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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
7
Items report entertainment goods for sale including opera glasses, souvenir spoons, and pianos at Swan's Barnard's I Nievel & Son Hirt & Fesler with prices on second hand organs from 15 to 38 dollars. Visitors include F C Jahnke of Lone Tree and Mrs Joseph McKee in Muscatine for Christmas with relatives.
Muscatine City Council plans resolutions to assess nine properties to collect unpaid fumigation bills claimed by Health Officer J D Fulliam. Names and amounts include Ed J Valett $10 Katherine Neyenhuis $19 Julius Bodman $10 Ithnee Ripson $0 Mary A Pugh $10 Mrs Louis Bunn $10 Meyer Simons $5 John Phillips $5. Alderman Engel urged the move after unpaid bills were forwarded by the board of health and marshal Rice.
Thomas W. Purcell of Company F 35th Iowa, a well known local figure, fell from a rear platform on Chouteau avenue and suffered a fractured skull and severe facial injuries. He lies conscious only intermittently at his home in St. Louis as doctors fear fatal outcome and regimental comrades mourn other losses from the Red River campaign.
J G Ginck superintendent of the Prunty town West Virginia reform school reports adopting Foley's Honey and Tar as the exclusive cough medicine after testing others. He calls it most effective and harmless and notes Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store supplying the product.
At a Jackson banquet committee meeting last night a speakers committee was formed to arrange principal speakers for the January 7 event. Members are Samuel Cohn Barney Schmidt H M Bartlett and J G Van Lent Invitations go to Rabbi Fine schreiber Henry Vollmer Judge Wade and others. Judge Wm F Brannan, famed for knowing Andrew Jackson, will speak. The banquet will be held in Woodmen hall due to expected demand.
Lee Henning of this city re-enlisted for a three year term in the regular army at Davenport. He will join Company C of the Thirteenth Infantry now stationed in San Francisco after a 30 day furlough before reporting back.
The undersigned express heartfelt thanks for the kindness shown during illness and after the death of their husband and father. Special gratitude extended to the G. A. R. Post for aiding in bereavement. Signed by Mr. F. Duncan Jr. Mrs. F. Duncan and Family.
Local merchants including N. B. Barkalow G. A. Reinicke J. J. Havercamp Nesper & Co and J Theo Keuchma offer refunds on Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar bottles if coughs or colds are not cured. A 25 cent bottle is also backed by a satisfaction or money back guarantee.
The Iowa Central railway offers reduced rate excursion tickets at one and one-third fare on December 24 25 31 and January 1. Return limit leaves January 4. For details and folders contact agents.
Notice states that all persons indebted to F. Giesenhaus should call and settle as he retires from business on January 1.
One way rate with two dollars additional for round trip tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of every month with return limit of twenty one days from sale date. See ticket agents of Iowa Central for rates or address A. B. Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
Miss Eva Shaw from Des Moines will speak at the M. E. church Sunday morning and at the U. B. church in the evening. A large Eastern Star delegation helped organize a lodge in Lettsville. Several residents and visitors are mentioned including Muscatine and Concord connections. Local illnesses and social events fill the town news.
Winchester Indiana citizen Dc W Lynch reports his son suffered membranous croup and found relief after one dose of Foley's Honey and Tar at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store. He claims the medicine saved his son's life and warns against substitutes.
Funeral services for David Lewis Demorest will be held Thursday at 2 PM at First Methodist Church. Demorest died yesterday at 1:30 PM at his parents home 840 Newell Avenue after a battle with blood poisoning. He had worked for J. M. Gobble Company and later as a mail carrier in Muscatine. He would have been 42 next Sunday. Survived by parents Rev. A. F. Demorest and Mrs. A. F. Demorest and six brothers and one sister including Fred C. in Albion Michigan and George in Bozeman Montana.
Rock Island and Milwaukee railways will not issue clergy passes on January 1 1904 as customs change. Clergy will travel on 1903 certificates until a settlement is reached. Orders have been issued at local depots.
Communication from Agent J. C. Pugh states rules for clergy certificates 1904 cannot be settled in time. To prevent inconvenience, annual clergy certificates for 1993 will be recognized through January 31, 1904. Agents will inform applicants and supply 1904 blanks as soon as possible.
Muddled ad text promotes Cascarete candy cathartic as a permanent cure for constipation. Claims of refunds and vague dosage prompts user to seek relief through laxative product.
Special land buyers excursions will run to Greer County Oklahoma and other Southwest lands in November and December via the Frisco System. Prospective buyers can obtain rich fertile farming land at one fourth to one tenth the cost of eastern lands, with high acre value. For full details and rail rates, contact R. S. Lem on, Secretary Frisco System Immigration.
Chas H Gobble left by morning train for Fairfield to attend the funeral of his brother in law George Shriner who died Monday night. The service was held at 2 o clock this afternoon. Shriner was the father of Harry G Shriner, a well known figure in the city though not a resident.
Nickel Plate Road sells round trip tickets at one and a third the fare for trips within 150 miles. Travel days include December 24, 25, 31, 1903 and January 1, 1904 with return by January 4, 1904. Through service to New York City Boston and other eastern points. No excess fare. Chicago depot locations Adams Street and Auditorium Annex. Central 2057.
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