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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
4
A reader is urged to visit the store to request a free EREE Sewing Machine information card. Signing costs nothing and carries no obligation, and may grant the signer a high grade sewing machine at no cost.
Petticoats and summer dress goods advertised with sale prices at Ryan Dry Goods Co. Several local names appear among graduates and residents. A feature film is playing at Princess tonight starring Mr F P X Bushman. Also notes on Sunday dinner meats and a Burlington delegation member arriving home.
Miss Allen Tyler, secretary to the Des Moines library commission and a familiar figure in Muscatine, resigns to become director of the library school at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Her resignation takes effect in December.
The Rev. and Mrs. Dick Dystra of Arabia are due to arrive in the city in several days with the Reverend delivering an address here. While in town they will be entertained at the home of Rev and Mrs S DeBrulne.
The New Era Athletic Club hosts the annual opening of New Era Park this evening with music by the New Era orchestra. A varied program features a large turnout expected from nearby residents and refreshments served throughout the event.
Ball Town will be snapped in action and River swimmer pictures will be displayed. Muscatine film crews plan three weeks of touring eastern Iowa with a second reel due after completion. An operator may visit June 17 or 18 to film Geneva island and other local sights, with Commercial club backing. Sioux City may be next. $14.99 and $14 waist sale at Ryan.
Phillip J Fahey, longtime secretary of the library commission, died suddenly at home of his sister Mrs J L Heinemann at 12 25 PM. Born November 25 1856 in this city he was a devout Catholic and graduate of St Matthias school. He leaves a brother T J Fahey and a sister Mrs J L Heinemann. Funeral plans not yet announced.
An old advertisement promotes Wendell s Ambition Pills for nervous debility tiredness and low energy. It touts quick results claiming users feel better within days and compares one box to a two week vacation. Prices list Wendell s Ambition Pills at 60 cents with mail orders via Wendell Pharmacal Co Syracuse NY.
The Muscatine public schools end the term with an exodus of teachers heading home for summer. High school staff depart today and tomorrow, including Flora Ross St Louis Grace Farrell Barnes City Ia Louisa Barker Davenport Panny Hayes Denison Ia Sadie Bailey Iowa City Eleanor Chaffee Chicago Charlotte Smith Aurora Il Mabel Wren Kincaid Kan. Principal elect L H Frantz Helen Coa Elizabeth Hudson and others also leave. Fred B Davis sails to Detroit for summer school and Dr J Harris Werner relocates to Denver to join the American Playgrounds Association. Newty Hicok heads home to Wyoming while Glen B Frag plans to stay several weeks before vacation.
The last of the Sunday evening recitals by the choir and organists will be presented at the Episcopal church this coming Sunday under the direction of the choirmaster. Recitals have been well attended and enjoyed, with warm weather cited as why the series pauses until fall. Kansas City Grain Market reports cash grain prices with wheat and other grains listed, though the text is partially garbled.
Farmer Herman Timm of Blue Grass reports the loss of a stallion valued at 1500 after an automobile collision on the upper River road Wednesday evening. Rumors implicating two local physicians as racers were denied by Dr. A J Oliver who said Dr. E B Falham was there at least an hour earlier.
New York stock list shows prices for Amalgamated Copper American Beet Sugar American Cotton American Smelting American Sugar Refining American Tel Tel Anaconda Mining Atchison Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Brooklyn Rapid Transit Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago & North Western Colorado Fuel Iron Colorado & Southern Delaware & Hudson Denver & Rio Grande General Electric Great Northern Illinois Central Interborough Met International Harvester Louisville & Nashville Missouri Pacific Missouri Kansas Texas Lehigh Valley National Lead New York Central Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific Pennsylvania People's Gas Reading Rock Island Rock Island Southern Pacific Southern Railway Union Pacific United States Steel United Steel Bid Western Union and more, with varied percentage changes and last sale values.
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