
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Springfield
Ila
Liquor Dealers’ State Protective Association
Chatterton
Opera House
Bank robbers thwarted in Wilton escape after failed safe blast
Three desperadoes attempted to blow open a Wilton Wisconsin bank safe early Sunday. Citizens hearing explosions on the west-bound train door to the bank and a chase ensued with shots fired but the trio escaped. The damaged safe door and a stolen team point to possible links to recent local crimes.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Wilton
J. Doyle
Sparta
S&s. W. Brown
West Salem Journal
Tunnel No. 2
Norwalk
Eame
Gates
Officer Gates
Singer Machine
la Crosse
Britt, Ta
Minnesota
la Crescent
Telegraph Was Faster Than the Speed This Young Couple
In Clinton Iowa Sept 18 Miss Mary Bealer fourteen eloped with Albert Barnhard of Cedar Rapids Nebraska. He hired a livery to spur a quick escape toward Cedar Rapids before arrest at Boone Iowa after a county clerk reported no license. The couple wed allegedly but no license found. A second report from Janesville Wisconsin notes John Conroy died after a debt dispute with Samuel Cooley who struck him with a jack plane. In Sun Prairie a three year old girl injured by a pitchfork while playing on a grain stack.
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Clinton, Ta
Mary Bealer
Philip Bealer
Fenton
Albert Barnhard
Cedar Rapids
Neb
Barnhard
Clinton
Mary
Boone
Bealer
Northwestern
Janesville
Wis
John Conroy
Samuel Cooley
Cooley
Conroy
Sun Prairie
C. Herried m
Mull's Lightning Cough Cure Ad Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Mull's Lightning Cough Cure as safe for children and effective against lung trouble and consumption. It urges coughing individuals to use the product or stop coughing, with prices listed at 25c and 60c and a note to ask a druggist.
Dead Men’s Shoes and a Western Court Battle
Chicago reporter details Edward A. Davis’s death amid a sprawling inheritance dispute linked to John A. Davis and the late Andrew J. Davis of Montana. The saga spans multiple courts, involves rival claimants including widows and a nephew, and centers on a contested 1866 will as legal fees mount into the millions.
Referee George Siler Beaten After Saloon Incident
In Chicago on September 18 George Siler the pugilistic events referee lies injured at home after a severe beating at 163 Dearborn Street. Siler says he was set upon by five or six hangers-on led by Jim Ryan and Tom Kerr. The clash stems from tensions dating to the Corbett Fitzsimmons title bout in Carson City.
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Chicago
Dearborn Street
George Siler
North Park Avenue
Eugenie Street
Siler
Jim Ryan
Tom Kerr
Carson City
Ryan
Corbett
Manchester duke estimates liabilities in bankruptcy case
London reports the Duke of Manchester, adjudged bankrupt Aug. 29, puts his liabilities at 15 000 pounds amid renewals for friends and indorsements. He intends to propose a plan to creditors. In Kentucky, Deputy Sheriff Stubblefield testified Jim Howard admitted killing Senator Goebel, saying he was at Howard's home when the act occurred.
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London
Duke of Manchester
Frankfort
Stubblefield
Jim Howard
Howard
Senator Goebel
Express firm to reimburse bank for missing funds
Burlington Iowa September 18 a local official says Adams Express company will pay 20000 to Commercial National Bank Chicago to cover the loss from the theft of a package sent to the National State Bank of Burlington containing a similar amount.
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Burlington
Adams Express Company
Commercial National Bank of Chicago
National State Bank of
Police seek youths over Esther Christopherson attack
In Recine Wisconsin on September 18 police search for several boys accused of assaulting 12 year old Esther Christopherson while she rode her bicycle. She suffered rib injuries from stones hurled by the assailants.
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Recine
Wis
Esther Christopherson
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