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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
2
The narrative details complex family ties around Mr and Mrs John Orgain and their daughter in Richmond. It outlines how marriage creates a web where in laws become relatives by multiple connections, including grandmother, sister, aunt, and brother in law roles within the extended family.
In Richmond Virginia on December 15, John Barbour Orgain plans to marry Miss Sallie Bell Yancey. The ceremony will create a tangle of kinship as Orgain’s brother Paul married Mrs. Yancey, the widow of a local merchant. Thus the bride’s mother becomes sister by marriage to her daughter and the groom becomes the brother of his mother-in-law.
The text traces tangled relations involving Stuart Jones, a private clerk to Virginia judges, his wife a daughter of Paul Orgain, and a sister of Mrs John Orgain, with questions about exact ties to the Orgain family causing family anxiety.
Michael Corcoran a 65 year old widower and Griggsville property owner was found dead on his farm with three bullet holes. The murder is a mystery as valuables were untouched and no enemies are known. Albert Schelskie has been missing from near here four weeks after a short marriage. Authorities search for him but no clues found.
Miss Mamie B. Martin of Mattoon won 2500 dollars in the circuit court against Louis Kuhle a wealthy farmer for breaking a promise to marry and marrying another person in Centria.
A historical testimonial touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a tonic for tired women and female weakness. It claims the product supports vitality, with Mrs Ira W Holmes Cedar Rapids Iowa endorsing its efficacy and a physician noting reverence for its effects.
Dr. A. A. Petersen of Chicago arrives in Muscatine bringing high professional credentials and plans to open renovated offices at 129 W. 2nd Street above Jacksons store. He will offer complex operations to meet the city’s dental needs and is expected to attract patients from the area.
Miss Mag gie White of Grand Junction 30 tall dark and slender left Cedar Rapids Nov 19 for Solon and has not been seen since authorities seek clues in the missing person case.
Sixty Beloit business men at a Six Yeclock club dinner at Goodwin House saw $325 looted from the hotel safe. The thief, a hotel employee, summoned a watchman to guard the empty box and then left town. Seven people are reported dead in the Dunkirk fire at Fredonia State Normal and Training School with $290000 in losses.
An old patent remedy promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold within a day. The ad claims refunds if it fails and features E. W. Grove's signature on each box.
Silas Vernooy of Wawarsing New York reports his daughter suffered scrofula sores across face and head. After six bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla the sores healed and never returned, illustrating the remedy’s claimed permanent relief across ages.
Classic patent medicine claim touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure all. The advertisement urges readers to ask their druggist today and not accept substitutes.
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