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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1908
Page
8
Scattered Muscatine items report the Red Box publicity stunt promising a sensational mystery. Local births note a son to Mr and Mrs John Hagens and to Mr and Mrs Claude Lincoln. Community notes mention weddings, visits, train arrivals, and Riverfront excursions aboard the steamer Columbia.
Frank Ashcraft sells a Clark Jewel gas stove next to the Kemble Hotel promising relief from cares and troubles with this household appliance sale.
Tuesday evening festival at St Matthias church features Our Glorious Flag and Rossini Overture in a program led by Geo Rosenkranz and Prof Pandhet. It includes Semiramide Polka, Flocktonian pieces, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, Cowboy Patrol, Laurel Wreath with baritone Wm Fuhlman, Faust selections, Gounod, Azadoes Two-step, Waltz Beauties Charms, and The Bawlet co. pions.
A Muscatine store promotes a memorable sale of ladies tailored skirts. Specials include Skirts priced at 7.50 marked to 3.48 and 6.50 marked to 2.98. Tuesday July 14 is proclaimed as skirt day with window displays inviting attention.
Breaking our records for volume and value, we announce big savings for Muscatine customers. Earnest efforts bring the best goods from world markets at lower prices than other stores. Tomorrow morning begins a week of special sales with special savings for you.
In Chicago on July 13 the Cubs beat the Phillies 3 0 as Reulbach pitched well for the champs. In the second game Philadelphia shut out Chicago 2 0. Earlier in Philadelphia the White Sox rested after two sixteen inning games and planned a double header next day.
National League results show Chicago beating Philadelphia 3 0 in the first game and Philadelphia 2 Chicago 0 in the second. Boston defeated Cincinnati 4 0 and Brooklyn won 3 2 over St. Louis. Three I League reports Rock Island 5 Cedar Rapids 2. Clinton 4 Dubuque 0 first game. Clinton 2 Dubuque 2 in six innings second game. Decatur 5 Bloomington 4. Peoria 3 Springfield 1. Central Association Burlington 3 Keokuk 9. Waterloo 5 Kewanee 4.
In a compact tally Jacksonville defeated Ottumwa 2 to 1 while Quincy ran up a 4 to 1 win over Oskaloosa. A second Oskaloosa 3 to 1 result against Quincy appears in the fragment with unclear context.
Matchups listed include Philadelphia at Chicago New York at Pittsburg Brooklyn at St Louis Boston at Cincinnati Chicago at Philadelphia St Louis at Washington Detroit at Boston Cleveland at New York.
An advertisement notes Dr. King's New Life Pills from M Haver camp's Prescription Drug Store promising relief from bilious headaches and improved liver and bowel function with a 25 cent price tag.
Russell H. Conwell, praised as the greatest living American by locals, will headline the Columbus Junction chautauqua on Friday August 7 with the lecture Acres of Diamonds. Other attractions include Frank Hayes, the Hruby Brothers, Gideon Carl the impersonator, and a Katherine Ertz Bowden pictorial lecture on Hiawatha.
Grace Allan finished a visit with friends in Oskaloosa and returned Wednesday evening. Elmer Menefee came back from Ottumwa Tuesday to visit his mother. Lizzie and Anna Lagel returned from Washington to see their mother. John Holzworth Jr. is improving and able to sit up. George Schwenka of Sigourney visited his friend George Barn.
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