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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
12
A brief catalog noting Base Ball Goods including athletic wear with base ball suits and masks for players. Availability details are limited but items cover essential protective gear and uniforms.
Go up with Roach Musser excursion to see Rock Island and Davenport league baseball game on Sunday May 30. Mr and Mrs O A Garrett and son Earl, visiting, return to Columbus Junction. Also mention of Tic 98c to 1.50 petticoats at Lillys Quality Store and Bestel nehner cigar winner from Kiowa 5c brand.
The CWCNING Service at the Baptist Church will present The Life of Our Saviour in Song with solos anthems and hymns. The program features Miss Jessie Stiren Miss Lulu Palmer Mr Carl Schmidt and the First Baptist Choir in a structured sequence detailing Christ’s life from Advent through Ascension.
A YMCA Sunday program questions whether Jesus Christ is more than a man. The discussion set for 3:00 PM features audience participation and local religious perspectives.
City officials including City Engineer Ryan and Mayor Grossklaus conducted a short committee of the whole tour visiting the Geneva Navigation riverfront and the Hut tig plant to review dock, fence, and cross likely actions. A June 1 special meeting will decide on these issues after further study. They also visited the Hahn barn to see the Howard Stark automatic electric railroad block system and crossing gates. The council praised the system’s performance.
The Muscatine inquest on an infant found five miles below the city by Mrs. Catherine McCleary on May 20 returned a verdict that the life less body was found but the manner of death is unknown. Witnesses Mr. and Mrs. J A McCleary and Dr. R W Durkee corroborated the discovery account.
A Sunday afternoon discussion on the divinity of Christ led by Rev. Smith at the Y M C A. Men are invited to attend the 3:00 p m session in the club’s meeting hall.
Mrs. Charlotte Daniel Goodhand, 73, died at the Iowa Soldiers' Home hospital in Marshalltown after a life spent mainly near Pleasant Prairie. Born in Indiana June 22, 1833, she married John Umphress in 1856 (he died 1866) and later Mark Goodhand in 1871 (he died 1887). She lived years in Nebraska and spent her final year at the home. Survived by sister Mrs. Mary Nicholson, plus nieces, nephews, and many friends. funeral by Rev. Rollo Fisher.
Miss Lydia A Finger will speak on A Challenge to Heroism at the First Presbyterian church tomorrow night. The program, hosted by the YWCA, includes hymns, scripture, a quartet, and an address by Finger of Chicago, with offering for local Bible secretary work and a benediction to close.
In Iowa City yesterday afternoon Ames defeated Iowa 6 to 5 in a closely contested baseball game. Early in the game O'Brien was struck in the head by a ball, affecting his pitching for the rest of the contest. Iowa attributes the loss partly to that incident.
A bizarre ad style note touts Dr Kine's New Life Pills with dramatic claims and a promise of 25 guaranteed relief. The fragment mentions Havercamp's Prescription Drug in a curious, likely promotional context.
Dr Burt Estes Howard of Leland Stanford University speaks on Bismarck and the German Empire at the Public Library next Monday evening at 8 p m Tickets for both lectures by Dr Howard and Professor Morse Stephens are 50 cents each
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