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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
6
An advertisement touts Kodol as a digestive aid that lets the stomach rest while the body replenishes nourishment. It claims Kodol digests all food, unlike pepsin-based digesters, and promises immediate results with a money back guarantee. Produced by E. C. DeWitt & Co. Chicago.
West Liberty high school held class day exercises in the assembly with students Miss Mary Anderson and Miss Clara Rockafellow among ushers. The program featured recitations, solos, poems, histories and prophecies with many attending relatives and visitors from nearby towns.
Ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio promotes a constitutional treatment for catarrh. It states the medicine is taken internally, targets blood and mucous surfaces, and offers 100 dollar test for failed cures. Includes request for circulars and dealer contact and endorses Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Attorney C A W Kent urged Mulford Congregational church men to combat liquor traffic, linking vice to national weakness. The talk stressed church members’ duty, followed by a short musical program and refreshments. Local notes list residents visiting or returning home.
Describes nervous debility with fatigue, low ambition, memory issues, irritability, sunken eyes, facial blemishes, restless and haggard appearance, weak back, urinary deposit, distrust, low confidence, and sleeplessness. Source presents a patient portrait of debility and fatigue.
A Chicago advertisement offers cures for syphilis gonorrhea and related effects. Dr W E Shallensenger claims to reform old cases and incurable conditions through new treatments. Free confidential consultation at 145 Oakwood Blvd Chicago.
Sweetland residents during the week included visits by J H Harris from Muscatine and Frank Bamford with family who will move into the Winne home. A Miss Anna Fallicker missionary will speak at the M E church May 24 with no admission. The Epworth League meeting in Mt Pleasant completed with delegates returning Monday. Commencement exercises are set for Friday with a baccalaureate on Sunday.
Prof Weber and his wife visited Wapello for the illness and death of Mrs Weber’s father. Revs. Robert Son and Taylor filled their school duties during the absence. Miss Jennie Sellers of Wapello is mentioned in connection with the local incident.
An advertisement claims Dr Miles Heart Cure strengthens nerves controlling the heart and eases symptoms like short breath chest pain palpitations and fluttering. It includes a testimonial from Mrs D Barron Covington Kentucky and notes druggists will replace the first bottle if it fails to benefit. Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind.
Memorial services will be held Sunday at the Presbyterian church with a sermon by Rev. E. S. Genning. A stock company bank discussion occurred in town with A P Caldwell of Burlington. Decoration services pending programs. A May 20 Short Horn sale by M D Yard drew multiple distant buyers. auctioneer George P Bellows. Rev. W G Robertson to spend June in Pennsylvania. Postmaster Maxwell and bride begin housekeeping.
In Tipton Iowa on May 21 a jury failed to agree in the $15,000 slander suit of Rev S Schulmeistrat versus Louis Harmel. The minister from Clar ence alleges Harmel's daughter’s father spread the charge accusing him of entering the girl’s room after hiring Emma Harmel to care for his three children during his wife’s illness.
Society cards list regular meetings for Masonic bodies in Mason, Iowa including Mason City Lodge No 2 A F and A M Washington Chapter No 4 RAM De Molay Commandery No 1 K T Bend City Lodge No 143 Modern Brotherhood of America Muscatine Lodge No 5 Miriam Lodge UL of K Woodbine Camp No 142 Royal Neighbors of America Iowa Legion of Honor and Argus Lodge with meeting times, officers, and invites to members and visitors across multiple towns.
Fraternal orders in Muscatine advertise weekly meetings. G A R and Muscatine council No 611 announce Monday and Tuesday gatherings. Elks Lodge No 304 meets every Monday at the Elks Hall on Iowa Avenue with officers inviting visiting Elks.
Knights of Pythias Wyoming Lodge No. 76 meets Friday evenings at 7 30 in the Kp building on lawa avenue. Visiting brethren invited. F W McDougal and F L Biblmeier sign as officers.
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