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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1909
Page
2
A newspaper inducement targets women, urging kidney and bladder health with Swamp-Root. It claims kidney issues cause other ailments and promotes free sample bottles from Dr. Kilmer & Co. and available fifty cent and one dollar sizes at drugstores.
A 12 member National Waterways Commission sails from Washington aboard Kronprinzessen Cecilie for a ten week European waterways study. The party includes senators Burton Gallinger Simmons and others with professors Johnson and McPherson, planning extensive inspections from Berlin to London and a Rhine survey.
A Massachusetts brush manufacturer found a Maine wood by product perfect for backs of hair brushes and shaving brush handles. The find shows how waste wood is being repurposed as mills expand by using by products and new byways. The U S Forest Service leads a national study to map every commercial wood species including properties uses and future potentials.
Capt George P Bliss, Chief of Police Morris Manitoba, cites Cuticura Soap and Ointment as curing his dry eczema after two years of worsening symptoms including itchy sores and scales. He reports near full recovery within ten days and three weeks while on duty, noting doctors called it a bad leg. Dated March 20 1907 and September 24 1908.
Warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle Cuticura Ointment soothe infant skin scalp and hands while Cuticura Pills aid in easing eczema rashes and itching. Sold worldwide with depots in London Paris Sydney and Cape Town among others.
President and officials join Mr Johnson on a trip to assess Europe’s waterways and their link to railways and trade. He will collect documents and illustrations to aid the National Waterways Commission and the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in shaping a federal waterway development policy.
Teething children may have diarrhoea and can be managed by giving Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after each bowel movement beyond normal and then administering castor oil to cleanse the system. The remedy is described as safe and sure.
The Christian church Ladies' Aid of West Liberty Iowa will stage a ten cent thimble bee Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5 at Mrs. William Warren's Calhoun street home. The note lists several local residents traveling or visiting nearby towns and attending events, with a flurry of short society notices about arrivals, departures, and visits across Davenport Quincy Sioux City and Muscatine.
The Commercial club backed extending the street railway from Iowa Avenue west on Eighth Street to Climer and on to Newell or Logan to Lucas to connect with the cemetery line. A petition circulating for over two weeks aims to push the plan, to be presented to the city council on August 19.
A long list of visitors arrives and departs, including Tin of 609 Sycamore street and the Beeson family from Davenport visiting relatives. Several residents and guests depart for Columbus Junction Iowa City Ohio and Muscatine with plans for extended visits and camping trips at Waters’ Springs.
Mrs Mary Scott Castle the former California actress who shot at William B Craig in the Waldorf was freed from Jefferson Market prison on 3000 bail after six days.Her brother Capt Henry Harrison Scott US Army secured a bondsman David Manus a Sixth avenue tailor posted Brooklyn property. The case had been adjourned from yesterday to Thursday when bail was posted.
A. W. Morgan offers a personal refund guarantee for Samose claiming it can turn thin people plump and restore strength and health. Remarkable results reportedly seen since its Muscatine introduction, with the product said to be rapidly assimilated and to improve blood, digestion, and overall vitality.
The note asks if you know Wawa and directs readers to W. & Cookson A G P A Grand Trunk Railway System at 135 Adams street Chicago. They will send a booklet describing a new hotel bearing the Wawa name.
Commercial club members debated how to make baseball a paying proposition in Muscatine. They considered ways to boost merchant patronage and enthusiasm, but no solution emerged and the matter was sent to the advertising committee.
Club members who are baseball fans argue for store closings or improved clerk presence to boost business during slow mercantile times. They say a half hour wait to hear scores shows interest but some reluctance to pay admission.
Miss Gloey Stickney of Davenport returned home this morning aboard the Firefly after visiting in the city with friends.
Mothers should use Mother Grays Sweet Powders for children to break up colds feverishness constipation teething disorders headaches and stomach troubles. Sold by drug stores 25c. Free trial package by sending address to Allen S Olmstead Le Roy NY.
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