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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1907
Page
8
A collage of city notices lists shoppers, visitors, and travelers. Ella Maylone and Phema Five visit from Wilton and Letts while John Furlong’s newborn son is announced. Alpine English acrobats perform at Columbus Junction fair August 28 29 and 30. Local names, departures, and trips fill the page.
The twenty second annual Y P S C E convention will be held in Water loo September 3 4 and 5 with a strong Iowa speaker roster. Delegates from Muscatine and state groups will attend as plans unfold with sessions from 9:00 a m to 8:30 p m featuring devotional hours addresses and mission reports in a busy program of religious services.
A man recounts coffee poisoning symptoms including sleeplessness headaches and indigestion and credits Postum with restoring sleep appetite and steadier nerves. He urges readers to try Postum as an alternative to coffee and mentions a "The Road to Wellville" feature and physicians calling it a health classic.
The schedule lists speakers and activities at a National Missionary association gathering. Cedar Rapids hosts Our Part and prayer services. Chaplain Pickworth of Anamosa and Rev. Jas L Hill of Salem conduct addresses and benediction with an evening installation of state officers and closing consecration by the president elect.
Martin C. Nolta of Dexter, formerly of Bloomington township, was reported killed in an accident. The funeral is to be held from the home of his brother in law John Negus near Bloomington. Nolta was 55 and left the county fifteen years ago, leaving four sons. No details of the crash were available.
Methodist Church schedules a Thursday Love Feast with testimony and prayer and a Friday church social with the Aid society entertaining the whole church. German Congregational Church holds Wednesday Ladies Aid at the parsonage for important business. Congregational Church August Mission circle meeting led by Mrs Bennison Friday August 30 with program in charge.
Word came Saturday of the marriage of George Bennett of Farnsworth Mass to Ada Leonard of Boston. Bennett, a prominent Farnsworth merchant, was married Thursday evening at the bride's Laurel avenue home and will reside in Farnsworth. The notice notes his local ties and the bride's popularity in Boston society.
Fire of incendiary origin or by tramp likely started the old Murphy homestead burn late Saturday. The building built about forty years ago was uninhabited and considered ruinous. Firemen saved adjacent structures though the blaze had significant headway by the time discovered at 11:30 PM. Several months earlier another fire had nearly destroyed the same building.
Last night after a brief stop with friends in the city, the evening concluded with casual conversations and plans to meet again.
G. M. Titus at 213 Iowa Ave advertises a large Muscatine city property list with very reasonable terms, urging buyers to act now before prices rise. Prospects for Muscatine are described as favorable.
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