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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
10
A lingering closing out sale continues in Boston with stock slashed to manufacturer prices. Items include new spring goods, fur jackets and muffs, carpets, rugs, lace curtains, and oil cloth all offered at deeply reduced rates. Public auction aims to clear remaining stock after sixty days.
Annual sale from a store offering two hundred new spring suits and about sixty silk and satin dresses at actual manufacturing cost. Includes new skirts jackets and waists all at cost with Easter stock to move now. Come Saturday.
Local shop advertises winter underwear at deep discounts with items cut from low prices. Includes ladies and children's fleeced vests and union suits, all wool coats, bearskin coats, silks, dress goods, hosiery, and linens priced well below cost. Promotions urge customers to visit and help now.
Miscellaneous local items including shop ads for Bestenlehner cherry balsam Candy Kitchen and Sleepy Eye flour. Mentions of visits by Mrs. Ray and Mrs. Mackenner, sales of Ottie Snyder wagons, travel to Rock Island, Pocahontas dance, and a lost gold brooch with pearls and diamond.
The funeral service for Mrs Christine Stoeffler will begin at 1:30 PM at the family home on Clymer Street and at 2:00 PM at the German Evangelical Church with Rev J Jans officiating. Interment follows at Greenwood Cemetery.
A report describes Ken Pool of Threet Alabama being dragged over a gravel roadway leaving severe injuries. The text mentions Buckten's Arica Salve as a treatment and cites Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
A Sunday laymen’s missionary movement session at the Y M C A will present the interdenominational project with plans and speakers. If possible J B Johnson of Des Moines or Lyman Pierce may attend. otherwise a Cedar Rapids or Des Moines speaker will be sent. The effort aims to boost missions across Muscatine county and fund-raise for Protestant churches.
Mrs. Mary Mast and Mrs. Fannie Mast of Wayland IA arrived in Muscatine after being summoned by the critical illness of Mrs. M. P. Krabill of Muscatine Island at Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Krabill is about 49 years old.
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