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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
7
An advertisement claims Dr Price's Wheat Flake Celery Food prevents child deaths from poisonous food. It asserts half of a million yearly births die before growing up and links this to unsafe nutrition, urging the product as the perfect choice.
Local residents and visitors filled Muscatine yesterday with short trips and departures. Numerous names including Miss Ethel Yeager Ms Belle Bend and Mrs J Curtis journeyed to Davenport Kalona Lone Tree and Davenport while others headed to Moline Iowa City and Wapello for visits races or business.
Rev Sir R Hicks the erstwhile St Louis weather prophet foresees an unusually stormy August with thunderstorms early month then a seismic period mid month. He warns of heavy rains in places and possible West India hurricanes late August touching Gulf and South Atlantic coasts with cooler air after late storms.
An advertisement promotes Rengo a harmless fat reducer claiming rapid weight loss with no wrinkles. It offers trial boxes free by mail, sells full boxes for $1.00, and lists The Rengo Co Detroit as the supplier, with Muscatine recommendation by A W Morgan Druggist.
In Des Moines Iowa veterans and local soldiers stage a mock battle at the state encampment grounds. Blue army under Colonel Bishop presses toward Corydon bridge while Lincoln and Brown forces maneuver for Des Moines defense. Cavalry reconnoiters and regular officers supervise drills and battalion maneuvers.
Colonel Daniel Searles of Butte writes of hair restoration with Newbro's Herpicide. He claims dandruff and baldness reverse as the product kills the germ that harms hair. Sample offered for 10c. sizes 50 cents and one dollar. Sold by Detroit firm and Havedcamp's Prescription Drug Store as agents.
The notice states deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh related deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to send for free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Pine Mills Iowa reports a series of Sunday visits and travels by residents including Mrs Moliie Stagers from Stockton and B Stacher from Durant. Wulf Warner and Detrich plus Becker from Durant attend a river picnic. North Brady Davenport visitors Will Petersen and Will Hartman clan recounts. Wild blackberry crop expected short this year. Bessie and Mamie Welsch joined R Bennett at Pleasant prairie for a Sunday gathering.
Louis Carroll Prindle a Bridgeport newspaper veteran and husband of Miss Middlebrook died at his Broad Street home after a long nervous illness. A former city editor of The Standard and later editor of The Evening Post and Bridgeport Morning News, he helped shape Bridgeport journalism from 1876 to 1898 with wit and independence. His wife, a sister of Mrs. Simpson of Lake Township, survives him.
The Fellowship Club met Tuesday night with small attendance due to threatening weather. A Davenport trip was partially planned and cooking lesson tickets were distributed, with a Sewing Bee set for Saturday evening for girls to make swimming bags.
F. W. Eversmeyer departed yesterday afternoon for Keokuk to spend a brief period visiting friends.
The article describes regiment and battalion level field work as the National Guard prepares for future maneuvers. It notes shifting from imaginary enemy drills to actual war conditions, with infantry cavalry artillery signal corps and hospital detachments, plus special interurban rates for observers.
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