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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1905
Page
7
Local residents travel for visits and business, with many leaving for Iowa City Grinnell Keota and Bayfield. Dentists doctors and shops advertise hours and services. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promotes cures for children and pains as families plan summer trips and graduation events.
A social dance will be held at the Maple Grove Pavilion one mile south of Wilton on Friday evening June 14. Thomas full orchestra will furnish the music. Everybody invited.
County Auditor Arthur Lawrence reports Muscatine County totals of 261,333 improved acres and combined real and personal property valued at 26,986,500 dollars. Real estate includes town lots valued at 7,915,886 dollars and farming land at 13,590,452 dollars with 21,294,760 dollars in real and personal totals.
Flood recedes across the upper Mississippi. LaCrosse reports crest reached Monday and dykes hold barely as water nears top. The Diamond Jo liners Quincy and Saint Paul will begin season traffic with crew assignments announced for St Paul and St Louis runs.
Coughs colds and lung troubles demand prompt treatment with Dr King’s New Discovery. No cure no pay. 50c or 1.00 at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
Des Moines reports the week ending June 14 was warm and generally favorable for corn and crop growth. Heavy rain in the Mississippi valley caused flooding and damage in many areas, but outside flooded zones corn is fairly good. Small grains, clover, hay, potatoes, garden produce and apples show strong yields across the state.
Iowa Central Railway offers weekly Tuesday round trip tickets to Iowa Minnesota South and North Dakota and the Canadian northwest at one fare plus two dollars. Tickets valid twenty one days with stopovers allowed. For rates contact agents or write A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
Carl Hagenbeck brings a global menagerie to Muscatine on Thursday June 15 featuring elephants and other marvels. The eight African and Asiatic elephants include a bouncing baby born May 10 named after David R. Francis, president of the St. Louis World's Fair, and their mother.
The advertisement urges using Hyomei in spring to cure catarrh quickly. It describes the inhaler based outfit costing one dollar with dropper and bottle, extra bottles for fifty cents, and a personal money back guarantee from J. J. Havercamp. The text touts the vegetable preparation, ozone purification, and wide reach of the antiseptic fragrance through the respiratory tract.
The article extols Eight Sea Lions and ten North Sea Leopard Seals under Hagenbeck. It lauds their intelligence and dexterity in marching, dancing, and trapeze like feats. They perform as musicians, comedians, and acrobats, with a prominent star lineup and a unique act among their species.
After forty years of expansion the J Walter Thompson Company outgrew its Times Building offices and relocated to new offices at Twenty third Street and Fourth Avenue. The single floor provides 13 000 square feet to accommodate the growing advertising giant and give space for work and comfort.
Unclaimed mail at the Muscatine Iowa post office includes a Men's List with Chas A Bridges E Carter Otto Davis C D Evans W W Fairall F Hendricks W B Lane Henry Marolf Geo Patton Winfield Bank and a Ladies List with Mrs Ida May Doty Mrs George Funck Mrs Annie Frese Miss Nellie Karg Mrs Nellie Murs Mrs Grace Newhans. Parties calling for these letters should say Advertised.
The Iowa Central Railway will sell daily summer round trip tickets at one fare plus two dollars to certain northern Minnesota and Dakota points, return by October 31. Low round trip tickets to St. Paul and Minneapolis available daily after June 1. For details contact agents or A. B. Cutts, G. P. & T. A., Minneapolis.
Real bargains on sewing machines at Singer Stores. Buy here and deal with manufacturers. The Singer Company is permanent and responsible with representatives always ready to care for Singer machines. Look for the red S at 323 East Second St Muscatine Ia.
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