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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1915
Page
10
Local Muscatine police offer rewards for arrest of suspects tied to Davenport jewel thefts. Arthur Brown and Cora Ferguson captured after attempted escape. reports indicate other cities suffer heavier losses as investigators pursue leads across multiple counties and dwellings.
Transcriptions list numerous property transfers in Muscatine and West Liberty areas, detailing owners, parcels, blocks, and sale amounts. Notable entries include Julius Kohl to E. P. Richman for parts of lot 1 and surrounding tracts in Muscatine for 1425 dollars, and Esther S. Smalley and others to Mary B. Bells for 8500 dollars.
John Sullivan a longtime West Liberty resident died this morning at six o clock aged seventy five Funeral services will be held in the Catholic church Thursday morning and his remains will be sent to Iowa City for burial
A variety of matches with prizes to winners will begin Sunday morning at Geneva Golf and Country Club. The Goens committee announces handicap, seven hole and novice flights, with scores from last week used for official entries. F. W. Swan to present a silver loving cup as prize. tee times to be posted. Local residents and guests plan to participate. Holiday scenes and community notices follow.
An old advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Ease relieves pinching shoes and painful corns and bunions. It promises instant relief for tired, aching, swollen feet after shaking the powder into shoes and warns not to accept substitutes.
Oakvills Iowa June 28 residents of the Presbyterian church announce a church girl July draw with picnic dinner at the park, supper and entertainment at the opera house. A ball game and amusements will also be offered.
In a 19th to early 20th era tone the piece opens with an advertisement urging women to avoid excess in household labor and emphasizes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy. The page then lists local social notes: departures for Detroit and Chicago, visits among Davenport, Durant, Walcott, and Wellman communities, and a series of house parties and club meetings with names and towns such as Stockton, Union, Kalona, Montezuma, and Perry.
Curtis Cook, longtime Muscatine resident, died in Salem Ohio on Saturday aged over seventy. Funeral services were held Monday in Salem with his daughter Addis Cook at his bedside. A Civil War veteran, he belonged to a local G A R post and had recently traveled from Muscatine to visit relatives.
Two story residence to be built by F Mayer Sr south of Wellman with a travshed oak first floor except kitchen. Mrs Godlove and children return from Missouri visit. About 75 attend W P M S meeting and park picnic with Mrs Fisher and King Heralds as guests. Miss Luly Oldaker visits Soffey home. Miss Huma Dodds ill. Mr Downing and wife welcome a new son. Mr Hicks and wife welcome a baby girl. Marie Jones and Carl Oldfield to wed June 30 in Wellman and reside in West Chester.
Buiza Ill July 22 The band concert and sniper was called off last Saturday night by the board of health due to smallpox quarantine and several measles cases in the neighborhood. Local social notes mention visits and family travel including Alma and Hazel Colberg, Rhoda Prouty, Charlie Murdock, Gussie Bogart with a Fort, Foster ball game, Noble family from Joy, and the Irwin and Hampton families visiting Guy Murdoch, E H Irwin, and Chicago for a wedding.
Bargain sale to cut stock by half at Boston Shoe Shop in the German-American Bank Building. Men’s English Walking shoes priced at $3.50 for 25 pairs. Work Shoes $2.00. Boys’ Elk Shoes $1.35 to $1.90. Ladies’ Law cuts $2.25 and $1.65. Childrens’ and Misses’ shoes from $0.50 to $1.00. sandals also on sale.
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