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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1908
Page
2
Mrs Maud Ballington Booth wife of the Volunteers of America leader spoke to a large Y M C A Star course audience at the W A Sunday tabernacle detailing her 13 years of prison work. She emphasized inspiring reform over punishment and urged reaching inmates before release.
High ranking American officers and others publish endorsements for Peruna catarrh medicine. Gen. Parsons reports improved appetite and gro wth in health after one week of treatment, praising the product. Gen. Butler and Lieut. Bowman join in favorable remarks about Peruna as a remedy for dyspepsia and colds. Kirby also commends its curative qualities.
The German Baptist church Sunday school will observe Bible Day on Sunday March 22 with an arranged program led by Superintendent Carl F Borchardt. Readings songs and declamations will be given by students and teachers including Rev A L Tilgner and Victor Miller. All are invited to attend.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil notes the Davenporters speak casually of concessions to the mulct law. It adds that Byers too may now regard the matter as a past fancy and no longer a current concern.
Gen. W. W. Duffield of Washington D. C. endorses Peruna tablets as a convenient pill form of the medicine. He notes his family use and find it valuable for stomach catarrh and as a tonic with prompt efficacy.
The Carnival City Packet offices on Chestnut Street prepare for the river season opening with the Keokuk’s first Davenport to Burlington trip. Captain C H Farris will command the 140 foot steam vessel with pilots, engineers, and clerks named to ready operations. the Keokuk replaces the Silver Crescent in local trade and will operate on a Keokuk to Quincy run after initial trips.
At a meeting in the socialist hall on Iowa avenue last evening the party decided to hold the county convention on April 7 to nominate their candidates.
Gen A M Legg writes from the Savings Bank Building in Washington DC praising Peruna. He notes personal relief from deafness due to catarrh and urges friends and the public to try the remedy based on experience and observed cures.
A committee led by J. J. Dorsey Louis Miller and A Crow is instructed to distribute socialistic literature during the summer months ahead of the June primaries dates.
An advertised remedy claims Orrine drugly destroys liquor craving and aids medical treatment for drinkers. It promises scientific efficacy with a money back guarantee and offers a free treatise on how to cure drunkenness. Sold locally by A W Morgan Druggist.
Lee Lang of the local socialist party travels this morning by early train via Wilton to Des Moines for the state socialist convention at Homesteaders hall on Monday March 23. The gathering will name a full state ticket for the June election.
An old medicine ad promotes E. W. Grove’s product marketed to cure a cold in one day. It touts that the laxative quinine formulation removes the cause and features a signature on the box with a 25 cent price.
C M C McMorrow national organizer for the Boot and Shoeworkers Union spoke at the Grand Opera house before several hundred in Muscatine. The free event featured moving pictures songs and union cards shown on screen. He urged buying union made goods and discussed child labor and sweatshops with plans to visit Burlington next.
Gen A T Hawley and Brig Gen J Floyd King endorse Peruna for kidney trouble and coughs colds and catarrhal trouble. They praise its merit and urge readers to request special usage directions from Dr S B Hartman president of the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus Ohio.
Instone and Berry left this morning for Burlington Iowa to lecture this evening before moving on to Fort Madison where they will present their entertainment on Monday evening.
Advert says PAZO OINTMENT cures itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Price 50 cents.
Lone Tree Kansas news reports Mr and Mrs Will Flake returning from Hooker Oklahoma after ten months on their claim. Miss Mary Buline and Stephen Schuessler wed at the Buline home with Rev B A Black officiating. Several residents announce teaching assignments and recent visits with relatives and friends.
A collection of endorsements from prominent figures including Hon. Geo W Honey a national chaplain and ex treasurer of Wisconsin and ex Q Master General Texas G A R praising Peruna for catarrhal remedies. Letters describe relief from rheumatism liver sluggishness headaches and general rejuvenation after following Peruna courses and scientific guidance.
A local druggist A W Morgan promotes Foley's Urine Laxative with a positive guarantee to cure constipation headache stomach trouble or indigestion. If it fails the money is refunded to the purchaser.
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