Bodie Bowman Wins Family Baby Contest
Bodie Bowman won the Muscatine Family Theatre baby contest with 1497 votes earning a trophy cup. Fred Wingerter baby finished second with 1315 votes and Mary Bisisi third with 1187 votes. awards include cups and gold rings for several participants.
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Bodie Bowman
Muscatine
Fred Wingerter Baby
Mary Bisisi
Blanche Machlin
Edwin Mills
Bernice Hugunin
M. E. Hopkins Baby
Verne Price
Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea Promoted For Liver Health
Advert suggests Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea tones the liver and restores strength. Claims cure where others fail and offers Tea or Tablets for 35 cents at Havercamp's Prescription drug store.
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Hollister’s
Rocky Mountain
Havercamp’s
Prescription Drug Store
Rural Carriers to Meet Labor Day Picnic in Muscatine
The Muscatine County Rural Letter Carriers association will meet in Muscatine on Labor Day as a picnic with an elaborate dinner followed by a business session. Plans for the outing and picnic location are not yet announced. Several business propositions will come before the group, with a program likely. Sylvan Plumly leads arrangements and a large attendance is expected.
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Muscatine County
Frank Zimmerman Heads to Wellman for Stay at Bruce Gardner Home
Frank Zimmerman departed this morning for Wellman and will spend time at the home of Bruce Gardner there.
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Frank Zimmerman
Wellman
Bruce Gardner
Muscatine Plant Seeks Mussel Beds Along Des Moines River
A Muscatine button company sends a flotilla of two 20 foot barges and four dredges with eight men to locate prolific mussel beds on the upper Des Moines River. They expect to erect cribs at Lehigh and Frazer to store shells for the Muscatine plant, towing upriver from Lehigh. The voyage began at Fort Dodge July 30 and faces current speed as a major hurdle. Pearl hunting adds gambling allure to the mussel trade as shells fetch high prices per ton.
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Des Moines
Ft. Dodge
Fort Dodge
Merritt’s Ford
Websterec County
Lehigh
Frazer
Health and Finance Committees Meet Tuesday at City Hall
The Board of Health will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening at city hall and discuss only usual matters. The Finance Committee will also convene Tuesday evening.
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Board of Health
Children Prefer Yello Cornflakes for Rich Corn Taste
Advert suggests children favor Yello cornflakes for a rich yellow corn flavor. It invites readers to try the cereal highlighting its real corn taste and appealing breakfast value.
Fifth Annual Captain Welker Veterans Reunion Set
The Captain Welker's Veteran Association schedules its fifth annual reunion and banquet for September 21 in Muscatine. About 100 members exist with roughly half residing in the city. The Geneva Country Club hosts the gathering with details to be finalized by committee members Charles Jackson, Fred Monroe, and Charles McColm.
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Captain Welker
Veteran Association
D. T. Eaton
Geneva Country Club
Muscatine
Charles Jackson
Fred Monroe
Charles McColm
Great Remedy Root Juice At Morgan's Drug Store
The column extols Root Juice as a universal cure for stomach liver kidneys and blood. Hundreds crowded the drug store to buy it with many testimonials praising rapid relief from indigestion constipation rheumatism and kidney issues after a few bottles. It is sold at Morgan's drug store for one dollar a bottle or three for two dollars and fifty cents.
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Morgan's Drug Store
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ad For Change of Life
Mrs Lizzie Holland of Noah Kentucky endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy for the Change of Life. The ad claims relief from headaches nervousness and emissions and touts 30 years of use helping with inflammation ulceration displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration. It invites women to write for confidential advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Noah
Lydia E. Pink- Saan
Cote
Lydia Pinkham
Lizzie Holland
Noah, Ky
Lydia E. Pinkham
Grand Opera House Plans Minor Renovations For Season
The Grand Opera House will not receive extensive improvements this summer though the interior will be renovated before opening. The informal start of the 1909 10 season is set for August 27 with the play Texas. Manager Salisbury awaits September bookings, expecting several high class acts on the Cham berlin Kindt circuit.
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Grand Opera House
Texas
Salisbury
Second Street House
Progressive heat prompts city petition meeting
A small crowd attended a Saturday night meeting to form a Heat-Select Committee to present a petition to the city council. The aim is to elect all city subordinate officers by direct vote and to change the ordinance from appointive to voters choice. Mr Stapleton chaired, with Dr Fulham proposing a three member panel to name ward representatives.
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M. W. Stapleton
E. G. O’brien
J. D. Fulliam
West Liberty social notes and visits fill Aug weekend
West Liberty Ia August 16 The Merry Maids hosted a five o'clock lawn supper at Miss Mildred Luse home. Dozens of residents and visitors are listed with many trips and calls noted from nearby towns and across Iowa.
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West Liberty
Merry Maids
Mildred Luse
Fern Westfall
Della Eves
Persis Sheldon
Elsie Whitacre
Edith Richards
Nellie Vore
Wilma Whitacre
Hazel Nichols
Janet Ady
Lillie Stevens
Emma Whitmer
Marie Kimberley
Alma Nichols
Elmer Wilson
Centerdale
James Dickerson
W. R. Lane
Linn Lewis
Iona Nichols
Iowa City
Florence Showers
Ed. Webb
Madison Romaine
Crowley
Venter
Watson
Oxford
Henry Heath
East Sixth Street
Leota Akins
Mary Ball
Helen Anderson
Perry
Ina Lyle
Anderson
Lizzie Ryan
Nichols
J. L. Smith
Sioux City
K. P
A. W. Jackson
West Branch
George Nicola
John Heath
Edna Miller
Minneapolis
Davenport
Hazel Henderson
John Polland
Arlington
Kan
Joe Phelps
Hibberd
Wilton
Florestine Negus
George Worrell
Grinnell
William Ady
John Dickerson
Ellen Stevens
Tipton
L. C. Hutcheson
Julia Leonard
Everett Hutcheson
Springdale
F. G .Tharp
Levi Lundy
Villisea
Theron Quier
Richard
Frank Elliott
Lotus Chapter
O. FE
Ortha
Ruth Lane
Solon
D. H. Smith
Mae
Independence
Elizabeth
Caroline Anderson
Burlington
Cora
Eva Pingrey
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Denver
Colorado Springs
Boulder
Lucy Pickering
Muscatine
H. C. Wagner
Mary
MctIntosh
N. M
Continued heat causes ice cream shortage in Muscatine
Dry weather drives a serious supply problem across Muscatine County and city vendors. Milk, cream, and butter runs low as demand surges. watermelons and crops suffer with forecasts of rain or more heat. Local merchants report scarce cream and stringy milk, leaving confectioneries and houseswives disappointed.
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Muscatine County
Muscatine
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Howard Mountain
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A. P. McNulty
Ray Whitacre
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Son Thorne
Fast Mail
N. B. Ansley
Harry Wright
Embroidery Club
South Prairie
Jane Berry
Moline
S. J. Bledsoe
John Schnier
Atalissa
John Gatton
George Vanatta
Frank Johnson
Columbus Junction
Maud Jackson
Annette Jackson
Allen Hemmingway
Downey
Robert Brooke
North Calhoun Street
Ethel Aker
Kenneth Crosier
Arthur Cornwall
Carl Weinard
Morgan Lodge
Charlie Lee
Burton
Charlie Mosher
Columbus Street
Mary Paulis
Cedar Rapids
Lowaty
Leland Eyer
Herbert Wilson
A. L. Dice
Margaret
Dorothy
W. B. Jayne
Hershey State
Hershey
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Muscatine Lumber & Box Ce
Chicago
Chas. H. Gobble
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Keokuk
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W. G. Block CO
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