Great Rock Island Route Offers Low Fares and Excursions
Travel agency notice from F. E Stewart promotes affordable fares on the Great Rock Island Route with trips to Yellowstone Paris and other destinations. Highlights include Labor Day weekends and Sept dates to Oskaloosa Iowa City and Ohio Indiana specials with agency services for White Star Red Star American and International Transportation lines.
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Washington
Muscatine
Labor Day
Oskaloosa Fair
Iowa City
Wild Wear
Colorado Points
Yellowstone National Park
Paris
White Star Line
International Transportation Co
Go Back to Ohio and Indiana on Cheap Excursion Rates
The note invites readers to return to Ohio and Indiana to visit the old homestead and friends. It directs calling the Bo & NW depot for rates for September 8 and the 4th excursion, promising very cheap rates. Agent EG Fox signs it.
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Ohio
Indiana
Bo & NW
Fox
Home Visitors Excursions by Iowa Central Railway
The Iowa Central Railway announces Home Visitors Excursions on Sept 4 11 19 and 27 1900. Excursion tickets to Indiana and Ohio points are sold at less than one fare for round trip with a fare plus two dollars rate. Write to ticket agents or Geo S Ratty for lists of points and rates.
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Iowa Central Railway
Northwest
Indiana
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Columbus
Dayton
Louisville
Lowa Central Railway
Ohio
Iowa Central Home
Geo. S Ratty G. P & T. A
Marshallton
Towa
Rich agricultural lands and pine country offered in Idaho and Washington
Abound in rich lands suitable for diversified farming and fruit raising without irrigation. Cheap grazing lands are available and the largest body of white pine in the United States lies in northern Idaho. Eastern Washington hosts Palouse and Big Bend wheat fields. Coeur d Alene Bitter Root Rossland and Republic districts provide markets for farmers and fruit growers. For maps and particulars write W. Mott, Gen Emigration Agent, Northern Pacific Ry, St. Paul Minn.
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United States
Idaho
Washington
Palouse
Big Bend
Coeur d’ Aleve
Bitter Root
Rossland
Republic
W. Mott
Northern Pacific Ry
St. Paul. Minn
Widow Claimant Denied in Fair Case by Judge Trout
Judge James M. Trout ruled Nettie R. Craven is not the widow of James G. Fair due to non marriage and forged documents. He said even genuine papers would not prove marriage and oral consent does not equal marriage. Craven plans to appeal as the New England club gathers Monday with Mrs. Charles Miller on the Heights.
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Nettie Craven
James G. Fair
San Francisco
Cal
Tak Evening Journal
James M. Trout
The
Superior Court Today
Nettie R. Craven
Craven
Trout
Superior Court
New England Club
Charles Miller
West Chester News by Telephone College of the City Ball Game
An afternoon game in West Chester features fat and lean businessmen. The fat side leads at present. Father Younger and Father Grother returned to Harper last night with Jon Keifer. Catholic church furnaces arrived and will be installed by Wilson Beamer Co. Gertie Weirle of Brighton returned home after visiting Hernard ines.
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Father Younger
Father Grother
Harper
Jon. Keifer
Wilson-Beamer &Co
Gertie Weirle
Brighton
Hernardines
Mrs Chick of Oskaloosa Visits Daughter in Des Moines
A brief item notes Mrs. Chick of Oskaloosa arriving to visit her daughter Mrs. W C Martin. The report also mentions a Chicago fire destroying two sections of the Dexter Park and Union stock yards sales stables killing ten horses. A separate theft on the Union Pacific at Tipton Wyoming is reported with loot amounts ranging from 100000 dollars to 5416 dollars.
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Chick
Oskaloosa
W. C. Martin
Chicago
Dexter Park
Union Stock Yards
Express
Union Pacific
Tipton
Wyo
Dead Whale Washes Ashore at Redondo California
A whale 83.5 feet long washed ashore at Redondo California in a notable coastal find. News notes include the Holland queen turning twenty yesterday with no wedding announcement and local incidents from Crooksville Illinois to Chicago.
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Redondo
Cal
Holland
Hr. W. Hay
Crooksville
Ill
Chicago
Frank Nemetek
Palmer Planing Mill
National
Afro-American Council
Melk Kinley
Prohibitionists of Washington County Gather in Smouse Hall
The Prohibitionists of Washington county meet in Smouse’s Hall on Tuesday September 25 at 1 30 pm to nominate a county ticket and handle conference business Rev S A Gilley of Marengo speaks on the issue All sexes are invited and urged to attend and participate in the convention By order of committee R M Dine, Chairman. Claude Hisley noted ice surgery mishap at home and other local notices follow.
