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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
9
An advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as the top remedy for liver and related troubles. It claims it works better than pills oils or purgatives and promises refunds if no benefit. It offers dollar and half dollar bottle sizes and a free booklet and sample via post card request. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store promotes the product.
Local notes from West Liberty and Muscatine describe Theodore Clark and Cliff Musser at the fair yesterday and various residents visiting relatives. Baseball is set for tomorrow at the fair grounds Morrison Independents vs White Sox. Lectures by William J Bryan advertised with ticket details.
West Liberty fair closes after a record crowd with first class racing. Muscatine visitors attended as Lizzie Worden owned by Frank Sales of Muscatine placed second in the 2:35 Pace. The day featured substantial attendance, improved entertainment, and a fair summary of the races listed with purses of 250 and 300 dollars.
Opera House Livery offers the city’s only rubber funeral car plus livery boarding moving and baggage transfer services. Call No. 16 for prompt service and right prices. C Kleindolph proprietor.
Dorothy Devore six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ottie Devore of Union township died August 24 after a spinal trouble. The child fell ill in the forenoon after a hearty noon meal and died soon after a physician was summoned. She leaves two brothers and one sister.
A colonial era advertisement touts Wakefield's Blackberry Balsam as an absolute cure for diarrhoea dysentery flux cholera morbus and related illnesses. It claims 59 years as the leading summer complaint remedy and notes all druggists sell it.
Funeral services were held at Union Chapel for Dorothy Devore who died young. Rev. Ballard officiated with burial at Boston cemetery. Community members mourn the bright child and offer sympathy to her parents as churches announce services and greetings for the coming Sabbath.
Ad claims tremendous power of Electric Bitters to cure constipation and biliousness with a moral guarantee. Mentions Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the seller at 50 cents.
A low rate excursion via the M N & S Ry and Iowa Central offers round trips of five dollars with travel from Muscatine Fruitland Grandview Wapello to Minneapolis and St Paul. Tickets valid return until Sept 12 with a tourist sleeping car and advance reservations. Contact local agents or G B Birch and A B Cutts for details.
A Muscatine commission merchant reports rising melon demand across nearby territories and states. Improved cultivation and handling have raised melon quality, and broader, more uniform distribution is stabilizing prices amid growing individual demand.
Spanking does not cure bed wetting and a constitutional cause is cited. Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a home treatment free of charge and asks mothers to write her for help without demanding money.
The Kelley home in Wilton hosted Miss Jennie Kelley and Miss Bessie Crooker for a party of music and social games. Clover hunting awarded Ella Dice as top finder, Edith Burrows the consolation prize, with Etta Hildebrand and Anna Curtis singing.
Lands along the St. Francis Valley in Missouri and Arkansas promise big crops of corn wheat oats clover timothy alfalfa fruits and vegetables with fertile river bottom soil. Open winters and cheap lands draw homeseekers. rates set for August September and October with a St Louis mailing booklet available from E W Labeaume G P and T A Cotton Belt Route.
A dialogue joke ponders sudden fires and spontaneous combustion as a humorous idea for lighting kitchen fires. The quip contrasts the peril of real fires with a fanciful notion of keeping it on tap for convenience.
A humorous quip notes ninety nine chase happiness while the hundredth person stays home and secures success, illustrating luck or contentment without effort.
The Iowa Central offers excursion tickets to Des Moines Iowa for the State Fair from August 24 to September 1 1905 at one fare round trip. Return allowed until September 3 1905. For rates times and other details contact agents.
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