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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1906
Page
8
Colin Mercantile Co promotes a day excursion on the steamer Columbia June 14 with 60 cent trips and discounts on children’s wear. Multiple citizens travel to nearby towns by Western and Columbia trains. local orders, dental notices, and band concerts fill the day.
We express heartfelt thanks to neighbors friends Ban ner lodge No. 10 D of H Court of Honor lodge Irving Temple Rath bone Sisters for sympathy and floral tributes during the illness and death of our daughter and sister Emma Olga Engel. Mr. and Mrs J J Engel and Family.
The menu for the Y W C A Cooking School on Saturday features Cream of Tomato Soup Fish Rarebit Mayonnaise Dressing Cheese Puffs Almond Pudding and Almond Cream Sauce.
In nine weeks at major Iowa cities only 51 men have enlisted for the navy. Muscatine reports four new recruits, including F. G. Kost, with others awaiting Saturday departure to Norfolk yards. Five applicants failed exams, two for color blindness and spine curvature, while a deserter returns to face possible court martial. Lieutenant Comfort contrasts modern battleships with older ships and describes daily routine aboard.
The ship's day begins with morning trades at 7:00 a m and ends with watch duties after 9:00 p m. Activities include drills from 9:30 to 11:15, target practice, meal breaks, seamanship instruction, shoeing out, shore leave, sports ashore, and band entertainment, with two shifts of watches at sea and ready duties for all hands.
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney cure as a way to make sound kidneys and cure kidney and bladder diseases. It claims the remedy strengthens the whole system and is sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Des Moines Iowa reports show a weekly average temperature 3 to 5 degrees above normal and uneven rainfall across the state. High winds during the week hastened moisture loss and raised hay and grain concerns, though corn progress remains strong. County reports list condition estimates for crops with corn 99 percent, wheat 98, oats 96, barley 96, rye 97, flax 94, potatoes 101, tame hay 92, pastures 95.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills for constipation. The pitch claims quick relief at 25 cents, sold by Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
An explosion at a Fireworks station on the outskirts of East St. Louis Illinois today left George Beckman and Henry Brockmeyer in serious condition and possibly fatally injured. The blast damaged the factory building, shop 17, where 1,600 giant firecrackers were stored and detonated.
About 1000 feet of the bridge linking Galveston Island to the mainland burned this morning in Houston Texas. The fire occurred in the early hours and caused significant disruption to travel between the island and the mainland. No injuries were reported. Authorities investigated the blaze and assessed structural damage to the span.
Fragmentary text notes Galveston’s isolation from external contact except by sea transport. The remark underscores a strategic push to maintain maritime links while severing other connections.
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