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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
2
The mirror screen for the new theatre on Sycamore Street arrived in the city. It is being installed by Richard and Adam Von Dresky Jr. and will replace canvas as part of the construction progress.
Smalley Auto and Marine Company announces immediate delivery options for Oakland cars, highlighting fast service and streamlined pickup. The note emphasizes rapid fulfillment and local availability for buyers seeking swift transportation.
The city awaits the placement of a 12 by 14 foot screen for a forthcoming building. Work progresses with walls ready for plastering, conduit wiring underway, and a boiler installed for steam heating. The facility aims to be the finest in the territory with excellent ventilation and beautiful, unusual pictures.
Nellie S Sawyer assistant librarian of the Muscatine library returns from fourteen months in New York City as an attache to the public library system. She has gained experience at Perry Iowa and in Tompkins Square and Fifty eighth Street branches, rejoining Muscatine as director librarian of Edgewater free library while noted for improving children’s services and story hours.
The Muscatine Poultry Show concluded last night with Herman Brothers of Muscatine taking the sweepstake honors by a tight margin. Prizes include a $50 silver trophy for top ten birds, plus $25 silver trophies for best pens in various classes won by exhibitors such as J O Mucha and E McCormack with supporting winners and sponsors listed.
Drugstore ad promises refunds if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days. Testimonial note mentions Misses Josephine and Julia Mauer returning home near Wilton after shopping in the city Friday.
Winners in Barred Rocks White Rocks Partridge Wyandottes and Silver Laced Wyandottes are listed with breeders and prizes. Barred Rocks honors S. E. Heston Pleasant Plain Ia first cockerel and multiple class placements. White Rocks honors J. O. Mucha Muscatine with multiple hens cockerels pullets pens and more. Partridge Wyandottes show J. C. Collins Muscatine and C. E. Smith Keswick with several placements. Silver Laced Wyandottes list Fred Kirchner Nichols and J. C Holmes Muscatine with top hens and cockerels.
Advertisement offers a free home remedy recipe for bladder and kidney pain claiming quick recovery within a week. It promises to relieve scalding dribbling back aches and fatigue and asks readers to write to Dr. A. E. Robinson in Detroit for the free prescription.
The advertisement claims Hood s Sarsaparilla cures all humors catarrh and rheumatism relieves tiredness restores appetite cures paleness and nervousness and builds up the system. It offers the product in liquid form or Sarsatabs chocolate tablets.
A detailed listing of awards by breed and exhibitor from a county poultry show. Names include Fred Kirchner Nichols Iowa and O D Mosher Muscatine among many others, with awards across cock, cockerel, pullet, and pen categories for Wyandottes Leghorns Rhode Island Reds Langshans and other breeds.
One of the year’s pleasant rural Christmas entertainments was held at Span gler's chapel on Friday evening. A large crowd attended the exercises and the gathering was a most en-
The Brethren Mission on Bridgman Street hosts a Christmas service Sunday at 6 p.m. framed as an entertainment for children with readings recitations songs and dialogues by local youths and adults including Hilda Wetzel Eddie Wetzel Irene Yeater Arthur Cooley Ada Davidson and Morris Robinson among others. The event blends religious readings with performances and a concluding valedictory by Hilda Wetzel.
Henry Wallace of Wallaces Farmer says Iowa gained more from extension department short course and related activities in three years than from forty years of agricultural college teaching at Ames. The piece promotes boosting short course funding from 32000 to 100000 with the slogan A Short Course for Every Iowa County.
Attendees enjoyed a church affair with a program of songs recitations and exercises by children. The cold drive to the church was offset by the warm reception from the audience and the overall pleasing performance.
An old advertisement urges men to prevent balding to preserve youth and livelihood. It claims Parisian Sage stops falling hair and dandruff, grows hair, and improves appearance with a 50 cent bottle sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store and others. The ad features a girl with auburn hair on the bottle.
A grateful mother details a six to eight month scalp disease in her three year old son. After failed treatments and sleepless nights she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent and the boy recovered in under three weeks with no scar and hair regrowth. Mrs G O Couvillon Plancheville La February 26 1910.
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