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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1907
Page
8
Extensive work ongoing at the Kais er fire department hose house at Oregon street and Stewart Road. Painters are finishing interior decorations likely by week end with light green walls cream ceiling and cherry stained wainscoting. After cleaning and painting, fixtures will be replaced.
Harry Freeman, a well known Muscatine man, was attacked from behind in a deserted Peoria street by an unknown assailant using brass knuckles. Freeman sustained head and facial wounds requiring medical attention and fought to deter the robber before help arrived.
Moses Cantlin eighth engineer on the C. I. & 5. line died at his home in Kankakee Illinois due to ptomaine poisoning from last year. Born in Earlville thirty nine years ago he moved to Streator at fourteen and later joined the Burlington Railway becoming a fireman then engineer. He later worked for the Three and moved to Kankakee where he remained until his death.
State officers of the Order of the Eastern Star will visit Electa Chapter No 32 for a school of instruction at the Masonic hall tomorrow. Grand Worthy Matron Mrs Elizabeth Stewart of Cedar Rapids and dep uties will attend with an instructive program followed by a 6 o clock banquet and an evening initiation of candidates. Other officers include Worthy Patron Bruce Moore Iowa City and Mrs Alma Brown Pumehar Mrs Oglesbee Independence Mrs Cooley Hamburg Mrs Maggie Wiley Mason City Mrs Katherine Langworthy Dubuque Mrs Alta Sullivan Fairfield Mrs Small Des Moines Mrs Jessie Bells Davenport Mrs Emma Amos Knox ville Mrs Crooks Boone Mrs Letta Chandler Fonda and Mrs Emma Beckman Grundy Center.
An American King is praised as the great king of cures for coughs and colds. The quick safe and sure remedy is offered at 50 cents and one dollar through Havercamp's Description Drug Store.
G. E. Fell departed the city last evening bound for Fruitland following a period of local visits and social engagements.
Lisbon December 10 The opposition and monarchist factions will issue independent manifestoes to reply to attacks on prior administrations and to criticise the Franco dictatorship. Their failure to form a coalition signals a breakdown of opposition. Franco says elections will be held at end of next March.
In Pittsburg on December 10 a clash between white and black hand factions occurred in the Pennsylvania railroad wards at Eighteenth street. Joseph Sunseri, a wealthy Italian merchant and band leader, was shot three times. M Rei, alleged Black Hand member, was shot in the stomach and is expected to die.
J. J. Hintermeister left this morning for Gladwin to attend to business matters there today.
General Superintendent LM Wookerton coordinates cottage prayer meetings for tomorrow at 10 am. Rev J M Woolverton prepared the list for personal workers, detailing district by district locations and leaders from Mrs L B Settlemire to Mrs Freeze, with multiple addresses and hosts across seven districts.
This ad summarises constipation causes and promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as an affordable remedy. It claims fast, gentle relief lasting from a single dose, improves mood and energy, and dismisses harsher laxatives as ineffective. It cites Dr Wilson Brown endorsing its effectiveness for stomach and digestive issues.
District 10 through 16 leaders hold meetings at various addresses with superintendents named Mrs Ross Hurlbut and Miss Bessie Scott among others. Local citizens travel to Lone Tree Nichols Gladwin Bayfield and Primghar for visits and upcoming O E S event.
Amusements note describes a dramatic scene where the Georgia prison interior transforms to a night city via automatic mechanical means. The piece highlights originality and stagecraft in a romance. The Grand hosts Little Johnny Jones next, praised as a fast, original musical comedy by Geo. M. Cohan with a strong New York and Chicago run.
John Brackett, who has been visiting Ba Cr in Illinois, departed for Nichols last evening.
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