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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
7
A jumble of society notes and errands highlights Mrs. Austin's new dress and nearby events. Town residents including Briggs, Miss Harriet Kempimer, and George Rockwell are cited in brief mentions of travel, shopping, and visits.
Splendid Record markets Dr King's New Life Pills claiming cures for bears ache, diliousness, and constipation at 25 cents. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store advertises this remedy in a concise, period voice.
Franklin and Harrison schools will present Christmas programs with songs recitations and a holiday treat tomorrow. Other items note turtle catching in the slough dances by the Relief Hose company and a Christmas marriage in Muscatine. Local updates include illness recoveries and residents traveling to Chicago for visits.
A Great Bend Kansas reader A C Scharier reports using one bottle of Hamlins Wizard Oil to relieve a five year throbbing head pain. The testimonial claims the remedy cured a sick ache and prevented further headaches.
fragmentary notice reports Mrs Andrew Diercks of Evans Street was returned to her home. Leonard Dungan of Minois is visiting at the home of his uncle EH Surimers Belony the cky.
Ned Dwyer, near eighty, longtime Sigourney tailor, dies at his boarding house The Bair tixhanges after 9 am Monday. Town and county residents are noted in a long, mixed list of visits, court matters, school vacation announcements, anniversaries, and local commerce updates.
Muscatine teachers will attend the Southeastern Iowa Teachers Association convention in Ottumwa on April 5 to 7, 1906, with favorable train service from Muscatine via Milwaukee line. The program features X Schoonmaker, Senator Shelby M Gallangh Rey, and W A Quayle of Chicago, among other noted educators, promising a banner event.
The regular monthly council meeting convenes this evening at City Hall with a potential franchise to the Eastern Iowa Interurban railway on the agenda. Omar’s Reed and Mississippi Box managers discuss routing across land used by the box company while city officers’ reports and bills are set for approval.
Nickel Plate Road offers excursion fares between Chicago and Buffalo on December 22 24 26 1905 and December 31 1905 to January 1 1906 with Amit return January 3 1906. Round trip fare one and eight thirds. Dining car meals priced 25 cents to 1 00 and mid day lunch 50 cents. No excess fare. Chicago ticket offices 311 Adams street and Auditorium Annex. Depot La Salle and Van Buren streets the only depot in Chicago or the elevated loop.
A reflective line notes that when a man feels compelled to eat he cannot escape the pressure of the moment. The statement ties personal hunger to a broader sense of urgency affecting the country.
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