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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1901
Page
8
An appeal promises economical scootwear for ladies misses and children as crowds flock to the discount sale. Shoes are offered at unusually low prices including 50 cents and 1 dollar, with T. W. O Cherry, successor to F E Dolsen, advertising great value in city footwear.
Five cents buys a large dust pan at Scheetz. Judge J Carskaddan and wife arrived from Chicago at midnight. Geo W Reuling offers chickens strawberries pineapples and fresh vegetables. A marriage license issued to L B Bethards and Miss Louise A Blass. Prof Shinn of Muscatine Business College was a business passenger to Davenport. Miss Bertha Crissman of Wilkes-Barre Pa arrives and will visit Lee Newman. Scheetz advertises a special bargain sale tomorrow. Capt E C Peto and Mrs Peto visit from Davenport. Peto returns home this morning. Hartman Ellman offer fresh pie plant lettuce onions radishes asparagus oranges bananas pineapples canned goods and fine groceries. Claud Hubacher of United States Express takes Firefly express run Rock Island Evans for 10 days during vacation.
Schmidt Bros receives new Edison records bringing fresh catalog titles for music lovers and collectors. The delivery marks a mid century push for updated sound recordings and expanded in store shelves for phonograph enthusiasts.
Tomorrow Saturday May 4 offers include about forty new elegant silk skirts in all sizes priced from 6.00 to 18.00, and thirty dozen late style shirt waists with a pew sailor collar at various low prices. Also girls waists, rugs, curtain swiss, sheeting, bleached muslin, pillow cases, slips, cambric, and silk accessories advertised at substantial discounts.
A sale offers one hundred pieces of new wash goods in dimities, batiste, lawns and more with prices from 8c to 75c per yard. Also a new line of parasols and silk umbrellas direct from the maker at reduced prices. Umbrellas priced at 1.25 to 5.50 and silks in multiple colors to 1.98 each.
Merchants tout ice cream milk shakes and lemonade at The Sugar Bowl while Scheetz’s tempts with ten cent large ten quart pails and special glass and chinaware sales. Geo B. Jacksons and Wilson Shoe Store push styles and summer footwear as residents travel and attend events.
The St Johns hold an evening gathering at the Friends' church with Father Linnenkamp from St. Joseph, Missouri visiting Muscatine for an earnest worker event. Also advertised are summer wash goods at Geo B Jackson and a shoe sale at T W Cherry with bargains on Dover egg beaters at Scheetz.
A collage of notices from Muscatine area shops and residents. Scheetz’s offers bargains on oils and soap while E L Graham promotes bulk garden seeds. Mrs Huttig and Mrs Harris arrive from Chicago and Cedar Rapids respectively, with others planning travel and work for the upcoming opera house project.
An eleven year old boy from West Hill admitted to police last evening that he started several fires in the area to see the fire department respond. The latest blaze near W. McQuisten's barn was quickly fought, with kerosene and a leaking can leaving a trail to another barn. Officer Zoeg took the youth to the station where he confessed. residents fear more fires and hope for lessons about the severity of arson.
Muscatine County Medical Society gathered at the Y M C A parlors for its annual meeting. Officers were elected: President H M Dean, Vice President Cal W Smith, Secretary Treasurer J L Klein. A nominating committee was named and future interstate addresses planned. Drs F H Little and F L Woodruff spoke on medicine actions and obstetric asepsis. The society plans abroad talks and a special meeting on June 6 with banquet by Dr F H Little.
Annual athletic and gymnastic exhibition tonight at five o clock in Camper Gymnasium. Events include group tumbling, clays Bottum Vans Loose, Cyrbethenics, trapeze by Clare Bottum, bag punching by Paul Loose, parallel bars by H Hackett, mat work by Gymnasium Class, swinging perch by Clare Bottum, hand balancing by F E Davis, horizontal bar and horse by Baron Swinging, and a basketball segment. Admission is free and open to both ladies and gentlemen.
Muscatine merchants expect a busy Saturday with fair weather. The Journal’s advertising section lists new ads from M. C. Hayes wallpaper Sam Berger clothing M. W Wheeler groceries The Oriental cigars Anson Clothing Co The Boston Store Barnard's Grocery Co C Leysen groceries M. N Bond hardware J H H St John Groceries Leysen's Shoe Store S and J Cohn clothing Jno A Robbins insurance.
Rev W J Hadley of Marshalltown yearly meeting superintendent of Evangelistic and pastoral work attends the Friends quarterly meeting at the church corner Fifth and Sycamore streets starting Saturday at 10 a m The Treble Cliff Quartette will sing at the missionary meeting Saturday night Attendance includes Rev Isaac Rich Newton Branson Mrs Enlow of West Branch Rev Wittmer Mrs Tatum and Miss Pierson of Sprindale.
Ev Brandenburg known as The Paint Man celebrates twenty years in business. He recalls starting at the Little Red Paint shop and moving to 218 Iawa Avenue, planning to stay 20 more years with a full line of paints, low prices, and guaranteed satisfaction for patrons and friends.
Real estate ad offers an eight room house with all modern improvements and a full lot at a bargain price if taken at once. Titus and Jackson listed the property.
The California Tourist Car service via the Iowa Central Railway shifts to Tuesdays starting March 15 1901. Regular Pullman double headed tourist cars between Minneapolis and Los Angeles will run Tuesdays instead of Wednesdays with low one way rates in effect until April 30 1901. For details contact Iowa Central ticket agents or Geo S Batty G P T A Marshall.
Delicate feverish and cross children receive quick relief from Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the stomach and act on the liver to make a sickly child strong and healthy. A cure for worms. Sold by druggists 25 cents. Sample free. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
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