Unclear loyalty to family over home funding
Fragmentary line notes dissatisfaction with family loyalty and a poor home, urging availability of a few hundred dollars for a first payment to proceed.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
8
Fragmentary line notes dissatisfaction with family loyalty and a poor home, urging availability of a few hundred dollars for a first payment to proceed.
An afternoon Sunday trip to Oquawka on the steamer W. W. is advertised leaving Muscatine at 3 p m and returning at 11 p m. The 50 cent fare covers round trip with a fine orchestra and orderly conduct. Readers are urged to join and enjoy the river voyage.
Miss Lillian Bridgeford of Des Moines spoke on reading in the public schools as Mrs Amalia Schmidt Gobble sang two solos to applause at the Muscatine high school teachers institute. Attendance nears a record as the program stresses teacher reading skills and student reading outcomes.
Miss Bridgeford argues for a better grade of conversation among American youth through reading aloud and elocution. She stresses cultivating oral expression, loving great writers, and early memorization of poems, ending with a practical classroom demonstration for teachers. She plans a second lecture tomorrow morning at 19 o'clock and a children’s class at 1:30 PM.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for serious bowel trouble. The pitch emphasizes a Terrific Fate to suffer and urges warding it off at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store for 25 cents.
The regular monthly meeting of the city council is held this evening at city hall. Reports from committees will be heard and routine business transacted. The Schaefer ordinance may be discussed with no action likely. Residents of improvement district No 23 may object to paving plans. Engineer Ryan will present foundation specs for the Weed park cannon.
A. M. Henderson was declared mayor of Marengo by Judge James W. Bollinger after a series of election contests. The final ruling counted rejected ballots and gave Henderson a six vote majority, with possible supreme court action.
East Hill children hunted for lost articles on the Forepaugh Sells circus grounds and recovered a pocketbook with 2.25, a small chatteleine watch, and numerous other items as boys found coins near a lemonade stand. Local residents visited relatives and circus spectators were noted among East Hill residents.
City from Clinton Iowa notes last night R O Price and son Charles visited friends on Smalley avenue and returned to their home near Fruitland this morning Frank Bielefeldt also spent yesterday in Clinton Iowa attending the state firemen's tournament.
Advertises Electric Bitters at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as a guaranteed cure for biliousness and kidney trouble with a price of 50 ets.
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