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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1901
Page
4
Salt water taffy at Samuel's and new Process Laundry headline a stream of society notes. Mrs. Garrett Davis and Miss Laura Barclay travel to Cedar Rapids and Valparaiso by Western and 9:53 train respectively, with numerous arrivals and departures noted across town including Cedar Falls to Iowa City and Columbus Junction trips.
A large audience attended St Matthias School closing exercises last evening. The program included a devotional hymn, a rainbow drill by the Minims, a dramatic piece on forgiveness, a Dumbbell drill, and a standout operetta The Bell in the Forest with superb solos and choruses. Gold crosses were awarded to Geo Chayka Henry Hoover John Chayka and Lee Fuller for excellent school work.
The One Arm club left today at 1 p m for Hog Island aboard a party including Ed. Graham Jack Irwin Fred Clifford Dr. Birchard and Mr. Brandt They plan to return Monday Batchelor will bring them back. A group of twenty drove to Fruitland last night socializing at the McCormac home. Florence Chatfield, involved in a prior runaway near South Muscatine, was slightly shaken but unharmed. Mrs. Marie Purdy-Peck of Davenport is named Iowa representative at the National Federation of Women meeting. W. L. Johnson of Wilton spent the day in the city on business.
A promotional note praises Mull's Grape Tonic as a safe fruit remedy to combat languor and ambitionless feelings. It claims grape and fruit ingredients plus herbs strengthen the system, suitable for children or invalids, with a large bottle priced at 50 cents. Druggists will stock it. advertised as the ideal spring tonic.
An advertisement promotes Mull's Lightning Pain Killer as a universal remedy. It claims relief for all body aches and pains and suggests both topical application and drinking the product. The text appears as a bold health claim in a stored ad fragment.
Telegram reports the death of Mrs. Louisa Miller 76 of Burlington mother of Mrs. G B Scheetz and Charles and John Miller. Mrs Scheetz hurried to Burlington to be with her mother as she declined. Survived by husband and six children. Funeral set for Sunday in Burlington.
Miss Helen Davis visits her mother Elizabeth Davis musical director of the High school. Bodman delivery team ran away near colliding with vehicles. Howard Bartlett bogey damaged. An item misnamed G R Housel and two children visiting Mr. and Mrs. Swan. Mrs. Margaret Henning returns from California and departs for Cedar Rapids. Omitted names in Madame Meyer's Grand recital included Mabel Jackson and Rita Berry. Mrs H W Morgridge, Mrs Will Norton, Mrs Will McQuesten and Miss Margaret Kulp ride Firefly to Wyoming Hill to spend days at the club house. Messrs. Stafford Mugser and McQuesten go up this evening.
Real estate investor ad touts hundreds of bargains in Muscatine cities and farms. Lists varied properties including houses with ground, multiple lots, acreage near Fulham and Cedar streets, Park Place, Kecklerville, and South Muscatine with prices from a few hundred to several thousand dollars. Also promotes Milwaukee road as a sure thing and urges immediate contact to view maps and bargains.
A brief classified notice promotes inexpensive ads in the Gulurr Journal. It states ads cost one half cent per word with a minimum of 15 cents, payable in advance, and suggests using the classified section to buy sell or exchange items quickly reach a large audience.
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