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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1902
Page
7
Practical advice on what to eat and how to prepare food derived from chemistry and experience. Conducted by Lida Ames Willis in Chicago with inquiries to her. Copyright held by Banning Co. Chicago.
Breakfast and dinner menus list multiple daily meals with items like fried beef, creamed cabbage, boiled beef, corn bread, and desserts. Repeats include cereal, fruit, potatoes, coffee, and varied soups and fish dishes across breakfast lunch and dinner sequences.
Owl Creek notes Daisy Irwin will stay several months with friends in Wilton. Louis Irwin traveled to Muscatine last Friday. Chas Altender attended his uncle's funeral recently. The road superintendent led a crew to level and improve local roads.
A slice of late 19th century notices and tips features medical remedies, local arrivals and departures, and farming guidance. Items include Kemble's abstract books in Muscatine County, Rev. Pool visiting Letts for a seriously ill daughter, Mrs. M. J. Kennally visiting from Altmont, shoe shining at New Panitorium, Mrs. Kate Houcke departing to Omaha, Dr Wood’s Morway Pine Syrup advert, Mrs. Wm. Weigand’s travel, and an elderly farmer’s advice on dry years urging planting in slough ground and potatoes in the slough for a food crop amid scarce rain.
Help wanted at Ballingall Hotel Ottumwa Iowa for chamber and dining room positions. Applicants should apply in person at the hotel. Prior experience preferred but not required.
Ads list bulk garden seeds at BB and Graham, painting and paper hanging by E L Kemptner, piano tuning by John Althaus, and travel notes. Medical cures claim instant relief with Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil. Carrie Spickler ill from appendicitis. Obituary for Peter Lohr of Osage. Dean's Ointment praised in testimonial. Muscatine Business College students invited to Hershey's pasture picnic with games and a 2:30 ball game.
A Shanghai letter recounts using Postum Food Coffee during a European tour and in Shanghai. The writer credits improved health and a popular reception at the four o'clock tea table, noting business people and missionaries now use Postum instead of tea or coffee.
The article discusses vegetable foods especially salad plants as essential for digestion and hydration. It covers lettuce varieties and other greens like watercress and Indian Cress, noting mineral and aromatic compounds, cooling properties, and traditional uses from ancient Rome to modern meals. It also mentions related plants such as endive chicory corn salad and references local notes from Bloomington Iowa April 23.
The advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh at all stages by internal use. It asserts the disease is constitutional and that the cure strengthens the body while attacking the disease from the blood and mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case it cannot cure.
30000 acres for sale in McLain county North Dakota priced from 8 to 15 dollars per acre with May 10 deadline. Terms 1/4 cash and balance over 4 years at 6 percent interest. Railroad fare refunded for purchasers of 160 acres or more. Lands owned by J. E. McClintock Cherokee Ta. After May 10 unsold land will be broken and seeded to flax with price increases. Write J. E. McClintock for details.
Public notice lists unclaimed letters at Muscatine Iowa for men and women. Addressees include D Bennett H Berle man Fred Dunker A K Eichen Wallace Gibbs John Griffith Henry Hetzler Frank McKibbin Cedr L Nims E M Palmer F D Painter Claus Schoultz B F Schumacher F M Steen J P Smith J I Taminosian G W Taylor Nellie Bishop Mrs F E Deem Miss Georgia Dixson Mrs B B Frisby Miss Hattie Hustonn Miss Lillie Kennedy Mrs Wm Spangle Mrs J N Travis Alice E Wakefield Mrs Libble Walton Mrs Emma Whittiker Miss Clara Wyse.
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