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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1902
Page
7
The United States buys Cascarets at six million boxes annually and expects eight million by New Year. The ad claims Cascarets are a delightfully effective vowel regulator for year round use and guarantees cure. Available at all druggists in 10c 25c and 5c sizes.
Frank Baker and Mrs. Peter Marsden visited Columbus City on business while Leon Wylie and Mrs. Laura Lauder traveled to or from the region. Bishop Cosgrove from Davenport met with Father Laurent, and Rathbone Sisters plan a meeting at Elk Hall. Miss Gertrude Legler leaves for Grinnell for college studies. Mrs. Will Kaiser heads to St. Louis for a ill relative. Mrs. Connor to Letts and Burlington for a new home near her husband.
L C Hirt travels to Iowa City on business. Mrs David Flexner, returning to Katona, Chicago visit, changes trains here. Walter Marsden of Columbus City visits on business, returns by Firefly. Miss Gretchen Stewart to Iowa City for state university attendance. John O'Brien the mail carrier quarantined at home. Mrs Ralph Hamilton of Keota dies Thursday of consumption. Mrs Thomas Barnard returns from Sterling Ir. Roy Minor to Oskaloosa for work. Mrs Winter visits Ald Bartemeier en route Rock Island Fairfield. Dr J S Kulp travels to Ottumwa for state board of dental examiners session, returns Wednesday. Electa Chapter No 32 O E S to meet Wednesday Jan 8 with initiation and installation. Incoming officers to furnish refreshments for husbands. Misses Julia and Edna Hutchinson leave for Oberlin Ohio to resume college. Letts death notice of Ed Ferry, formerly of Muscatine county, at Bedford. Tobe Brown and wife travel to St Joseph Mo for funeral. J L Sievert of Fort Wayne patents a national souvenir spoon with Lincoln Garfield McKinley portraits. spoons $1.75 sterling or $2 French gray. Wayne Jewelry Co contact.
A Factoryville, Pennsylvania man credits Grape-Nuts with curing severe stomach distress and weight loss after ineffective pepsin and other aids. He describes relief from heartburn and a return of strength and appetite, noting the product met him in a crisis and improved his condition significantly.
On the first and third Tuesdays each month the Iowa Centre railway sells home seekers excursion tickets to Iowa and neighboring states at one fare plus two dollars for the round trip with a twenty one day return limit. The Iowa Central route leads to the north northwest and southwest farming belts. Full details and printed home seeker materials are available from agents or Geo. E. Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
Mrs Pauline Judson of Brooklyn writes she suffered long after a misdiagnosed womb condition. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health after three months of treatment and urges others to try the remedy. The ad warns a $5000 forfeit for fake testimonials.
A letter from Captain Rumple reports no official ruling restricting expired subscriptions in second class mail. The National Publishers Bureau and Chicago bureau claims are disputed by Edwin Madden who says the ruling does not exist and cites a New York case as context.
The Davenport Times notes rising public concern over Mississippi river pollution and other large streams. It reports the Davenport board of health weighing an anticipatory step to curb water contamination.
The city faces costs to repair the dump boat used for river waste removal or to explore alternative disposal. Proposals include burying offal on City Island or building a garbage burning furnace on the outskirts. The Times notes Davenport may show progress by taking early steps to keep garbage out of the Mississippi.
The Mail Order Journal commends the Lee Syndicate properties Davenport Times Ottumwa Courier and Muscatine Journal for rising daily and semi weekly circulation. Davenport Times climbs from 3751 to 5503 Ottumwa Courier from 3458 to 4048 Muscatine Journal from 2831 to 2888 with Ottumwa Courier semi weekly up 5333 to 6687 and Journal semi weekly up 2384 to 2510. Aggressive management cited.
Charlie Irwin and sister visited at Wilton over Sunday while mail man C Leach marks one year on the route. Tom Sherry and Isaacs Myres schedule sales Saturday forenoon and afternoon respectively with the same auctioneer. August Paul and family spent Sunday at William Hartman’s. Lettie Moorhead of Findlay and Perry Baker toured Wild Calf's Den. A J Allen of Davenport called on friends. Geo Eis delivered 50 hogs to Blue Grass. hogs averaged 250 per head at 6.20.
Advertised medical claim linking heart symptoms to stomach digestion. Promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as cure with dosage details and pricing. Includes distributor and claim of safety and constipation relief through improved digestion.
Thus Ryan is on the sick list. J. T. McKilligan and wife return from Mt. Pleasant. Rob Fulton and wife host a large gathering of friends at their home in Yankee Hollow.
Frank Petersen buys a hundred acre farm near West Liberty and plans spring move. Miss Marie Hudler leaves teaching to study music. Robert Patton and daughter Lillian visit Edward Patton in Davenport for two weeks. Fred Boot and Sister Frances return from Dexter to visit Jas Boot. John Mohr visits his brother in Burlington. Fred and Mrs Holscher move into Fred Feltman’s Cedar county house. Frank Levertch visits J R McClean in Moline. Sophia Ancerer begins teaching in Stockton.
Thomas Mather, a respected West Branch resident, is critically ill with cancer that started in his eye and now covers about half his head. Walter Bingham Finley Adair and Miss Belva Branson are also very ill. Miss Richards of Iowa City tends to Miss Branson. Arthur Tatum and Roy Rich, Penn college students, spent holidays with relatives here. Henry Weber and family dined with Frank Dean. Mrs. Perry Figle and Margery Bingham visited her ill husband in town.
One hundred dollar reward offered for an incurable catarrh case. Endorsements from West Truax and others assert F J Cheney Co. is honorable and able to fulfill obligations. Hall's Catarrh Cure sold for one dollar per bottle with testimonials available.
The Illinois Central passenger department released a new folder for home seekers and land investors. It highlights Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana with investment opportunities. Homeseekers excursions run the first and third Tuesdays each month at one fare plus $2.00. Free copies available by writing J. F. Merry in Dubuque Iowa.
The Handsomest Calendar of the season in ten colors offers six reproductions of Moran paintings on six 10x12 inch sheets. Issued by General Passenger Department of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway. Send twenty five cents to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic 0c or Me. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
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