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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
4
The Journal invites all residents under 17 to join a one week reporting program from December 18 to December 26. Participants must collect city news, bring items to the Journal office or mail them, and earn one cent per accepted item. A cash prize will go to the top collector based on items published.
Miss Alice Moore visits Atalissa while G W Coverston hosts. W H Van Horn interviews pension board in the city. Ben Barkalow visits from Atalissa, ill but active. Ladies Missionary Society sends clothing to Capt Parry in South Dakota. Frank Lauder joins Union National Bank of Kansas City. Mrs F W Swan ill with malaria. Eddie Kealy sick with mumps. Fred Schumaker improves. Wedding planned at Pallette home on Green Street. St Marys school to hold Christmas tree. Rev J J Grieser leaves for Harper. New East Second Street house near F Dixon’s cigar factory. Miss M Halstead loses a valued cat. B Miller building a home on East Tenth Street. Mrs Crippen and daughter recover from typhoid. Miss Maud Sharrar takes a job at Sheetz’s bargain store. Miss Mamie Markman to teach German at Galesburg College, ill leave after New Year. Ebony goods marked down 25 percent at Swan’s jewelry.
Local social items note Miss May McDermott entertaining friends at a taffy pull. Others report Ed. Will traveling to attend a sale and residents updating homes and recovering from injuries, illnesses, or recent moves. Whittier day observed at Third ward school with poems and readings.
Crowds of ladies visit Hine Bros in search of the latest and most acceptable Christmas gifts for husbands fathers or brothers. See the beautiful line of offerings on display today.
A promotional note offers a mixed cream bar for ten cents per pound, inviting customers to sample the new sweet at a bargain price.
Bargain store offers a free Christmas vest with every purchase of five dollars or more. Located at 304 F. Second Street, the ad urges shoppers to hurry for the deal.
Christmas boxes filled with fresh candy from Sugar Bowl, the only candy store in Muscatine. Promotion invites customers to compare with factory made goods and notes better quality and lower price.
See our line of choice perfumes not the wishy-washy kind but full strength and lasting in attractive packages for 10c 25c 50c 75c and up. Same quality as the bulk odors at Graham's drug store. A fine line of atomizers at low prices Corner Second and Cedar streets.
Townwide plans for festive gatherings and events dominate the Muscatine social calendar as residents expect a spirited holiday season full of gatherings, dances, and community activities.
Schmidt Bros features a selection of instruments including mandolins guitars violins banjos and a range of Bibles and albums for music lovers and collectors. The shop highlights plural instruments and religious books in a compact promotional note.
D. H. Reed of T. D. Smith was attacked in a dark alley behind the Smith home on Third Street around seven Saturday evening. A highwayman swung a sano lag, Reed blocked, and the assailant fled toward the business district. Reed bears a swollen sore arm but escaped injury beyond the blow.
For Christmas Schmidt Bros announce special low prices on pianos and organs. The sale highlights affordable instruments for holiday shoppers.
Mr and Mrs Kinyon Moore welcomed a twelve pound boy born last evening at their residence on West Eighth Street. The birth adds a new member to the Moore family.
New Edison graphophone records have just arrived today at Schmidt Bros, signaling fresh stock for phonograph enthusiasts and local music buyers.
A wealthy patron urges gallery attendees for opening night to bring cushions or peanuts with shells removed. Bert Mark is expected home tomorrow evening to celebrate Christmas.
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