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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
5
Col Benjamin Beach, overseer of the poor, says the cold snap increases demand as new families seek aid. About 60 families receive monthly sums from $4 to $8, totaling roughly $50 yearly per family, with last year’s budget overdrawn and similar strain this year. A case moved to Louisa County led to cross county billing.
Letters recount health before and after using Postum Food Coffee and describe county relief efforts. A woman credits Postum with rebuilding her nervous system and energy while others discuss poverty, transients, and county funds. Col Beach praised for aiding the poor in Muscatine.
Muscatine's Federation of Women's Clubs plans to establish two rest rooms in the new Y M C A building to serve strangers and visitors. The rooms would be near the south side and offered with lunches at cost, run by a rotating lady in charge each day. The effort, coordinated with the Y M C A, aims to provide a convenient meeting and resting place for locals and travelers.
The Young Ladies Missionary Society of the First Congregational Church met at the Misses Baird home on West Fourth Street. The program included scripture reading, prayers, secretary and treasurer reports, news from India and Turkey, a reading on Mrs. Tsilka's conversion, and a banquet praised for its abundant food and hospitality.
A warning describes how minor sores such as boils burns blisters warts or pimples can start cancerous ulcers. It warns there is no difference between cancerous and common ulcers at onset and stresses that only purified blood can halt progression, as external salves fail to affect the deadly germs in the blood.
Mr Jno Massie of Owensboro Kentucky describes a blister on his nose that grew into a painful ulcer. After using S. S. S. he reports the cancer began to shrink and the discharge stopped, bringing relief from the disease.
In Muscatine the Sheridan Circle of the King's Daughters leads rooms and aims to boost local trade by attracting country shoppers from Illinois and nearby districts. Merchants back the move as beneficial to town and out-of-town visitors, with action expected at an early federation meeting. A $400 piano donation to Musser library highlights the group’s impact alongside contemplated homeseeker excursions offered by the Iowa Central railway.
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