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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
8
Seiler Bros offers Christmas goods and new gifts while Bond Hardware and Leysen's advertise rubbers and overshoes. Barnard's features cut glass and Xmas books as Hare's hall hosts Redman dances and a University Glee Club concert at the opera house. Local families plan trips, visits, and holiday shopping across Muscatine.
Wilson's Shoe Store in Muscatine offers a large Christmas slipper sale on men women and children slippers with deep discounts lasting until tomorrow noon. The firm emphasizes low prices and wide stock with wholesale and retail service and a policy to avoid customer dissatisfaction.
How to prevent croup in small children with early signs of hoarseness and a peculiar cough. Use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the first hoarseness or after the rough cough appears. it is said to dispel all symptoms and avoid danger. Sold by all druggists.
Nickel Plate Road sells round trip tickets at one and a third fare for trips within 150 miles for Dec 24 25 31 1903 and Jan 1 1904, good return to Jan 4 1904. Through service to New York City Boston and other eastern points offered. Ticket offices at Chicago Depot La Salle and Warren Sts 111 Adams St and Auditorium Annex. Phone Central 2057.
Advertisement claims sums from 100 to 300 dollars and up to 10000 dollars with security equal to twice the loan. It touts 25 years of experience with no losses and asks interested investors to call or visit G. M. Titus at 118 Iowa Avenue, with Tel 109.
Miss Nellie E. Robertson will lead music for Sunday evening worship at the First Presbyterian church. The contralto soloist will be helped by soprano Gertrude Moynahan bass G. W. Porter and tenor M. P. Goff in a Christmas program of sacred music.
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 Iowa Central ticket agents for rates or address A B Cutts Q P T A Minneapolis Minn.
Christmas programs were held at McKinley school this afternoon. The first grade pupils prepared a Christmas tree and treat following a sequence of songs and recitations.
The report lists a Christmas program with many students performing recitations, exercises, songs, and a cantata. Named participants include Mildred Kemble, Erna Springborn, Hattie Wetzel, Ruby Lee, Hazel Phillips, Ethel Yeauter, Fred Koethe, Herman Theobald, Mabel Sell, Joseph Ferrow, Albert Boldt, Ernest Paetz, Mamie Barko, and Walter Sell among others. The activity features multiple grade levels, room decorations, and treats for children.
A seventh grade program lists multiple singing school selections and recitations led by teacher L. A. Franklin. Readers include Emma Bosch Anna Ethal Tena Thevard Rudolph Schmidt and many others with pieces like A Christmas Dilemma A Christmas Carol Keeping a Secret and The Birth of Jesus.
F M Witter president of the Iowa State Teachers association urges Journal to invite every county citizen to Des Moines in December for the state meeting. He would be pleased to see a big Muscatine County delegation attend. Many teachers plan to go. New line of jewelry at Hirt Fesler's.
Lulu Ogilvie leads fourth grade in a Christmas program with songs and recitations. Katie Smith performs Christmas Time and Santa Claus pieces, John Bieber reads What the Stockings Say, Lena Klapp recites Watching the Flocks by Night, Elsie Boldt and Ruth Brandt perform Santa Claus, and a duet is sung by Katie Smith and Florence Becker.
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