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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1909
Page
4
Local shoppers are urged to visit Lilly's Quality Store for special prices on white petticoats and summer coats suitable for evening wear and travel. The notice also promotes a grand opening at Houdek's educational institution and lists various local residents traveling for visits or business.
Local fraternal group calls full attendance for tonight's rank of Esquire session. Visiting Knights welcomed by commanding officer C C.
The A. O. U. W. lodge votes to purchase the old armory from Co. C and form a stock company with 170 shares at five dollars each. Work soon to remodel the building into lodge and club rooms including an elaborate library and later a gymnasium. Supreme Master Workman William Narvis calls No. 10 the state’s largest lodge and expects membership to reach about 1,000 as negotiations proceed with a stock solicitation committee named.
A series of social events for the graduating class of the High School is scheduled for next week. On Tuesday the January division will entertain the June division at Weed Park clubhouse, Wednesday features the annual class picnic, and Thursday Will Randall hosts a class picnic dinner at Electric Park.
Orthodox Jews will observe the Feast of Pentecost starting next Tuesday night through Thursday evening. Services will be held at the Spring Street synagogue with Rabbi Bleeden Maasida leading.
East Hills residents Clyde Goff Vernie Goff and Gladys Goff arrived from Keithsburg Illinois after the death of their mother Mrs Mary Ryason Goff born 1857. Funeral held at Keithsburg with Rev Benjamin of the Methodist church officiating. Interment at Greenmount cemetery.
Boost learning with proper nutrition for growing children. Emphasizes meals rich in protein, iron, and omega-3s to support brain function, energy, and concentration for classroom success. Practical tips include regular meals, breakfast, fruit, vegetables, dairy, and whole grains.
An advertisement touts Grape-Nuts as made from wheat and barley with nutrients, including phosphate of potash, claimed to rebuild wasting brain and nerve cells in active children and to be easy to obtain.
The ad promotes Postum Cereal Company Limited based in Battle Creek Michigan United States. It emphasizes a slogan There’s a Reason and markets their beverage product crafted for health and vigor.
Des Moines May 21 Iowa Adjutant General Logan received the list of forty guard officers and enlisted men from the fifty third to fifty six regiments who will compete at the state range north of Des Moines on June 14. Each man gets 400 rounds. Twenty will advance to a July shoot for a spot on the Iowa team to compete at Camp Perry Ohio in August. The encampment is slated for Chariton in early August with small Army detachments from Fort Des Moines and Fort Leavenworth joining state troops.
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