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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
10
The Boston Store promotes Christmas furs for children in sets or scarfs priced from $1 to $10 and up to $10 per set, in colors like white brown grey and black. It backs sheer lawn embroidered handkerchiefs with many patterns at 15c to 25c and a thousand sold from 1c to $3.00, plus bulk discounts for dozen or half dozen.
Advertises yardage of silks in various colors and patterns for weddings receptions and evening wear. Highlights include 500 yard plain colored silks checks and fancies, large black and white checks seven inch wide and reduced prices on 36 inch black silk and imported black oil boiled silk.
Finest jackets 50 cts on the dollar baby coats $1.00 girls coats $1.50 misses coats $2.50 long girls jackets $3.00 ladies 50 inch jackets $3.98 to $15.00 with many reductions. Also a large selection of books from E P Roe Kipling Dickens Thackeray and others in deep price cuts for all ages.
A Chicago orphan's home offers a holiday sale with box stationery from 20c to 50c and up to 1 box for a dollar. Gold rings for babies and ladies range from 15c to 150c, belts from 25c to 3 dollars, garters from 10c to 1, neckwear 25c to 1.50, dolls and books priced for children, and a wide assortment of vanity and clothing items.
Readers are urged to place orders for Christmas trees at Braun's bakery. Barnard's jewelry store opens tonight at 213 E Second St. Various residents travel to Davenport Bloomington Park Ridge for visits and business. Hirt & Fesler advertise silver and gifts while Nesper's Drug Store carries Gunther's candies and Dabrook's end Wright's perfumes.
Commentary dismisses a dark store as unlikely to win, contrasting it with a dark horse that has a better chance. The phrase suggests skepticism about the dark store’s prospects and implies a belief that underdog status favors a traditional dark horse.
Cedar Rapids hosts the state high school champions in a late evening game at the M C A arena. Admission 25 cents.
The bricklayers union met in regular session at A. O. U. W. hall and elected officers for the ensuing year. President John Beckey. Vice President William Cromer. Secretary and Treasurer William Blatterthwaite. Deputy William Blassing Jr.. Alternate Deputy Theodore Soll. Doorkeeper L. B. Wooke. No other business of importance was conducted.
A C Johnston representing Klaw and Erlanger is in Dubuque evaluating sites for a new opera house. He says the trust will build a handsome structure. The Grand Opera House is owned by Bradley and Tate heirs and not part of the trust.
Bold claim from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store pitches Electric Bitters as a guaranteed cure for stomach back or bowel discomfort priced at 506 cents.
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