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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
10
Overstocked store invites customers to Saturday sale with a 20 percent cut from lowest prices on lace curtains. Cur tains offered at prices from $1.00 to $10.00 per pair, with a polished pitch urging buyers to visit for the deal.
Saturday sale offers three umbrella lines at deep discounts. Ladies 26 inch silk umbrellas in multiple colors with borders reduced from 2.00–2.50 to 1.49. Heavy twill silk and linen 26 inch umbrellas with varied finishes priced at 0.98 each. Children’s 26 inch cotton umbrellas in red sold at 0.39.
Crowd pleaser sale offers waists priced 98c to 2.50 with lace and embroidery trims in sizes 34 to 44. Shoppers urged to visit for value and selection on Saturday.
On Saturday June 6, the Boston Store in Muscatine offers fifty all wool jackets in latest styles at 2.50, down from 5.00 to 6.50. Choose from checks and stripes in the greatest ready to wear department. Come Saturday for jackets.
Mrs Fanny Reeves of Fairport shopped in the city today. An 80 acre exchange for city property is discussed with Stirlen and Rowan, phone 466 X. Leonard Westrate leaves for Aurora Illinois for a few days of visiting relatives. Miss Xiary Reed departs from 1107 Lucas Street for home in Philadelphia Pa.
Short notes record various residents visiting Davenport and nearby towns. Mentions include Mrs. F M Rhodes of Davenport, Mrs N Plessy leaving Green Street for Davenport, Miss Mabel Sell heading to Fairport relatives, Miss Carolyn Wiegand traveling to Rock Island, Miss Tezglah Rinnert going to Montpelier Pennsylvania, Mrs George A Tilton visiting in Bakersfield, and others. Also advertising candy, ice cream sodas, a Babcock buggy, and a choir boys excursion on June 9 with Paudhet's band.
The article reports a hardship period for coastal fishermen as catches dwindled and prices slipped, leaving crews facing tight budgets, stalled boats, and uncertain fishing seasons. Community crews seek relief through aid and shared resources.
Property holders favor a permit for Citizens railway and light to install a switch on East Second street near Park avenue. The improvement will ease Hill car service and help handle crowds to Weed park for the Fourth of July. no extensive damage yet from high Mississippi flood waters and fishing season remains poor.
Mrs. J B Gaumer and daughter Wilona return to Fairfield after a visit. Miss Besse Hanft closes Cotter school with a picnic. Miss Mabel Foster ends Short Creek term similarly. Families travel between Muscatine Waterloo and Iowa City for visits and medical care. The county Sunday school convention meets Friday June 12 with three sessions. Mrs. George Remley and baby plan to move to Cimarron New Mexico. Mr Letts will accompany, others remain. The Colton family and A P Thoman party plan time in Koehler New Mexico and Riverside visits continue.
Electa Chapter O E S conducted memorial rites for twenty three members. They gathered at Mrs. Arthur C Brandt home on West Third street at 2 p m and moved to the cemeteries for Eastern Star memorial services. The year’s dead include Mrs F L Schwertfeger Miss Gertrude Cole and Mrs Jacob Worst.
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