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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
10
Saturday morning May 23 at 9 o'clock the Boston Store offers a large silk sale with 1000 yards of Taffeta Foulard and Rajah silks at 39c per yard. Cheney Bros Foulards and striped checks in 20 to 28 inch widths, all worth 75c to $1.50, with notes of wide selection and show window displays.
Ladies you can buy Nottingham Swiss cable net and Bomfame curtains at 20 percent below the lowest price. We have too many curtains to sell and offer pairs from 80c to 5.40 with the discount. Come Saturday and see the savings.
Bargain sale text describes ready made garments for children and women including silk gingham outfits, dresses, waists, linen jackets, wool skirts, silk and voile skirts, and all wool jackets with prices reduced from as low as $1 to $10. Many items listed with cuts from various high original values.
David Lewis and Ora McCloskey visit Muscatine while Davenport and Rock Island contacts pass through. Barnard’s Jewelry and Barnard’s ads tout sales and souvenir spoons. Barnes City and Muscatine residents travel for business and visits. Sixteen Iowa State University athletes pass through en route to a Kansas City meet. Titus Loan & Investment promotes government-bond-like mortgages.
The Kaiser Hose Co announces its annual excursion on May 31 aboard the Steamer Columbia to the Tri-Cities. A full brass band will provide music for listening and dancing, promising the biggest and best trip of the season.
Industrial ad notes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve heals wounds whether slash cuts gunshot or nail puncture and promises guaranteed results. Sells at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store with a 251 address line.
A Muscatine promotion offers fifty all wool spring jackets in stripes checks and plaids sized 32 to 40. The sale, claimed to be the greatest ever, features jackets regularly priced up to eight dollars, offered at $3.00 for one day only with stated uses for cool evenings and travel.
Bargain screen shows ladies silk dresses in many colors and sizes with prices of 5.98 or 6.98. Advert says actual value up to 18.50 for silk dresses and notes ready made options in all colors and sizes.
On Saturday May 23 a sale features twenty dozen new batiste corsets in long and short styles with hip and bust variations, girdle corsets, sizes 18 to 30, priced 50c to 1.00. Lace front corsets at 1.50, and never break down corsets for large women priced 1.00 1.50 and 3.00.
Dr J A Boatman presiding elder of the Muscatine district will speak at Park Avenue M E church after the quarterly conference on June 6 and 7. He is expected to address the 11 o clock service following the morning Sunday school with a favorable reception among East Hill readers.
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a guaranteed remedy for malaria liver derangement and kidney trouble. It cites Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the seller and lists a price of 50 cents.
Misses Faye Ayres and Mary Ruff traveled to Muscatine to visit friends this noon. Mrs. Glen Stevens and her baby from Iowa City arrived yesterday noon.
Mrs. A. R. Leith returns home after visiting Muscatine with relatives. Miss Ellen McSwiggin travels to Williamsburg due to her brother Wm. McSwiggin’s illness and death. Dr. L. C. Winter visits Muscatine for business and friends. P. A. Schmidt visits Davenport for business and meets Miss Kate Rininsland, who was staying with her aunt Mrs. Kate Ruff and relatives.
In Muscatine last evening, Tom Killion was a passenger toward West Liberty this morning where he transacted business and visited with local contacts. The brief item places Killion in transit and active in regional commerce during the period.
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