Local Muscatine Market and Social Notes Highlight Christmas Prep
A long list of city notices covers business moves and arrivals including Battey jeweler relocation at 120 West Second and I Nievel & Son diamond offerings. Various residents and visitors are noted with train arrivals, marriage license issued to John B. Boggs and Emma C. Hintz, and numerous shop specials, holiday goods, and promotions from Scheetz’s, Liebbrand Ryan & Co, and Nesper’s drug store. Additional items mention opera preparations, U S Express office activity, and Blue Jeans company plans for December 27 Grand show.
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J. M. Butler
U. S. Express
U. S. Express Co
John
Journal
Chas. W. Roberts
Blue Jeans
Roberts
Muscatine
Calendar Gift With Every Dollar Purchase in 1901
Herm Gremmel offers a handsome 1901 calendar with every $1.00 purchase. The ad touts the finest line of cigars in the city and invites customers to shop now.
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Herm. Gremmel
You Can Never Again Buy These Cheap Saturday Sale
Schmidt and Bros announce limited market sale offering toilets manicure sets and bibles at unusually low prices on Saturday and Monday.
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Schmidt & Bros
Ludwig Piano Guaranteed For Lifetime at Schmidt Bros
A Ludwig piano is advertised as guaranteed for a lifetime at Schmidt Brothers store. The listing promotes durability and long term value for buyers seeking a reliable instrument.
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Schmidt Bros
Pharmacy guarantees refund on cough remedy bottles
A signed agreement promises refunds for Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar for coughs or colds. It also offers a 25 cent bottle to prove satisfaction or money refunded. Names listed include G. A. Reinicke and associates Nesper & Co. J. Theo Keuchman W. B. Barkalow and Jno. J. Havercamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Reinicke
Nesper & Co
J. Theo Keuchman
W. B. Barkalow
Jno
J. Havercamp
Schmidt Bros Offers Christmas Gift Picks Soon Gone
Short notice holiday sale highlights two remaining shopping days Saturday and Monday. Schmidt Bros presents a range of attractive articles ideal for Christmas gifts.
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Schmidt Bros
Neckties Going Fast at Hine Bros Christmas Sale
Christmas goods are selling quickly with neckties described as hot items. Shoppers are urged to hurry to Hine Bros to grab remaining stock before it ends.
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Hine Bros
Local Shop Ads and Notices Highlight Sales and Events
A collage of commerce notes and social updates lists sales on handkerchiefs perfumes and bed spreads at Liebbrand Ryan & Co Hartman Ellman and Havercamp with prices and product variety. Other items include real estate offers a 2100 house and lot from Titus & Jackson and loan services from Guarantee Loan Co. plus a Christmas concert notice and a farm visit report from J J Duncan at Columbus Junction.
Bond's Free Candy Event for Youth Tonight
A local notice invites boys and girls to Bond's to receive a free candy package with a guardian present this evening or tomorrow. The event emphasizes youth participation and parental accompaniment.
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M. N. Bond
Bond’s
Doll Sale Promises Closeout Prices This Week
A shopping notice announces a doll sale with emphasis on closing out all stock this week and urging customers not to miss the low prices at Willaway’s.
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Willaway’s
Van Gent's Offers Mixed Nuts and Candy Bargains
Rustycoat apples mixed candy priced at 2 tb for 15c. Choice mixed nuts listed at 15c per pound at Van Gent's.
Dressed turtle and cranberries advertised with cider
Dressed turtle, cranberries, sweet and boiled cider advertised with a contact phone and a street address at 128 W. 2nd St. in a terse local notice style.
Homemade Cream Bar Candy Special
Christmas candy line offers special home made cream bar mixed available for only 10 cents per pound. Fred Leu Jr promotes the seasonal treat.
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Fred Leu, Jr
Baskets Sold At Low Prices In Local Store
Waste paper baskets priced at 25c and 30c. Sewing baskets in all shapes priced from 10s and 23c. Large tripod baskets 10c. Plain baskets to be lined 10c. Fancy interwoven color baskets priced 23c.
Boys Cause Fire By Pushing Oskaloosa Street Cars
A group of boys in Oskaloosa pushed two horse cars down a hill causing a head on collision that destroyed the cars and lit oil lamps. The fire department doused nearby buildings and debris as the cars burned. No street cars will run until spring when an electric line is installed.
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Oskaloosa
Bargain Store Hires Extra Help for Big Trade
People flock to the People's Bargain Store on 204 East 2nd St to take advantage of a sales push with a free vest offered with every $5 purchase and a rush of customers forcing additional staff to handle the demand.
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People’s
East 2Nd St
Deutschman Crockery Store Offers New China and Dishes
New supply of fancy salad and fruit dishes arrives at Deutschman Crockery Store with new Haviland china and broken dinner sets advertised at low prices. Banquet lumps available from 75 cents to 7 dollars.
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Haviland
Deutschman Crockery Store
Sugar Bowl Candy Pricing Board Listing
A catalog of candy prices showing Candy Canes at 5, 10, 15, 20 cents and Mixed Nuts at 15 cents. Boxes priced 15, 20, 25, 40, 50 and 60 cents. Mixed Candy made in house priced from 10 cents upward.
Carl's Bakery Promotes Fresh Bread and Desserts for Christmas
Carl's bakery offers fine fresh bread cakes cookies and pies. Customers are urged to place Christmas dinner orders with Jerry Carl.
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Carl
Jerry Carl’s Bakery
Choice perfumes offered at Graham's drug store
See our line of choice perfumes, not the wishy wash y kind but full strength and lasting in attractive packages for 10c, 25c, 50c, 75¢ 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.
