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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1902
Page
7
Local notes include Henry Camp visiting parents near Moscow and John Donnely arriving from West Liberty. Funeral travel and school duties are mentioned along with club meetings at 2:30 and a Masonic lodge session. Advertisements tout Burdock Blood Bitters and Deans Ointment with drugstore availability. The piece ends with a crude ad for niggerhead shells and a New Boston contact.
West Liberty, March 3. Mes dames S. M. and L. P. Mitchell entertain their sister Mrs Conrad of Des Moines. Miss Marie Scott hosted a six o clock dinner with violets favors and drawing lessons. Rev Evi Sharpless preached at the M E church, with a larger audience, and the pastor felt better. J A Young to join wife in Lanark and then Michigan for a home. Quarterly meeting and Sunday school conference pleasant with papers read and Esther Russell recitation. Attendees from Clearcreek, Marshalltown, Henry county and Town City. Griffith Cole and wife of Webster City to take possession of TL A Baird home Monday.
The article argues that coffee ruins health, causing nervous collapse if unaddressed. It claims many misattribute symptoms, urges readers to switch from coffee to Postum Food Coffee, and notes Postum’s color and flavor improve with cream.
An assortment of small notices mentions J. B. Mark for loans fire insurance and real estate, an testimonial about Eclectric Oil curing a sore throat in twenty four hours from M. Gist Hawesville Kentucky, Bennie Abbot of Nichols improving after sickness and ready to resume M. C. studies, and Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup claimed to cure lingering coughs.
The Ladies Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church will not give a supper on Wednesday evening March 5. Secretary.
If you have a few hundred for a first payment you can buy a good home on long term. Titus and Jackson advertise selected properties in premier locations and invite you to call at once.
Rev. H R Greaves preached faith and light at the Baptist church while Rev H D Herr spoke at the Congregational church on Jesus as the world’s light. Mrs E F Gobble sang, and crowds filled pews, aisles, and seats.
A Cedar Rapids veteran writes from West Union detailing a Civil War journey from Beaumont Texas to Shreveport Marshall and beyond. He recalls battles near Red River Mansfield and Green Mills Tupelo and Corinth plus visits to Memphis and old Cedar Rapids friends.
An appeal from St. Glen Falls New York urges readers to write for personal corroboration of a condition many men and women report sharing. The letter asks for a stamped addressed envelope to receive a reply and compare notes with the author.
An advertisement touts FiGPRUNE Cereal as a nutritious coffee and tea substitute made from California figs prunes and grains. It claims a delicate flavor that stays to the bottom of the cup and notes physicians recommend Figprune with all grocers selling it.
A. S. Funk writes of visiting Memphis shops foreman Dick Stewart and the national cemetery where 22 members of the Thirty-fifth Iowa are buried. He recalls seeing Henry Waltz, Hoffner in Havana, and old messmates, noting families nearby and a pleasant trip home.
A historical advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as the sole constitutional treatment for catarrh. It claims internal use from 10 drops to a teaspoon, targets blood and mucous surfaces, offers a $100 reward for cures, and promotes circulars and testimonials. It also endorses Druggists and Hall's Family Pills as the best.
Ferdinand March 3 notes include James Kennedy a Muscatine caller, Lydia Krueger visiting home to help her mother sew, Byran Drury and wife visiting Uncle Joe Ryan, Ross Kennedy visiting Sally Elsworth with the sick, and Wm Tuewes remaining on the sick list. FE H Potter has moved to Buffalo Prairie. his son Vernie has measles. Rosa Johnson to begin work for Mrs Walter Kimble in April. Bertha Hays sick. Minnie Kranz closed winter term at French February 27.
Esmonds dramatic piece features four middle aged friends, a son known as the Imp, and guardian Dick Carewe. The tale traces youth folly and mature counsel as friendship endures and a quaint love story unfolds. Opening night is Thursday March 6 at the Grand.
Buoyant and picturesque musical comedy from Morton and Kerker arrives at the Grand. The cast is described as unusually strong with Dave Lewis as Hans Nix and Pearle Hight as Eatelle with a full company of notable performers.
One car on the Prince Henry special train bears the name of the Hawkeye state Iowa. The detail adds regional identity to the royal excursion amid other car names.
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