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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1907
Page
5
The Y M C A of this city has chartered the steamer Columbia for a moonlight excursion on July 16. Secretary Jameson of the Local Association signed the contract yesterday. A short program and refreshments are planned with local entertainers to be secured. The boat will make one trip and return by car.
Riverside notes report Mrs. Grant Wise ill and L W Cruz arriving from Canada to visit relatives. J L Meeks and Mrs. Younkin visit Mary Younkin and Wm Moore in Iowa City. Eliza Jane Younkin goes to Pasadena for months with her daughter. Joe Rummelhart welcomed a baby girl born Sunday.
Through this medium I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to my sympathizing friends and neighbors for their kindness and their floral offerings and to Shelby Norman Post No. 231 G. A. R. and Major John Circle No. 35 Ladies of G. A. R. for their kindness extended to my sister during her long illness. Robert Armstrong.
Muscatine resorts draw hundreds as spring warmth returns. Sunday saw crowds along the sloughs and in city parks and river cottages. Fishermen reported sunfish bites while families enjoyed shade and leisure, signaling a busy summer ahead.
Growing in popularity, Newbro's Herpicide is advertised to cleanse the scalp of dandruff causing microbes, prevent hair loss, and ward off baldness. Sold by druggists with samples available for 10 cents, and offered in two sizes 50 cents and 1.99, with Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as a local agent.
Fred E. Hayes of Burlington who has been attending to business interests in this city for the past few days returned to his home this morning.
South Muscatine begins rebuilding the new button factory with initial work starting immediately after the project was launched. The effort aims to create a modern facility to boost local manufacturing capacity and jobs.
Construction on the Benham avenue fire wreck rebuild begins with William Ribbink securing the contract. The new brick structure will be larger and modern fronting Benham avenue, about 80 by 30 feet, to be finished in several months.
Five people died in Iowa water incidents yesterday. Thomas Thomas, 11, drowned in the Des Moines River near Eddyville with friends nearby. Andrew Anderson, 20, went under in the Cedar River near Cedar Falls. A 3 year old boy, son of James Crosby, fell in at Mason City while swimming. Harry Price, 11, fell from a log while fishing in the Missouri River at Sioux City. An unidentified man was recovered from the Mississippi River near Dubuque during a search for three men drowned last week.
In Neola Iowa on June 18 the three year old son of M E Carman swallowed a nickel and the coin remained in his throat until the next day. The grandmother Mrs Kimball reached down and hooked the nickel from the child's throat after the parents were away in Omaha. The boy could not swallow anything until the coin was removed.
Tenney's Boston doves fought hard against Chance's Chicago Cubs on the West Side yesterday. The visitors fell 4 to 3 but showed resilience, with Mordecai delivering strong plays in a brisk, tense game. Chicago, Ill., June 18.
Rock Island, June 18. The city bans all night saloons. Mayor Schaffer instructs Marshal Eckhart to enforce the revised ordinances and require saloons to close at midnight and reopen at five in the morning.
Brown pitched strongly for the champion six, his ninth inning strikeouts edging a 2 to 1 win. Bates tripled with one out but Howard and Needham struck out to strand him. In New York on June 18 the weather cooled the players as the team fell 4 to 3 in eleven innings with the winning run on base and none out.
National League games include Chicago 2 Boston 1 and New York 9 St Louis 6 among others. American League scores show New York 4 Chicago 3 in 11 innings and Philadelphia 4 Cleveland 1. Late results list several minor games with Springfield Rock Island Peoria Dubuque Decatur Clinton Bloomington Cedar Rapids.
Burlington defeats Marshalltown 2 to 1 while Ottumwa tops Quincy 4 to 1. Jacksonville wins 6 to 1 at home against Oskaloosa, and Waterloo surpasses Keokuk 8 to 2 in a series of league results.
Today’s schedule lists Boston at Chicago, Philadelphia at Pittsburg, New York at Cincinnati, Brooklyn at St Louis, Chicago at Boston, Cleveland at Washington, Detroit at Philadelphia and St Louis at New York. A note promotes Kirk's Jap Rose toilet and bath scar itis as transparent and readable through, sold by druggists and grocers.
The Grand Trunk Railway System offers special excursion tickets to Philadelphia Saratoga Springs Norfolk Toronto Montreal Halifax Temagami Skoka Wharf and other points with dates in summer and autumn. Details on fares ticket limits stopovers and publications are available from Geo W Vaux A G R T A 155 Adams St Chicago.
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