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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1902
Page
8
The Daily Journal lists advertising items and notices including Mrs Davy joining Randolph Tea Coffee Co and various sales at Frank the jeweler Scheetz's paper pins and cosmetics at Thiesen. Mentions a K P lodge meeting and blue collar notices.
A new six room house with all modern improvements is offered for sale by Titus and Jackson. The listing emphasizes updated features and readiness for purchase.
About fifty large 75c cotton blankets in grey or tan go on sale for 48c a pair. These fleecy full-sized blankets are not the small pocket kind. Limited quantity, come Saturday January 18.
Readable sale items include ladies outing gowns priced at 49 cents each from a 75 cent cut, children's underwear at 10 cents each, yard dress ginghams and blankets listed with weights and prices such as 1.98 for a large all wool blanket.
A collage of items notes bargains at Schmidt's Music House and George B. Jackson, real estate deals via Titus & Jackson, and a Chicago Fair sale on underwear. Social updates include Miss Emma Ficken visiting Burlington residents, soprano Louise Llewellyn performing, Rev J B Schwietert visiting, and Miss Nina B. Farr leaving for Aledo Illinois. Also listed are sales on perfume and eczema remedies, theater masque balls, and real estate loan offers.
500 new Edison records received at Schmidt's Master House. The shop touts the new stock as excellent and superior to prior releases, urging customers to hear the discs.
Remember the grand opening Saturday. Come early and examine the premiums. Fa vors for the ladies. Randolph Tea & Coffee Co., 415 Mulberry street. Phone 1043.
The Regent reports another Blasius Piano at a very low price sold at Schmidt's Music Store. It urges buyers to judge for themselves that whatever they manufacture is right and offers confidence in the deal.
A miscellaneous city update including sale of a two-story eight-room house near town area for 1600 dollars, piano sale at 90 dollars, local business mentions, investments, banking settlements, and social activities. Also notes attendance at a Wilton Coe basketball game and upcoming Sunday school meeting.
For rent or sale at bargains. Each item guaranteed in perfect condition at Schmidt's Music House.
Hine Brothers relocate the City Hat Store to 217 East Second Street announcing a daylight gents furnish ings shop update with a wide winter goods sale at the old site for January. Patrons are invited to visit the new location next to Wittich Bros and view the display.
Board lists diverse percentages for Mohawk Pacific and Union Pacific shares with copper and steel readings. The closing figures show narrow moves while specific rail and commodity names appear among contemporaneous percentages. A promotional line for American Tea & Coffee Co. remains in the text with a note on Mrs. Davy ending canvassing.
Miss Laura Jarboe is critically ill at her home on West Fifth street with a threatened attack of typhoid malaria. Friends express hopes for her speedy recovery.
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