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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
10
A vendor promotes personal grooming with guidance on facial massages to reduce wrinkles scalp care to prevent baldness and manicures for neat appearance. The pitch emphasizes reasonable prices and guaranteed results.
McCorm Dry Goods Co announces a two day spring opening sale with 200 new spring suits and special prices. Notable events include door to door deliveries and a display of oxblood tan and patent leather Royal Blue shoes. Attending customers include Mrs. M. G. Swain and Miss Florence Mark as well as patrons traveling by the Firefly to Davenport and Washington for visits.
Iowa Attorney General Byers issued an opinion to the state executive council upholding the refusal to honor requisitions for stamps at public expense and stating stamps for the historical department and literary items must be secured through Brigham. The Senate debated removing derelict county officials. no final vote. The House and Senate approved bills on street sprinkling, farmers institutes and fairs, and guaranty deposits with the state auditor. Senator Frodden named to the Allison commission.
An advertisement promotes a homemade cough syrup using Pinex and granulated sugar syrup. It claims rapid relief for deep coughs, whooping cough, and bronchial throat ailments. It touts Pinex as a potent Norway pine extract with guaiacol and ozone-like effects and notes easy access from druggists.
An advertisement promises Foley's Kidney Remedy cures for kidney and bladder issues not beyond medicine. It claims to treat backache and irregularities that could lead to Bright's disease or diabetes. Sold by A. W. Morgan.
A small Wilton ceremony at the John McClain home united Miss Alpha McClain to George Watham of near Durant in a 7 o'clock wedding attended by about thirty relatives. Rev J B Bloom officiated as green and white decorations and a carnation arch adorned the parlor. Several locals, including Mrs G W Woodhouse and Mrs Ida Moore, returned from Muscatine and West Liberty on the day of the event.
Mrs M J Doyle spent time in town en route to Atalissa from Muscatine. A market day will be held at the Union Savings bank parlor on March 6 1909 for the Young People’s society of the Presbyterian church. Mr and Mrs Fred Bloom and children left for Iowa City due to illness in the family. Mrs Emma Hain left for Moscow after visiting relatives, accompanied by her mother Mrs Wildasin. Miss Esther Kaufman departed for Iowa City to visit her brother Charles Kaufman.
Local note credits G. W. Cloyd of Plunk Missouri with preventing a deadly blood poisoning by treating a dangerous wound with Bucklen's Amica Salve at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store. The ad promotes the 25 cent salve.
Ferns trimmed with white wedding bells frame a ceremony for the youngest McClain daughter a Wilton High School 1907 graduate and noted teacher who will reside on a Durant area farm with her husband a prosperous young farmer amid out of town guests from Durant Yankee Hollow Pleasant Prairie West Liberty Moscow and Moscow families. Local notices report a regular American Patriots meeting and a string of town movements from Muscatine to Conesville Iowa City Burlington and West Liberty with numerous visitors and departures.
The Spokane County building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909 will represent an expository exhibit of regional progress. It showcases local industry, agriculture, and civic initiatives with emphasis on growth, resources, and community achievement.
The project plans expenditure of $10,000 for a building with Spanish mission architecture. At the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition the Canadian pavilion will offer more than 18,900 square feet of exhibit space.
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