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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1913
Page
10
Community announcements list visitors from Columbus Junction Chicago and Ainsworth returning home. Several residents travel to Wilton Summit Wilton Junction West Liberty and Silver City for visits and entertaining events. Jubilee Singers perform at St Matthias tonight with lawn social food and music.
Mr and Mrs Joseph O Melia express gratitude for the kindness help and flowers received during their baby's illness and death. They thank neighbors and friends for support.
A publisher’s letter to Dear Sir explains that laundry work has evolved from shirt and collar washing to handling many family washings. It notes reduced chemical breaches and stronger knowledge leading to improved conditions and greater business potential for housewives aware of these changes.
More than 150 eligible Nichols family members attend the fourteenth annual reunion at West Liberty Iowa with an elaborate program including speeches by J C Nichols and Z C Nichols, solos and duets, and dinner after noon. Attendees include relatives from Estherville Iowa St Louis Missouri Hutchinson Kansas and Waterloo Iowa.
C G Dykes of Muscatine will preside at a historic camp meeting near Montrose August 23 as the Eastern Iowa, Kewanee and Nauvoo districts of the Latter Day Saints hold a reunion. Grandsons of Joseph Smith, B A Smith and F A Smith, will attend along with local Muscatine members. The event recalls early Mormon activity around Nauvoo and Montrose near the Iowa Illinois border.
The Rev. Webster Hakes, pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church, will lead the union worship service on Sunday evening on the lawn of the First Presbyterian church. He will deliver the principal sermon of the service as is customary.
Parisian Sage is praised as a scalp nourisher that reaches the roots, removes dandruff and itching, cleanses and cools the scalp, and makes thin or dull hair abundant and radiant. The perfumed, non greasy tonic sells for fifty cents in drugstores and toilet counters, with endorsements from Delighted users and Haverkamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Additional clergy will assist in the services and the Trinity Episcopal choir will provide special musical selections for the event.
Southeastern Iowa ministers and lay representatives will gather in Oskaloosa for the Iowa annual conference starting Friday. Reports on church work will be read at First Methodist and Penn College auditorium with Bishop Shepard delivering the Sunday sermon and love feast. Further notices will follow.
Thomas McKennon of Shickshinny Pennsylvania, a coal miner who worked 12 hours daily for 35 days each year over fifty years, is a guest at the Freeman home in Muscatine. He enjoys his longest vacation yet, praises local hospitality, and plans to return to work Sunday after visiting his grandson's family.
In Marietta Ohio on August 13 Dr William R Dabney a surgeon who had practiced eye ear and throat operations for about 15 years was committed to Longview asylum in Cincinnati after a severe mental collapse. During an operation on an elderly farmer the surgeon allegedly began dissection while the patient was under anesthesia prompting nurses to raise alarm and other doctors to intervene. The nurse recounted the episode describing how Dabney attacked the patient until restrained by Ballard Penrose and attendants.
Miss Margaret Miller a 16 year old of West Liberty disappeared Monday night from her mother’s home. A Davenport sighting prompted authorities to search across Moscow and Davenport. The case rests on limited details as officials continue to investigate and locate the girl.
The Sunday School of Bloomington Friends church holds its annual picnic this Friday at Sheffey Grove. Arrangements are being finalized with an anticipated small turnout and a pleasant occasion featuring an athletic program and speaking. The notice also mentions a real dance boat event on August 19.
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