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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
7
Local brief notes report Dr. J L Klein and many residents in Wilton Muscatine and Columbus Junction traveling for business and visiting relatives. Excur sions and boat schedules for Hershey Hose Co. to Burlington, and trips by Firefly and Helen Blair are noted along with local commerce ads and wage notices.
Dick Lane, famed as a local crook turned evangelist, will preach Sunday at 3 p.m. at Citizens' Park under Y M C A auspices. Lane, who spent years in penitentiaries and now works in Chicago, says Muscatine is his home and aims to reach those who won t listen to other preachers.
At Mrs. Sarah Fawcett’s home Blanche Fawcett married Henry Phelps in a dusk ceremony witnessed by many relatives. Rev. Davis officiated and Della Worrall played the wedding march. The couple will reside in Decorah Iowa.
Riverside Iowa Aug 17 Mrs G H Miller and children of Iowa City spent part of this week visiting at the home of Mrs J L Meeks Mr Cray of Montezuma Iowa was also in the area with last names only a brief line of social notices
Thousands of American women report health restoration from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims universal efficacy for female illnesses, touts cures by patients and professionals, and urges letters to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
Local note reports effort to place a library in Riverside requiring at least fifty subscribers. Dr and Mrs C S Grant return from Denver with two children. Blanche Shellady hosts a Sunday school picnic east of town. Ott visits Iowa City. Emmons leaves for Springfield to visit son PP Miller. Brown couple visit relatives in Iowa City. Baumgartner ill for two weeks.
About $1 500 will be spent on remodeling the Presbyterian church with a new furnace to heat the large structure. The motor for the pipe organ and basement work will make the edifice one of the citys most complete. William Kincaid has the remodeling contract, slated for about two weeks. Basement rooms will be arranged to expand social space and walls ceilings will be restored and frescoed. An electric motor will power the organ for the first time.
An old time advertising notice claims Saves Hard Work 6-5-4 is a labor saving substitute for blacking on gas cooking ranges and stove sides burning hard coal. It purports to outlast enamel for stove pipes and wire screens and to cover more surface, dry quickly, and be easier to apply. Sold by Jacob Fisch & Sons Thompson Bros Ide Questen & Sawyer Co.
Seattle reports E W Sims, solicitor for commerce and labor, said Japanese raiders attacked seal rookeries with four to five schooners. After warnings, guards opened fire, killing two on one boat and wounding another, later killing two more and capturing twelve. piracy possible.
The ordinance outlines city expenditures for 1907 including salaries, grounds and buildings, printing, health, public rights, police, fire, water works debt, streets, sewers, bridges, library, and road district maintenance. It specifies account openings, warrant limits, and approval date August 16, 1896, with entries for various funds and line items.
Today’s markets show wheat at 70% to 72 cents in Chicago No. 2 red with Sept and Dec futures quoted near 70s. Corn prices hover around 44 to 48 cents with several contracts noted. Soybeans trade around 8.70 to 8.95 per bushel in Chicago sessions.
Dr Shaffer offers treatment for cataracts nose throat and lung diseases and various chronic conditions at 208 Kwa Ave near the U S Express Office. Glasses fitted with guaranteed satisfaction and free adjustments during office hours. Avoid traveling vendors and buy from a reliable oculist.
Chicago reports cattle receipts around 2,500 with slow to steady demand. Beeves priced at 3.90 to 6.75, cows and heifers 1.35 to 5.25, stockers and feeders 2.49 to 4.50, Texas cattle 3.75 to 4.60. Hogs receipts about 12,000 up 5e. mixed and butchers 5.80 to 6.40, good and heavy 5.09 to 6.30, light 5.85 to 6.40, bulk 6.00 to 6.50. Sheep receipts 6,000 steady. ewes and lambs 3.25 to 5.35 and 4.65 to 8.00.
Chicago wholesale prices show butter firm with creamery at 22c for 18 percent and 17 2c for dairies, egg values steady at 14 16c. Market notes indicate general stability in dairy goods on August 17.
Chicago market briefing notes poultry price bids with turkeys at 12 cents and chickens at 11 cents per pound and springs at 14 cents. August 17 listing.
Butter remained steady and unchanged while eggs held firm. Firsts brought 19 4 cents per pound, seconds 16 1/4 to 18 1/4 cents. Market notes reflect stable tone for the day in New York.
New York on August 17 reports alive poultry steady with springs at 14 to 14 1/2 cents, fowls 13 cents, turkeys 13 cents. Dressed poultry firm with springs 14 to 16 cents, fowls 10 to 13 1/2 cents, turkeys 11 to 13 cents.
In New York on August 17 the New York Produce Market reported wheat for September at 78 cents and corn for September at 54 1/2 cents.
St Louis on August 17 notes Wheat for September at 67 cents per bushel Corn for September at 46 cents Oats for September at 3 cents per bushel. The report covers the St Louis produce market with current futures quotes.
Peoria Illinois August 17 corn No 3 priced at 50 cents per bushel in market notes.
Lincoln Iowa residents attended the carnival in Iowa City on Thursday. Claus Wiese visited Iowa City on Friday on business. Misses Carrie and Ella Mentzer were entertained at the Michael Schuessler home over the weekend. Mrs. Chas Petry entertained a number of friends Tuesday.
An illustrated ad emphasizes a joke claim about constipation and declares Dr King’s New Life Pills would cure it with a guarantee. It notes the price as 25 cents and credits Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store as the seller.
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