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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
7
A promotional piece claims indigestion stems from undigested food and that the stomach cannot heal while irritation persists. It touts Kodol as the complete liquid digestive which digests all foods, guarantees relief, and offers a money back promise on the first dollar bottle made by E. C. DeWitt & Co. of Chicago.
Local residents visit friends in Muscatine Davenport and Burlington with multiple callers and departures noted. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea advertised as a health booster and beauty aid.
Elder G. R. Hawkins prophesies the present generation will not pass away before the world ends. He cites sun moon and stars as signs and details upcoming sermons on Revelations and the Sealed Book with topics on earth signs and war preparations.
An advertisement for Dr Kings New Discovery claiming to cure colds and coughs and prevent consumption. It lists prices 50 cents and one dollar and credits Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the retailer.
West Liberty IA June 22 attendees pack final two Redpath Chautauqua sessions. Dr Dan McGuirk spoke on Preventing Rascals, Sterling Jubilee Singers performed, and Seton Indians staged a drills display with about 75 children. Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson lectured on Our Navy and urged a peace congress, supporting a large navy for peace. The audience applauded. resolutions praised organizers and urged Profs Benson and MacMurray to return next year.
A stream of short-term visitors and travelers arrives in town from Chicago Evanston Idaho Ladora Albia Beatrice Neb West Branch Elgin Pueblo Rock Rapids and Philadelphia. People include county recorder W L Gifford visiting relatives after attending a republican convention and Ed Fitzgerald accompanying Elmer Mead on the Osceola Ia trip.
The German Methodist church held a children’s day program with songs recitations and dialogues by Sunday school children. Nellie Heppe opened the organ prelud e Esther Funck performed piano pieces and several children delivered declamations dialogues and vocal selections. Rev C E Baumgarten capped the event with a brief address to the youngsters.
Oak Grove reports visitors from Pennsylvania and Wapello as Mr. and Mrs. Greiner call on Wm. Fishburn. Miss Pugh visits Geo. Shields while Mrs. Ed Barnard returns from Guthrie Center. The Stuart family dines with J. C. Stuart. Children’s day at Spangler’s draws good attendance and a strong program by local scholars. Mrs. Ed Fishburn and her son plan a summer at Wm. Fishburn’s.
J Frank Hanly Indiana governor and noted speaker will headline Columbus Chautauqua with a lecture titled The Patriotism of Peace. The event is highlighted among local notices including visits by residents and multiple social calls around Columbus Junction on June 22.
Robert Blackburn swears an oath offering a $1,000 reward in Montgomery County Ohio for any doctor chemist or private individual to prove whether Blackburns Castor Oil Pills contain Croton Oil or Castor Oil only. He asserts the remedy has never contained Croton Oil. The sworn statement targets testing and verification.
A notary public Joseph A Wortman of Montgomery County Ohio swears and witnesses that Robert Blackburn signed the document on the eighth day of June in the year 1908. The oath and subscription occur in Wortman’s presence as official authentication.
An endorsement note claims the pills are a harmless civilized remedy for constipation. Signed by L. R. B. asserting personal guarantee of pleasure and safety.
Riverside reports from June describe Mrs. R. Younkin visiting Iowa City with daughter Miss Mary Younkin. local children perform well at Union Dale children day exercises. Mrs. Grant Wise and son George return from Bloomfield Indiana. Louise Edelstine visits from Iowa City. Grandma Podarrel travels to Lone Tree to see Mrs. M. Clark. Fred E. White to speak at July 4 celebration. Mrs. Samuel Hardy improving. Sadie and Lulu Tansey of Pawnee Oklahoma visit relatives. Bert Matthews and family return from Oklahoma and plan to stay north. Mrs. Willis arrives from Los Angeles for a visit.
The YWCA launches a new national training school for secretaries in New York City this fall. It offers six courses covering Bible economics sociology ethics and historical and biographical study of Christian and social movements. The school grows from the Chicago program already in operation for four years. Miss Hoover, Muscatine general secretary, just completed a three month course and notes equipment and faculty are being moved to New York.
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