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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
5
A store announces a grand opening weekend with over 300 suits priced near manufacturer levels and discounts on spring silks. The event showcases new fabrics, coats, colors, patterns, and trimmed detailing, urging customers to attend tomorrow for value and selection.
Plans set for Muscatine river packets to reopen March 22 pending weather. The Columbia is expected as the first Davenport Burlington packet, soon followed by the Helen Blair for northern excursions. Captain Ratterman tours river cities as Diamond Joliners overhaul to resume Dubuque St Louis Burlington trade in April.
A large group of Muscatine shellers who shelled along Rock River last season prepare to travel south this spring. Many will fish for clams elsewhere as beds on Rock River have been well worked and are less attractive for return.
Part of last summer’s work yielded less than expected and locals expect richer beds of the dam in southern streams. As warm weather returns, several parties from local shelters plan to travel south to pursue further work in Arkansas and nearby areas.
An advertisement for Kosine home treatment claims to relieve epilepsy symptoms and offers a money back trial at no cost to the buyer. It promotes mail orders from Kosine Company of Washington DC and notes sale through A. W. Morgap.
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