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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
2
Muscatine prepares to entertain Iowa conference delegates arriving September 9. Eight divisions appoint committees for reception and entertainment, with chairmen listed for each area and volunteers welcomed to assist. Committees also assign delegates and oversee flowers and church decoration for the event.
The Federation of Women’s Clubs met at Musser Library to hear the cemetery committee report. They found the ravines stable with grass used to prevent bank erosion, and discussed a lengthy cemetery plan, child labor notes, and city needs for living services while preserving the Greenwood site.
The Muscatine city schools will open Monday August 31 after a monthly school board meeting at the high school. Debate favored an early start over September 8 with labor day holiday. A steel ceiling contract for the auditorium was let and several bills approved or referred to committees.
A vintage advert claims Dr King’s New Life Pills end unbearable pain from liver troubles bowels and nerves. It promises gentle but thorough relief and urges readers to try the tablets, priced at 25e and sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
The main distinction lies in leaf type and structure. Softwoods have needle leaves and conifers often bear cones, while hardwoods have broad leaves. Resin is more typical of softwoods. Common softwoods include pine spruce and fir, with examples like yellow pine white fir pitch pine and red spruce. Hardwoods include oak beech mahogany ash walnut elm birch and ebony.
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