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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1902
Page
5
Citizens face a $25,000 bond issue to enlarge and build new school facilities as compulsory education raises next year enrollment. Officials note census and Chevalier figures show crowded rooms and insufficient space. board plans location later but appeal routes exist to higher authorities.
A fragment discusses women described as weak pale and anemic highlighting concerns about health and nutrition among family groups. The language reflects historic attitudes toward gender and illness possibly in a domestic or public health notice.
An appeal extols Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for female weakness and disease. It credits Prof. Edward Phelps with its formula and claims it restores vitality, blood quality, appetite, sleep, and cheerfulness among women and society at large.
Co. C. Smith arrived home this morning aboard the Firefly after a business trip to St. Louis.
Market news from Muscatine reports the first berries of the season arriving from Chicago and Louisiana, retailing two boxes for 25 cents. Prices for creamery butter, potatoes, and other spring produce are listed, with forecast of lower prices as the crop ripens and rain improves conditions.
Market list shows grains, produce, and livestock values with potatoes 90 cents per bushel and eggs 12 cents a dozen. Retail prices include flour about 48 cents per pound and sugar roughly 6 for a dollar. river forecast notes slow fall between Dubuque and Muscatine.
Severe March storms impeded travel to the north and northwest delaying ticket sales. The Iowa Central extends the sale period for settlers one-way tickets to Minnesota and the Dakotas to April 5 22 and 29 next. For details contact your local railroad agent or Geo S Batty GP and T A Marshalltown Ia.
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