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Graham
Graham’s Drug Store
Second and
Cedar Streets
Florida Mexican and Naval oranges at Ratcliff’s stall
Readable listing notes Florida Mexican and Naval oranges with dates figs and Malaga grapes. A fine line of Christmas trees offered at John Ratcliff's opposite the street car switch.
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H. F. Bodman’s
Malaga
John Ratcliff
Postpone Old Age With Electricity and Health Cures
The article discusses applying electricity to the brain base as a theory to delay aging, noting brain cell decay as age progresses. It then promotes health preservation as the sure method to prolong youth and recommends Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for constipation indigestion and liver and kidney disorders, claiming fifty years of public use and reliability.
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Hostetter
Charcot Sanitarium Promises Cure for Drug Habits
An advertisement touts Prof Charcot as the greatest specialist in nervous and internal diseases with guaranteed cures for morphine laudanum and all drug habits. It lists a Paris sanitarium at 2 rue Greiner Saint Lazare and a New York City headquarters under Dr Pinaud superintendent, inviting home treatment plans.
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Charcot
Vienna
Paris
London
New York
Rue Greiner Saint Lazare
Pinaud
Sup't Charcot Sanitarium
New York City
Thompson Bros Showcasing Wegbach Weisbach Reading Lamp
In the Thompson Brothers storefront the Wegbach Weisbach and a Reading Lamp are displayed in their win dow. The items draw shopper attention with their distinctive design and branding.
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Thompson Bros
To All Whom it May Concern Rhenumatic Cure Advertised
The notice lists druggists selling the famous Rhaematic Cure including Jobo J. Havercamp Theo Kuechman McBride & Cope J. J. Coady Nesper and Co. The ad promotes the most effective cure for rheumatic maladies.
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Jobo J. Havercamp
Kuechman
McBride & Cope
J. J. Coady
Nesper
Troubles in Grandview Vote to Incorporate Stirs Court Challenge
An incorporation election in Grandview produced 56 yes and 36 no with 3 defective ballots. A petition to Judge Withrow seeks to vacate the December 20 vote, alleging partial conduct, illegal votes, refused ballots, and lack of public canvassing. The judge ordered a hearing for the January 1901 term in Louisa County.
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Wapello Tribune
T Tribune
Grandview
E. T. Latta
Geo. Rexroth
T. E. Milbourn
M. Hunter
Jacob Becky
J. S. Jackson
District Court
Louisa County
W. S. Withrew
Arthur Spritzer
Hi. W. Baker
Hale & Hale
Keep Yourself Strong With Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming it purifies blood richens digestion and strengthens the body to ward off colds pneumonia fevers and diseases. It promises increased appetite and overall vigor if started now.
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Hood
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Daily Journal
U. W
McBride & Cope’s
City Drug Store
Battey
West Second Street
Tribune
I. Nievel & Son's
Will Carter
Joe
J. Chenoworth
Atalissa
West Hill
J. B. Shellabarger and
Letts
Joe Ryan
Illinois
Leibbrand, Ryan & Co.'s
S. B. Shellabarger and
Fred Smith
Wilton Flyer
Wilton
Battenberg
Leibbrand, Ryan & Co's
William L. Roach
Chicago
John B. Boggs
Emma C. Hintz
I. Nievel & Son’s
Capt
Worthington
Tipton
C. E. Richards
Theo. Kurtz
Huttig’s
Sheboygan, Wis
Scheetz’s
Beach
I. Nickel & Son
Julia E. Hutchinson
Geo. B. Jackson
Opera House
Smith
M. N. Bonds
Miss E. Roth
Miss Gould
Stoddard
Choice Farms
Titus & Jackson
Rueling’s
Co. S. Timmons
Keota
Braun's Bakery
Chas. Seaton
Iowa City
Geo. B. Jackson's
J. C. Myers
Nichols
F. Reppert
Davenport
Justice B. Detwiler
L. Angersbach’s
Nellie Snyder
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
S. E. Oberman
John Eade, Jr
Geo. W. Rueling’s
Gunther
America
Fred Giesler
Giesler & Co
Alice Hayes
James Figg
Harry Sales
Western
Dean
C. F. Cornwell
Valley Street
Saugerties
N. Y
I. Nievel & Son
Elva Batterson
Chicago Kindergarten Institute
W. W. McQuesten
Little Falls
Minn
Nesper's Drug Store
Bond
S. V. Chenoweth
Braun’s Bakery
Avenue Cash Grocery
Liebbrand, Ryan & Co’s
S. J. Ripley
P. B. Gambrel
Belle Plaine
Hartman & Ellman’s
Henry Butz’s Fair
Havercamp’s
Harriet Hunt
Grinnell
L. H
Journal Office
Dr. Thomas
Indians
Guarantee Loan Co
East Second Street
Journal Man
J. J. Duncan
Columbus Junction
Duncan
Unkel’s
Walnut St
Mae
W. 2Nd St
Electric Fine Shears
Scissors
Werden
R. A. Holmes
Mrs. Davis
Des Moines
Teachers’ Association
Oxford
Sam
Berger
W. 2d Street
Iowa Ave
Florida
Naval
Oran
Ges
Wheeler and Wilson
Singer
B. A. Metz
Scott House
Uala
Lala
caususunedSiece
F. Brown
Wadd'll
Express
Pri
Ther Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlanta, Ga
Ques
Tion
Nierel & Son's
W. H. Leibbrand
Ladies’ and Gentlemen
J. Fisch & Sons
J. W. Weidlein
Gen’s Real Estate and Immigration Act
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