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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1906
Page
7
Local items report births, travels, and visits of residents such as Dr McNutt and Miss Pearl Fry. Graffs Pharmacy and Havercamp's Drug Store promote products. Mentions of travels to Kalona Lone Tree Montezuma Cedar Rapids and Des Moines show social rounds and business in Muscatine.
A man suggests standing before a well lighted storefront this evening and counting passersby for one hour to judge whether the window display serves as a profitable advertisement or not.
The speaker asks for a better lamp to study by, preferring gas or electric options over coal oil due to eye strain and discomfort. The message emphasizes practicality and improved lighting for reading.
To the Property Owner. Every modern house has gas and electric, is yours modern. Everyone wants to buy or rent that kind of a place.
Word reached Muscatine yesterday of the death Saturday of Dietrick Muenster in Rock Island. He leaves a wife and seven children, most in Rock Island, with funeral planned there tomorrow. East Hill notes add local visits and movements of residents and others in the area.
The Iowa Central Railway offers a holiday round trip fare to Havana Cuba on December 18 19 and 20 with return by January 9. Travel via New Orleans with Southern Pacific steamers. For rates and details contact A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
Rev. Kempton will present a stereopticon lecture at First Baptist Church on Christmas night. He will show master paintings depicting Christ’s life, with explanations, illustrating birth, childhood, and adulthood through slides. The event accompanies the church’s normal Sunday school program during Christmas week.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway plans a line from Glenham South Dakota to Butte Montana opening vast farming and stock raising country. It will pass Walworth Boreman Schnasse Hettinger Bowman Billings counties with rich black loam soil and water. Homestead lands in Butte county may be secured at Seim. Mobridge SD is the first eastbound station and a new town with a promising future has formed there.
Clarence H. Mark known as Bert Mark will give two lectures at Muscatine New Years rally at the Y M C A. He will discuss Convoy and Mining Life and Rough and Ready Life in the Rockies with travelogues and illustrated views.
Prof. F. L. Clendenin who ran the New World here calls Davenport the wickedest city and plans to leave after 15 years. He says Davenport should ban intoxicants at dances to save youth and recalls Minneapolis and St Paul as examples. He will hold a farewell adult social dance on Thursday December 27.
The North End Athletic club is organized by several young men from North Mulberry street. Heinley hall on Fifth street is rented for club use and a basketball court will be laid out for immediate practice.
Advertisement notes a 35 cent bottle of Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the ideal gift for children and the world’s greatest medicine.
The Wabash runs through sleepers from Chicago to the City of Mexico leaving Monday and Thursday nights at 11 45 p m and arriving in Mexico the third evening. Over 500 miles the shortest trip is 30 hours. Write for reduced rates and illustrated booklets at 97 Adams St Chicago.
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