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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
14
A column of home remedies and beauty tips detailing canthrox shampoo, an eye tonic with crystal dissolved in water, and weight loss through a dissolved parnous solution. It also covers a skin lotion recipe, a hair tonic with quinzain, a spring tonic for energy, a cream jelly for mature skin, and a delatone facial hair remover with price notes.
Miss Ruth Waters of Atalissa visits Muscatine and returns home. Mrs. C. C. Whitney of Atalissa visits city friends. Mrs. H. L. Husted leaves for Iowa City. Mrs. O. Moylan departs for Wilton after city visit. J. Y. Wickersham attends Masonic convention in Cedar Rapids. G. A. Riemcke to Cedar Rapids for Grand Mason session. Mrs. F. E. Martin visits East Ninth Street home. Louise Severs accompanies her home. Local ads note A B C Kidney Tea and clean-up sale on buggies and wagons.
Shake into your shoes to relieve painful tender feet and bunions. It makes tight shoes feel easy and relieves sweating callous swollen tired feet. Break in new shoes with Allen's Foot-Ease. Sold everywhere 25 cents. Free trial package by mail from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Readers learn of a claimed universal cure for catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The ad offers $100 to any case unresolved, cites testimonials, and lists Toledo, Ohio as the address for the makers F. J. Cheney & Co, with druggists selling at 75 cents.
Miss Florence Asay a seventeen year old factory employee in Muscatine attempted to take carbolic acid near Third and Cedar streets after losing her job at Richards Smith Button plant. A note read I am tired of living. She was found in a comatose state by Special Officer Burke and rushed to Bellevue Hospital. she survived. Her parents live near Illinois City.
Samuel Corporan, an eighty year old resident of Cincinnati, Appanoose County Iowa, visits Muscatine and recalls the cholera epidemic of 1849. He finds old friends gone or unrecognizable and wanders the streets with only memory to connect him to Muscatine of the past.
South Muscatine honors Civil War veterans gathering in the city by renewing old acquaintances and conducting camp activities. Businesses and homes display national colors with flags and bunting along Grandview Avenue and front yards, creating a patriotic, festive streetscape.
Delegates from sixty three Iowa counties attended the state Sunday school convention at Cedar Rapids with a total registration of 508. Women outnumbered men 287 to 221 and twenty two denominations were represented. Forty pastors and 98 superintendents helped run the event described as the most successful in the association’s forty six assemblies.
A heavy stone about the size of a bushel basket with a spike was unearthed during sewer work on Second street. It was used to drive piles for early 1840s piers over Papoose Creek and had been lost during construction. Identified by William Kennedy, it was presented to the civic association and likely placed in Durham parking.
A. W. Morgan states Foley's Kidney Remedy is especially recommended for chronic kidney and bladder issues. It aims to regulate and control kidney action and is described as healing, strengthening, and bracing.
Captain Henry F. Lange of Company C returns home from arduous marches at San Antonio Texas accompanied by his wife joining him in Kansas City. He chairs the G A R encampment reception committee and brings a tan from climate with 110 degree shade readings. He served with Co E 28th Infantry 3rd Brigade the most experienced regiment in maneuvers.
Miss Flossie Holliday of Fairport stays with Fred Holliday in Muscatine after a morning visit. Her Fairport brother arrives to take her home but quarrels prompt two Hill police calls. No arrests or warrants issued as officer Nober resolves the incidents.
Edward Rabbit of 1200 East Second Street hatched thirty bantam eggs, a potential local record, with all chicks healthy. Bantams are noted as strong setters and may yield 30 chicks this fall if luck favors. East Hill locals report neighbors Charles and Mrs Smith leaving for Moscow and visits by Mrs Seltz to East Fifth Street, while William Lewis visits relatives in Ardon.
The Iowa State Federation of Labor annual convention opened in Sioux City Iowa with Mayor A A Smith delivering a welcome address to delegates and federation president A L Urick giving the response.
A quiet Japanese bellboy at a Boston hotel sails home aboard the Romanic to become Prof Yoshio Tanikwa head of philosophy at Kyoto University. He earned a Harvard MA last year and a bachelor’s degree from a Minneapolis college, and he has not explained his decision.
Prof Tanikwa who is a student, bell boy, and special commissioner of the Japanese Buddhist charitable association will sail on the Romanic and visit major charitable institutions in Europe before returning to Japan. He weighs money versus study of practical philosophy.
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