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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
6
A promotional message urges readers to use Smiths Green Mountain Renovator to purify blood and regulate stomach liver and kidneys. It claims long term use by Vermont families proves efficacy and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not prompt and sure.
Downey Illinois area notes list Miss Mina Thiele as a train passenger for West Liberty and many residents visiting friends in Downey. Church events include M P society carpet purchase and missionary Miss Margaret Kuhns speak in Japan. A wagon and buggy wreck injures Mrs Watters briefly while other locals travel to Muscatine Iowa City and Durant.
Mrs Beal of Corydon visits daughter Mrs R R Cregg in Wellman. Missionary meeting postponed indefinitely. Rev W R Styker heads to Breckenridge Minnesota for two weeks. John Trieschmann leaves for Fordyce Arkansas for a better post. Walter Leighton ill but improving. Ladies Aid apron sale May 1 at the opera house with supper. Chas Singleman buys H Glider building for 900. Baby Caro Klockenteger dies at seven months. J S St Clair to discuss Des Moines hospital work at M E church. School board hires teachers for next year. high room changes planned. Brick building work to start May 1. Passion play postponed to next week by Rev King. K S Sample has a lively horse runaway.
E F Kleinmeyer departed for California to seek a new location. Mrs Christ Jasperson has recovered enough to sit up after illness. Miss Blanche Goode of Washington married last night to a young man from that place. Many local families are visiting relatives and hosting guests, with Supt F M Witter inspecting schools and others returning from trips.
West Liberty Iowa residents report recovery after a gale with rain easing conditions. Carl Templeman returns from St Charles to drive the Tyler and Lyons delivery wagon. F A Dickey and mother move into Miss Drake's West Fifth Street home. Epworth League plans a photographic social at Mrs Hildebrand's on Spencer Street to raise funds for a new organ. George H Ward expands holdings by buying the Mansall house and Owen and Clapper properties. Mr and Mrs H N McDonald sell and plan to move to a new home.
Mrs Emma Murdock visited Ran Hayes south of Illinois City in the Iota. Eld M D Murdock visited his sick old comrade Frank Johnson who died on the 21st. J Powers left for Nebraska after his wife's father died. Mr Fox of Joplin Missouri visits relatives. Locals hope toll road trouble will be settled. Muscatine seen as premier western trading point.
An advertisement denounces salts and castor oil as disgustingly nauseating and urges readers to try Best for the Bowels. The Sterling Remedy Company promises a tastier, liver regulating tonic with a money back guarantee and offers free booklets from Chicago or New York.
Frederick Cook arrives in town to visit old friends D. D. Daly. Dozens of notices detail illnesses, funerals, travel, new births, sales, and arrivals across Mannon Cedar County and nearby towns, naming families such as Rittenhouse Miller Oliver Schmidt Kane Dale Goding Fleming Addison and communities including Winfield Iowa City Davenport and Aledo.
Mannon Illinois on April 23 hosts visitors as Messrs Van Dusen and Lembert of Aledo joined locals. Charlie Lane of Muscatine was a noted guest during a midweek stop.
A Colombo watchmaker Chas M Cramer endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for coughs and colds in children. He notes rapid chest cold relief and that often one bottle cures hoarseness. He recommends it to others and says it is sold by all druggists.
The National Baptist anniversary meetings in St Paul May 19 28 offer tickets at one fare plus two dollars round trip with sale dates May 18 19 20 and limited return to May 29 Depositing with a joint agent at St Paul and paying fifty cents extends to June 30 The program highlights missionary educational and benevolent Baptist interests and national speakers For details contact the local agent or Geo S Battey G P A A Marshalltown Iowa
The passage suggests meat prices would rise if Chicago packers expand their facilities by adding stories to their skyscrapers in response to higher demand. The note links price growth to production capacity and urban expansion.
Mrs E Van Wagner of 204 B street South Muscatine reports years of backache and kidney distress. After using Doan's Kidney Pills from Havercamp's Pharmacy, she saw quick improvement in three days and continued relief. For sale by all dealers 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents United States Remember the name Doan's and take no substitute.
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