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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1914
Page
5
Weak kidneys cause backache rheumatism and urine issues due to inability to filter poisons. Foley Kidney Pills claim to cure by rebuilding vital organs with natural restorative ingredients, providing tonic action without harmful drugs. Sold by all druggists.
The Iowa State College agricultural short course at Ames is cancelled due to foot and mouth disease in parts of Iowa. Engineering, dairy manufacturing, and nonagricultural extension courses continue as planned, with county quarantines guiding date cancellations.
Iowa City report details Mrs. Henry Stelling, 40, wife of a university building clerk, drinking four ounces of carbolic acid at her bedside after buying it as a disinfectant. Disrobed, she lay down as if sleeping. husband found her body hours later. Other dispatches note a Davenport-born sister of a priest, local gas discovery reports, and Johnson County Fate association activities and fair support for 1914-15 northern Iowa region.
Sage Tea and Sulphur compound restores natural color and lustre to faded gray hair. The home mix is easy with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur from drug stores for about 50 cents. Apply with a sponge or brush, darkening hair naturally by morning and after additional applications.
A. Lewits of Cleveland and a fellow worker survived serious injuries after a 16 foot scaffold fall at the Town university gymnasium construction. Both men were initially feared fatally hurt but now recover without complications, Lotis returning home soon. Lumbermen meet in Iowa City for 1915 convention with Ayers as president concert and entertainment planned.
Local railroad officials expect added passenger trains on the Missouri division of the Rock Island for through service between Chicago and the southwest within weeks. Winter tourism and the Panama Exposition opening in February are cited as reasons for increased demand, with plans for better service between Chicago and California and improved connections via St Paul to Kansas City.
Parish members at Fairport church express gratitude for a supper served at the Fairport biological station on Friday evening. The event, held in the week’s end, drew appreciated support and positive feedback from attendees.
Muscatine Lodge No. 34 BPOE held a memorial ceremony at the Grand Theatre Sunday with 32 empty chairs bearing the names of departed brothers. Reverend Webster Hales gave the prayer, Joseph Auls led the ritual, and a quartet performed as Sherman T. Mears of Waterloo delivered the memorial address.
A reader supplied fragment suggests a soap advertising line referencing Ivory Soap and a chilly western setting. The text hints at a marketing tagline or copy concept without complete sentence structure or context. No explicit event or date is provided.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets present a milder alternative to harsh laxatives. The ad promotes their olive color and suggests taking one or two tablets to ease bowel, liver, or stomach discomfort. Priced at 10c or 25c per box, available through Olive Tablet Co. of New York.
A speaker described fraternal values and the bond among members, noting friendship, charity, and brotherly love as core to the order. He highlighted how associations with high-minded men deepen character and honor the memory of deceased members, urging lifelong practice of these ideals.
Two Sunday services at First Baptist church marked Rev. J W Graves’s absence in Des Moines for Billy Sunday revival meetings. Morning Sunday school rallied all departments, then scholars marched to the auditorium for a concert program led by Superintendent Carl C Schnide, with a notably large turnout.
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