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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1909
Page
2
The seller explains the motive for offering gas ranges is to promote gas usage rather than profit from ranges. They stress they will not push inferior products and insist on stocking the best lines to advance the gas business.
Dr. Monger of Spencer personally pushed a bill through Des Moines to empower counties to tax themselves for TB hospitals. The new law recognizes that state facilities cannot treat all cases, with about 10 000 needing care. counties must provide local beds to admit patients and advance prevention efforts. The measure relies on local sacrifice and fits a broader plan to battle tuberculosis statewide.
At an unannounced session the Muscatine council blocked Alder M. H. Hess by laying an ordinance on the table and keeping Benjamin’s lighting bid in play. The old contract with Citizens' Railway & Light Co. remains in force at 90 dollars per light, with Benjamin offering 82.50, as bids for new lighting are debated.
The passage notes a businessman's requirement that a young man be capable of managing his own finances and affairs before employing him. It emphasizes self discipline as the first test for a promising young manager.
Rev. B. C. Preston left this morning for Cedar Rapids to speak tomorrow at the First Congregational church Beaver Park and a union service at Trinity Methodist church. The talks begin a series preparing for the arrival of Rev. William A. Sunday in October.
In Muscatine a week produced six appendicitis cases all successfully operated. Doctors note the unusually high number with no known contagion and consider berries with small seeds as a possible contributing factor.
Mrs B F Keables and Mrs R R Beard of Pella ta mother and sister of Mrs J B Smith are guests at the Smith home on Walnut street.
Major John Circle holds an ice cream social on the Hess lawn at 110 Brook Street with music by the Ladies' Yeoman band. The event, moved from July 16 to July 20 due to the St Matthias festival, aims to provide a pleasant evening.
A. W. Morgan, Druggist, touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as stopping chronic coughs and strengthening lungs. It allegedly heals chronic bronchitis asthma hay fever and other lung troubles and offers comfort in severe cases.
Improvement to be made at Gas Works. A new gas holder near Third and Orange streets will store 151 000 cubic feet, triple the size and four times the capacity when filled. Costing about 15 000 dollars, Amos Kemble of Muscatine won the foundation contract, with Kerr Murray Manufacturing of Fort Wayne to erect the steel tank, a two lift telescopic design. The upgrade follows higher gas use this year.
The morning and evening service at the Christian church will be conducted by Rev J Mad Williams of Des Moines a former pastor. He will meet with old friends and acquaintances during his visit to West Liberty Iowa.
Real estate transfers listed by G M Titus cover transactions in Muscatine Iowa and nearby townships. Names include Carl M Timm to Christian Weiss Henry Umlandt to U S government Milton Metzger to Rosa Brase A McCullough to Martha Hedrick Ada Gresham to Milton Metzger Jennie P Knott to Titus Loan Co Thomas C Killian to H F Stutzer John H Eversmeyer to Louise Eversmeyer and others with prices ranging from 1 dollar to 3850 dollars and noted sections townships and additions.
Former Reformed Church pastor Rev. Garret Flickena will preach at the Muscatine institution in morning services, delivering the sermon to the congregation. Details on the afternoon service were not provided in the readable text.
Mary Woodruff of Columbus Junction spent yesterday in the city visiting friends and enjoying the day.
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