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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1902
Page
9
Muscatine merchants announce Wednesday as a regular bargain day to unclog sales and aid shoppers. Stores will feature periodic one or multi day specials starting midweek with ads guiding buyers to best deals. Listings include Boston Store Bee Hive Anson Clothing Geo B Jackson Wilson Shoe Wittich Bros with targeted discounts and product highlights.
Dennis Dwyer of Wilton transacted business in the city yesterday. Mrs. Conrad Haney visits at the home of her parents on West Third street. Mrs. James Patten of Iowa avenue is ill. messages sent to her husband in Des Moines and their son in Des Moines call them home.
Advertisers promote bicycles as a health solution with lines urging readers to join the trend. The copy asserts cycling can transform sick to healthy and fat to thin, touting H. Schmidt & Son Co as the supplier.
The Boston Store promotes special Wednesday bargains with lower prices on selected lines. Readers are urged to visit Wednesday to save money and read the bargains for those deals.
About 20 ladies jackets in tan and black wool offered at five to seven dollars in other listings. Also new late style suit jackets and silk lined Jersey jackets priced and sold for one dollar each tomorrow for one hour from nine to ten a.m. Sizes 32 to 38. Pick up quickly.
Three hundred new skirts in wool silk or wash fabrics in many styles offered at 1.98 2.50 2.98 3.60 3.98 4.50 4.98 6 8 dollars also new wash skirts at 1.25 1.50 2 and 2.50 dollars. Promotion promises fitting for all sizes and savings of up to half the price with a large display.
Twenty four words describe a carpet sale featuring very best all wool grain carpets at 43 cents a yard for Wednesday bargain day. Each piece measures 6 to 15 yards and offers new, high quality styles.
B and L Kemptner at 714 East Fifth offer painting and paper hanging services. An old phone line advertises travel insurance at one dollar per year, with a policy issued by Chas H Gobble general agent. E C Maxson, Mrs Lewis Maxson and Frances Maxson rode to Columbus City to attend Abraham Cassbaum's funeral.
A short classified line urges readers to call on or write to pursue buying or selling farm or city property and to discuss loan options.
A local ad proclaims puncture proof tires at H Schmidt and Son Co promising trouble free driving and lasting tire performance for customers seeking reliable casings and value.
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