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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
7
Local items note garden seeds at E L Grahams. a concert Friday March 21 at the high school with 25 cent admission. Various residents listed traveling, ill health, and business trips. casual updates from the city include factory work, railroad matters, and a note about Dr Crane’s tonic pills.
Florists in Muscatine prepare for a busy Easter with ample lilies and a rising demand for hyacinths daffodils and Calla lilies. Local greenhouses report a good lily crop while outsiders order Eastern stock. novelties and hats also promise strong spring sales.
A Cleveland woman recovering from nervous prostration and dyspepsia credits Grape-Nuts with restoring strength and mental vigor. After a trip and dietary change to Grape-Nuts with cream or rich milk, she gained weight from 115 to 150 pounds in six weeks and felt energized to read and think again. Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich.
Mrs Paving Jepson of Brooklyn testifies two years after marriage she suffered constant pain from a womb issue. A doctor recommended Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash, which she credits with restoring health after three months relief. The ad claims a $5900 forfeit for testimonial dishonesty and urges readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
Professional and business men should study the opportunities at new towns along the Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern line. On the first and third Tuesdays of March April and May round trip tickets will be offered at low rates to many states and territories including Alabama Arkansas Arizona British Columbia Canadian Northwest Colorado Florida Georgia Idaho Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Manitoba Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi Montana New Mexico Nebraska North Dakota North Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin Northern Michigan and Wyoming.
Mrs. S Geiger of Dunkerton Iowa says she has tried many medicines for stomach trouble and constipation but none worked as well as Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. Sold by all druggists.
The Bureau of Statistics notes a continued fall in exports of iron and steel and corn. Domestic prosperity with weak global demand lowers sales abroad while home demand remains strong, pushing producers to prioritize domestic supply over foreign markets.
Lamoni Iowa reports fervor as Joseph Smith Jr predicts Christ’s return with no date given. Faithful watch strangers for signs while a printing office, college, and home for the aged sustain the community. Smith, now sixty, recalls his father’s martyrdom at Carthage when he was twelve.
Lettsville Iowa March 20 alarm over gas supply as many farmers relying on local wells report weaker flow. Charles Estes and three neighbors note reduced output. cause unclear but may be temporary, residents watch for resolution.
FIGPRUNE combines 54 percent California figs and prunes with 46 percent well ripened grain to make a distinctive table beverage. Boil 5 to 10 minutes. marketed as nutritious and healthful, with strong fruit and grain flavors. All grocers sell.
Iowa Central Railway offers one way excursion tickets to California from all Iowa and Illinois stations during March and April. Tourists travel in elegantly equipped cars leaving Tuesdays, with no changes and reduced winter travel discomfort. For reservations and details contact your local Iowa Central agent or Geo. S. Batty, G P T A, Marshalltown Iowa.
Advertises low rates via The Great Rock Island Route to California and North Pacific coast points, Salt Lake and Ogden Utah, Helena and Butte Montana. Tickets on sale daily March 1 to April 30 1992. Through tourist sleepers daily to California via El Paso. For rates inquire at C R L P ticket office. G M Gould Agent.
Advertises Bromo-Lax as a fast remedy for grippe colds neuralgia and constipation. States no quinine and lists price at 25 cents per box, sold by druggists.
A stray Confederate deserter soliloquizes amid stragglers and camp followers. General Longstreet, listening, notes the man’s misery hunger and loss then hears the vow to die for his country but a grim caveat to never love another country if the war ends.
A classroom exchange reappears as a teacher asks why Puritans came to America and a student answers that they sought to worship their way and compel others to follow. The brief reflects on motive and dissent in colonial religious life.
A college professor in a crowded restaurant had his hat taken by the black attendant who later returned it without a check. The professor, amused by the attendant’s memory of who owned each item, asks how he knew. The reply: I didn’t know it was your hat, I knew you gave it to me.
A young minister addressing a Sunday school is asked what he will speak about. To buy time he asks the children for ideas. A sharp little girl in the front seat, who has memorized many declamations, pipes up in a shrill voice asking the startling question What do you know.
Fear pneumonia when a severe cold grips you with chest or back pains. Use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as directed to prevent the threatened attack. Thousands have used this remedy for colds and grippe with no pneumonia cases reported, making it a reliable prevention. For sale by all druggists.
Low fare periods apply from all Iowa Central points to Minnesota and North and South Dakota on March 11 18 and 25 and April 1 8 1902. Consult the nearest Iowa Central agent or Geo S Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa for details and travel planning.
The article recounts Charles James Fox joking with two men watching his house. He asked if they were Fox hunting or Hare hunting, provoking laughter that caused the bailiffs to leave.
Belie blushes as she explains she is a brunette and shyly rejects the marriage proposal. The Philadelphia Record notes the worn phrase about courage in romance.
A Norwegian cave on the Jorend fjord reportedly flashes lightning with every weather change, inviting curiosity about its natural electrical behavior and regional legends connected to meteorology.
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