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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
10
Muscatine store announces a major closing sale with half to a quarter price reductions on dress goods baby bonnets pure silk velvets blankets underwear and coats. Offers include 25 cent yard silk velvets 9x12 rugs at up to 35 dollars and carpets linoleum and mattings at cost with sale ending soon.
About twenty robe blankets in new patterns were bought for holiday trade and priced at $2.00 and $2.50. To clear stock fast they are offered at half manufacturer cost, with Thursday special 69¢ per pair. Also a display of over three hundred dress goods at factory prices, many half value, plus hats shirts waists and shawls at deep discounts.
Judge J Rowan spent today in Buffalo on business. W J Kelley of Wapello was a business visitor in Muscatine. Mrs J Mooney left for Fruitland to visit friends. Mrs Samuel Strajack left for Davenport to visit relatives. Relative notices mention room 305 Hershey building and 412 West Second Street.
Advertisements note a Mulberry street modern house bargain and gulf coast lands for sale via M. W. Stirlen while Ottie Snyder offers affordable rigs. Local residents Miss Mollie Olin travels to Davenport and Mrs. Cooney departs to Chicago. Plus Sleepy Eye floor and Dry box factory kindling blocks advertised.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as antiseptic for wounds sores burns piles eczema and salt rheum with a 25 cent price from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store. Gold Medal Flour lead mention appears as a brand cue in the notice.
Low fares offered every Tuesday from March 23 to April 27 to North Dakota and Montana points on the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway. Fares apply to Haynes Hettinger Bowman Marmarth and other North Dakota points and to Baker Miles City Forsyth Musselshell Lavina Roundup Harlowton Moore Lewistown and other Montana stations. Complete information free from your local agent. F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
Wilton on March 17 sees Mrs Jank Gray visiting friends in Muscatine. Carl Wilson of Atalissa visits locals. Harry Stevens leaves for Muscatine to spend the day with friends. George Sherberger returns home to Muscatine after tending to business and visiting. Ray Leverich departs for Davenport to conduct business and visit relatives. Mrs Nettie Silberborn was visiting.
A group of young ladies entertained guests at a St Patrick's Day themed gathering on West Sixth Street with green and white decor, cork curtains, and shamrock place cards. Prizes were awarded in Irish Washerwoman and Introducing Pat contests won by Pearl Penney. Teatime refreshments followed in the decorated dining room.
Washington March 17 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge issued a statement asserting improved treasury receipts and denying reports that more than 50 million dollars in government claims are being postponed for lack of cash. The department is said to honor requisitions and pay necessary demands without delay.
E. R. May, wanted in Mountain Grove Missouri for forgery, walked into the Alexandria Louisiana sheriff's office and surrendered. He was returned to Missouri yesterday.
On March 1 the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition in Seattle was 95 percent finished, confirming it will open to the world on the scheduled June 1 date. Construction progress signals readiness for the world exhibition as planned.
The Pay Streak designed as the exposition’s amusement street runs three quarters of a mile, extending through the Alaska Yukon Pacific grounds and promising a lively stretch of rides booths and entertainment.
Five applications were submitted for each site allowing directors to select the best attractions. The fair will open in Seattle on June 1.
Display features combs hat pins brooches stick pins bracelets rings and more. Includes shirt waist set finger rings described as entirely new and stylish. Readers are invited to view the fashionable pieces and request a look at the rings.
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