Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . Captain Walter Blairs Palatial Steamboat. Where Tri-City Press Club held frolic. 82. With the Boys of Company B. Say, Bob—We had some humdinger parades in this burgin the old days, startin in the early seventies with the day-light hossback parade of the butchers and drovers, led bythat roughridin cowboy, Kd Mueller, with hislong hair, sombrero, spurs, chapps, buckinbroncho, and badlands mustash. Then therewas Bill Korn and his Pretzel alley press clubparade, with all the reporters, editorial staff,and war correspondents of the Pretz
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . Captain Walter Blairs Palatial Steamboat. Where Tri-City Press Club held frolic. 82. With the Boys of Company B. Say, Bob—We had some humdinger parades in this burgin the old days, startin in the early seventies with the day-light hossback parade of the butchers and drovers, led bythat roughridin cowboy, Kd Mueller, with hislong hair, sombrero, spurs, chapps, buckinbroncho, and badlands mustash. Then therewas Bill Korn and his Pretzel alley press clubparade, with all the reporters, editorial staff,and war correspondents of the Pretzel AlleyWurst-Blatt—includin Hizzoner Mayor AlecAnderson and Poet Lariat Barney Squires—all made up to life and ready for the when the worlds heavyweight cham-pionship battle. Jack Johnson versus the White Mans Hope,was staged at Credit island at the Tri-City press club frolic,after Captain Walter Blair had entertained the elite of theTri-cities at evenin tea on his palatial steamboat, the Morn-in Star, with the help of the captain and crew of the steam-boat Beder Wood of Moline. We had protest percessions for freein old
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