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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
8
The Journal offers Lewis Picturesque Muscatines booklets to all subscribers with no advance payment required. New subscribers get them for three months, old subscribers pay 15 cents each. No purchase limit, ideal for sending to absent friends.
President H. H. Seerley of the Iowa State Normal school spoke on The Spirit of the Teacher to a large audience of teachers and locals. Enrollment grows with about 125 on the list as names of enrolled but unpublished participants include Mary E F Whicher Emma F Appel Sophia Hagerman Laura I Nash Frances A Boot Elva Markley Jessie Chamberlain Minnie J Headley Kate OBrien Thos McCulloch Grace L Shepard Maud Meeker Neddess Huff Margaret Leffler Mrs Lavinia Satterthwaite Jessie Althaus Leonard Lamb Peer Penney Ella M Detchon Mary F E Maranna Rose Nebb.
A new line of washingham and seersucker petticoats offered at 75c 87c and 98c. Mercerized petticoats priced from 1.00 to 2.00. Saturday only June 21 a dozen changeable silk petticoats in blue green red black at 3.75 each with original values not less than 6.50.
A catalog of children's parasols in multiple colors priced from 20c to 49c, misses and ladies silk parasols at 50c to 2.50, plus a special line of black and white parasols with decorative handles. Also assorted cheap and midrange steel and silk umbrellas with various handles and sizes.
The Boston Store offers over three hundred skirts ready to wear. Wool skirts priced from 2.50 to 10.00, with silk skirts in stock from 7.50 to 18.00. All are ready to wear and presented as affordable compared with silk costs.
One day sale listing yard and each items including dotted Swiss for sash curtains, white goods, bleached muslin, seamless sheeting, crochet bed spreads, sun bonnets, Damask towels, and satin damask fabric. Diverse yard and item prices noted for 36 inch to 2 yard widths with special sale emphasis.
Sale ad announces new silk linen waists in white light blue pink and linen colors with prices 3.98 4.50 and 5.00. Tomorrow about two hundred white waists in late styles will be offered at 75c 1 1.25 1.38 1.49 1.69 1.87 1.98 2.25 2.50 2.75 3.00 and up to 3.98. Colored waists in pink blue tan red yellow priced 50c to 3.75. White silk wash waists at 3.98 and 5.00. Visit store for waists.
A store advertises Ping Pong corsets at 69c pair in white with summer styles including 445 thin cool corset at 1.00. It lists Royal Worcester, girdle corsets and net summer corsets with multiple price points and a money back guarantee for all customers.
For purest spices and extracts see Bartlett Bros at the old Achter building.
Des Moines area backers push for a new court of appeals located in Des Moines as a judicial recourse. In postal news, twelve new clerks and six carriers will join the Des Moines post office force on July 1. Obituary notes Rev. J. W. Vandewalker of Conrad dies at 67.
The Aid Society of the U B church schedules a one day excursion for June 26 aboard the river steamer J S. Two thousand passengers can be carried. Depart Muscatine at 7 30 a m reach Davenport three hours later return by 6 p m. Round trip 50 cents. children 5 to 12 cost 25 cents. The trip offers seven hours in the tri cities with a lunch counter aboard.
A reflective piece on golf from the Atlantic’s William G. Brown, citing Everard on art science and inspiration shaping driving, approaching, and putting. It notes the sport’s variability from tee to cup and hints at the unpredictable twists of lie and wind.
An operation occurred Tuesday evening on Andrew Donovan's English setter after the dog swallowed a cork from a large mouthed jar. Surgeons including two doctors one veterinary and a dentist, aided by many anxious friends, opened the animal and removed the cork to save its life.
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