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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1906
Page
7
Local items note 20 percent and 19 percent discounts at Leibbrand Ryan and Co for rugs and jackets. Miss Margaret Maher, Miss Emma Budzine, Miss Lada Sweitzer and Miss Celia Liebke depart for visits to Wilton Chicago Durant and Durant. Vendors advertise Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea and other remedies with local druggists.
Lucile Hosten, nearly three, toppled a chair and a pan of hot water spilled on her face and left shoulder. Immediate care by a physician is expected to prevent serious injury though blistering remains near the ear. Meanwhile Mrs. Ann Kinsley, recently ill, is critically ill with three doctors at her side.
Perkins argues that citizens must meet moral obligations and resist special interests. Lawmakers should serve the public welfare with honesty, patience, and genuine public service, not seek popularity or personal gain. The press bears responsibility to report truth and avoid distorting information.
The Shiloh Iowa area records a lively week with a Sunday school convention at North Prairie, an elegant dinner in the basement, and programs in the morning and afternoon. Excelsiors were entertained at E C Pace’s home with an ample lunch. Numerous residents including Ella Bloomer Edna Chamberlain Edna Greiner and Myrtle Greiner are noted as visitors students and hosts with social and school activities at Fairport Moscow Wilton and Wilton area. Hog shipments noted from Moscow and Epworth League gathering planned.
An advertising piece extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal cure for digestive trouble affecting stomach liver kidneys or bowels. It claims Napoleon would have won if cured and asserts the tablets boost energy, reduce friction in the body, and promote health according to modern science. It urges readers to try the product today.
A trained Newark nurse testifies after eight years of using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She details personal recovery from severe female troubles and says the remedy cured her within four months and has aided many patients. She urges others to seek the same help and notes broad professional endorsement.
The fragment quotes moral and political sentiments about the press and law. It references public welfare, oath freedom, opinion, and the search for better things, mentioning a bird of promise moving from past shadows to future mists.
A quirky notice claims Electric Bitters prevented a severe nervous breakdown caused by dyspepsia. Advertises Havvercamp's Prescription Drug Store with a price of 59 ets and a guarantee.
Des Moines reports Congressman Hull will sue opponent George L. Dobson for damages over Dobson's speech charging Hull with using office for personal gain and ties to Rockefeller and Wall Street. Hull says the accusations are false and will seek redress in court. Dobson formerly secretary of state.
Levi Bishop spent Monday and Tuesday in Aledo. John Murdock of Aledo visited here last week. Idona Freise and brother Martin visited Muscatine friends and relatives and returned home Sunday. John Bishop and Orla Wilcox returned from Colorado last Saturday. William Murdock traveled to Joy last Friday. Mrs. Luther Irwin of Joy returned home Saturday after visiting her sister Mary Reed. Anderson Reynolds conducted business in Rock Island last week. Chas Murdock stayed with cousin Paul Colberg in Petersville last Friday. John Gerber and Edna Harter from this place married in Muscatine March 14 and will live on the groom's farm.
Concord residents Mr and Mrs John Braker and family visited Mr and Mrs Walter Thompson near Letts last Sunday. Fay Wagner stayed from Saturday to Sunday visiting a friend, Miss.
Carrie Curtis of Pleasant Grove Bethel reports no school at Sandy Grove last Wednesday due to the teacher attending his uncle Sam Edmondson's funeral in Muscatine. Mr and Mrs Floyd Johnston returned home after visiting Sunday with the Johnston parents. Mrs Geo Wagner has improved after illness. Harry Wagner broke his arm at school last Tuesday. Dr Hubbard treated and he is improving.
The Pure Food Roll of Honor in Good Housekeeping cites None-Such Mince Meat from Merrill-Soule Co. Syracuse as a premier product. It is described as a beef apple spice raisin currant boiled cider salt mix with no artificial color or preservatives and produced under near sanitary perfection. The piece notes sales of about one million packages monthly and urges housewives to try it.
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