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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
2
An advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm or B B B claims it cures rheumatism and related symptoms by reducing uric acid and improving blood flow. It offers free samples to readers replying with their names, asserting relief from bone pains sciatica and stiff joints and promising lasting cure in weeks.
Ed Partridge travels to Colorado to consider trading for land with Noah Guthrie of Aledo. Wim Wetten plans selling his shop and house to Charles Smith of Aledo and move to California. Several residents move, visit, or attend events. the Mercer County soldiers and sailors reunion is set for Aug 26–27 at New Windsor. Church services, fairs, and excursions are reported with various local families, road improvements, and social visits noted.
In Blue Grass and nearby towns in Iowa’s Jefferson county residents share visits, hosting duties, and social events. Families including the Hendersons Willits Dipple Bancks and Bakers entertain guests attend church groups shop and plan a Thursday fishing party as grain yields and threshing wrap up for the season.
Cedar Valley residents and guests gathered for family visits and community events. Neighbors and kin attended parties and farmstead gatherings with games music and refreshments while news noted a serious riding accident involving Louis Gertz ending the excerpt.
Downey Iowa notes list visitors and guests from West Branch Iowa City Pleasant Plain and Muscatine. Entries include residents traveling to Wisconsin Des Moines and the state fair with several local families hosting guests and selling businesses.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kiddoo return from western trip. Miss Mabel Ely from Mineral IL comes home. The Thornhills and Leo visit Tom Ballard. Mrs. Crawford of Pomeroy spends week with Emma Crawford. Ora Thornhill returns from Chicago with fall millinery purchases. Nellie Gilmore of Galesburg visits Pert Gilmore. Bert and Will Crannell attend Minor Miller funeral in Aledo. W R Taylor travels to Galesburg.
Monday through Friday residents in Aledo and surrounding areas visited relatives and friends. Edmund and Frances Hebel spent the week with Grandma Mays while Ernest Croson left for Quincy for business college. Rev. and Mrs. Fulton and son returned to Alexis after a Bay outing and a social visit.
Prof Holiday and family move to Grandview and will serve as bank cashier. Quarterly M E church meeting held. Visitors include L Reiley from Wapello and Clyde Craddock from Des Moines. Local residents and relatives visit or travel to Des Moines, Columbus Junction, and Muscatine. Funeral of Lizzie McGill noted with sorrow.
The Aug 27 report notes welcome rainfall. Miss Margaret Hoskins began teaching at North Prairie. C T Chamberlain and daughter Stella attend the Des Moines fair. Mrs Fed Derton and Miss Minnie visit the Hoskins home. Lena returns to Cedar Rapids after visiting friends. Willing Workers meet next Thursday at Mrs Lys Lake's home. Josh Hoskins travels to Des Moines for the fair. Pearl Greiner visits Goshen township with Myrtle Hinkhouse.
A distressed ad describes unbearable pain and overtaxed organs then touts Dr. King's New Life Pills as a gentle thorough cure. The product claims to end suffering and is sold for 25 cents by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store with a guarantee.
Mrs Alice Cunan and Miss Hattie Minteer of Aledo visited Mannon friends last week while others from Aledo and Joy called. Many travelers passed through Mannon en route to the bay despite heat. Mannon school opens Aug 31 with Miss Alice Noble as teacher. Lorn Moseley born Aug 24 to Mr and Mrs Leslie Moseley. Rev Gilmer of Aledo to speak in Mason hall Friday evening.
A Shell Lake Wisconsin father recounts his four year old boy's colic. After a physician's morphine injection failed, the father used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which relieved the child in half an hour. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
The Muscatine North and South railroad will sell roundtrip excursion tickets to Louisville Kentucky with trips planned to Ohio and Indiana points during September and October.
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