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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1902
Page
8
Short items report bus trips to Rose Hill and Conesville, a Chicago trip on Firefly, Scheetz selling chinaware, Kemble as only county book source, a 25 cent couple concert at Armory Hall, and several social visits. Attending attorneys and Masonic and Rathbone meetings are noted along with family visits and car changes.
Townspeople are told the price for entry to the Mechanics Concert and dance at the Armory tomorrow night is 25 cents. The 25c admission is stated as the full price with no extra charges.
The Muscatine area prepares for the Southeastern Iowa Lumbermen's association visit on Feb 4 with a program at Grand hotel and Commercial club rooms. Local dealers plan entertainment including a performance of David Harum at the Grand opera house for about a hundred visitors from regional saw mills and lumber shippers.
Entertainment at the Armory hall impressed attendees as the Mechanics band concert and dance drew a crowd. Admission was 25 cents a couple.
A shoe store advertises a stock of durable rubbers for wear and daily use. Leysen's Shoe Store promotes a varied selection of long lasting rubber footwear.
In a note from the West Hill mission workers the writer thanks a dozen or more members of the B Y PU of the First Baptist church for their prayers and testimonies. The letter invites another group, young and old, to meet Tuesday at 7 45 p.m. The Leader.
The Rathbone Sisters announce the second number in their series to be held at Armory Hall one week from tomorrow evening February 4. The Mechanics band also presents the fourth dance in its series at Armory Hall tomorrow night. The events are growing in popularity with good attendance and lively social activity.
The 17 story granite and limestone hotel on Seventy third to Seventy fourth streets and Broadway will be the world’s largest. Built by W E D Stokes it costs 5 million dollars with 2200 rooms. It will house a giant telephone exchange and 18 elevators, plus a top floor dining room and a basement pool for 500.
The German Evangelical synod of North America established Emmaus home for epileptics and idiots near Marthasville Missouri in 1893 and expanded to a 110 acre farm near Ft. Charles St Louis. The facility admits all faiths, charges 200 annually for paying patients, and emphasizes spiritual and medical treatment. Rev G Niebuhr will preach at German Evangelical church Muscatine January 29.
The Never-Get-Left club gathered Saturday evening at Chas. Haifleich’s Fast Second Street home for games and a delightful social, with dainty refreshments served.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas are presented as a government endorsed health resort for rheumatism neuralgia grippe and other ailments. It highlights a winter climate about 200 hotels and directs readers to contact B C R N ticket agents or Jno G Farmer for information and illustrated books from the Bureau of Information in Hot Springs Arkansas.
The Armory will provide 600 chairs for the crowd attending the band concert tomorrow night instead of 4099 to ensure seating. Admission is 25 cents per couple.
Advertisements and notices: Pitchforths offers groceries, Dr Pentzer eye specialist at 217 E Second St, Kemble's lists vacant lots 159 to 750 across the city, river gauge 2.7 above low water, Hirt & Griffith stock sale, Shore Acres performance, Hawkeye Dry Powder Fire Extinguisher demo by B T Chamberlain tomorrow at 2, to aid local business people, sleighing crowds enjoy winter scenery and demand outpacing city sleighs after recent snowfall.
Sir Thomas Lipton extols industry and honesty as keys to success. He cites a long workday and disciplined judgment as essential, arguing wealth and health come from sacrifice and dedication to one calling.
Canned corn, extra fine, three for a quarter offered at Pitchforth's.
They announce traveling south for the winter using the Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern line for direct routes through Chicago or St Louis. Rates are advertised as the lowest on this line and agents are ready to provide routes to winter tourist resorts. Call or write any agent for full information.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railway offers a ten color calendar featuring six Moran paintings. The calendar comes in six sheets sized 10 by 12 inches and costs twenty five cents. Send payment to P A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago for delivery.
Luxurious trains run on a limited schedule on the Lehigh Valley railroad route. The Black Diamond Express offers through tickets to New York and Philadelphia with stop-overs allowed at Niagara Falls.
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