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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
2
Reporters note a busy shelling trade as workers along the levee unload 2 200 pounds of shells from a shell boat. Diggers say daily yields reach 300–500 pounds, earning 80–90 cents per hundred. Some shellers buy, boil, and sell shells to profit from meat removal, slugs, and pearls, with rising prices and many diggers increasing activity this year.
American League notes show leaders at 6 7 8 games with Philadelphia and Baltimore near the top and Cleveland in the lower tier. National League values list Boston Chicago St. Louis and New York with mixed results from Friday games. Three League results include Rockford over Decatur 17 7 and Terre Haute over Rock Island 8 4.
The P M Musser public library receives a 5x7 foot map of the United States from Congressman J N W Rumple. The government map is praised for accuracy and adds to the library’s resources. Trustees also publish a 64 page Finding List catalog by R A Holmes Printing, aiding home readers and mail requests.
Ad claims cure of grip in two days using Bromo Quinine laxative. Ev ery box bears E. W. Grove's signature and is priced at 25 cents.
The ad touts Wine of Cardui as a cure for female weakness and barrenness. It claims healthy women need not fear miscarriage and childbirth if they take the remedy, which supposedly strengthens generation organs and aids recovery after delivery. It asserts the product helps even those who had given up hope of motherhood.
The Minnesota Gophers beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 11 to 3 in a dual track and field meet in Iowa City. Bockman won the 100 yards and both hurdles. Swift led Iowa with a 114 ft 2 in discus. Yavorsky McCoy Rivers and captain Anderson won the half mile relay. Ross of Iowa claimed the broad jump at 21 ft 19 in. Muscatine Gun Club shots yield a multi-line score list from participants through the event_highlighted by several close scores.
Heavy rains have muddied the river water feeding Mussaville mills. Steam lines and boiler operations suffer as sludge travels through pipes, requiring Sunday boiler washouts. The report notes changes at local industries, church repairs, and staffing shifts, including Hershey mill shutdowns and Lumber and Box Company purchases.
Mrs. F L Bernhardt of 382 Newbury St Boston recounts a perilous recovery from nervous prostration insomnia and digestive weakness after surgery. She credits Paine's Celery Compound with restoring appetite sleep and strength within about two months and urges others to try the remedy. Diamond Dyes advertised as pure and unfading.
A judge quips on handling anger with a brutal suggestion from a Sabbath school teacher. The remark, attributed to Johnny Thickneck, proposes knocking the other feller down and sitting on his head before counting to one hundred.
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