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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1907
Page
5
County Superintendent Witter reports from John F. Riggs that a special examination may be held August 16 and 17 for teachers unable to take June or July exams. If needed, provisional certificates may be offered. lists will be mailed August 12 with seven subjects per day.
An ad touts Fire Under Water as no surprise and promises quick pleasant curative effects from Dr King’s New Life Pills. The promotion lists a price of 25 ets and credits Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store as the seller.
D Cherry Holmes and Roy Fletcher shipped hogs Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Clyde Mathews attended chautauqua at Winfield Sunday. Harry Fletcher is a Burlington visitor. A H Havenhill of Cairo visits daughter Mrs Bert Lemon. Sam Turkington family plan Columbus Junction chautauqua camp. Mrs George McConahay of Cairo spent Monday with Will Williams. Clyde Orbin of Burlington in Wyman Tuesday morning. Eva Jones reported better. Local crowd attended Wyman versus Winfield ball game in Winfield, score 12 to 1 in favor of Winfield.
Des Moines Aug 12 A staged battle between Blues and Browns ends without a clear winner after Bishop forces a retreat and Lincoln fortifies Beaver Hill. Umpires add a new test by simulating a destroyed bridge. both sides claim success, while Company C scores on Thousand Foot Hill as squads defend the line.
A Illinois woman credits Postum Food Coffee with curing lifelong biliousness and dyspepsia after years of coffee use. She notes appetite return, better digestion, and overall well being after switching, praising proper preparation and a small butter pat to prevent boiling over.
The funeral for the late Mrs Horace Klaiss was conducted yesterday from the residence four miles below the city and a brief service followed at the island church. Rev J B Parmalee officiated and interment was in the island cemetery with pallbearers John Shonltz James Cross Jacob Gouse Isaac Storms John Bartenhagen and Elias Holliday.
The Painter family thanks friends and neighbors for assistance, sympathy, and flowers during the illness and death of their son Charles Raymond. Frank Painter and Family.
Reverend H F Martin is expected to return to Muscatine on August 21 after an extended tour of the northwest. He has spent several months visiting various points of interest.
Haver camp’s Prescription Drug Store offers Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds at 50 cents and 1 dollar. The ad promotes a relief remedy for common respiratory ailments targeted to wary shoppers.
M C Hayes, an eye witness, reported the capture of a diamond thief, J Bennett Jones alias William G Harris, in Davenport after a chase. The thief fled into a pawn shop, fled again, jumping a window, then leaped into a buggy as Detective Bomas Shanley closed in with a revolver. Hayes said he might have been a hero if the horse and buggy had not been nearby.
A man appeared desperate, stirring doubt about his motives as observers noted his anxious demeanor and uncertain intentions in the scene.
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