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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1902

Page

8

Truefit skirts promoted by Geo B Jackson in city notices

Fire and accident insurance at Kemble's. Paw Seavers of Iowa Central was in the city on business overnight at Geo. B. Jackson's, who sells Truefit skirts. A. P. O. N. Z. to meet next Monday evening. New style granite head markers at Vanatta's 517 EB 2d St. Randolph Tea & Coffee Co., 8. W. Tennant manager. Phone 1043.

Paw Seavers Iowa Central Vanatta’s EB. 2d St Randolph Tea & Coffee Co W. Tennant

Hosiery Sale Highlights Wide Selection in Muscatine

Local store promotes a broad hosiery assortment for women men and children with prices from 8c to 2.50 per pair. Featured items include fancy striped and plaid stockings 15c to 88c and three great bar gains in plain black hose. Special drive offers black hose at 8c for a short time.

Muscatine

Great week sale of muslin underwear offered

Don’t miss a week of marked down muslin underwear displayed center aisle with ladies gowns from 19c to 2.00, drawers 19c to 1.98 per pair, corset covers 18c to 1.50, skirts up to 7.50, ladies short skirts 65c to 95c, Chinese garments up to 1.48, misses gowns 0.50 to 0.88, and 300 stylish shirt waists available.

Wash Goods on Sale: Silk Gingham to Percale Picks

Two thousand dollars worth of wash goods is on sale including silk ginghams silk madras silk fou lards Blenheim Zephyrs linen ginghams Egyptian tissues cotton foulards batiste dimities percales chambrays and more Prices range from five to eight dollars per yard with several low price options The ad invites customers to call or send for samples.

Sale of Silks in Various Types and Styles

Sale offers black silks at 75 cents per yard in 27 inch width plus wash silks at 39 cents, 6fold and-Sie quality silk at six cents per yard wide, a perfect beauty. One yard finest taffeta silk at yard width. Includes foulard silks and pretty patterns plus waist silks in new colors and styles.

Elegant Silk Skirts Arrive In Wide Range Of Styles

Fifty new elegant silk skirts arrived today featuring over lace and ribbon combinations in taffeta peau de soie maire silk at prices from 7.50 to 25.00. Also wool skirts in multiple colors available ready to wear from 1.08 to 15.00 and a stock of two hundred ready made skirts lined or unlined.

Oxford

Our Carpet Department New Ingrain Carpet Sale

Our Carpet Departm t offers over 50 pieces of ingrain carpets new for spring patterns and colors. Heavy solid wood ingrain carpets priced 39c 45c and 50c per yard. good ingrain 25c 28c 30c 32c 35c per yard. Axminster moquette 98c to $1 per yard Brussels 59c 68c and 75c yard. Stair carpets 15c 18c 20c 25c 31c 35c 39c per yard.

Great Sale Rugs Rugs to fit any room or pocketbook

Great sale on rugs and carpets with many styles and sizes. Prices range from 25c to 35 dollars depending on quality and size. Clients can choose Velvet, Axminster, Symna and Brussels patterns in numerous options.

Wilton Axminster Symna Ste

W L Douglas Shoes Introduces Fastest Union Styles

W L Douglas Shoes unveils new union made footwear praised for speed in design. Customers are invited to inspect the latest lines at B Schmidt's located at 115 Chestnut Street.

W. L. Douglas B. Schmidt Chestnut Street

Local Notices and Shopper Items

Scheetz's offers tin and graniteware at Geo. B. Jackson's with 54 inch suitings for street skirts. The Home Tea Company, 110 East Second Street, bills itself as the west’s largest premium giver. Fresh garden seeds in bulk available at E. L. Graham's. R. B. Sinclair, secretary of the Y M C A, Cedar Rapids, attends the Christian Endeavor convention in the city. Mrs. Henry Giesler returns home by Wilton train at noon. Inspectors Geo. P. Knapp and James Carry from Dubuque arrive today on the Firefly to inspect the steamers Artic and Ondine.

the Home Tea Company Second Street R. B. Sinclair Cedar Rapids Christian Endeavor Convention Geo. P. Knapp James Carry Dubuque City Artic Ondine

Twenty Years of Red Paint Store on Iowa Avenue

Ev Brandenburg recalls starting the paint business at 218 Iowa avenue twenty years ago. He notes that customers from the start remain loyal, proving his paints are reliable. The same guarantee of satisfaction applies today, with Ev Brandenburg inviting customers to remember the name and place.

Iowa Avenue Ev. Brandenburg

Notable City Visitors and Arrivals From Local Ledger

Ray Nyemaster of Atalissa came to town at noon for business and calls on friends. Miss Ethel Epperly, visiting West Liberty, returned home last night. Mrs. Dr. FE E Dalzell arrived this morning on the 7 58 from Davenport after a week away. M P Goff notes his card as proof he stayed in town. Miss Jennie Meerdink traveled to Rock Island for a few days before Chicago. Atty P M Detwiler rode the Wilton line to Des Moines to attend a suit. E L Kemptner offers painting and paper hanging at 714 East Fifth. Nina Rider and Clara Holzhauser, Wilton, visit for a few days and to attend the Christian Endeavor convention. Mr and Mrs Davenport Lauter depart last night on the 9 53 for home after visiting the Misses Murphy.

Ray Nyemaster Atalissa Ethel Epperly West Liberty Nina Rider Clara Holzhauer Wilton City Christian Endeavor Mrs. Lauter Davenport Murphy

Chicago Markets and stocks and grains report

Market dispatch details price highs lows and closes for wheat corn oats pork lard ribs and live cattle with Hogs receipts and carlot tallies. New York stocks list major issues including Atchison Mo Pac St Paul Union Pacific and U S Steel with copper and sugar notes and London copper.

Atchison Mo. Pac St. Paul UN. Pac U. S. Steel

Utility club to host all day sewing at Mrs Carter home

The Utility club schedules an all day sewing this Friday at the home of Mrs. Robert Carter. Ladies are asked to bring well filled baskets for dinner. Mrs. E B Lewis secures notices while Mrs Hobart and child visit from Fairport. Miss Marion Stuart from Washington travels via Firefly to Ferry Hall University in Chicago.

Utility Club Robert Carter E. B. Lewis Marion Stuart Washington Chicago Ferry Halls University

Also Mentioned on This Page

Daily Journal P. X. Schaeffer, Prop Guarantees Loan Co f.Can Reliance Loan Co Burpee Geo. Kranz Iowa Ave Mulberry Kemble's Geo. B. Jackson's Boston Juive Sale Black Silks Great Sale Rugs Scheetz’s Geo. B. Jackson E. L. Graham's Henry Giesler China Bissell West Second Street Kemble’s FE. E. Dalzell Oklahoma M. P. Goff Jennie Meerdink Rock Island P. M. Detwiler Des Moines E. L. Kemptner East Fifth Wilmering & Co H. J. Toher & Co H. E. McKay Kansas City Omaha Northwestern Wheat Receipts Minneapolis Duluth Liverpool Texas New York M. C. Hayes Thompson Bros J.E. Kranz N. Cedar St Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York Travelers’ Life and Accident of Hartford Conn Iowa Chas. H. Gobble Anson Clothing Co Butz’s Fair
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