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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1902
Page
7
Several residents are noted arriving or departing on the Firefly train yesterday. Freddie Hahn, Mrs. Mary Ford, Mrs. S. M. Ashby, and Miss Etta Bothe are listed with travel on the Firefly. Additional lines advertise loans, fire insurance, real estate, and a local contact in New Boston Michigan.
The town watches a bill to award mail carrier work to the lowest bidder, hoping for higher pay and fair treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Friedli improve. Bertha Thompson is ill. A rural telephone meeting at John Maurer's plans a new line. Local moves include households shifting to Wilton and Iowa City areas. Rudy Bloom relocates cattle. Mr. Stout moves from Dexter to Bloom’s former farm. A traveling doctor sold recipes nearby.
The advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease and promotes Mali's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as the sole constitutional cure. It claims internal use 10 drops to a teaspoonful, access to testimonials, a $1000 reward for a cure failure, and urges readers to contact for circulars, with Hall's Family Pills recommended.
Roads in bad condition as residents move between local farms and towns. Joseph Bean relocates to Drury farm in Duncan North, Wentworth Holmes owner. Lee Lutz to a farm near Muscatine. Fred Rader and wife welcome a baby girl born Feb. 26. Miss Ida Rickey visits Maud Lutz. Alyce Stead resigns teaching post to move to Colorado. Sales planned by Thornhill and Epperly. tax collection continues. various visits and relocations among residents.
An article praises Dr Crane’s Quaker Tonic Tablets as a reliable preventative for appendicitis treatment and notes the lengthy hospital care involved. The ad claims the tonic costs fifty cents and supports regular use to reduce hospital maintenance.
The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the YMCA convened this afternoon at 3 o'clock in YMCA rooms.
A. W. Lee, back from New York after attending the American Newspaper Publishers association meeting, reports on the five year arbitration deal with the International Typographical Union and the Printers Pressmen union. He describes the Prince Henry dinner at the Waldorf Astoria and meetings with U.S. officials and Iowa congressmen, noting discussions on post office building changes in Ottumwa and remarks by ex-Speaker Reed on newspapers' role and responsibility.
An ad extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for nervousness sleeplessness and loss of appetite during early motherhood. It quotes Mrs P S Douglas praising the product and notes it nourishes nerves restores appetite aids sleep and strengthens both mother and baby. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are also mentioned for bowel regulation.
A Greenfield man credits Grape Nuts and Postum with curing sickness and restoring strength after 23 days, noting a 16 pound gain and reduced nervousness. The text also previews a theater show featuring Al H Wilson in The Watch on the Rhine with a strong cast and promising Grand performance on March 8.
Amusements note the musical jingle The Telephone Girl by Morton and Kerker with added features and a strong chorus. Leading cast includes Dave Lewis Pearl Hight Marie Richmond Annie Lloyd Ruby Kendall Anna Conrad Elizabeth Goodall Leona Amrose Warron Harlan Amy Thompson Elsinor Richfield Linette Fiske Grace Gordon Irene Young Mildred Franklin Nadine Sidney Eugene Wiener Charles R Burrows and Charles Whyte.
A splendid company performs at the Grand on Thursday March 6 in the success When We Were Twenty One. Dick Carewe, a quiet bachelor, ends in matrimony beside Phyllis Ericson after four charming acts. The review promises an uplifting experience and urges audiences to see the play.
The season’s hit features Al H. Wilson in Sidney R. Ellis's romantic comedy drama The Watch on the Rhine. Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. direct, presenting Wilson in a golden voiced performance and German dialect humor.
A physician writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured many women with female troubles. The letter urges sick women to use the remedy, notes its worldwide endorsement, and invites correspondence for advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A petition filed in the county clerk's office on Monday shows Jo seph Milholin suing Jason Woodyard and W Woodyard for 376 dollars and 20 cents. The complaint claims 161 dollars 20 cents for corn 15 dollars for fodder and a 200 dollar note. The case stems from railroad grade work south of the city and will be heard at the April term of district court. Arch and Mrs. Tyler have moved back to a farm near Fairport and Mr Tyler quits farming. Ethel Tyler from Illinois City arrives for a short visit.
A reflection on how joy felt from afar seems uplifting but when it arrives in the home it often shrinks in presence and is hard to recognize. The passage contrasts distant idealization with intimate lived experience and questions lasting satisfaction.
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