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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1908
Page
7
A health advertisement touts Kodol as a full digester to cure dyspepsia. It claims rest for the stomach, describes symptoms like sour stomach belching and heartburn, and offers a money back guarantee with a large bottle test. The copy notes lab origins in Chicago and urges readers to buy through druggists.
An area real estate office advertises full service for homes including sale rent and homeowners insurance. The note emphasizes convenience for buyers and owners seeking bundled housing solutions.
Local notices report Frank Bowman offering buggies for four fifty a load with cash on delivery. Several residents from Letts Nichols Columbus Junction Winfield and New Salem Ill visit Muscatine. A nurses benefit for Hershey Memorial hospital is held at the Presbyterian church with a 50 cent admission.
The piece advocates Samose as a flesh forming food to help thin people gain weight and strength. It claims rapid digestion, muscle build, and Health restoration, with Havercamp the druggist offering a money back guarantee if no benefit is seen. The tone promises dramatic improvement for the thin and run-down.
Last night the Kaiser Hose company held its annual meeting at the hose house with a large crowd in attendance. Elected officers include President T. W. Holmes, Vice President A. Seltzer, Recording Secretary Geo Carpenter, Financial Secretary John Freese, Treasurer Ed Wilhite, Foreman Henry Umlandt, First Assistant Foreman Wm. Custer, Second Assistant Foreman Henry Sylvester, and Standing Committee member for five years Thomas Raynor.
Miss Rosetta Wagner, Muscatine's popular vocalist now residing here, was praised by the Burlington Hawkeye after appearing in two numbers at a Burlington Musical Club concert. Her selections included The Sweet of the Year Die Nacht and Freuhlingzeit, with Farewell Ye Hills from Joan d Arc as her feature piece.
It claims Zem o cleans skin by drawing germs and toxins to the surface and destroying them. The advertisement asserts instant relief and permanent cure for all skin or scalp diseases with samples available from E. W. Rose Medicine Co. St. Louis and sale through A. W. Morgan 107 W. 2nd St.
Dr J E Currier reports a new cure for eczema tetter ringworm and related skin ailments using pure citrox dissolved in hot water twice daily. He cites rapid results with a hand tetter cleared in a week and a pustular back condition healed in two weeks, noting freshness and proper packaging.
Gene Harris of Morning Sun arrived Saturday from Sweetland Center where relatives and friends were visited. Charlies Bergen returned to Muscatine Sunday night from Davenport where he spent the day with friends.
An 8100 reward accompanies claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures all stages of catarrh through constitutional treatment. The ad asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promises testimonials, and offers $100 to prove any failure to cure. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Final arrangements for a benefit concert tonight at the First Presbyterian church under the Muscatine Graduate Nurses association benefit the Benjamin Hershey Memorial hospital. Mrs F H Little directs a strong local program with about five hundred tickets sold. Committees include head ushers Drs F H Little and E H Kine and decoration and ticket groups led by Carolyn Dean Anita Stapella F L Appel and May Howard.
The semi annual election of officers for the Muscatine Trades and Labor Assembly will be held the evening of January 4, 1909, following the December session. Several new unions were formed and further developments are expected at the January assembly.
Mrs. Agnes Sechierman of Nichols left her home today after spending a week in Muscatine with the Keifern family on East Fifth Street.
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad will begin a large four block switch in East Hill in about two weeks. A labor force will be dispatched to this city to rush the project. The switch will run from the Western branch, cross Oak street, along the alley between Oak and Fourth, and end at the Huttig warehouse at Oak and Third. It will be used jointly by Huttig Manufacturing Pioneer Button and Empire City Button.
Mary Lewis wife of D W Lewis longtime Muscatine educator died Sunday at her Pasadena home. Formerly Mary J Hamilton of Washington Iowa she is survived by husband and daughter Pauline of Pasadena. Interment in Pasadena East Hill. The Lewises long connected to Muscatine school work visited here last in 1900.
An Iowa woman reports rapid relief from back pain after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Rheumatism. The ad promotes the pills as a cure for rheumatic kidney symptoms and offers a free blood diseases booklet.
M Gee of Richmond returned home after a week with East Hill relatives. Mrs William Daut went to Iowa City after visiting her daughter Mrs Glen Ashton on East Second street. Nellie McGill opens fall term at Moscow. Hattie Bielefeld, on an extended western tour, resides with Maude Young Burke in Los Angeles. Mr and Mrs D D Doty visit Marshalltown and nearby towns.
A life problem solved by a great health tonic Electric Bitters claimed to enrich poor thin blood and strengthen the weak. 59c Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Delayed reports from Wapello Iowa note Miss Helen Hartman visiting Muscatine relatives. The Wapello Tribune lists officers elected for Derexa Rebekah Lodge and details a busy week of visits, pipe layers departing for Bloomington, and waterworks nearing operation with school vacation planned.
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