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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
7
Local notes mention Mrs. Austin pancake flour in town and other brief items. D. W. Watkins comes in on the Firefly and visits friends. Various local ads list toilet sets, carriages, laxatives, candies, oysters, and jewelry stores. Regular assembly of Webb Council No. 18, R. A. M., set for December 20 with officer elections and conferring degrees.
The Roach and Musser Sash and Door company will keep its South Muscatine plant shut for about two weeks as extensive overhaul and stock rearrangements proceed. Opening is set for the day after New Years but may slip to the following Monday as work continues. About 60 workers remain, with office staff and foremen, as the facility is scrupulously overhauled and inventories updated.
Advertises Dr King’s New Discovery as a quick cure for dangerous coughs colds and sore throats sold at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store with guarantees and price 50 cents or one dollar.
Mrs. Leo Meyer of Muscatine county files a petition in district court at Iowa City contesting her father's will. She claims the estate valued at 45000 dollars was bequeathed to others and that she, the sole child not named, receives no share.
The article touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers one hundred dollars for any case it can’t cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, with 5 cent pills also advertised.
A humorous quip notes that time passes cheerfully at a man’s club but alone with a baby the man views the woman’s club as a nuisance, reflecting social stereotype and domestic comedy.
Readers are urged to mix a home vegetable prescription praised by pharmacists. The mixture uses Milid Extract Dandelion, Compound Kargon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla with instructions to take a teaspoon after meals and at bedtime.
The Davenport German Theater Company presented Modern Servants at Grand Opera House to a fine audience of Muscatine Germans. The farce drew praise for humor and acting, with four more performances planned.
A Sunday evening Christmas program at Grace English Lutheran Church features a large choir, school groups, and Sunday school classes performing songs recitations and hymns. The program includes multiple scripture lessons and a pastor address on Christmas and Christian education with the audience invited to attend.
The regular monthly council session convenes this evening to consider a petition for Alice Drury in a city suit over damages paid to Mary Peterson after a fall on an imperfect sidewalk near Drury’s home. Routine matters, officer reports, and a committee note on Shafit property and Stewart and Giesler factory issues are expected.
A newspaper note contrasts old home remedies for coughs and lung colds with a modern BromO Cough Remedy package including a plaster and cough mixture. The druggist says the plasters loosen congestion like goose grease and turpentine, with the package costing 59 cents or 60 cents with the plaster free.
A school board event included a hymn titled Joy to the World, a congregational reception for gifts from scholars, distribution of gifts, and a concluding benediction.
County Auditor Lawrence and assistants finalize the Muscatine county tax report detailing total taxes at 250 894.40 dollars. Township taxes compose 219 746.16 dollars while 31 148.24 dollars come from railroads telegraphs telephones and express companies.
An old advertisement urges readers to heal enemies of ongoing wounds with Bucklen’s Amica Salve priced at 25 cents. Sold with a guarantee at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
Open round trip rate of one and one third fare available on Rock Island and Frisco systems. Tickets on December 20 21 22 23 24 25 40 and 31 1906 and January 1 1907 return until January 7. W S Unerdenk Agent.
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