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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
7
Dozens of residents depart or visit the city with many heading to Washington Denver Nichols Atalissa and Moscow. Rentals offered for one to five rooms. Doctors and merchants are listed with addresses and travel plans. Local ads promote Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup by A W Morgan at 107 W Second Street.
A city notice lists nineteen residents who died in November with causes ranging from old age and sickness to paralysis cancer heart disease pneumonia typhoid fever and injuries from a locomotive accident. The record notes ages from 22 to 100 and includes Mary Hanlin Mary Blaesing Mollie Johnson Brinkley Perkins Mary Guertner Harry Gravink Johannes Hopke August Plepp Mary Toyne Amos Ames Millard De Groet Ben Gaviner Ellen Maher H Shetler Art Reed S J Schell Mary R Lewis John Nester and John Hahn Sr.
A fragment suggests a dish or meal described as appetizing with genuine relish. No broader context or supporting details are available to determine event, place, or people involved.
Billy Sunday confirms evangelistic meetings in Muscatine Bloomington Decatur and Ottumwa with plans for five week campaigns in Bloomington and Decatur and tentative dates for Ottumwa. He will confer with ministers, speak at Letts and Fairport, and consider a Moline campaign next week.
A breezy, praised stage drama The Girl of the Sunny South lights the Grand with Cotton Blossom Quartette scenery and a strong cast. Also Hooligan, famed from cartoons, opens Saturday with Sam Morris directing a lively comic drama. The press hails both shows as major seasonal hits.
An advertisement promotes D. D. D. Prescription and D. D. D. soap as a skin disease cure cure through topical treatment instead of oral medicine. It claims eczema psoriasis ring worm and barber s itch are relieved by treating the skin with the product and includes customer testimonial from A. M. Seelen of Long Island New York. Havercamp s Prescription Drug Store at 203 East Second Street is the seller.
The University and Iowa City Dramatic Club plan a major production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night led by Mary Letts of Columbus Junction in the title role Olivia. The cast, praised for talent, aims for one of the biggest post holiday successes in university history.
An old style advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as painless purifiers for the abdomen. The copy notes a 25 cent price and credits Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the outlet.
The annual meeting of the Pythian Sisters was held last evening on Iowa avenue. Retiring officers reported a flourishing society and the annual election of officers followed a social hour. Elected officers include Elizabeth Ellis M E C E S of T Mary Isted E S of T Stella Bond E J of T Clara Miller M of T Frances B Rosenbaum M of T Phoebe Conaway P of T Kate Leu G of OT Hattie Kemptner Trustees Elizabeth Ellis Stella Malone Kate Leu Installing Officer Frances B Ros Delegate Clara Miller Alternate Mary Isted.
Lyman H Howe's program at the Grand Thursday includes a Stag Hunt in France with priests in vestments, a vivid Darkest Africa sequence showing Victoria Falls and the Cape to Cairo railroad feat, plus a gem from We Are King star Lawrence Ewart. An entertaining campus anecdote follows about Ewart's performance and a party audience interruption.
A woman hurled a bomb at the carriage carrying Lieutenant General Gure schelmann, the Moscow governor general. The horses were killed, the coachman seriously wounded, and the assailant severely mutilated with likely death forthcoming.
An at home cure for piles via Pyramid Pile Cure promises painless relief without surgery. A trial package is mailed free. a full box costs 50 cents from druggists. The ad urges writing to Pyramid Drug Co. for the trial and claims many have been cured privately.
In Michigan, Muscatine basketball team wins third continental tour game at Holland, defeating Western Michigan champions Hope College 70 to 26 before 600 fans. Lillibridge, Kautz, Fuller, Hayes, and Morgan star as the Wolverines’ visitors dominate on a large floor, with Zeeland on the itinerary next.
James Donahue of New Britain Conn reports using Foley's Kidney Cure after failure with kidney remedies and diabetes treatment. After two bottles he improved and five bottles cured him, enabling a rigorous life insurance examination. A. W. Morgan 107 W Second St endorses Foley's Kidney Cure for back ache and kidney bladder issues.
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