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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 15, 1902

Page

5

Busy Lodge Season Highlights Installations Across Fraternal Groups

Reports from Rathbone Sisters and Wyoming Lodge No 76 K of P detail successful dances at the Armory with Pauchet’s orchestra and 80 couples attending. Royal Neighbors Sunshine Club elected officers, planning a turkey dinner and a two week follow up. Yeomen honor M P Goff with a gold watch chain and diamond charm. Banner Lodge Degree of Honor installed officers at the AOUW hall with a grand social. Wyoming Lodge 76 prepares a grand dedication at Iowa Avenue with prayers, music, speeches and refreshments. Court of Honor No 677 shows growth with 489 members, recent initiations, and a positive outlook for Muscatine. Death and disability losses total 7300 dollars, all adjusted. Ancient Order of the Red Cross installation lights up Assembly Hall.

Armory Hall Rathbone Sisters Wyoming Lodge K. of P Pauchet Royal Neighbor’s Sunshine Club James McElroy Mulberry Street Henry Dunker Minnie Ellinwood Frederica Brunner Emma Neitzel C. S. Moncrief Effie McElroy Chas. Parvin Lottie Steinford John Poehl North Mulberry Street Banner Lodge Degree of Honor Mollie Wiles Grand Lady of Honor Kittie Lezotte Kate Ellman Amanda Frack Kate Frack Ev. Mull Gussie Mull Mary Crouch Hattie Fahey Hening Robert Warner Walters Leo Radibaugh Order Court of Honor Lodge Court of Honor Muscatine Order of the Red Cross O. L. Pyeatt the Red Cross

Good Coffee a Savage Tyrant in Everyday Life

A Norfolk Virginia reader recounts how a coffee habit harmed a mother and how stopping coffee and using Postum Food Coffee with Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food led to a dramatic recovery. The testimony urges abandoning narcotics and embracing natural substitutes for health.

Norfolk M. L. Eggleston Post Norfolk

Muscatine Rumored Box Factory Combine Headed from St Louis

A Muscatine rumor says a major box factory firm may relocate leadership to St Louis to form a regional combine along the Mississippi. Local firms warn intensified competition may push a central management in the new trust. Davenport and Muscatine manufacturers note easing competition as talks advance.

Muscatine St. Louis Mississippi

Grand View Church Plans Evening Services January 16

On Thursday evening January 16 at 7 30 the Methodist church in Grand View will begin a series of meetings. The public of the village and vicinity both Christian and non Christian are invited to attend. T S Pool Pastor.

Methodist Church Grandview T. S. Pool

Family returns home after funeral in Clinton

Fred Giesen haus and children Miss Florence and Master Wilson have returned to Muscatine after attending the funeral of the late Mrs. Cope in Clinton.

Clinton Herald Fred Giesenhaus Florence Master Wilson Muscatine Cope

Guarantee on Green's Syrup of Tar Refund Promise

A notice from G. A. Riemeke Nesper & Co. and partners pledges refunds on Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar and a smaller 25-cent bottle if it fails to cure coughs or colds. Signatories include J. J. Havercamp W. B. Barkalow and others.

G. A. Riemeke Nesper & Co J. J. Havercamp W. B. Barkalow J. Taeo. Keuchman

Dodeka crokinole club hosts entertaining evening

The Dodeka crokinole club was entertained by Mr and Mrs J M Beck with twelve players and Robert L Thompson winning. Clinton Chapter D A R hosted a 64 member luncheon at Mrs A R Olney in honor of Mrs F W Mahin with American decor and a tea of oyster cocktail soup and turkey among other dishes. A surprise party for Walter E Grooves at the Grooves home near Park Place ended merrily with games and music.

Dodeka Crokinole Club J. M. Beck Robert L. Thompson Clinton Herald Clinton A. R. Olney F. W. Mahin Olney Mahin Ware Jackson Thenu John Grooves Park Place Walter E. Grooves

Local Attendees At Community Gathering Include Notables

Among those present were Nora Dale, Lester Raupe, Martha Dora, Almond Harker, Little Stoneburner, John Clark, Susie Raupe, Ed Gunzenhauser, Calvin Baker, Eva Aronhein, Wilbur Longstreth, Tulse Jack, Pearly Groves, Katie Schaffer, Cora Selman, Bessie Richardson, Artie Saffer, Hannah Chandler, Hingst, Lor etta Wright, Mamie Huffman.

Muscatine Markets Grain and Livestock Prices

Market report lists prices for corn oats wheat rye barley and hay. Hogs cattle calves sheep lambs turkeys ducks geese chickens and eggs, with retail and liveweights across multiple items. Also shows fruits vegetables fuel and fish prices with numerous per-unit quotes.

Illinois Graham

Heerd’s Exzema Butter Promises Quick Relief

Citizens testify to relief and cure from exzema using Heerd’s Exzema Butter. Dentists and workers in Muscatine report rapid improvement after months of ineffectual treatment. Suitable for children and those with chapped hands, the product retails for 50 cents a box at local merchants.

Heerd Birchard Soenke Lorenzen Geo. Volger FE. L

Home seekers and Land Investors Folder Issued

The passenger department of the Hlinota Central railroad releases a new folder for homeseekers and land investors. It highlights Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana with excursions to these states. Illinois Central runs monthly trips on the first and third Tuesdays at one fare plus $2, inviting investors in timber and farmland. For a free copy, contact J. F. Merry at Dubuque Iowa.

Hlinota Central Railroad Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana Illinois Central Rands Dubuque Iowa J. F. Merry

Hanasomest Calendar sold by railway line

The Hanasomest Calendar of the season in ten colors offers six beautiful head reproductions by Moran on six sheets 10 by 12 inches. Issued by General Passenger Department Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway. Price twenty five cents. Send to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.

Moran Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway F. A. Miller

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Brotherhood of American Yeomen M. P. Goff K. of P.’s Iowa Avenue N. A. McAulay Anna Bishop Knight E. M. Warner Laura Musser Wyoming Lodge No. 76 Helen Block Knights of Pythias Davenport Muscatine Markets Hocking Valley Pocahontas the Daily Journal Frisco System Jacksonville Florida Gyne Deneress Caamberlin Kixnot & Co The Louise Llewellyn Louisville Nashville Cincinnati Evansville Memphis Birmingham Mobile New Orleans Pensacola Alabama M Ississippi C. L. Stone Aa Pameret Page Custer First National Bank Building S. G. Stein D. V. Jackson Vice-Press M. Hughes Cashier First National Bank S. Stein J. B. Ieee Chas Page J. Carskaddan F. P Sawyer S. M. Hughes Safety Deposit Cook Musser & Co State Bank and Trust Co Banking and Exchange Second St Muscatine, Ia W. Francis Henry Jayne L. G. Burnett Hershey State Bank
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