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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1906
Page
7
Local notes report Bennett the Rock Island furrier offering fur storage and repair services. Olla Santee of Moline visits Thornburg. F W Eversmeyer travels to Davenport to spend the day. Harry Springer heads to Columbus Junction for Mrs Maze funeral.
Muscatine will send delegates to the Iowa State Epworth League encampment at Colfax from August 1 to 12. Prominent bishops and educators will appear, with a big spelling contest for Jasper county schools on August 11. The program includes lectures by Dr Parkhurst, Bishop Hartzell, and others, plus music by Wilbur Starr Concert Company and Midland Jubilee Singers.
The note advertises round trip fares of 18.60 to New Haven Conn and back plus 1.00 from Chicago via Nickel Plate Road with travel on June 2 3 4 and 5 at excursion rates. Return limit June 30 with possible extension. Nickel Plate office in Chicago Room 298 No 113 Adams St.
We thank our friends and neighbors for acts of kindness during our recent bereavement. M Rabedeaux and Family.
Master Workman W Narvis of the A O U W will speak to Eagle lodge No. 10 about his California experiences during the San Francisco disaster. The local lodge has contributed 35 to earthquake relief. Subscriptions nationwide may reach 10 000. California lodges suspended April and May dues and assessments. San Francisco lodge had 6000 members with four deaths reported. Supreme lodge headquarters were ruined by fire and water. Next Thursday a Supreme…
Morning Sun items show residents visiting relatives in Davenport Mediapolis Burlington and Newport with trips to Texas Oklahoma City and Olds. A fall lecture series organized by business leaders and church youth groups features Dr Hedley G W Anderson S A Long and musical acts from Parnell Newhall Co and Mr Spafford.
Rock Island lines have ordered about eighty three consolidated 1700 class engines and delivered twenty to date numbers 1707 through 1720. Engines resemble the 1600 class but with Walscroft valve motive and slide valves, New York air brakes, 4 percent heavier tractive power yet five pounds less steam pressure, cylinders 23 by 30 inches, and a re-sited engine bell.
An ad warns of throat and lung diseases as a grave risk and promotes Dr. King's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds as a cure with prices 50c and 1.00 from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
At the bride’s aunt's home Mrs. Calista Benschoof a union joined Ona May Allbee and Chauncey L. Sewell of Wayne Nebraska officiated by Rev Chas Frown. The ceremony featured a ring exchange before potted plant decor and a three course dinner. Afterward guests presented gifts and money as the newlyweds announced plans to reside in Huron South Dakota.
A vintage advertisement promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for kidney trouble in women. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Samuel Frake and Mrs. J W Lang praising cures and urges women with kidney and female-organs symptoms to seek her advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
A combined boat and interurban excursion from Muscatine to Clinton is set for June 18 to 22 aboard the Helen Blair with a $1.50 round trip ticket. Travel begins on the Helen Blair to Davenport, then shifts to the I I interurban to Clinton to attend the 20th annual tournament of the state association of Iowa firemen.
Local vendor A. W. Morgan of 107 West Second Street advertises Orrine a two form remedy guaranteed to stop drink cravings and cure the drunkard or money back No. 1 can be given without the patient’s knowledge No. 2 for those who wish to be cured each package priced at $1 Mail orders accepted and filled.
North Prairie Indiana May 15 the church social was postponed because of rain and will be held soon. Drumm and daughter from near Durant and George Houvernagle visited Mr and Mrs Allie Houvernagle. Mrs Henry Random entertained several ladies at her home Thursday. Bellevue hospital patient Will Crowe Jr. is recovering well.
Rev J N Elliott of the Presbyterian church in this city presided over a special meeting of delegates in Davenport to name new delegates from the Iowa City area. The gathering focused on organizational steps and future directions for local church representation.
A reader requests insertion of a want ad in the Journal from last week. The advertiser promises payment at one half cent per word for each insertion.
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