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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1900
Page
7
A blend of small notices, ads and brief items describing arrivals, departures, sales and services. Names such as Frank Bowman D P Graham John Sagulin Ww M Van Sickle Dr Weaver M Meyers and Luca McClain appear with travel, shopping and product mentions. Industrial notes reference rail workers Cassidy and Heller and a January clearance at B E Lilly with dermatology product claims for Dean's Ointment.
C G Baetz listed as contact at 301 E 2nd Lt Co A. Flory returns to South English after city visit. F O Ricketts travels from Muscatine area to Barkland British Columbia for home return. Advertisement notes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup cures colds and even consumption risk.
Advertises purchase of cottonwood sycamore elm and basswood. Inquiries to South Muscatine Lumber Co Muscatine Iowa.
C. W. Norton details a Farmers' National Congress excursion from Chicago to Boston Plymouth Rock Bunker Hill Cambridge Mount Auburn and Concord Lexington. The account notes Beecher Arboretum parks the navy yard Constitution Lafayette monument and grand terminal rail hub with an 18 acre depot 32 tracks and rocky views of Plymouth Rock.
A Iowa delegate recounts attending the Farmers National Congress in Boston at Faneuil Hall October 3–6 1899. The piece contrasts New England and Texas scenes, notes travel with Col B F Clayton and the Wilton party, and lists subjects discussed such as experiment stations farm life teaching and fertilizer use with speakers from Massachusetts Ottawa and Iowa.
Lille E. Mathews of Detroit writes that after monthly coffee headaches, boiling Postum longer improved the taste and eliminated headaches. She says her brother in law found relief after switching, and lists other friends helped by avoiding coffee and using Postum Food Coffee.
Z B John sold his West Liberty restaurant to Clarence Morris. School resumed after holidays. Joshua Mead visited Nebraska. Mrs J E Stokes returned from Brooklyn. Sepha Jackson visited Grinnell. Cornell students Ellyson Gause Foss and Ames Corley returned. G A R and W R C held joint installing, with A E Gates and T K Chase overseeing. Officers include D Gibson Ira Baker Theo Jones and Mrs Mitchell Mrs Gissell Mrs Ditmars and others. Banquet followed. retiring president Abbil Regnier received a jardiniere.
Miss Hattie Backer and Miss Kate McDermitt visit friends and family in Wilton while John Welch arrives from the west for a short stay. Local ice harvest starts as water scarcity shifts supply from Cedar River near Moscow. remains of Mrs. Freiderichson arrive for burial at Oak Dale cemetery beside her husband.
The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh with a constitutional approach. It promises One Hundred Dollars for any uncured case and urges readers to contact F. J. Carney & Co. in Toledo Ohio, noting the product is sold by druggists at 75 cents and promotes Hall's Family Pills as well.
W. W. Fink, real estate operator, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in a U S court. He lists liabilities over 100000 and assets about 160000, though he says assets have little value. Debts were contingent until Lowry Good and Highland Park properties failed to pay out, shifting burden to stockholders and accommodation paper signers.
Advertisement claims Ely Brothers Ely's Cream Balm cures nasal catarrh and related diseases without drying or sneezing. It touts a non-drying formula, priced 50 cents, available at druggists or by mail from 56 Warren Street New York.
A. N. Jarvis attends lodge Tuesday evening while Mr. Butcher is too sick to work for days. Archer Downey moves onto the Geo. Ewing farm. Mrs. C. V. Kasser is seriously ill with guarded recovery. Protracted meetings begin at Island church. Mrs. Rogers sustains a broken collarbone in a buggy accident. Funeral pallbearers include W. Kohn and others for J. R. Underwood. Community sympathies with Wm. Countryman over facial cancer.
A young man suffered a severe cramp colic until miller B F Hess gave Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The remedy quickly relieved him and left the man rejoicing. Sold by J J Havercamp and W C A Busch druggists.
A contemplation on how thought outpaces physical movement far more than fleas flies or lightning. The author notes memory can instantly transport one across oceans and decades, skipping over barriers of distance and time. It asks if even faster actions are possible when thoughts precede deliberate thinking.
An old advertisement urges a ten cent Cascarets tablet to purify blood and improve skin. It claims cleansing the liver removes pimples boils and blotches and promotes a healthy complexion with a drugstore guarantee.
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