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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1902
Page
8
A Wednesday sale offers two hundred pair lace curtains at low prices with free curtain poles. Prices range from $1 to $8 for various lace types. Also featuring carpets, sheets, muslin, and other home goods at steep discounts.
The page promotes shopping deals from Scheetz painting, Wilson’s Shoes, C Otto & Sons sugar, Kendrick’s rheumatism cure and Blanchard packing ham refunds. It notes Mrs Henry Vail visiting Keota, a real estate partnership of A G Tyler and P D Hill, illness of Fred B Smith, and an A M E church chicken pie supper on Tuesday May 12 at 6 pm.
The Journal announces a new weekly bargain day in Muscatine chosen as Wednesday by merchants and shoppers. Big stores will feature special announcements in Tuesday night editions, with two Journal pages showing ad highlights including corset sales, spring suits, silk skirts, and discounted coffees and staples.
China and granite at Scheetz's. Northern Grown Burn Bank potatoes at $1 per bushel. Mrs. L. Vorhees of Cedar Falls Ind. visiting her son in the city. Mrs. D. S. McDermid travels to the Tri-Cities for a day. T. A. Black of Chicago visiting cousin Miss Jarie Wilson. Welch & Knapp offer spring suit orders. For Rent a seven room house on North Mulberry. Ice cream at A. M. E. church supper. New Panitorium cleans and shines clothes and shoes. Emma Hediker shipping to Chicago for ten days. Miss Sawyer traveling to Chicago. John Eade Jr. leaves for Chicago to locate.
The Journal corrected that M P Goff testified about another witness’s statements rather than testifying to the truth about the Bebb defense. The correction notes the testimony referenced a separate Crocker trial instead.
Chiefs of Musquitine tribe No. 95 must attend Thursday night's sleep event to nominate leaders for the coming year. Phil J. Mackey, Sachem, orders the gathering. Nearby notes mention local ads and the ongoing Kendrick's cure promotion.
G W Wescott of Meadowdale North Carolina says rheumatism plagued him but Chamberlains Pain Balm cured him after trying it. The advertisement notes the balm is for sale by all druggists and claims it is a low-cost cure.
Job notice seeks men to work as lumpers at the South Muscatine Lumber Company with immediate applications accepted at the plant location.
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