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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1908
Page
8
Y M C A A Star Course presents the Royal Gypsy Concert Company tonight at Grand Opera House. Members are nationally renowned artists and single admission is 90 cents. The event draws visitors from Ottumwa Indianapolis and Columbus Junction era notes reflect city activity and upcoming performances.
A local paper notes John A. Robbins as a fire insurance contact and lists residents visiting or shopping in Muscatine on Saturday including Mollie Frater, William Danner, Thomas Nugent, and Mrs. W. S. Crone. Ads highlight Bestenle hner's corn care, a nine room house for sale, and Roach & Musser Sash and Door offering black wood at four dollars per load with cash on delivery.
A well known German doctor argues coffee harms the heart and body. He promotes Postum as a healthful beverage free of injurious substances. He cites family and patient improvements and points readers to The Road to Wellville and the Postum company tag line There’s a Reason.
The Eastern Iowa District of the Re organized Church of Latter Day Saints held two days at Leverich hall and closed last evening. Delegates return home today after a highly successful meeting with sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Elder Warren Turner of Anamosa spoke Saturday night and Elder L E Hills of Marion spoke Sunday. Elder Hills described Bible dispensations and cited Jesus Christ as the fourth dispensation. Afternoon service featured Elder F B Farr.
Elder J W Davis of Rock Island delivered the farewell sermon as the Marion denomination convention closed. Rev Farr and Rev Hills remain in the city with talks at Leverich hall starting tonight on knowing whether a priest is sent by God or of the world.
Hear the Royal Gypsy Concert Company at the Grand tonight with YMCA Star Course. Single admission fifty cents.
The notice lists relatives of Mrs. Weed including an aunt Mrs. S. Co. St. John and cousins Ella L. St. John James St. John Marcia Mendenhall Edwin St. John Marie Milton Erwin St. John Hamilton Fay Jennie Williams and L. B. Swift. Marcia Mendenhall of Butte Montana will visit Thursday and funeral plans may be Friday. The Sibley Tribune notes Mr. Rinehart’s displeasure with convention location due to lack of consultation.
Short dry kindling wood offered by W. W. Richards at two dollars and fifty cents per load. Contact phone number 138 with the box factory delivery or pickup details.
Mary Farrell of 637 Schley Street recovered $5,000 against Citizens Railway and Light Co after injuries from a fall while boarding a street car at Iowa Avenue and Second Street. The case, tried in January 1907, Defense appealed. Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling. Farrell sought $15,000. knee injury required five months in a plaster cast. Judge D. W. Jackson presided then.
Excellent first mortgage farm loans. Lands personally examined by us. Safe as U.S. government bonds. $500 to $5,000. Call and examine. J. E. Stevenson, No. 209 lowa avenue.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a swift remedy for digestive distress and sluggish bowels. It cites a price of 25 cents and locates at Haverkamp s Prescription Drug Store.
Attend the YMCA Star Course program tonight featuring the Royal Gypsy Concert Company. Single admission is 50e.
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