Charlie's Aunt to Headline Muscatine High Play at Grand Opera House
Muscatine High School senior class plans a June 7 performance of Charlie's Aunt at the Grand Opera House. The comedy features a strong student cast and marks a notable dramatic effort for the school. Robert Wallace has returned from California to take the lead role as Lord Francourt Baberly.
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Muscatine High School
Charlie
Grand Opera House
Robert Wallace
California
Lord
Francourt Baberly
How I Keep My Hair Young and Beautiful
Mabel Graham shares home hair care tips to maintain soft fluffy hair. She prescribes a monthly wash with a castile soap shampoo, an egg and lemon mix, and warm water rinse, followed by a quinine hair tonic. She notes a cheaper tonic option with alcohol and beta quinol or Bay Rum, promising healthy scalp and abundant hair.
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Mabel Graham
Local Visits Highlight Col. Junction Socials
Nearby residents traveled to Wapello to visit ill father Joseph D. Brown as Frank Brown and his daughter Gwendolyn joined. Chicago visitors from Marengo and Muscatine residents spent Tuesday in Col. Junction with local families. Others include Mrs. A L Graham Keota. Mrs. T L Cline Letts. Hyram Bliven Mediapolis and Niece L P Allison. Bessie Weaver's Grandview visit.
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L. P. Allison
Bessie Weaver
Grandview
Business visitors and trips noted in Winfield area
J Don Darrow left Tuesday for Des Moines to serve on a federal grand jury. F N Wilcox and Mrs J S Blair are business visitors to Washington today. Wm Sink attends a horse sale. Clark Langhery and Bert Campbell of Winfield are here on business, traveling in Langherys car. J L Browning Guy Baker Gus Seivers and S C Carl journeyed from Lone Tree this morning by automobile.
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J. Don Darrow
Des Moines
Federal Grand Jury
F. N. Wilcox
Washington
Wm. Sink
J. S. Blair
Clark Langhery
Bert Campbell
Winfield
Alcohol as preservative in medicines and tablets
The passage notes alcohol serves as the standard preservative in medical compounds. It cites medicines averaging 15 to 22 percent alcohol to preserve ingredients, doctors prescriptions using 25 to 50 percent, and mentions Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at 18 percent while noting tablet forms exist for those wary of alcohol.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Grange to host two lectures on Birds and Common Things
J. H. Paarmann curator of the Academy of Science of Davenport will speak twice at Rainbow Grange hall near Wilton on Tuesday evening May 18. He will present Birds and Common Things. Rainbow Grange members may invite one guest and members from other granges are welcome.
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J. H. Paarmann
Academy of Science of
Davenport
Rainbow Grange
Wilton
Letts Baseball Team Plans May 15 Game at Columbus Junction
The L. H. S. baseball squad will meet Columbus Junction next Saturday May 15 in Columbus Junction with no more home games due to expenses. The Letts Midgets list Fay Collins Harry Fitzsimmons Hugh Shellabarger Oscar Ross Merle Hendrix Orville Gipple Fay Longstreth Mayne Longnecker Glenn Cochran Glenn Holiday. Local happenings note recital lessons at Miss Amy Paine home and visits from Paul Pollick actor on vacation, plus community updates on rail line work three semaphores planned east of Letts. Several residents ill including Glenn Holliday Mary Dalton Fred Weaver and others. Epworth League elected officers Ernst Lieberknecht Belle Knott Daisy Lieberknecht Ruby Runyon Mae Shinn Fred Flatt Everette Fry O Hamersly and Daisy Lieberknecht.
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Columbus Junction
Fay Collins
Harry Fitzsimmons
Hugh Shellabarger
Oscar Ross
Merle Hendrix
Orville Gipple
Fay Longstreth
Mayne Longnecker
Glenn Cochran
Glenn Holiday
N. M. Letts
David
Des Moines
Amy Paine
George Bailey
Buffalo
Laura Shellabarger
Muscatine
Rock Island
M. Hunter
Wapello
Josiah Fry
Phoebe
Ed. Wells
Cranston
Wells
Milwaukee
Grand Stock Company
Satan
Griffin's Opera House
H. A. Banta
Vernon
John Eliason
M. L. Sheilabarger
Glenn Holliday
Mary Dalton
Fred Weaver
Bellevue Hospital
W. T. Barnett
O. Hamersly
W. A. Longnecker
Carl
Council Bluffs
William
Robert Wilson
South Dakota
Epworth League
Ernst Lieberknecht
Belle Knott
Daisy Lieberknecht
Ruby Runyon
Mae Shinn
Fred F. Flatt
Everette Fry
Mrs. O. Hamersly
Death shocks Conesville as Frank Jarrard dies after stroke
Conesville Iowa residents learned Friday afternoon that Frank Jarrard died after a paralytic stroke struck him while he was engaged in his daily activities. The community recalls his involvement and service to local affairs.
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Conesville
Frank Jarrard
Jarrard Funeral Follows Sudden Farm Tragedy
Frank M. Jarrard died after a cement tank accident on J. Nicholson’s farm. Born April 16, 1865, he married Bell Carmichiel in 1892. she died in 1898. He remarried Mary Trautman in 1900. Funeral May 9 at M. E. church Wayland with burial at Chile cemetery. left a wife, two sons Ora and Scott, an aging father, five brothers, two sisters, three stepchildren, and many friends.
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J. Nicholson
Frank M. Jarrard
Bell Carmichiel
Mary Trautman
Wayland
Jarrard
M. E. Church
Chile
Ora
Scott
George
Charley
L. Westerman
N. E. McGill
Electric Bitters Promised To Enrich Thin Blood
A health tonic touted to enrich poor blood and strengthen the weak is sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 50 cents.
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Havercamp
Kalona Social Notes and Local Visitors
Kalona Iowa May 12 list of local social updates includes Mrs J N Powman Iowa City visit Monday night Charley Sommers travels to Chicago with cattle shipment W W Miller attends cousin funeral in South English last Friday Miss Morrow Kalona school visits Washington recent weekend Mrs Hungerford and Mrs Irons Keswick visit Kalona with Mrs M E Hochstetler Eva Snyder Iowa City visit Edith Hasty and Nellie Huff in Muscatine and Lone Tree visit return home Joseph S Yoder returns from Holmes county Ohio after funeral of Mrs Wenger Brewster Gardener Morse Indiana visits sister Mrs B T Allen.
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Kalona
J. N. Powman
Iowa City
Charley Sommers
Chicago
W. W. Miller
South English
Night Riders Guilty In Tennessee Whipping Case
A Waverly, Tennessee jury found fourteen men guilty of belonging to the night riders and whipping Esquire Reece on October 15, 1908. Each man received ten days in jail and a $500 fine. They were remanded to jail under a strong military guard.
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Waverly
Tenn
Night Riders’ Organization
Esquire Reece
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