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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
7
Local notices report Mrs. Edward Deer returning to Letts after shopping in Muscatine. Mrs. George Ba and Mrs. Elizabeth visit Muscatine for purchases. Mr. and Mrs. Joy depart for Seattle for three months with relatives. Anna O departing for Fairfield for funeral. Nellie Fig leaves for Walker after a relative’s death.
Dr Halstead at 124 EB 2nd St endorses temporary sale of Snyder buggies. Local residents Mrs D McKillip Mrs Lear Mrs H Austin Mrs F Dean and others return home after shopping in Muscatine Wilton Atalissa and Moscow. The piece notes shopping trips and a wedding in Moscow with Henry Sywassink family attending.
Elias J Machlan born July 24 1848 in New Cumberland Ohio came to South Muscatine at age three and died in Monmouth Illinois after leaving here last March. He worked at Roach & Musser plant for years and is survived by wife Helen Watts a son Wesley Machlan siblings L Liebhardt Sarah Rainbow Molly Betzold Anna Orr all of this city and a son in Iona Michigan. He was a Yeomen member and funeral services are at Greenwood Chapel tomorrow at 10 AM conducted by Rev. A S Henderson.Data
William M. Russ, a former well known resident of South Muscatine and former Roach & Musser plant employee, has returned from Spokane Washington and plans to relocate back to Muscatine soon. His family remains in the west but will follow when arrangements are made. The piece notes a past Northwest migration and a gradual return to old homes in Muscatine.
George Vetter of 312 Angle Street, South Muscatine, returned from the Cranston area along the Milwaukee cut-off with an exceptionally fine red fox. Foxes are rare in this region, making the quarry notable for local hunters.
John Harris and his sixteen year old wife quarrelled over living arrangements. She claims she was ejected from Harris' mother's home, prompting her to have him jailed for non support. He posted $250 bond pending action.
Peter Romann and Charles Schroeder roam today in search of game. The Aid Society of Musserville M. E. Church met at Mrs William Johnsons on Bleeker Street and sewed one hundred gross of buttons. George Elfers visited Grandview. The Home Missionary Society of the Friends church met with Mrs Edward Owens on Wallace Street. Mrs John Kendig of Oregon Street endures pain from injuries.
The ad asserts that taking Pape's Cold Compound every two hours for three doses will cure grippe or break up severe colds with relief by the first dose. It claims elimination of headache neuralgia fever sneezing and nasal congestion without quinine and notes a 25 cent price.
Mrs. Lucretia Howard of 1005 Oregon Street is bedridden with a sprained ankle and grip. In Seventy-Six township, three Butsler children are ill with unknown sickness and one shows scarlet fever signs, with another possibly in early stages.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a preventive against croup. It claims the product wards off attacks and reduces danger and anxiety, noting thousands of mothers use it successfully. Sold by all dealers.
West Liberty Iowa weekly notes report Ed Rock and wife visiting Davenport to see daughter Mrs B Gheen. Local residents host a happy clothes-pin party with about thirty five guests on North Columbus street. Several residents shop in Davenport and IA City. The Fortnightly Literary society meets December 19 at I A Nichols home. Ivan Nolan is ill at home on West Fifth street this week.
John Park of Reynolds elected president of Rock Island County Farmers Institute. Reynolds chosen as 1911 meeting site. Officers named: Secretary Frank Barrington, Treasurer W G Groh, Executive Committee W S McCullough, Paul Ketsel, John Fife. Mrs Billings returns home from Muscatine.
Schools dismiss on December 23 for a short Christmas break. Students and hundreds of teachers rally in Muscatine public schools with morning sessions and afternoon Christmas programs in every room. Kindergartens focus on Kriss Kringle verses as music and original student pieces fill the holiday atmosphere.
Columbus Junction Ia December 14 Mrs W F Hall hosted a 6 oclock dinner with guests Mr and Mrs Frank Van Horn Cotter Mr and Mrs F Daniels and Miss Ella Stonebarger Mrs A L Gookin from Ainsworth visited her daughter Miss Georgia at the W S Hystop home in the country. Guy McCormick age 14 suffered a serious riding accident Sunday when a horse halted at a wire fence throwing him unconscious then dazed and bruised, kept in bed for two days.
Advert says kidney and bladder troubles fearfully threaten sufferers but Dr Derby's Kidney Pills offer aid. Claims back pains Brights disease diabetes rheumatism relief, with 60 pills ten days treatment for 25 cents and free samples via Derby Medicine Co Eaton Rapids Michigan.
The Louisa county Farmers Institute opens a three day session in Wapello Iowa with a corn and poultry show in the Guthrie and Edwards building on Second Street. Premiums exceed 700 dollars, no entry fee for grain. The program features papers on highways duties hogs poultry and county officials with moving pictures and student programs.
A Bristol Tennessee man reports two years of constipation relieved after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Thos E Williams of Middlesboro Kentucky says two packages cured him and the product is available from all dealers.
Mr and Mrs E H Hildebrand left Cedar Valley Iowa on Wednesday morning heading to Beatrice Nebraska to visit indefinitely.
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