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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
7
Health and Beauty notes offer home remedies for hair cleansing with canthrex shampoo, eye tonics, weight loss tinctures, skin whitening lotion, dandruff remedies, facial masks, and hair removal pastes. Includes recipes using canthrex, cryne tom, parnotis, sparmax, almoroin, delatone, and other tonics marketed as inexpensive cures for hair loss, oily skin, freckles, pimples, and aging skin.
Local page lists visitors from Atalissa and Davenport, plus residents traveling to Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. Advertisements cover A-B-C Family Tea, repairs at Bowman's, clean-up sales on buggies and wagons, and a local loan firm. Also notes a prison convention delegate and a Mason convention, with a catarrh cure promotion and a $100 reward offer.
Nearly 1,000 delegates attended the 68th annual Iowa Masonic Grand Lodge session in Cedar Rapids with J W Barry delivering welcome remarks. Grand Master K Craig presided as officers and past grands gathered at the Masonic library before marching to Greene's Opera House for the public program.
Flor Asay a 17 year old from Muscatine tried to kill herself with carbolic acid near Third and Cedar Streets. Special Officer Burke found her comatose on a terrace and she was taken to Dr. Klein, then Bellevue Hospital. she survived. A note read I am tired of living. Miss Asay had lost work during a labor dispute and had recently returned from Rock Island to visit family near Ilinois City.
Samuel Corporan of Cincinnati, Iowa, eighty, revisits Muscatine after sixty years away, recalling the cholera epidemic of 1849. He finds old friends gone or altered, wanders the streets unable to recognize landmarks, and memories link him to Muscatine’s past as he visits the office.
South Muscatine honors Civil War veterans by gathering in the city and conducting Encampment activities. Many residences and businesses display national colors with flags and streamers. The scene shows extensive patriotic decoration, including a Grandview Avenue residence nearly engulfed in red white and blue.
Muscatine delegates hail Cedar Rapids session as most successful in the association’s 46 assemblies. Record attendance from 63 counties, total delegates 608 with 287 women and 221 men. Forty pastors, 98 superintendents, 98 teachers and other officers attended. Sixteen Kappa Delta members held a Weed park picnic after the Mulford chapel meeting. Local notes: Hershey Hospital patient improvement, Letts resident return home, Zeigler Canning GM’s west trip.
A bushel sized stone with an inch spike, lost during early 1840s pier driving on Second Street over Papoose Creek, was found during sewer excavation. Identified by William Kennedy, son of the bridge builder who was told of its existence, it will be presented to the civic association and likely placed in Durham. FOLEY'S KIDNEY REMEDY is noted for chronic kidney and bladder trouble.
Captain Henry F. Lange of Company C arrives home with his wife from Army maneuvers at San Antonio Texas. He resumes duties as chairman of the reception committee for the G A R encampment. The unit, praised for experience, had trained in Lee Springs and San Antonio under General Carter. Local practice sessions were held on town streets ahead of the state encampment.
Sioux City Ia June 13 The annual convention of the Iowa State Federation of Labor opens with Mayor A A Smaith delivering a welcome to delegates and President A J Urick responding.
Miss Flossie Holiday of Fairport stayed with Fred Holliday on East Fifth Street in Muscatine. Her Fairport brother arrived to take her home but tensions grew and police were summoned both morning and evening to separate the Holiday family. No arrests or warrants were issued. Roy Mann, 11, reportedly struck Mrs. Lewis’s daughter on Fifth Street. Officer Nober mediated without charges.
East Hill locals report Edward Rabbit of 1200 East Second Street hatched thirty chicks from two bantams last week, a potential record as bantam hens prove strong setters. Nearby, Mr and Mrs Charles Smith left for Moscow after visiting William Lewis, with Mrs Soltz staying at Griffen’s home on East Fifth Street. William Lewis also visits relatives in Ard on.
A stylish Japanese bellboy at a Boston hotel is set to return to Japan with a new title Professor Yoshio Tanikwa. Head of philosophy at the University of Itioto Yoshio earned a Harvard MA after a year in grad school and a bachelor’s from Minneapolis. The reason for leaving the bellboy job remains undisclosed.
A Tokyo student bell boy named Tanikwa, also a special commissioner of a Buddhist charitable association, smiles at the idea of money and study alike. He occupies a first cabin on the Romaine and plans a staged return to Japan visiting notable European charitable institutions.
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