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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1906
Page
8
Public notice of deep cuts on ladies and children's muslin wear. Gowns with tucked yoke and embroidery, drawers in multiple styles, including umbrella and lace trimmed, priced from 12c to 3.98, with bold reductions on corset covers and skirts.
Parasols offered at steep discounts with white linen hemstitched options and silk varieties in multiple colors. Items historically priced up to $2.50 are now reduced to $1.00 per parasol for ladies girls and children with several low price points listed.
A sale advertises silk ribbons in various widths from Nos 22 to 100 and 5 inch ribbons. Ribbons normally worth up to 40c per yard are offered at 19% of that price, promising substantial savings and appeal to shoppers.
Local notes mention a river excursion Saturday night on the Columbia and Blair with 25 cent fare for gentlemen and ladies. Several residents depart or return via trains, including Nellie Portman to Lone Tree and Mrs. Casper to Davenport. Dental services offered by H Rupp at 128 West Second Street.
Dentists and neighbors travel to visit kin, friends, and relatives across towns. Several residents board the Milwaukee Wilton Helen Blair and Firefly trains for short trips to Ames Davenport Ottumwa West Liberty and Arden. A Columbia boat excursion is rerouted to transfer passengers to the Helen Blair with modest fares.
One hundred pair hot weather corsets in thin cool batiste at 25¢ each. All sizes 18 to 24. Two hundred Royal Worcester corsets in long hip silk girdle tape girdle long or short hip all sizes 18 to 30 at 50¢. Many $1.00 to $1.25 corsets in the lot. The best corsets in town at Boston Store.
A. C. Windau of Winona Minnesota unveils a device to separate pearls and slugs from clam meat. The two chamber design uses a sieved inner can and a dasher mechanism to stir thoroughly, saving hours per batch and aiding river clamming operations.
During a test using one bushel of clams the meat was processed in two kettles. Pearls and slugs sank to the outer kettle and passed through a sieve, leaving about a hundred slugs washed out, twenty five of fair size, with half too small to be recovered by ordinary searching.
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