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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
2
Farmers from rural areas flood Muscatine streets as the corn harvest nears completion. Merchants report strong sales while prices hover with a slight uptick in recent days. Many households purchase holiday goods early, keeping corn on the farm when prices dip.
Members of the Big Timber Rog and Gun club have taken over a cabin on their Big Number hunting grounds. The structure serves as a temporary clubhouse until a new club home is completed in spring. The site features a waterside landing and is planned for a twenty-member roster of local sportsmen.
Memorial services were held Sunday at 2 p m at the Elks Lodge on Eat Front street with Tobn Fi Devitt and Herbert G Thompson delivering addresses on Dilkdom and The Good of the Order Past Exalted Ruler Clay Kneese spoke brief tributes for twenty six deceased members of the local lodge The service included ritual elements and a prayer by Rev Web Makes followed by a closing ode and benediction The twenty six names of departed Elks were listed.
Dr Edward's Olive Tablets, marketed as a substitute for calomel, claim to relieve bad breath by gently stimulating bowels and liver to natural action. The tablet is a vegetable olive oil blend, dosed nightly for a week, with price 19 and 44 cents per box, from The Olive Tablet Company in Columbus Ohio.
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, safe remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims rapid relief, harmless action, and worldwide fame, urging readers to keep a large fifty cent case at hand for stoma ch upset after meals.
The Civil Association urges city residents to buy Red Cross Christmas stamps to support a humanitarian cause. Last year’s sale was successful and is expected to exceed this holiday season. Each letter and package should bear the Red Cross stamp to aid the New Year relief effort.
November in Muscatine yielded 11 clear days and 6 partly cloudy days, 13 total cloudy days. Rainfall totaled 1.32 inches, far below 44.22 inches last November, with only a light snow flurry this month versus 2.22 inches last year. River stage averaged 3.6 feet, the lowest for this season in years, per Superintendent William Molls of the waterworks.
Paul Gilmore, Muscatine’s favorite actor, starred as Richard Craig in The Havoc at Grand theatre. A three-act domestic drama centered on a husband wife and lover triangle. Gilmore’s realism drew curtain calls as Katheryn Hutchison and William De Vere supported the cast.
A historical plea promotes Red Cross seals to combat tuberculosis in all classes. It links disease to school health and playgrounds, urging citizens to support via donations. It stresses strong lungs, good constitution, and broad cooperation of schools, churches, councils, clubs, and civic groups.
Shelby Norman Post G A R will hold annual session at their quarters in the court case building tomorrow evening. The main business is the yearly election of officers to serve the veterans in the coming year. Initiatory services will be held at the first meeting of January. Current officers’ terms expire tomorrow. other offices are appointive and to be announced in January.
County Superintendent M. M. Cronin requests detailed reports from city and county teachers covering the past five years. Notices with blanks were sent last week to instructors and must be returned promptly to compile a complete professional record.
Saturday evening shoppers witnessed a brief blaze on east Second street when a plate box on the Delmer C Miller flat back porch caught fire. Hose companies responded to two alarms but extinguished it before firemen arrived, causing little or no loss. Probable cause cited as defective wiring or spontaneous combustion.
Thomas Cranch, believed over ninety, inmate of the county farm for three to four years, died suddenly at 4 this morning. He had been in good health until late Saturday, then declined. Death attributed to old age. He worked summers at the county farm though total frailty kept him from leaving this year’s county hospital. No living relatives are known.
An advertisement touts Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a simple, harmless cure to restore natural hair color, remove dandruff, and stop hair loss. It claims quick results, urges purchase at drug stores for fifty cents, and promises money-back if not satisfied with A. W. Morgan as agent.
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