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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1902
Page
7
Practical cooking guidance based on chemistry and experience. Lida Ames Willis leads this Chicago study material from the Marquette Building. Inquiries go to Willis, with rights reserved by Banning Co. Chicago.
Des Moines visitor M. H. King calls in the city while Linn Coverston departs for Columbia Indiana. Wilton resident Hugh Thompson visits business here. George Bannick buys Rev J L Murphy’s West Third Street residence. Mrs W S Jarboe returns from Cedar Rapids after a ten day visit. An advertising sidebar urges cold sponge baths, outdoor exercise, and Dr Crane's Quaker Tonic Tablets for digestion and kidneys.
A. Siegel, proprietor of the People’s Bargain Store, will move into the new room occupied by Bississi in June and expand stock to a full line of dry goods including ginghams calicoes silks muslins and more. The store will be renamed THE PEOPLE’S DEPARTMENT STORE.
Charles B. Hanford and company presented Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew to a near full Muscatine Opera House audience. Praised were Hanford's Petruchio and Miss Marie Dromah's Katherine, with strong support from Owen Fawcett and L. W. Browning. The production featured fine scenery and curtain calls after both acts.
A period food column lists a sequence of meals for Sunday to Wednesday featuring seafood like lobster and shad, mutton and beef dishes, several vegetable sides, fruit desserts, and beverages. The piece ends with a verse about poetry and cooking, noting springtime dining.
Mrs. Wise of Wilton and Mrs. Wilkinson back from Cedar Rapids and Chicago respectively. John Bennison returns from Chicago on the midnight train. Steamers Helen Blair and W J Young Jr. anchored in port, Blair leaving and Young entering. Mrs. Pearl Smith headed to Jessup Iowa to live with Chaudoin parents. Mrs. Ott and Mrs. Witmer of Wilton spent the day in the city shopping. Mollie Jayne of Wilton arrived on an early train then left by the Western to Lone Tree for a short visit.
In big stores many women work as salespeople previously held by men. The text links heavy hours and stress to female ailments such as irregular menses, indigestion, leucorrhea, debility, and nervous symptoms. It endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy supported by letters.
A set of testimonials from women including Mrs. Jennie Freeman of Lima Ohio and Miss Liarriz DeGroat Succasanna New Jersey praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from pain nerves and fatigue. The letters urge consultation with Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts and offer free advice to the sick.
Fresh fish from salt sea and lake along with shad, spring lamb, chickens, crabs, sweetbreads, asparagus, tomatoes and strawberries forecast a bright season. Detailed prep for shad roe with maire d hotel butter and broiled bacon, plus roasted saddle of lamb with cucumber sauce and lemon echoes spring dining.
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