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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
2
A home remedy ad promotes making a pint of cough syrup from 2½ ounces of Pinex and sugar syrup for about 54 cents. It claims rapid relief for stubborn coughs, bronchitis, winter coughs, and whooping cough, with a pleasant taste and a money back guarantee.
Mrs Nan Chappel returns to Kansas City after visiting relatives in Orono and Conesville. Tom Hawkins travels to Iowa City for university hospital treatment. Leona Powell visits Bertha McCurdy. Will Hawkins and family join George Adams and family at a Columbus Jet show Saturday. Henry Masonholder and wife visit George Norris and family Sunday. Locals who went to Muscatine include Henry Colbert Mrs Cregg Shingledecker S French Will French and the Hankins family.
Iowa City Dec 9 State of Iowa vs Charles W Wolfe former Solon mayor who shot Solon Economy editor Frank Kreger twice in the chest. Wolfe rested without testifying defense cited drunkenness and delirium tremens. Jury instructed to consider verdicts of not guilty salt and battery or assault with intent to commit great bodily injury manslaughter or murder. Potential sentence ranges from 30 days to 20 years. Also report on a conference of Iowa and other states school men expected to draw 300 educators with Dr T H Macbride welcoming attendees.
Do you need a kidney remedy Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root may help kidney liver or bladder trouble It acts mild and quickly and is a physician s prescription sold in 50c and 1 00 sizes Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY offers a rate bottle by parcel post with a 10 cent note to Muscatine Daily Journal Advertisement funded request.
Leonard P Ayres of Russell Sage Foundation speaks at convention as Iowa plans two university dailies for the first time. Old Gold Publishing will issue six mornings weekly with Harold Place as editor in chief and Delos Ackley as business manager. capital stock $12 000.
Rob ert Morgan left Wapello in a Perry Roadster then rolled westward. Fifteen minutes later the car burst into flames after a spark ignited the gasoline tank. Morgan sought a fire extinguisher but the vehicle burned to a total wreck before help arrived.
Advertisement cites A. W. Morgan claiming large Adler-i-ka sales in Muscatine. One spoonful of buckthorn bark and glycerine mix relieves constipation and upset stomach. touted as powerful enough for appendicitis and said to operate within a minute. Claims safety and lack of side effects.
A national conference in Columbus, led by Gifford Pinchot, predicts rural churches are too numerous and underused. Key speakers urge interdenominational cooperation, community focus, and shared leadership to boost rural life, with attention to future citylike community churches and better local programs.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier that strengthens the system. It claims impure blood leads to disease and urges readers to buy Hood's Sarsaparilla, noting it has stood the test of forty years.
A community note highlights a church outside the parish embracing a broader faith-driven effort. The text suggests a real get-together movement among churches to remedy die condition and foster cooperative action across congregations.
The Rev. L. K. Smith urged that churchgoing is a means toward an end not religion itself and warned preachers and parishioners against drifting from the teachings of Christ. He said true religion comes by faith and that many feel religion unattainable or unrelated to daily life.
Conesville Ta December 9 Mr and Mrs Frank Westlake welcomed a son on November 30 Their first child and the first in the family brings joy to the household at Conesville.
Mrs Jane Tucker travels to Center Point to visit daughter Jennie Hill and family. Floyd McCullough and wife visited brother Glenn near Letts. Morris Stokie returns from New York. G E Pennell leaves for Childress on business trip. Criss Lacy hosts guests John Baker and family. Alex McCullough visits Muscatine. Chas Chamberland’s rheumatism improves slowly. quarantine lifts for Chas Gay family in Rock Island. Little Laurance Guettier will live with aunt Mrs A W Jones. Rev C E Ewing returns from Town City hospital. Mrs John Bowlby recuperates. W C T U to meet Dec 16 at Mrs Della Bebb’s. Arthur Reynolds closes sale near Cone. plans move to Muscatine. G L Moore travels to Chetopa Kansas regarding farm. Men’s meeting led by Prof E C Meeks reports 170 present. Jessie Dowell to read next Sunday. rally day set with sermon “Things Not in Use Become Useless” at M E Church 2 30 PM.
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