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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1908
Page
2
Moscow Township Republicans meet at 8 o clock Saturday evening May 9 to choose five delegates to the county convention and select a township committeeman for the primary. M Hoskins, Committeeman.
Lee W. Lang of Muscatine will depart tonight at 8:30 to attend the national socialist convention in Chicago. Delegates from Washington to Missouri converge on the Windy City with figures like Wanhope Hunter Spargo Hillquit Fieldman and Lewis. Debs and Haywood are contenders for president and vice president roles.
A local Knights of Pythias committee plans to invite Congressman A F Dawson to speak at the laying of the new post office corner stone and to urge the supreme chancellor to address the ceremony. A lodge meeting last night discussed the celebration but no firm plans were set.
Olive Branch reports August Johnson of the Bluff visiting Davenport on business and calling on friends. Mr Idalball of near Letts traveled to Muscatine as a business caller. Mr and Mrs Henry Nicklas and family visited C Pantel on Wednesday. Grandpa Eisele is hauling lumber to build a new barn near Letts. Fred and Eddie Nicklas played ball Sunday in Muscatine.
Harry Elmer Mockmore, born November 9 1889 at Platte Center Nebraska, died suddenly after injuries from a fall down an embankment near Summit Wednesday. He died at 10 30 last night at his sister Mrs George Simmons 1008 Spring Street Muscatine. He worked in a Wilton section gang under foreman George Mockmore. He is survived by his parents three brothers and one sister. Funeral Monday 7 pm Simmons residence then Fairport services at 1 pm burial Fairport cemetery
A testimonial advertisement for Dr Miles Nervine promotes its use to restore sleep and calm irritated nerves. It features a customer named Mrs May Scott describing relief after using the product and notes the druggist can return the first bottle if it does not help.
William Whitmore buys summer cottage Medicine Lodge and moves it from Geneva Island area to Long Island by barge with steamer Mignon towing. Whitmore plans a summer on Long Island with fishing and new farming experiments.
Milk dealers in Muscatine, after a months long agreement to 6 1/4 cents per quart until May 10, begin charging five cents as cheaper feed and abundant pasture reduce costs. Reports say one dealer led the price cut and others are expected to follow, lowering the usual milk price for residents.
The Rock Island spring timetable goes into effect tomorrow with no time changes for Muscatine. All trains will arrive and depart as before. no new trains added. Train No 11 leaves Muscatine at 11:05 p m and will depart Kansas City for the west and southwest at 9 45 a m instead of 8 25 a m, but Muscatine is unaffected.
Miss Ruth McKee, daughter of Mr and Mrs J S McKee of West Third street, was injured when a chair toppled at the table causing a deep scalp wound. Dr A J Weaver attended and dressed the cut.
An advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as a constitutional treatment for catarrh, claiming it works on blood and mucous membranes and offering $100 to prove failure. It urges readers to send for circulars and testimonials and notes availability through doctors and druggists.
Paul C. Hank of Muscatine and Della M. Winklemann of Steelville Ill were granted a license to wed in St Louis Missouri yesterday. Hank, living in Muscatine, works in a box concern and has advised his parents at 1135 Logan Street that the marriage will take place today.
The advertisement touts Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a dependable laxative that cleanses and relieves internal organs without debility or dosage increases. It claims physician approval, emphasizes natural action, and urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
A large map of the Pacific Coast extension through South Dakota North Dakota Montana Idaho and Washington is on display at the local station. The route passes through farming stock raising dairying and fruit growing country with opportunities for all. Descriptive books and maps are free for the asking by agent W S Underdone.
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