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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1901
Page
6
A brief local item notes a 31 year cancer reportedly cured by a salve given by a mother from Monta Vista. The account mentions Dodie Hamid and Chicago origins but lacks verifiable details, leaving a short, curious community anecdote.
Wapello residents enjoyed a crowded home talent minstrel with burnt cork performances. Ladies, including Senorita Eulalia Montmorency, staged rope tricks, a cake walk, and lively dances while Miss Lorena Archibald and Maude Silverthorn won the prize cake amid strong audience applause.
A remedy for Grippe symptoms is Kemp's Balsam, designed for throat and lungs. Do not wait for symptoms, keep a bottle ready to prevent pneumonia by keeping cough loose and lungs clear. Sold by druggists at 25 and 56 cents.
Riverside updates report Mrs. William Lewis improving from illness and Mrs. John Criz gravely sick with daughter Mrs. McAvoy visiting from Geneseo. Land purchases, mail box deliveries, mill work, and a Muscatine trip are noted along with a local mayoral inaugural reaction and council election results. Joe Schilie ships household goods to Bayfield. John Bryant plans summer stock food sales.
The Corning Union-Republican warns rural route patrons along Indiana and Muscatine routes to beware of a scam by people posing as postoffice inspectors. They inspect mail boxes then demand 3 to 5 dollars rental. The paper urges vigilance to prevent swindlers from exploiting newly established rural routes.
March notes show Miss Della Beeding improving and no new measles cases. Hog prices at 5.79 per cwt support cheerful farmers and rising wages for hired help. Ernest E. Murdock, 16, hired at 20.00 monthly. local fire loss furniture replacement aided by community, and new wells drilled by Lewis and Patterson.
Owosso Michigan tale of Julia A. Mallahan secretary of Elite Rebekah Lodge No 2 surviving a severe winter cold that settled in her kidneys and caused constant backache. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a full recovery and urges readers to buy them from local druggists or the Dodds Medicine Company in New York.
In Melpine March 26 J Grimm of Pleasant Prairie bought a horse from J S Hetzlier. N B Cole and J S Hetzler were city visitors. Addie Dodge returned home near New Era after assisting Mrs D A Cole. A O Knapp visited friend John G Gray of Rainbow and old Melpine neighbors. Art attends Cedar Rapids College and plans to return to school. The school began this week instead of April first.
Skunk Hollow residents Pete Lawler and Sylvester Van Zandt visited the county seat on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J Geertz and daughter Anna also visited the county seat. Mr. and Mrs. M Cochran were county seat visitors Saturday. Frank Aderman called on J Geertz on Sunday. Miss Anna and Sophia Geertz visited Sevastopol on Sunday.
Cedar Bethel report says Miss Pauline Lowe of Morning Sun is visiting Henry Bedwell. The Cedar River runs very high and the road from Columbus Junction to the east bridge is impassable. Miss Ella Coder visits Lelie Lowe and Mrs Martha George is on the sick list.
Florence Tribune reports the funeral of Frank E. Pearson held at Carmedy's parlors at 2 pm last Tuesday. Pearson died yesterday morning after moving to Florence two months ago from Goldfield and previously living in Colorado for about a year from Muscatine, Iowa. Relatives Frank Gartner and W. P. Fish arrived from Goldfield. brother Joseph Pearson of Denver was wired but will not attend.
Beginning Tuesday February 12 and continuing each Tuesday until April 30 1901 the Rock Island will offer one way second class fares to California and Washington coast points and intermediate destinations Tickets to California points are 30 dollars while Washington points are 225.40 dollars Tickets are valid only on Tuesdays at the passenger depot with C M Gould as agent for information
Ellendale is a newly opened town midway between Albert Lea and Owatonna on the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern line. The company aims to make Ellendale the sole town in its stretch, offering a rich trading area and inviting pioneers to settle. Interested parties may contact R. J. Dobell or Thos. H. Brown for lots and new town opportunities.
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