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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1902
Page
7
A Morristown Tennessee resident recounts ten years of blood poison illness treated by a physician. After starting 8.8.8 the condition improved rapidly and disappeared after six bottles, leaving the writer sound and well.
The column lists local ads and updates, including painting and paper work by E. L. Kemptner, addresses Kemble's and A. L. Lindner’s homecomings, Miss Howery’s departure, Musser and Musser travel for business, John Burkhard en route to Cairo, and Dr. Fowler's Wild Strawberry extract as a cholera infantum remedy.
A. Siegel, proprietor of the Peoples Bargain Store, moves into a new room on June 14 now occupied by Bississi. He will add a full dry goods line including gingham, cambrics, silks, muslins, percales, shirts, denim, and ducking, renaming the business THE PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT STORE.
Shirley Burr of Chicago visits this city for Sunday. Burrows of Buffalo Prairie attends as a business visitor. Louise Rumbacher departs for Kansas City enroute to Albany Oregon. River gauge reads 10.2 feet above low water. Numerous travelers board the Helen Blair and Western for Davenport Rock Island and surrounding towns for visits and summer plans.
Real estate transfers recorded by Titus and Jackson for the Muscatine area include Geo W Coverston et ux to Fred Daut for part of lot 18, sub division northwest quarter of section 35, township 77, range 7 east for 3300 dollars. Wilhelm Schafer to Henry and Mamie Schafer for e 4w lot 33, subdivision northwest quarter of section 85, township 77, range 2 east for 600 dollars. William Wiggins et ux to Joseph P Nichols for land in eastern 669 for 257 dollars. Hugh P Brown to Henry Masenholder for se quarter and se quarter of section 27, township 16, range 4 for 2900 dollars. Joseph L Murphy et ux to George Bannick for lot 6, block 49, Muscatine for 3500 dollars. Otto Huber to Frank Maurath et al for s 55 feet of east 13 lot 5, block 30 Muscatine. Samuel Tarr et ux to Laura L Kent for south 40 feet of lot 9, block 11, Gelme's addition for 1500 dollars. Joseph Alrey et ux to John C Miller for part lot 23 west addition, Muscatine. Ignatz Kridl to Mary Deitrich for north 66 feet and west 180 feet of lot 13 and east 229.56 feet of lots 12 and 13 Cook, Musser & Co sub division Ti dat salen Grandscs wall.
An old advertisement offers a reward for arrh issue cure and claims testimonials supporting F. J. Cheney & Co. Hall's Catarrh Cure is sold for 75 cents per bottle and marketed as internal medicine acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It lists names of druggists and wholesalers in Toledo and Kansas City.
Nickel Plate Show arrives by rail and sets tents on the show grounds. A morning street parade draws large crowds and an afternoon performance attracts many spectators. The lineup includes St Leons from Australia in acrobatics and Emma St Tow, famed wire performer, praised as the best yet. Elsie St. Leon also appears as a top act.
Beginning June 15 the Pennsylvania Lines will run a daily passenger train named The Pennsylvania Special from Chicago to New York in 20 hours. It departs Chicago at noon and arrives New York the next morning at 9. Additional trains, The Pennsylvania Limited, continue as usual. For details contact H. R. Hering, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 248 South Clark Street, Chicago.
John W. Jayne an active 80 year old from Lone Tree Iowa alighted from a Muscatine Western train Saturday evening to visit his son Henry Jayne Muscatine attorney. He told a Journal representative he remains in good health and continues daily as an insurance agent noting he is £ 2 years of age on last January 25. He was clerk of the courts in this county a quarter century ago when Fulton township was his residence. He is temperate in habits and his long preservation offers a lesson for the young.
Low rates to San Francisco Los Angeles California and Portland Oregon on account Imperial Council Nobles of Mystic Shrine San Francisco and National Convention Travelers Protective Association Portland Ore On sale May 27th to June 5th limit 60 days For rates routes and stop overs call out C R I P passenger depot C C Gould Agent
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