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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1915
Page
7
A local notice lists a Presbyterian turkey dinner from 5 to 7 on December 15 and an insurance ad for Mark and Son. It also notes Miss Jacqueline Baldwin of 257 Bartlett Street leaving Saturday afternoon for West Liberty to visit her parents.
A health note advocates drinking a glass of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels, banish dullness and bad breath, and improve appetite and appearance. The ad claims the remedy is inexpensive and can relieve biliousness constipation stomach trouble rheumatism, promising noticeable benefits shortly.
Mrs. Ed Grayson of Washington, and Miss Beulah Iliason visiting in this city with relatives during weekends. Margaret Castell and son from Wilton shopped here. Rheefa Weeks from Atalissa was a business visitor, returning by afternoon train. Eunice Wymer and granddaughter Iris Sharar of 13 East Second St visited relatives at Summit. A. G. Burger and Margaret Slattery left for Iowa City to visit relatives. Paul Geibel and family traveled to Osgood Indiana after death in the Geibel family. Edna Korn of South English, studying at Northwestern University, briefly visited en route home. Mrs. Henry Held came for her mother Louise Heid’s funeral and visited at 407 West Seventh Street.
On Monday December 20 1915 at 11 o'clock a m the undersigned Will sell the real estate of the late Abraham H Fisher in South Muscatine a 36 acre improved farm with truck land a good room dwelling with outbuildings nearly an acre and a fine 5 room house and lot on Sampsons Street Holcomb's Addition All three properties are in excellent condition and will be sold for cash to the highest bidder at the Court House door Referee FLW Eyeremeyer
The Interstate Commerce Commission calls for early enlargement of its membership and explicit authority to access carrier files, plus stronger measures on railroad capitalization. It urges steel cars in passenger trains, bans wooden cars in front of steel cars, and higher penalties for hours violations. The annual report reviews field surveys, track conditions, and safety rule standardization, noting increased derailments and urging federal action. It covers budgets, valuations, and ongoing railroad surveys, with plans to complete major mileage reviews by 1916.
Mrs John Y T Matthews dies after nervous collapse in Des Moines Retreat Sanatorium. Funeral held at 2 pm from her Washington residence. Born 1868 in Fisher farm West Chester she taught in local schools before marriage to John T Matthews in 1890. Survived by two sons Harvey in Iowa Falls and John Jr. siblings Fleming Fisher, Maggie Wolfe, Anna Colver, F C Shinnabarger, and O M Cavin.
A Muscatine mass meeting will hear a report from a committee evaluating the city manager form of government. Rev J W Graves argues for active civic involvement in politics and democracy while Des Moines officials discuss commission government and its potential applicability to Muscatine under a special charter.
Washington D C December 13 The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage held its annual convention here with delegates from twenty three anti suffrage groups in attendance. Mrs Arthur M Dodge of New York presided as opening session featured by a letter read from Mrs Robert Tansing wife of the secretary of state.
In Berlin on December 13 a report from the Overseas News Agency states German inventors have devised a method to produce synthetic rubber. A Sayville wireless dispatch notes that Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg announced the breakthrough to the Reichstag, and the Frankfurter Zeitung confirms a factory later succeeded in making artificial tires that will wear about a year.
John W Poster a former secretary of state opposes woman suffrage highlighting a notable political stance from a veteran public official. The brief notes his opposition within a broader debate on voting rights and gender equality.
Greasy salves should not be used for clear skin. From any druggist, 25c or 1.00 for extra large, get a bottle of Zemo. Applied as directed, it removes eczema, stops itching, heals skin troubles, sores, burns, wounds and chafing. It penetrates, cleanses and soothes. Zemo is dependable and inexpensive. Try it. Zemo, Cleveland.
Druggists promote Schiffmanns New Concentrated Expectorant with money back guarantee. The home remedy claims eight times as much medicine as old fashioned preparations, no narcotics, pleasant for children, and includes a buy with confidence offer from R. J. Schiffmann of St. Paul Minnesota.
Iowa assistant attorney general John Fletcher issued an opinion to Al Falkenhainer of the Iowa Pharmaceutical association declaring malted milk drinks, when prepared commercially as a powder and mixed with fresh milk, ice cream, and water at soda fountains, do not contain alcohol and thus do not violate prohibitory laws. He notes fermentation could occur if mixed and left standing but fresh consumption avoids alcohol. The opinion also affirms patent medicines containing alcohol may be sold if used medicinally and not as a beverage, and discusses proper handling of alcohol in drugstores for chemical or pharmaceutical purposes with limits on on-hand quantities. Maud M Edge denies desertion in her answer to J N Edge’s divorce petition.
An advertisement touts Jad Salts as a safe, inexpensive kidney cleanser. It urges readers to drink abundant water and take four ounces of Jad Salts in water each morning to flush kidneys, reduce irritation, and prevent bladder weakness.
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