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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
7
Dockets show births and travel notes across Mulberry and Drury townships. Local residents visit relatives, with Mrs. Fox and Ava Cadle vacationing in Missouri. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea advertised as health aid. Rev E C Brooks departs after M E conference. golden wedding events mark Letts celebrations.
In Winona Melliville E Trux of Motor Boat Magazine and Myron D Savage advocate forming launch clubs in river towns as motor boating rises on the upper Mississippi. They tour from the head of navigation to the gulf aboard the Pope Special Thistle and report clubs provide boat protection and insurance like benefits, boost riverfront improvement and aid Upper Mississippi River Improvement efforts.
Citizens along the upper Mississippi discuss launching a river police association to curb dockside crime. Launch owners plan a July meeting to organize patrols and pursue stolen craft, while a network of floating dens and abductions draws government attention.
Prof and Mrs L T Hill of Salem arrived by noon train from West Branch where they visited friends. Former West Liberty public school principals plan a brief visit with Mr and Mrs Henry Mosher and other locals before returning home. Miss Ivy Pantal and Miss Helen Rich are noted in attendance.
Free 32 page booklet of finest cake recipes promoted by Igleheart Bros. in Evansville Indiana. Send grocer's name to Desk 7K for Swan's Down prepared cake flour to obtain the booklet with fancy home baking ideas.
Miss Rachel McCreery died near Marion Ia Thursday afternoon at 5 o clock after teaching in Lone Tree for two years. Funeral held Saturday at 1 pm with burial at Lynnwood Cedar Rapids beside her father. Mrs Fay Smith and children visit from Burlington and Dr and Mrs Summers attend Montgomery Clark funeral. Mrs Lena Blakeway visits family from Burlington. Mrs John Tautlinger of West Liberty spent Saturday in town.
Children’s day program at the Lutheran church on June 21 featured songs recitations and short exercises led by Rev Olander and local youths including Ellen Brase Fred Kretschmar Moritz Paul Walter Henke Ralph Fix Nina Reeves and Lulu Beatty. Twelve girls performed a daisy drill before the benediction by the chorus.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds. It urges quick relief and lists prices of 50 cents and 1 dollar from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft will witness the Yale Harvard boat race on the Thames at New London next Thursday. The event is set in New Haven with both officials traveling to the Connecticut venue.
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