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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1902
Page
7
Local column notes stage show Friday featuring Friday 16 Chas Handford in The Taming of the Shrew. Community notices list insurance, travel, and visiting updates from Muscatine area residents.
Visitors can find suitable accommodations at local hotels and boarding houses. A free transfer bus will meet B C N trains at Spirit Lake and Montgomery and shuttle passengers to The Inn Arnold's Park and Manhattan Beach. Free booklet on Spirit and Okoboji Lakes includes Iowa and Minnesota game laws.
Mrs. H F P Giesler visits Wilton. several residents travel on the Helen Blair and Western. Rev Parvin and others arrive. city council discusses smallpox case, bridge suit, garbage removal, street work, and fire equipment needs. finance committee reports funds, bonds, and payments.
A Chicago nurse Maggie F Church credits coffee avoidance and switching to Postum Food Coffee with complete recovery from a long lasting nervous disorder and insomnia. She warns nurses and families to boil Postum longer than coffee for best flavor and nourishment.
About 75 visiting Rebekahs attended the Davenport district convention in Odd Fellows hall with delegates from Scott Clinton and Jackson counties. State officers included Laura Kent of Muscatine and Ida Tufford of Clinton. Mrs. Sarah Benedict presided as district president. Hannah Mason gave the welcome. Sarah Benedict responded.
In Pine Mills Iowa May 15 G Plett bought cattle Thursday. Wm Showers recovered two fine eel from a wet Sunday morning. G Fitzsimmone plans to tow his house boat to Prairie du Chien to awaken his home there. Weather cool. farmers slow to plant corn on low ground. telephone workers run six wires on the new line and board with farmers.
A series of short items notes B Nettleton seen south with a Jersey cow, Adam Eis in Durant Wednesday, Miss Mary Wunderlich at a Melpine funeral, a social hop planned at D Grimms, W Hartman selling stock hogs to A Eis for 6 60, James Carpenter hauling hogs to Montpelier and bringing telephone workers home, and Mrs L Satterthwaite No 1 Montpelier township teacher with 30 scholars.
The article promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. It claims reliability with a One Hundred Dollar compensation offer for any case not cured and invites testimonials. It also notes travel options via Lehigh Valley Railroad with sleeper cars and dining service to New York, Philadelphia, and Niagara Falls.
The Nickel Plate Road offers three daily trains to New York, New England, and eastern states via its eastern connections. Services include standard equipment, dining car meals from 35 to 100 cents, and an American club plan. For details contact John Y. Calahan, General Agent, 111 Adams Street Chicago Depot, Fifth Avenue and Harrison Street.
In a park scene Bridget reveals to her mistress a marine accompanying her at a party. The mistress accuses Bridget of deception for taking the afternoon off to attend the event.
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