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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 02, 1902

Page

8

Bond the Hardware Man and Local Notices

For Rent Seven room brick house No. 212 Linn street J 4 St John C B Fuller and Michael Schaab flew to Chicago yesterday to visit the stock show. Don’t stay at home, come to the Degree of Honor social tonight. Admission ten cents refreshments free. Basketball Club C meets High School at the new army Tuesday evening. Admission fifteen cents.

Linn Street St. John C. B. Fuller Michael Schaab Chicago New Army

Sleepy-Eye A Christmas Gift and Local Social Notes

A local column lists holiday gifts and events including Hacker’s candy, dolls for sale, a Degree of Honor social with 19 cents admission, and a doll social on December 2. It notes lectures at P M Musser library, a Christmas piano ad, and a basketball game Tuesday evening between Company C and the High School with 10 cent admission. Also mentions trains, visits, illness, and travel of residents including Mrs. James O’Connor and Rev. J I Grieser.

Special Sale Skirts Offer Ready-to-Wear Bargains

Ladies can buy stylish ready-to-wear skirts cheaper than sewing one. Prices range from 1.98 to 10.00, with options in silk or wool and a hang that home-made skirts lack. The ad promises fashionable skirts at varied price points for immediate purchase.

Dress Goods Sale At One Quarter Price This Wednesday

Fifty pieces fine all wool dress goods on a special table 36 to 50 inches wide in all colors offered at 25 cents per yard. These fabrics normally sold for 50 60 75 cents and up to one dollar per yard. Heavy beaver cloths for capes priced at one dollar per yard. Was three to four dollars per yard. Savings of about half price. Sale held on Wednesday.

Home Made Comforts at the Boston Store

The Boston Store advertises home made comforts in pure white cotton covered with silk and sateen. Sizes priced from 1.00 to 3.50, offering affordable comforts made to resemble maternal care.

Great Sale of Furs at Boston Store

We offer half price on furs with a wide selection of electric seal jackets priced 20 to 50 dollars. Boas and sable fox boas in many colors and sizes from 1 to 45 dollars, plus children's furs in multiple styles from 1.48 to 7.50 per set. Buy at the Boston Store to save big money.

Boston

Chicago Markets Wide Open High Low Close Dispatch

Market report from Chicago via J Toler & Co with H E McKay of Muscatine. Opening prices show Wheat Corn Oats and Pork Lard futures with Dec May July options and daily highs lows and closes. Live stock receipts detail hogs cattle and sheep activity with Kansas City and Omaha moves and Liverpool wheat price shifts accompanied by a weather map noting light snow northwest and milder temperatures.

Chicago Kansas City Omaha

Ready Made Waists Offer Wide Selection at Low Prices

Ready to wear waists are advertised in large variety with over two hundred wool and silk options. Prices range from one to five dollars, with many colors and sizes available. Shoppers are urged to buy this week to save time and money.

Grand cloak department jacket clearance sale

Grand clearing sale in our cloak department. Four hundred garments must be sold this month. Elegant tan kersey jackets were 16.00 now 5.00. Fine jackets 12.00 or 12.50 now 6.00. Misses caster jackets 6.00 now 3.00. Children's jackets 2.00 or 2.50 now 1.00. Buy jackets now and save. See bargains Wednesday.

Cold Wave Forecast Buoyed by Weather Bulletin

The Weather Bureau issued a special bulletin forecasting a cold wave for the district west of the Mississippi tonight and tomorrow. Snow is expected in the lake regions with colder conditions on Wednesday. central valleys will see rain in the south and snow in the north.

Washington Weather Bureau Mississippi

Mothers' Club to Meet Tomorrow Afternoon at Mrs Barry's

Society notes report the Mothers' Club meeting slated for tomorrow afternoon at Mrs P J Barry's residence on North Mulberry Street. Visitors welcome. Miss Minnie Ogilvie plans an excursion to Lone Tree tonight with the Court of Honor lodge, hosting friends at her Lone Tree home for an enjoyable party.

Court of Honor Lone Tree Muscatine M. Gould Mothers’ Club P. J. Barry North Mulberry Street Minnie Ogilvie Court of Honor Lodge

Never Grow Old Card Club Meets at Hinkles

The Never Grow Old card club gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hinkle’s home on Fifth Street last night. Mrs. Frank Nevitt won first prize with consolation going to Mrs. Joe Kessels. Refreshments were served and attendees reported a fine evening.

Never Grow Old Card Club Frank Hinkle Fast Fifth Street Frank Nevitt Joe Kessels

Rev Hix Announces Social at U B Church

Rev L B Hix stated at last Sabbath services that a social will be held at the United Brethren church next Friday night with admission set at ten cents.

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Anson Clothing Co East Second Street Iowa Daily Journal Toy R. A. Holmes Journal Building APLIN Reliance Loan Co Bond Sleepy-Eye St. John’s Hacker Business College James O'Connor Wilton P. M. Musser CC. C. Nutting Sea Bottom John J. Ryan the State University Town City Thiesen C. B. Ferler Hoopesville Hobart M. Cable Curran Louisa County Wessell Muscatine Western Company C High School J. I. Grieser Davenport Four Bills Comedy Co Congregational Church Alex Grossheim Berlin Miller Terry Lexington Mike Connor Justice of the Peace H. S. Howe Frank Tacon Fred Pentzer West Fourth Street Los Angeles Wilson's Shoe Store Trench ULC Nesday Sale Forts I. E. Kranz W. 2d St J. Toler & Co H. E. McKay Liverpool Missouri Illinois Ohio Valley Plolele Hine Bros Big Hat Store East 2d Street Che Maze New York City Chestnut Street B. E. Lilly’s Dry Goods the Journal
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