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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
8
Local clips advertise McCutcheon lectures and cartoonist appearances at the opera house with 25 cent admission. Notes Miss Geneva Crow visiting Letts and return to the city, and various locals attending events or traveling to Lone Tree, Moline, Fairport, and Muscatine.
G M Titus at 21 Avenue lists ready to assign first mortgage loans from 1090 to 15000. He handles interest and principal collections at no charge to investors. The ad promotes safety next to government bonds and emphasizes secure investment.
Just received the celebrated Ultra shoe for ladies. Call and see them. B Schmidt at 115 Chestnut Street offers the new fashion footwear.
Local ads note McCutcheon-25e appearance Monday at the opera house with 25c admission and a feature on the Chicago Tribune cartoons. Also listed are fashion notices, dental and medical ads, and farm loan offerings by J. E. Stevenson of Muscatine advising safe first mortgage investments.
An advertisement asserts no cough or cold leads to pneumonia after using Foley's Honey and Tar and urges choosing the genuine product in a yellow package. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store carries it and claims safety with no opiates.
The announcement promotes the first spring and summer millinery opening on Tuesday and Wednesday March 27 and 28. It features choice models from leading designs including a large showing of Gages' famous styles and Leysen's Millinery.
An appeal urges relief for burned or wounded skin with Bucklen's Arnica Salve priced at 25 cents from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Washington reports that Philippine officials have abolished the franking privilege, requiring every mail item to bear a postage stamp. Officials describe the move as shifting to a businesslike operation to cover costs and reduce annual deficits, with stamps overprinted for official use and bills handled through internal transfers.
Article advocates osteopathic treatment as a rational alternative to surgical operations for conditions like appendicitis gall stones and certain uterine disorders. It argues osteopathy assists nature without knives and merits consideration and investigation.
A motivational note urges readers to prepare for tomorrow today and to pursue training at Muscatine and nearby towns. It highlights the Muscatine Business College and alumni links to cities like Iowa City Ottumwa and Davenport. Mentions visits, funerals and school activities with local residents and students.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by New Great South American Kidney Cure. Noted for prompt relief of pain in bladder kidneys and back in both men and women. Relief of water retention almost immediately. Sold by Weavercamp's Prescription Drug Store in Muscatine Iowa.
Elizabeth McCurdy died in Dakota and her funeral was conducted at Grace Reformed church in Conesville by Rev. Frank R. Lefever. The column notes numerous local visits and travel among residents, including Lt. Justice's family from Washington and trips to Kansas City and Independence, with several other notices of gatherings and relocations.
Advertisement claims heart trouble is misdiagnosed and that acute indigestion is the real, easily curable cause. Promotes Electric Bitters for 50 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Furnished by H. J. Frenzel. Open high low and close figures for Wheat Corn Oats Park and Ribs with May July and Sept options. Prices shown for May July and Sept contracts with daily totals of cars received: Wheat 2, corn 230, oats 129, con 44.
The Chicago wheat and grain section shows bid and offer levels for No. 2 red and hard varieties, No. 3, white and yellow types, and futures for May and March. Prices for pork, lard, and ribs are listed, along with rye cash, flax, clover, barley, and Timothy bids and futures.
Cattle receipts 300 steady with beves and cows and heifers in ranges. Hogs receipts 15 000 weak to lower with mixed and butchers 6.25 to 6.50 and bulk around 6.49. Sheep receipts 3 500 steady with lambs 5.00 to 6.85 and sheep 3.25 to 6.00.
Chicago market report shows butter steady with creamery quotes at 16 26 cents and dairy at 15 23 cents. Eggs listed as easy at 12 ½ cents.
Chicago March 24 poultry market reports easier trading with turkeys at 12 1 2 cents, chickens 12 1 2 cents, springs 12 1 2 cents.
New York reports butter steady and eggs easy with firsts at 15 44 cents and seconds at 15 15 4 cents. Market keeps flat tone as daily trade closes.
New York market prices dated March 24 show live poultry with chickens at 11 to 16 extras and fowls at 14 to 18 cents. Dressed poultry list includes chickens 10 to 13 cents turkeys 14 to 19 cents and fowls 11 to 14 cents.
New York on March 24 reports wheat for May at 86e and corn at 5le. The market section notes price levels for grain futures in the regular daily market roundup.
St Louis March 24 Wheat May 64 3 4 cents Corn 41 1 4 cents Oats 30 5 cents Market prices listed for May contracts at St Louis with gains and losses not specified.
Peoria market note from March 24 lists Corn No 3 at 424 EC per bushel.
New York on March 24 reports a bank statement with loans rising by 3.901 million, deposits up 4.203 million, reserves increasing 1.549 million, surplus up 499 thousand, and ex US deposits up 485 thousand, indicating overall expansion in liquidity and credit capacity.
Market quotes show varied closing figures across industries with sugar and copper flipping between offers. Rail and utility groups display mixed results while major steel and coal shares close near prior levels.
U S Steel and various industrials show fractional yields and price changes in a compact quotes page. Entries include Erie, Can. Pac, Colo. Fuel, Southern Railway, B and O, and A Smelt reflecting bid ask and latest trade levels with small percentage movements.
A $100 Dr E Decthan anti diuretic claims to stop night time incontinence in children and adults. It arrests the trouble at once and is sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug for $1.
On the first and third Tuesdays of each month the Iowa Central Railway sells round trip excursion tickets to Minnesota the Dakotas Manitoba Saskatchewan and the Canadian Northwest as well as to points in the south southeast west and southwest. Rate one fare plus two dollars with liberal limits and stopover privileges. For rates and details contact agents or A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minn.
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