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Washington County
Smouse
R. M. Dine
Burglars Loot Saloon Safe in Minnesota Junction
In Minnesota Junction on September 1 burglars used skeleton keys to enter Krause Bros saloon and back a wagon to the door. They loaded a 680 pound safe, blew it with explosives, and moved it 100 rods away but left 30 to 40 dollars in the bar drawer untouched.
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Minnesota Junction
Wis
Krause Bros
Common law marriage ruling upsets Hope case
In St Paul Judge Pollock ruled there was no valid common law marriage between William L Morgan and Emma Dean Morgan of Hope. Morgan’s suit for divorce based on alleged common law marriage ended with the decision for the ex common law wife to wed James Daley of Minneapolis. Morgan had deeded property to her and claimed Daley bigamous union. In Saugatuck Mich excessive rains and heat threaten peach crop yields. New York reports a Columbia law student 25 year old B Franklin Mertz found dead of natural causes. Pensacola coal deal secures 100000 tons destined for Fiume Austria.
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St. Paul
Fargo
N. D
William L. Morgan
Emma Dean Morgan
Hope
Pollock
Morgan
James Daley
Minneapolis
Daley
New York
B. Franklin Mertz
Columbia University
Mertz
Detroit
Plague Confirmed in Glasgow with Quarantine Threat
Postmortem confirms bubonic plague death on August 27 in Glasgow. Foreign consuls coordinate with authorities as all Glasgow ships face potential quarantine. Also notes May’s health recovery, and Mafeking cyclone damage exceeds siege impact.
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Glasgow
Weather forecast and local newspaper notices
The forecast for Iowa calls for generally fair and warm conditions with possible local thunder storms this afternoon and tonight. A separate note from the Council Bluffs Tribune outlines obituary charges, delinquent subscriber penalties, and advertising welcome terms for cash subscribers and advertisers.
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Washreton
D. C
Lowa
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J. A. Miller
Stewart
Caill Up
Allen
Frank Rogers
East Side
Warfel
M. Lombardo
North Side Square
National Bank
Washington, Iowa
Does & General Banking Business
W. B. Jeffrey A. Anderson
J.T. Anderson
Washington County Savings Bar
Iowa
Jos. Knnox
A. White
Uashier
H. Knox
V. P
M. Krok
First National Bank
Igley
Blair
A. BH. Wallace
Jossean
H. Keck
L. D. Robinson
Fran 5
Henderson
Hotel Allen
O. Solbric
Katie Bicycle
Opera House
Pharmdey
Salki
Pearly New
James Metzgar
Black
Columbia
Joural
Whatshire
OC G. Raguet
F. E Stewant
Great Rock Island
Iowa Central Excursions
H. ©. Horsey
Earth
Renald
Horsey
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Fair
West Chester
Richmond
Alalals
Claude Hisley
Claude
Wayland Newa
T. D. Woodburn
Ainsworth
Wm. Caughey
Coal Valley
W. ©. Grant
Sunny Hill
Jane Grant
J.C. Mathers
Journal
Scott Smith
Alcove
Dave Kimmel
Kemps Hampshire
Scott
Thackeray
J. A. Young
Mr. Young
Winfield
Brus
Rip
Munn & Co
Scientific American
Broadway
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Wiscolin
Tuscola
Als
Newman
Duncan & Tarbox
Arcola
Indianapolis, Decatur and
Saugatuck
Mich
Austria
Pensacola
Fla
Fiume
May
Mafeking
Sap’t
Buffalo Bill
Wazfield
Congress OF Rough Riders OF the World
Sage
Savant
Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Forance
Akill
Togeth
Histor
Bra
Royal Irish Lancers
San Juan Hill
Grand Street
Sboc
Rowland & Shields’ Drug Store
S. BH
Corner Sq
Coucil Bluffs Tribune
Ind
Dr. Pierce
John W. Coffman
Ellisburg
Casey Co
Washington Academy
College of Life
Cesar
Virgil
Fisk
C. M. Grumbling, Prin
R. F. Riley
Figgmaran Peres
Vlacia
Rocky Mountain
Kemble
Kemble Flower Co
Des Moines Valley
D. M. Val
Des Moines
Knoxville
Des M
Rock Island
Burlington O
Peoria
Inapolis
Cedar Rapids
Columbus Junction
Efjpann
Ourtr
West and
Nor No
Mason City
Sun
Peoria Mail
Ma O& N
Tittemore
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