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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1900
Page
7
The fashion review lauds weavers who craft made to measure suits with light woolens, cool fabrics, and decorative patterns. It highlights French flannel summer wear and a choice line of trousers starting at $5.50, inviting readers to visit for extra pants.
J H Cosgrove operates as Up-to-Date Merchant Tailor located at 110 East 2d Street, upstairs. The ad highlights his tailoring services and prime location for customers seeking alterations and custom garments.
The Muscatine Infirmary of Osteopathy at 212 Linn Street announces readiness to treat diseases of both men and women by Osteopathy as taught at Kirksville Missouri. The notice explains health as natural and disease as unnatural and urges trial if other methods failed with free consultation and examination for thirty days. Office hours are 9 am to 5 pm except Sundays.
Muscatine county Iowa Republicans call a county convention to meet at the courthouse on Saturday July 21 1900 at 2 PM electing seventeen delegates to the Des Moines state convention August 1 1900 and seventeen delegates to the Davenport congressional convention August 16 1900 also to select a county chairman. Township and ward committeemen will call primaries in their precincts to choose proportional delegates.
An advertisement claims a 25 cent bottle of Carboleum mixed in one gallon of water will destroy ants roaches and all pests. It offers a pamphlet or booklet upon request.
W E Battey announces as a graduate optician offering the latest in eyewear and fitting services at 217 East Second Street.
Entries list medicines and sales at Reed and E. L. Graham seeds, people arriving and leaving on the midnight and Young passenger trains, visits in South Muscatine and Davenport, a farm picnic in Hershey's pasture, and a loan ad from the Guarantee Loan Co. at 128 East Secord Street.
The letter from Mrs. C. H. Lowe of Roxbury Massachusetts recounts how Grape-Nuts food cured her years of indigestion after a doctor’s advice to use it every morning. She notes the product is predigested and gentle on the stomach, supports nervous energy, and is suitable for children and adults.
An advertisement claims Beggs Hair Renewer cures scalp diseases stops hair loss and grows hair on bald heads with a satisfaction guarantee. Sold at J J Havercamp's.
Claude Horton buys a new wheel. Miss Settlemire visits from Muscatine at Isaac Abbott's home. Jno Singleton and C. L. Miller of the M W lodge call at Rock Island on the 30th. Cyril Stickney of Columbus Junction visits his mother Mrs. Wm Daniels. McKee and Jean sell their store interest to Fred Coffin and W S McKee. The M W A chapter organized at the school house with attendees from Lone Tree and Nichols. several applications received.
West Liberty notes A Aball on streets again and sickness at Mrs N C Watkins home on East Sixth street. Fred Kincaid visits brother F H Kincaid and wife on Fifth Arden. Snyder leaves for Chicago for a business post as preparations for the glorious fourth begin to fund cemetery improvements. Mrs Sheets, mother to Mrs Chas Polder and Mrs Ed Houslow, fell.
60 acres and multiple city properties with 7 to 10 room houses. Eighth Street near Mulberry features several house and lot combos and 35x140 to 35 ft lots. East Hill and West Side streets list 4 to 8 room homes with barns or furnaces. 80 acres near Annondale California offered for exchange for Muscatine city property. Lots in all city areas available along with general land. Call or write for full particulars.
The incident occurred Monday morning when the woman slipped downstairs at her home, breaking her right arm just below the elbow. The day featured intense heat followed by a heavy rain that refreshed the parched earth and revived gardens and trees.
Miss Jennie Fitzsimons closes a three month term at Forest Hill with a detailed program of recitations songs and readings featuring Ar line Arzt August Roll Washington and other students. Visitors at a Forest Hill picnic include numerous locals and families while corn and hay work commence as the 1900 school year ends June 29.
Lou Ritter bought a Champion mower in Columbus. Gipple built an 80 foot water tower after a 125 foot well drilled. Mrs. Blake returns to Keota after a two week visit. Harry Carpenter shipped hogs to Guy Kutler in Grandview at four dollars seventy five cents per hundred. Visitors to town included Mrs. Littrell and family Fanny and Jesse George Frank McColms and Oren Lee.
A damaged ad claims delays are dangerous and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal cure. It asserts the medicine cleanses bad blood and treats ailments like erroida and rheum while urging immediate use.
The past week showed slightly above normal temperatures with a heat spike and damaging local storms on the 26th and 27th. Widespread rainfall boosted moisture, crops improved, corn fields are clean, haying advances, oats and wheat mature, potatoes grow well though bugs and rust appear, apples vary with lower central yields. rail news from Wapello Tribune cites Santa Fe influence on Iowa Central Railroad and regional competition.
Pain relief product advertised as Mull's Lightning Pain Killer with a claim of fast action and availability from druggists. appears as a compact old fashioned medical advertisement.
The Nickel Plate adv supports summer tourism with No 4 departing Chicago 2 30 p m offering daily express service to Niagara Falls St Lawrence river Thousand Islands Adirondack Catskill Rochester Syracuse Rome Utica and all points in the Genesee Mohawk valleys and to northern eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey El mira Binghamton Scranton WilkesBarre and Chautauqua Lake Also for 35 cents to one dollar meals on dining cars No excess fare Rates lowest Write wire or phone or visit agent J Y Calahan general agent 111 Adams street Chicago Ill No 2
In a Washington Star anecdote Erastus Pinkley describes how he drew crowd attention at a convention claiming people rose in their seats to see him. He recalls not giving a speech but bringing a bucket of ice water and a glass.
R O Childs of Peoria Indiana praises Beggs German Salve as the best general household remedy curing cuts burns scalds old sores and all skin diseases with permanent pile cure claims at J J Havercamp's.
Stop that cough right away with Mull's Lightning Cough Cure priced at 25 cents.
The National Wall Paper company announces dissolution after eight years of operation. President Henry Burp cites doubled competition, scattered production, and consumer taste factors as reasons. Board favors dissolution and plans to transfer plants to prior owners. Directors to meet July 17 to finalize closing and plan asset reconsolidation.
Reports from Champaign Uts note a new corn enemy found by University of Illinois investigators. A small white grub damages corn by feeding on surface roots, linked to grass land infestations. The brown calaspis brunnea beetle lays the grub eggs, and farmers are asked to help locate the pest and its spread.
Roberts county reports a California death, a vanished husband, a wife who remarried to Kennedy, and a later appearance of the supposed dead man demanding money. The case mirrors the classic Enoch Arden plot with marriage and divorce outcomes. In Wisconsin a coroner jury faulted railway officials for mismanagement and a train engineer for slow braking in a wreck.
Richard Raddatz, inventor of the Raddatz submarine, reports successful tests in Milwaukee Bay Sunday. The cigar shaped craft covered over four miles at eighteen feet depth as negotiations for sole control of the patents proceed with U S and foreign governments.
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure purportedly acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, described as a regular prescription from reputable physicians. Sold by druggists for 75 cents, with testimonials offered. F. J. Cruze ty & Son, Toledo Ohio. Hall's Family Pills also recommended.
Four years more of the Advance Agent of Prosperity are proposed in the editorial with calls for continued policy, discussing potential impacts, and urging readers to support the extension amid ongoing political debate.
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