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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1910
Page
6
Local column lists residents visiting Muscatine shopping and returning home, with notes on doctors, insurance, phonographs, and pianos. Advertised items include shoes, Chrysanthemum at Geo Kranz & Son, and vinyl phonographs with easy payment. Various names and addresses reflect lively community exchanges.
Fourteenth annual United States Live Stock Association session at Grand Pacific hotel featured papers on hog cholera by W B Niles Ames Iowa and F A Schoenleber Manhattan Kansas. Reports urged federal state cooperation for tuberculosis control and tick eradication with notes on Oklahoma cattle value gains from quarantine releases.
Adolph Rexroth entertains his brother Jake from the west while Rudy Blum and friend Mr. Lee visit from Iowa City and stay at John Maurer’s, departing with two loads of sawdust. Nearby shredding outfits operated by Proctor and Camp. The White Prairie Grange held a December 1 meeting with a bread contest won by Harriet A. Morgan at $1, second place to Mrs. Newt Lang, and third to Mrs. John Maurer.
A Wilmington reader reports severe itching and a six month rash that eased in two to three weeks after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. The testimonial notes dry hands improved, and praises the Cuticura remedies for others in the family. The notice mentions Potter Drug and Chem and a free skin disease booklet.
An advertisement touts Cuticlay as a miracle cure for various sores including ulcers and cancerous lumps. It claims instant relief after application and full cure within 24 hours, with a trial offer and mail order option. The product is sold in Chicago and listed as available in Muscatine by several local druggists.
A special meeting is set for December to discuss new candidates with a 7:30 p m start. Edward Rexroth was in the area last week. White Prairie school begins December 12 with Miss Helen Schaefer of Moline reappointed as teacher.
Dr. A E Kepford submits annual tuberculosis report with recommendations to empower counties to care for consumptives erect sanatoria widen state health authority and enforce registration and supervision. Iowa shows a 20 percent gain in controlling the white plague and Kepford lectured 4235 times to 104 522 people. Mrs J E Zimmerman travels from Lone Tree to home on East Second Street.
The Iowa Publicity Idea committee of eleven drafts a creed urging statewide promotion. The document advocates irrigation of publicity, establishment of a state bureau, growth of advertising clubs, and affiliation with the Associated Advertising Clubs of America, aiming to send a special train to Boston for the 1911 convention.
Low water in the Mississippi reduces the intake for Muscatine water tanks. Engines at Rock Island to Washington previously drank on just one supply. A hydrant hose now serves the locos, with a plan to extend a new pipe into the river to ensure constant water supply.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Balmos were held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o clock from the home of C H Rider four miles south of the city Rev E A Stodghill assisted by Dr J N Elliott conducted the services Interment was at Greenwood cemetery Pallbearers included C T McCabe Ray McCabe David Cochran Art Altekruse Will Waltz and Fred Schmaltz
Mrs. F. H. Bierman returns to Columbus Junction home Tuesday after a shopping trip in Muscatine.
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