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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
7
Mrs. Cora B. Miller of Kokomo Indiana has spent 125000 on giving medical treatment to women. She will send free treatment by mail to any woman suffering from conditions including whitish discharges uterine tumors and other uterine ailments. A 50 cent box and an explanatory book are mailed free to applicants who write seeking relief.
Local residents including Dr. M A Barr and Mrs. Caroline Schoor visit Kansas City and Wilton. Trades advertise new buggies at reduced prices while Bee and Roach Musser promote sash and door sales. Enquiry and travel details include outings to Colfax Springs and Cedar Rapids.
Grandview reports a busy week with cashier A L Holliday transacting in Muscatine and residents visiting relatives across Indiana Iowa and Illinois. Community members travel for work visits of W H Dickerson Miss Ilia Goose and Ralph Young while Miss Jennie Robertson runs for county recorder. Memorial services will be held Sunday at 3 PM.
Shelby Norman Post G A R memorializes Comrade W F Eichoff who died May 9 1908. The committee of G W Schreurs John Bloom and Harrison Bishop reports resolutions praising his valued membership and good citizenship and tenders sympathy to his widow. Memorial to be delivered to widow and recorded.
A promotional notice offers guided tours of New York City claiming to save 56 percent in time and expense. Edward Butler advertises escort services, hotel arrangements, and safe inquiry, with special focus on shopping by mail and no uniformed escorts.
The advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ills after thirty years. It claims to have cured thousands of women with issues such as displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache and nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
Rev Childress from Letts will preach at the Methodist church with special music. An Odd Fellows camp was formed with about twenty five members. Delegates from Wapello and Oakville attended. A political speech is set for Krahl's hall May 26 at 8 pm with C A Carpenter as principal speaker. Jacob Beik died Monday morning after months of illness. funeral Wednesday at one from the family home with burial in Grandview cemetery.
A druggist advertises Foley’s Kidney Remedy to correct irregularities and strengthen kidneys and bladder, urging use at first sign of danger to prevent Bright’s disease.
A large Yeomen gathering last evening featured a well received program with recitations and solos by Josie Gresham J M L Payne Mabel Boke Eva Nevens Beulah Ingraham E C Ingraham and a featured talk by Archer C H Salisbury. Baskets sales added to the proceeds and the crowd enjoyed the event. The next Yeomen meeting on June 3 will be a business session with a large adoption class.
Washington reports that tariff revision moves forward as a compromise. The National Manufacturers Association drives action, while lawmakers and rival interests shape the process under Senators Aldrich and Beveridge.
The Rev F W Carwell of Wrayville Illinois spent yesterday afternoon in Muscatine visiting friends and handling business matters.
The General Demand for a simple pleasant liquid laxative is cited and the California Fig Syrup Co. presents Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a wholesome, gentle, and effective remedy. It stresses ethical production, physician acceptance, and urges purchase only from the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. at fifty cents per bottle.
The monthly city council meeting will discuss municipal lighting plant plans with data from other towns. The finance committee also recommends increasing the annual stipend for firemen. City hall offices, including the council chamber, have undergone thorough cleaning and renovation with extensive water usage.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a cure for stomach liver and kidney troubles biliousness and malaria. The claim is guaranteed and priced at 50 cents by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
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