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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1908
Page
5
A promotional piece extols Root Juice as a cure for indigestion and related ailments. It cites expert spending on research and urges readers to buy at Morgan's drug store, with pricing of one bottle or three for $2.50.
Henry Schoenig and family on 603 Grandview Avenue near loss of life after coal stove fumes fill a room on Saturday evening. A child awoke and alerted parents, who opened windows and ventilated the area to recover. Other locals and visitors are noted in brief city missives.
Sunday morning and evening services at the M E church featured Rev W B Ireland's quarantine impact limiting the Musserville pastor to another venue. Rev TI M Woolverton spoke in the morning and J G Mitchell of the Y M C A addressed the congregation on personal and financial support for Christian work. Hugh Jamesson, Y M C A secretary, spoke at Island church in the afternoon. George DeVore and others visited local areas and nearby towns. G Thomas Robison plans to retire from his grocery business within a week.
Wilton Second Grammar Midgets fall behind early but surge ahead after halftime to beat West Liberty second team 23 to 14 in Wilton. Robinson and Kiser each hit four field goals as Griffith adds three fouls and Atwill one.
Rev Herman Wennermark of Oxford Iowa was voted to lead Grace English Lutheran Church. He is expected to accept and will begin about January 1909 if he approves. A theological student from Augustana College may serve until then. Church council meets Wednesday. Luther League and Ladies Aid schedule activities next week.
Six Davenport women and six West Liberty men are named in the readable text of the notice. The Davenport group includes Miss Ruth Ringgenberg Blanche Bridges Elizabeth Cronin Agnes Wickes Pauline Bunker and Miss Anna Blair. The West Liberty contingent includes Messrs Frank Weatherly Richard Atwill Arnold Jacobsen Gail Looney Ralph Warren and Vernon Kirby.
The German-American central association met Saturday at Turner hall with only routine matters discussed. No items of importance were presented for consideration.
Oskaloosa Iowa dec 7 the foundation for the Mahaska statue by Shirley Fry is finished. A prankish plot to steal the bronze figure from Des Moines sculptor J D Edmunson involved a What Cheer youth and elk lodge members who carried the “dead Indian” five blocks before arrest. The real bronze statue cost 5000 and won top award in Paris and will be set up early next year.
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