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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
8
Everyone in Muscatine knows where to get linen laundered in the best style of the art. Some who wash shirts collars and cuffs at home may want to have them laundered just like new in color and finish at The New Process Laundry.
Local firm Titus and Jackson advertise easy terms for home buying. Various townsfolk arrive or depart on morning and noon trains including Fred H Bloom John W McKee and Robert Browning. Families travel for visits and studies while local businesses promote photo supplies and laundry soap.
S. T. Sinnett advertises choice land near the city offering twenty or forty acres with abundant water.
Local notes record invitations from Shelby Norman Post to Crocker’s Iowa Brigade and the Thirty-fifth Iowa for a Muscatine reunion. Committees will visit Keokuk and West Liberty to extend formal welcomes and urge attendance, highlighting the brigade’s Civil War service and Muscatine’s hospitality.
Marquette Michigan on Lake Superior is praised as a charming summer resort accessible via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. The article highlights healthful location scenery hotels and immunity from hay fever, inviting readers to obtain The Lake Superior Country description by sending four cents postage to Geo H Heafford General Passenger Agent Chicago IL.
Leave Buffalo at 8:00 P M arrive via Lehigh Valley Railroad. The Exposition Express offers luxurious sleeping cars with premium service for travelers.
Manager Johnston of the new opera house in Muscatine says work is progressing well and he expects a formal November opening for subscribers. He already completed a similar project in Kokomo on September 5 and received praise from its papers.
Governor Roosevelt plans a brief Cedar Rapids stop between five and six p m on October 5 with a Davenport visit at eight p m He will speak longer in Waterloo while West Liberty seeks a short stop If he speaks there crowds are expected Davenport talks will be as long as usual though his voice limits length
A daylight Buffalo to New York trip via the Lehigh Valley Railroad offers a most pleasant journey with every comfort attended to for travelers seeking a comfortable railway experience.
A Muscatine interview with a button producer shows weak demand as many South Muscatine factories idle for a month. Shells are plentiful while Boepple’s factory and the cooperative plant run steadily. O'Toole relocates his blacksmith shop to Sycamore Street amid slow roundhouse construction. Heinz's pickle plant runs at full force for peak season.
Do you want a loan from $10.00 up on furniture pianos horses carriages wagons etc You can pay it back in part or full at any time thus reducing cost of loan Open Wednesday and Saturday evenings until nine Guarantee Loan Co 128 East Second street.
The Iowa Central Railway offers an annual home visitors excursion to Indiana Ohio and Louisville Kentucky on Sept 4 11 19 and 27 1900 with round trip fares under one fare. Tickets go on sale Sept 3 4 10 11 18 19 26 27 and are valid for return thirty days. For routes and details contact ticket agents or Geo S Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
Special summer excursion rates advertised for travel to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Sheridan Hot Springs Custer Deadwood Spearfish and Sioux Falls via the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway lines.
The notice states tickets are good to return no later than October 31, 1900 and directs inquiries about rates and routes to Cedar Rapids Route agents. The fragment suggests a transportation carrier public notice seeking to inform travelers.
Railway announces four additional homeseeker trains to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake and Ogden via Rock Island Route leaving Chicago at 4 45 p m on August 7 21 September 4 and 18. Round trip fare plus two dollars. Direct connections with Wilton line at Muscatine. Tickets sold on travel dates and valid to October 21. Visit depot for Colorado booklets and full details by phone or in person.
We the undersigned agree to refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. A 25 cent bottle is also guaranteed satisfactory or money refunded. Names include G. A. Reinicke, W. B. Barkalow, Nesper & Co., Ino. J. Havercamp, J. Theo. Keuchman.
The most attractive line between Chicago and New York and Philadelphia runs through Buffalo and Niagara Falls via the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Heating capacity is higher and more economical due to 1-3 more radiating surface on base burners and superior flue design. Positive proof shows 212 tons of coal heats the same space as 4 tons in other stoves over a winter.
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