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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
7
City pay rolls include police, clerical, and alderman salaries totaling hundreds of dollars. Monthly department reports cover finance, licenses, street work, sewer and gas funds, church and cemetery expenses, and public collections in Muscatine for June 1909.
Dr E H Kins offers general practice and surgery. Fair Oaks lots pitched as profitable. Mrs L Friederichsen returns from Wilton. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store. Earl Eversmeyer departs for Seattle to attend the exposition and plans western relocation.
Advertisements urge buying Fair Oaks lots with promises of growth and home building. Mentions White's corner candy shop and various residents visiting Muscatine, Wilton, Letts, and Washington while promoting Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for health and baby care. Only 100 lots available.
The finance committee presents monthly city business reports detailing expenditures and collections. Ten county officials submit self explanatory summaries of their respective departments' activities and financial status.
City Finance Committee met in regular session on June 15 at 8 p m in the City Recorder’s Office. Aldermen Hahn chairing with Holmes Leu and Hartwig present. bills examined found correct and recommended for payment from designated funds and appropriations.
Letter excerpts from Mrs E Hanson of Columbus Ohio and Mrs Charles Barclay of Graniteville Vermont highlight how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aided during change of life and nervous symptoms. The notices promote the remedy as a standard female health treatment backed by thirty years of use.
Month ending report shows Cemetery Fund income from lot sales and partial payments totaling 18.50 with a balance. General Fund receipts include four license fees 2.00, ground rent 60.00, dog tax collected and related entries totaling 212.25. Officers Binbuff and Smith collected the dog tax.
Miss Barbara Kral of Highlandtown Maryland reports severe eczema for ten months with intense itching. After trying doctors and remedies she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and was finally relieved after four to five applications and two sets. She now recomends Cuticura to others.
A warm bath with Cuticura Soap and gentle anointing with Cuticura Ointment relieve itching burning and rashes in infancy and childhood. Purest emollients may aid rest and speedy cure when other remedies fail. Sold worldwide by Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston. La Free Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases.
Statement covers May 17 to June 15, 1909 listing Sub-districts 11 13 15 16 1 and Main Nos 1 3 with respective amounts 10.03 17.438 23.89 8.53 7.08 and a paving district total of 207.97 plus a 282.11 balance presented as miscellaneous notes and a random string.
Mrs Louis Walker returned home after visiting her daughter Mrs F H Schmitt. Mrs Rice came back from an over Sunday visit in Illinois. The Lobdell family moved from Nadine's south end to Metcalf's north end on Main Street. Mrs Lobdell and daughter came to keep house for her sons. Local funeral attendees included Dora Nichols Flora Stephens Eva Jean Anna Sutton J Meiskey A V Hesser G A Craton Ida Nash Sue Maple Maude Hesser Edna Hesser E J Stafford and Geo Richter. Mrs William Quimby and granddaughter Nina shopped in West Liberty. Mrs Mac Jamison shopped in West Liberty. Minnie Jamison returned from Davenport to be with her parents. Vida Merrill of Mediapolis, who taught in Lone Tree, visited Flora Stephens between trains. Maude Jamison is ill with measles in West Liberty. Geo Hamilton of Parlin Orendorf Plow Co Canton Tl attended Nichols. Mr Collins of Letts attended to business in Nichols.
A security order impacts the Gold Model Flour Mill, suggesting a regulatory action or inspection affecting its operations. Details are sparse but indicate official oversight linked to the milling facility. Named entities include Gold Model Flour Mill and regulatory authorities.
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