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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1906
Page
6
ED. P. INGHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW 2nd FEAR 107 EF 2nd STREET MUSCATINE IOWA.
The timetable lists eastbound trains from Davenport and Chicago with departure times 4 18am 11 34am and 9 58pm plus several westbound and southwest routes including Kansas City Denver California Limited and Washington Oskaloosa schedules and daily freight services with various arrival times.
Wilton branch trains run daily except Sunday with No 368 at 6:25 am No 367 at 12:30 pm No 362 at 3:20 pm and No 361 at 5:50 pm away from Muscatine arrive Muscatine and depart Wilton in daily timetable notes.
Passenger No. 102 arrives at 7 10 pm and Freight arrives at 4 00 pm. Passenger No. 101 leaves at 8 95 am and Freight leaves. Daily times shown except Sunday. W S Underdonk Agent.
Clarence H. Mark of Muscatine leads a New York City agency called the Special Employment Bureau of the Handicapped. In three months it reported 56 employed from the Down and Out clubs and 199 more awaiting tasks, with focus on placing men with disabilities, prison records, tuberculosis, and other hardships into steady work.
An advertisement extols Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills as rebuilding the nervous system and improving digestion by stimulating taste nerves glands and gastric secretions. The 50 cent remedy is sold by dealers and by the Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY with A W Morgan Druggist as local seller.
The bureau secured roles for a mutilated laborer as a light wagon driver at $15 monthly plus board, a legless ex-solicitor as a $14 weekly driver, and a sixteen year old arm amputee as a telephone operator at $5 weekly. They placed crippled and elder workers as night watchmen and sought more contractor work, aiming to connect disabled applicants with suitable jobs in New York.
An advertisement asserts deafness is curable only by constitutional remedies. It links deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh, offering one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. FP Cheney & Co of Toledo promote the remedy and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Downey residents share visits and travels with friends and relatives from West Liberty Muscatine Iowa City and Davenport. Misses Ethel Miller Kittie Wiley Edna Secrest Nellie Schenk and Stella Pidd appear in friendly gatherings while couples and families move between Downey West Liberty and nearby towns for dinners picnics and shopping.
Miss Shirley Eloise Dawson and Jas. A. Trotter wed July 25 near Ainsworth under arbor vitae with Rev. W. N. Potter officiating. Out-of-town guests from Wa pello Wayland Muscatine Chicago and more attended a three-course reception. The couple will reside at once, after a large local celebration and musical reception by the Ainsworth band.
Rev C A Dettmers returned from Loveland Colorado where he attended the General Conference of German Congregational churches. The meeting supported uniting with United Brethren and Methodist denominations and Dettmers was elected examiner for Chicago Theological Seminary. The next conference will be in Chicago in May 1908.
Laurel Hill August entries detail Aaron Romig and friends visiting his uncle Harry Romig from Muscatine. Mamie Ficke is ill. Pentzers and Robert visited Cummings home. Dr Harold Johnson of Wilton stayed with sister Mrs Norton. Ray Fulton shows a new buggy. Davenport visitor Birdie McGilligan calls on relatives. Ficke son Hans returns to Fairport. Emmet and Norton Barber came from Muscatine. Whrgpell and C Henry from Wilton dropped by.
Julius Williarg, ill with rheumatism, is reported in Toolesboro Ia on August 2. Eugene Sillick leaves for Cincinnati to resume work after visiting his parents. Miss Cassa Bell of New Boston Ill visits Miss Sue Malory. Mrs Gellie hosts Anna Carmichal of Chicago and Eva Brock of Keitheburg Ill. Irma Cooper of Burlington visits grandparents Mr and Mrs A Sillick. Harvey Kimball returns from Kewanee Ill after work there.
Miss Mildred Nook returned last Saturday from a two week visit with friends in Galesburg Illinois. Mrs Jessie Parsons and her son Dean visited over Sunday at the home of her brother Grant Nook. R R Hunt and family of Oakville spent Saturday night and Sunday with friends here. William Mayne was in Muscatine Tuesday on business.
Oscar Fox of West Liberty visits grandparents Mr and Mrs John Zollner. Fern Mayhew returns home after a week with the Krueger family. John Boruff works sand for a new house foundation. John Hayes and wife shop in Muscatine. Chas Baker travels to Muscatine. William Krueger family visit Reynolds and stay with Geo Mayhew. Ross Kennedy visits Muscatine. Krueger siblings George Lydia and Emma go to Muscatine. Esther Olson and sibling of Rock Island return home after visit with Arch Reed.
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