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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1902
Page
5
Easter services across Muscatine churches featured bright floral decorations, choirs, and sermons on Christ's resurrection. Reverends Greaves Elliott Hix and others led eloquent talks, with special music, Sunday school programs, and congregational hymns drawing large crowds despite a spring blizzard.
In Wapello Iowa March 21 interest ing Easter services were held in churches last night. Married society ladies plan an indoor picnic and dance at Myron hall April 1. Mrs Wallingford Davis and Chitturn entertained Mollie Gunnells and guests with crokinole and declamation. Eastern Star quilt project completed. Presbyterian Mite society to be entertained by Mrs Jas McChesney and daughter Marie. Christian church bazaar and market reported. Elderly resident Mrs Geo Nearhood died aged over 89. Various social visits, school board notices, and lodge events slated for the week.
Mercy like displays fill shop windows for Easter season. Miss Anna Keck's storefront shines with potted plants and a variety of flowers including jonquils hyacinth Easter lilies azaleas spireas and cineramas. The writes praise nature's own decorations during Easter tide.
John Habberton claimed 900 copies and autograph letters would prove advertising unnecessary. He targeted department heads in major US bookstores, who then urged staff to push the book. The Philadelphia Record notes the title succeeded on merit, aided by retailer enthusiasm.
Riis recounts visiting three sisters whose brother drowned on a hot July day. A cabbage leaf in his hat toppled onto his head, triggering stunned silence then wild laughter from the grieving family. He recalls the moment as a lasting, absurd contrast to their grief.
A quotation from the New York Times mocks etiquette advice by noting a cookbook urges pinning a napkin to a dress so it cannot be seen, imagining diners returning to the drawing room with napkin aprons still pinned.
A descriptive and illustrative book let of Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in northwestern Iowa will be sent free on application. The book includes Minnesota and Iowa game laws. Mentioned are boarding houses hotels and cottages available for rent around these lakes.
Grain and produce prices list includes oats wheat rye barley timothy hay oats meal butter eggs lard potatoes cabbage apples cranberries lemons bananas oranges figs dates and various fish meats. Also includes coal fuel wood and travel fare information with a March to May schedule offering one fare plus two dollars to numerous northern and western states and Canada.
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