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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
2
Dr Hartman announces Peruna as a regular pharmaceutical product accessible to the public. He claims honesty about ingredients and testimonials, pledges full transparency, and vows to expand distribution worldwide while offering free home health education and literature.
The Muscatine County Medical Society met at Hershey Memorial Hospital for its annual gathering. Dr. Oliver was elected president with E A Ady as vice president and Fred L Appel as secretary treasurer. Oysters were served followed by a smoker and social time. many city graduate nurses attended.
An old advertisement touts E. W. Grove’s Cure a Cold in One Day with claims it removes the cause. The box features Grove’s signature and is priced at 25 cents, promoting a universal cure through a laxative bromide/quinine formula.
Olive Branch reports multiple local transactions and visits. Grandpa Eisele of Green Valley transacted business in Muscatine Monday. Neibert of Muscatine purchased the Hinkmaster farm near Keokuk Lake. Nick Nichols installed a telephone at home. Emma and Minnie Pantel visited friends in Fruitland. Will and Mrs. Eisele did business in Fruitland and Mrs. Eisele visited Mrs. Nelson. The Nichols and Pantel households hosted guests, and Emma Pantel made a Muscatine trip Thursday.
James Stillman will retire as president of National City Bank of New York and become chairman of the board. Frank A. Vanderlip, longtime vice president, will take over as president and has just been named director of Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Vanderlip, 44, earlier served as assistant secretary of the treasury and as secretary to Secretary Gage in 1897.
Frank D. Biles of this city is expected to return Monday night after six years in the United States army in Cuba and the Philippine islands. He will arrive from Fortress Monroe Virginia where he received his honorable discharge.
The January river report by Superintendent W P Molis notes an average monthly stage of 3.2 feet above low water, with a high of 5.2 and a low of 2.2. Wind averaged southward, rainfall 0.36 inches, snow 11.25 inches, fourteen clear, seven partly cloudy, ten cloudy days.
A Muscatine health report lists nineteen deaths during January affecting primarily infants and elderly residents. Records show causes including typhoid fever diphtheria cancer heart disease and old age with several single parent family cases and an exposure death on the Mississippi ice.
West Liberty Iowa items report a surprise farewell party for Mr and Mrs Jap Stearns of South Prairie as they prepare to move March 1 to Goshen Valley on the Chet Perry farm. About sixty guests attended with games and sociability noted.
Gertrude Cole, formerly of Oak Grove, died the previous Friday evening and is mourned by her friends and neighbors. The community offers sympathy to her family. The Young Ladies Aid meets Feb 5 with Mrs Henry Hocke. Mr and Mrs Heselton hosted about 30 guests at a farewell crokinole party before their move toward Dover Delaware. Mr and Mrs Fishburn visited G Scott's Thursday. Mrs Chas Cross of La Salle is visiting friends and neighbors. Mrs A Houser is on the sick list.
An advertising summary extols charcoal for cleansing the stomach and bowels, whitening teeth, improving breath and complexion, and purifying blood. It promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges from F A Stuart Co at 200 Stuart Building, Marshall Michigan, as a safe daily remedy priced at twenty five cents a box with a free trial offer.
The description explains a device with a temperature adjustment dial on the face. To the right is a money opening. A boy operating the unit pulls out a knob after inserting a coin and uses the other hand to hold a glass under the spout.
Hazel Dell reports Sunday visits across families: Albert Eckhardt at Casper Eckhardt in Buffalo Prairie. Chas Whitlock and family at Wilson Kimball’s. Leon Milton and son at Jesse Hayes’ in Illinois City. Ed Peppers at Frank Thomas’ in Illinois City. Mrs. Calvin Vanatta to Muscatine then Watertown to see sister Mrs. E L Sheppard. rheumatism illness in the area. Gideon Reed a Muscatine caller. Charley Vanatta ill with rheumatism. Mrs. Oscar Peterson visits her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Krantz, in Buffalo Prairie.
Mercury containing treatments are warned against as dangerous for the sense of smell and mucous systems. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is sold by druggists and taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free and price five dollars per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Downey February 1. Mrs Edith Tharp returned to West Liberty after visiting sister-in-law Martha Miller. Downey high school teacher Mary Jane Calhoun was on leave or travel following the visit.
The week brought illness reports, visits by Mrs Blanche Cornwall to the M P church Ladies Aid, ongoing revival meetings at the M P church drawing interest, and several local business callers including Will Miller, Walter Lowton, Miss Dot Holloway, and Thos Peterson. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Morgan Lodge on January 31 1908, in the town, with funeral services held for Edith Vetter in West Branch.
In Lone Tree Iowa on January 31 residents report travel to nearby cities and family visits. Samuel Hinkley, age 84, died at his home northwest of town from pneumonia leaving a wife and two children. funeral arrangements pending.
Advertisement promises cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles using PaZO Ointment within 6 to 14 days or money back. Claims reassurance with a 50 cent price.
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