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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1908
Page
8
Stupendous sale of two hundred ready made dresses lingerie dresses jackets and skirts all on sale for the chautauqua. Buy now and save as wash dresses must be sold in the next ten days. Wear to the chautauqua with minimal effort and great reductions.
A midcentury sale lists girls muslin drawers in various sizes and prices from 9 to 19 cents, ladies cambric muslin drawers, corset covers with lace trim, and white muslin gowns and skirts. Also advertised are long full skirts with embroidery flounce and aprons in gingham, all pitched as great value for hot weather wear.
Andrew Becke of East Seventh street returned home from Sterling Illinois after visiting his brother. For sale items include a good house and full lot priced at 500 dollars, alongside Sleepy Eye Flour grocer reference and a Red Box Mystery note. Stirlen and Rowan are listed.
Y M C A excursion tonight features Buggies Babcock's and Studebaker's. Second boat leaves 9 p m. Lawn Festival on St Mat thi as hill on 14th inst. Rev B C Preston on a short Rock Island trip. Miss Marie Carpenter visits in city while Cora Smith plans Chicago trip. The Model laundry ad and Red Box Mystery promos appear amid local notices.
First boat leaves at 7 30 tonight for a Y excursion with light refreshments and a grand band concert on St Matthias Hill this evening. Miss Elizabeth Hodges travels to Chicago for a short visit. Mr and Mrs L Baker of Chicago leave Davenport after visiting friends. Miss Josetta Stanton returns home from Davenport. several Davenport residents depart for Fairport and Columbus Junction for family reasons and visits with relatives. Tickets for the Y excursion are 25 cents.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a cure for burns sores piles cuts wounds and ulcers sold at Haver camp's Prescription Drug Store priced 25 cents.
Advertisement notes a Clark Jewel gas stove for sale by Frank Ashcraft located next to Kemble.
The store promotes two major sales of wool and linen suits ahead of the chautauqua. Prices range from 4.98 for wool and wash suits to 8.00 10.00 and 12.00 for wool and linen jackets and suits, with original values up to 25.00. Ready made dresses and jackets complete the summer offerings.
Women urged to compare prices as two hundred white and colored waists on sale for 98 cents each, with sizes 34 to 44. Tailor made pieces and finer waists originally $3.50 to $5.00 now offered at deep discounts.
A big religious campaign is planned at the Mulford Congregational church in Muscatine for fall. Rev. W. H. Thomlinson favors general revival to boost church work and discussions include bringing a prominent evangelist or several well known ministers.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a guaranteed cure for coughs and colds with prices 60 cents and one dollar. It mentions Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store as the outlet.
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