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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1903
Page
8
Fine toilet sets at Seiler Brow Superior perfumes Hirt and Fesler’s. Gold cuff buttons I Nietel and Son. Mississippi pearl rings at Barnard’s. Rubbers and overshoes the kind that wears at Leysen’s Shoe Store. Ladies invited to inspect our line of holiday goods. Wagner Bids.
Local ads promote Christmas items from I. Nierel & Son and peers, highlighting rings diamonds cigars cuckoo clocks souvenirs and fine candies. Stores like Wagner Bros Nesper's Hirt Fesler's Butz's and Pentzer's Pharmacy offer selections with window displays and special sales. Community events include a Redman hall dance and a Thurday sale read on page four.
Seiler Bros. Diamonds and I Nierel & Son advertise new Christmas goods including diamond lines and Chateline watches. Hirt & Fes and Nierel & Son feature jewelry while Neidig's and Will iam Baylis offer picture books and a California calendar. Hacker promotes candies and gift boxes with cigars and accessories at Herm. Gremmel's Cigar Store.
Jay Bloomer accuses squirrels of stripping the forest of nuts while shoppers at Hine Bros. enjoy abundant plums fresh and tempting for picking.
Robbers blasted the safe in Warner & Co. shoe store in Shenandoah and escaped with 150 dollars and valuable papers. No clue reported on suspects or motive.
Plans for a new Kendall Young memorial library in Webster City outline a building cost of about $55,000. The proposal notes the community gains a lasting repository for books and meeting space pending funding and approvals.
Tickets for the Chicago University Glee Club charity entertainment go on sale at the Grand Opera house office tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale offers advance access for theater patrons and proceeds support the event.
A group of merchants pledges refunds on Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure coughs or colds. A 25 cent bottle is offered to prove satisfaction with money back if not pleased. Signers include N. B. Barkalow and Nesper & Co. and J Theo Keuchma.
Mrs. Jake Schomberg and Rob Daugherty visit sister Mrs. M. P. Daugherty. Wm. Hendrix hosted a Thursday party. J. W. Lindley and M. P. Daugherty make business calls in Muscatine and Letts. Nellie Thornton visits Chas Plowman’s sister. Tom Cashman buys corn. M. P. Daugherty hauls hay to Letts. Mrs. Schomberg leaves for Nichols after neighborhood visit.
Illinois City notes Ed Pep pers moves his family to the father’s farm to farm another year. Mrs Robinson, a widow, took Steven Brayton’s mother home last Saturday from James Sedam’s, nearly ninety. Other brief items report residents visiting Sears at Sears,, and church meetings closing due to a defective flue.
Howard Law finished filling the creamery ice house Saturday. Fred Moss fills his ice house this week. Catholics plan a fair for the last three days of the month. Loris Swift returns to Riverside to practice law. The public school held an entertainment in the opera house Saturday night. The M E and U B churches unite for a Christmas tree at the U B church. Diphtheria cases at Fort Dodge are abating with sixteen still under quarantine.
An advertisement praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safeguard against colds, fevers, malaria, and digestive and nervous troubles. The copy urges use at the season and recommends asking a druggist for the 1904 Almanac.
H Schmidt and Son Co advertises a one day special sale on Thursday offering discounted prices across albums Bibles toilet sets and glove boxes to attract customers with irresistible bargains at the store location.
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