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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1902
Page
7
Directory of short items reports arrivals departures births and travel reminders. Entries include Clyde Barnard leaving for Chester Ill Henry F Jones and Sam Logan new sons Gertrude Howe visiting Bayfield as she teaches in winter session Chicago Florida railway service to Florida resumes Jan 5 1903 and several medical cures and local visits with mentions of Miss Della Greer Miller Riggs and others.
A Muscatine library guide lists popular titles across departments since opening last February. It highlights Abbott Rights of Man Cheiro Language of the Hand Hall Papias and His Contemporaries and biographies by Higginson and Stephen among favorites, with juvenile selections and a note on Max Heinrich's acclaimed song recital at the Grand with Mrs. Amalia Schmidt Gobble.
A Burlington Journal reader suggests a woman described in Sperry near Burlington may be the same person seen between Muscatine and Davenport. The woman, calling herself Mrs. Allen, reportedly left a Sperry residence at night to avoid a board bill and planned to meet a friend to travel to Hartford Connecticut.
Today Catholic churches nationwide celebrate the Immaculate Conception with services similar to Sunday. Catholics not required to work observe the day, and services were held in both city churches.
A legal style notice from multiple signatories promises refunds on Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar, a 50 cent bottle and a 25 cent bottle for cough and cold relief. Names listed include G. A. Riemcke N. B. Barkalow Nesper & Coe and Jno Havercamp J Theo Keuchman.
In the Business College main auditorium on Saturday afternoon a basketball game saw the high school team defeat the college team by 30 to 1 in favor of the high school players.
In a summer incident Mrs Jennie Dunn and her brother Arthur planned a 530 p m New York Central departure to Detroit from Hotel Cadillac. A misread watch led to missing the train. Kendall blamed the watch and recalled gifting it in Pittsburgh fifteen years prior. The Kendalls were furious at the time discrepancy.
Public sale of standard and fashionably bred trotters at West Liberty on Tuesday December 23 1902 featuring horses such as Senator N 2 25 Silver Spray 2 27 4 Baron Wilkes 2 18 Idol Bezant D Bezant Rule 2 33 Entertainer 2 30 Stowaway 2 19 Cautaumet Trial 2 21 Gameleon 2 12 514 Red Downey Catalogues available by December 10 Apply S Armstrong Son West Branch Ia or Albert Whitacre West Liberty Iowa.
A big Muscatine area delegation visited the Chicago stock show last week. Nichols residents listed include B. L. Metcalf Mr and Mrs T B Nichols Miles Doran Mrs Wm Black Miss Margaret Nicola and George Nicola.
Miss Anna Kincaid arrived home this morning from Davenport where she spent Sunday at the home of her brother Frank Kincaid.
An old advertisement portrays sisterly affection and urges young women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menstrual difficulties and uterine complaints. It claims to restore health, dissolve tumors in early stages, and prevent cancerous humors while inviting letters from young girls.
In a New York Herald excerpt, friends discuss a widow’s strong will to cope after her husband’s death. They debate her future, including inheritance, remarriage, and social duties, noting family entailed income and potential changes if she remarries. The dialogue ends with plans to comfort her once the minister visits.
Connolly, who knew prizefighting from experience, was knocked around in the second round and groggy at the finish. His second urged him to brace up and stop the blows. Connolly asked if any blows got through. New York Times report.
Mrs. Torkins claims a bargain after buying poker chips at 75 cents for a large lot she says are worth a dollar each, as recounted in the Washington Star.
The Iowa Central railway offers homeseeker excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of November December January February March and April 1903. Rates are one far a plus $2.00 for round trip, tickets valid 21 days from sale. Inquiries to any Iowa Central ticket agent or A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
Will Downer of Denver arrives in the city Saturday night from a business trip to Chicago. Mrs Downer visits at her parents home, Mr and Mrs George Hawley, on East Hill.
A woman named Mrs. Wm Thompson was a passenger traveling this morning to Columbus Junction.
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