Businessmen push for brick paving on the square
A Friday to Saturday petition for brick paving on the public square gains majority backing from business property owners. J A Cunningham and F L Wilson petition organizers visit each owner, citing heavy summer rains and poor drainage as motives. Signers span east, south, west, and north sides with banks, stores, and shops among those listed. A meeting of the Washington Mutual Telephone Company is planned for August 30 at Armory Hall.
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Washington Mutual Telephone Company
Tn Armory Hall
Mutual Telephones
Town News and Visits Brighten Weat Cheeter Day
Aug 23 itemized notes from Weat Cheeter report visitors include Rev J R Hanley and wife from Muscatine, O M King of Blackwell City, Jobo Woods en route to Muscatine, Mrs Sam Carson and son visiting Dr A J Drew. Local deaths include the sudden passing of Mrs CO Tim mons at 10 p m yesterday. sympathy extended. Notices of new houses and excavations follow with farm livestock movements and a map of travel options for September and October aided by Low a Central railway.
Death of Henry Rudd at ten oclock
Henry Rudd aged 14 died last evening at ten o'clock at the home of Mattie Rudd on the Heights after two weeks of illness with typhoid fever. Funeral held today at two o'clock conducted by Rev. Yard of Prairie Flower church. Interment in Zion cemetery eight miles west of the city.
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Henry Rudd
Heights
Yard
Prarie Flower Church
Zion Cemetry
Mysterious Face Linked to Tuman Murder Case
The Muscatine Journal reports a photograph by Townsend showing a haunting face in the foreground of a plate tied to the Tuman murder. The image, developed yesterday, emerges from bloodstains and a bucket, created after a long exposure, and is displayed in the photographer's studio window.
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Tuman
Townsend
Muscatine Journal
FARMERS MUTUAL LOSSES REPORTS SKYROCKETTING LOSSES
Sidney Coon at the Washington National Bank reports rising losses for the Farmers Mutual association with 150 losses this year versus 53 last year. The majority are stock losses. fall brings barn and stable losses. Listed are multiple stock losses across Franklin Highland Jackson English River Crawford Marion Cedar and English River communities with various animal and building damages. J T Burier urges prompt settlement of debts after selling meat business to OC D Gorham.
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Sidney Coon
Washingon National Bank
Mr. Coon
Chas. Houck
Franklin
Alex McCreedy
Highland
W. BE. Stewart
Jackson
Frank Weiss
English River
Frank Nejediey
Train Schedule From Washington Station This Week
The daily journey begins at six in the morning and returns at 10 55 each evening. The train operates five days on August 25 26 27 28 and 29 with service details recorded.
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Rock Island
Des Moines
Washington
Graham wills open with The School for Scandal
The Graham company opens Tuesday evening September 24 with actor Mr William Owen and J W McConnell leading a strong company in the comedy The School for Scandal. Seat sale starts next Thursday at Carris pharmacy.
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Graham
Wm Owen
J. W. McConnell
the School For Scandal
Owen
Carris Pharmacy
Burning of coal explained by liquefaction analogy
The Electrical Review outlines an explanation of coal burning and links coal petroleum and gas to ice water and steam. It notes that perfect combustion moves toward vaporization, with volatile coal elements locked in solid form and heat needed to convert gases to liquid and solid.
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Electrical Review
Dewar
Crab Eating Macaque Moves Through Burma And Malay Lands
A crab eating macaque monkey, not confined to forests, inhabits Burma Siam and Malay regions living among tidal creek trees. Its main diet includes seeds insects and crabs. To hunt crabs it ventures into water and is noted for unusually strong swimming ability.
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Burma
Siam
Malay
Old Fashioned Portraits From An Earlier Era
An Atchison Globe reflection revisits memories of aging townsfolk and fashion. It recalls the old fashioned man on juries the pigtail girl the cautious circusgoer and neighbors who remember a horse trotter and a man in a soldier coat with a buffalo robe.
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Atchison Globe
Onion sauce for lamb chops and a theatre quip
Onion sauce method from New York Post uses onions simmered in water then mashed and combined with flour butter stock cream salt sugar and cayenne. A theatre scene in the Chicago Record-Herald shows a leading lady in tears over a critical paragraph about her gown, while a Boston Couric quip notes that good men are scarce and bad men must pretend.
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New York Post
Quotable Compare Says World Is Stage For All
The speaker quotes Shakespeare on life as a stage and notes most people expect starring roles but misread their part. A Chicago Test line adds that many discover their error mid performance.
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Chicago
Russia's Armies By Region And Service Lengths
The article breaks down Russia's military service by theater. In Europe active service lasts five years with thirteen in reserve and five in second reserve. In Asia active seven years with six in reserve. In Caucasia four? years active and fifteen in reserve.
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Russia
Europe
Asia
Caucasia
Duckie nickname sparks sisterly defiance in Chicago Post excerpt
A brief dialogue from the Chicago Post shows a small brother teasing his sister by calling her Duckie. The sister replies with defiance, suggesting the nickname stems from her walk but deeming it not very nice.
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Duckie
Chicago Post
Remark on a Driver's Accident and Grit
A Richmond Dispatch quip notes Jobbers was thrown from his wheel this morning but rose bravely, remounted, and pressed on, prompting a wry reaction about knowing when one is well off.
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Richmond Dispatch
Aptly Termed Indebtedness in Flood Debacle
A farmer in a flood district watches his mortgaged house and barn float away down the river and quips that the scene represents his floating indebtedness, a lean-season hardship noted amid the disaster.
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Moore Hat
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Seneca Dewey
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J. A. Dunningham
Sol Rich & Co
Means & Stichter
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W.A Cook
Southwest Corner
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T. M. Reynolds
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Harwood Shoe
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Geo Stewart
Mra
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Stewart Pharmacy
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Temple Pharmacy
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Mrs. Everson
Duncan Book
Nicola & Harmon Shoe
Frank Swift
Allen Restaurant
J. H. Steware
Telephone
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Muscatine
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