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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1902
Page
7
Short community notices list investments for sale, visits from Davenport and Chicago, students returning home for holidays, and health patent medicine pitches. Names include Mrs W E Battey, Kemble Bros, Henry Wasserman, Dr Wood, Miss Gertrude Legler, J J Legler, Edna Giesler, Mrs Oscar Paulin, George W Worrall, J B Miller, Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil, Dean's Ointment, Sewell Negus funeral near Sweetland.
The Muscatine City Council met with the mayor and all alders present. Petitions urged street cleaning and new sidewalks on Kaiser avenue and Fulham avenue. Water drainage and ground wire thefts prompted discussion and delays. Reports showed arrests 95 for month, fines $212.05, city treasury balance $39,623.58. The Fourth street foot bridge was completed and fire limits extended.
Rev George W Draper of Danville Illinois credits Nervine for a complete recovery from breakdown and nervous trouble after ineffective cures. Miss Josephine Kern of Galena Illinois reports relief from nervous derangement and heart trouble using Restorative Nervine, Heart Cure and Nerve and Liver Pills. Sold by all druggists with a free book from Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
Two cups Falcon Self Rising Pancake Flour mix with one cup milk two eggs one tablespoonful sugar and butter the size of a walnut. Mix thoroughly before adding flour. Falcon Self Rising Pancake flour sold by M W Wheeler C B Fuller W S Hill Geo W Reuling Otto & Son D McCurdy J H St John Van Gent & Kobes.
A child named Alice Lee from Fredonia Iowa writes to Santa Claus asking for Christmas gifts including nuts candy a go cart for a doll with parasol a small broom and two handkerchiefs. The note is printed in the newspaper column inviting Santa’s attention.
Hints by May Manton presents a perforated front dip skirt with slot seams as a fashionable feature for the season. The illustrated skirt suits cloth, canvas, cheviot, and skirting fabrics, using mixed canvas cheviot with black corticelli silk and nine gores with inverted plaits meeting a stitched flat to the flounce depth.
The gown features free stitched plaits at the back forming graceful flare with inverted plaits pressed flat. Closing may be at the center or right plait underfold. Edges join to belt or follow dip outline and binding. Yardage varies by fabric width and figure or nap.
An old coupon offers a single pattern in any size. Readers fill in size name and address detach and mail with 10 cents to cover mailing or processing expenses to the Pattern Dept at the Muscatine Journal.
Reading Company officials warned there will be no relief from the coal shortage this winter. They noted normal winter demand exceeds production, with no coal in storage points and consumers relying solely on daily mine output.
The undersigned guarantee a refund on a 50 cent Greene’s Warranted Syrup bottle if it fails to cure cough or cold. A 25 cent bottle is also offered with satisfaction or money back. Signatories include G. A. Riemcke N. B. Barkalow Nesper & Co. Jno J. Havercamp and J Theo Keuchman.
At the annual Lampson sale of Alaska sealskins in London demand was strong and prices realized rose about 25 percent from last year.
The article notes that the lower jaw is very loosely connected to the skull, making it prone to dislocation from simple actions such as yawning.
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