Sunday closing doubt in Muscatine as arrests proceed
The Muscatine scene on Sunday closing remains unsettled as Retail Clerks union arrests proceed and most merchants settle fines. Some shops will stay open while debates rise over strict measures including potential shutdowns of streetcars lights gas water and mills if prosecutions continue.
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Muscatine
H. S. Howe
Schoenig
Sam Cohn
Art Welch
John Wessels
Bee Hive
Clerks Union
Bodman
Smith
Iowa
Rock Island
Retail Clerks Union
New Dry Goods Store Opens as People’s Department Store
A. Siegel, owner of the People’s Bargain Store, will move into the space now held by Bississi on June 15. The business will expand to offer a full line of dry goods including ginghams silks muslin calico and percale under the new name The People’s Department Store.
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A. Siegel
People’s Bargain Store
Bississi
People’s Department Store
Kemble Home Hosts Methodist Society Picnic
The ladies and society of the First Methodist church met at Mr. and Mrs. John M. Kemble’s home Friday afternoon. In the evening the husbands and gentlemen friends were invited for a picnic supper. The Kemble grounds offered charm with country beauty and town access, followed by an ample lunch.
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First Methodist Church
John M. Kemble
Kemble Grounds
Colored women to form Iowa organization in Ottumwa
The convention of colored club women of Iowa meets Ottumwa May 27 and 28 to form the Iowa organization of colored women's clubs. Delegates from Des Moines Davenport Muscatine Cedar Rapids Mount Pleasant Keokuk Burlington Oskaloosa and other cities are expected. Mrs J Silone Yates of Kansas City will speak on Single Standard Morality Necessity with Ida B Wells coordinating delegate entertainment.
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Ottumwa
Iowa
Colored Club Women
Colored Club
Ida B. Wells
Des Moines
Davenport
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
Mount Pleasant
Keokuk
Burlington
Oskaloosa
Food’s effect on a pastor’s health praised in testimonial
Pastor L. R. Danforth of the First M. E. Church Havre?ill Mass credits Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food with curing years of dyspepsia. He says after starting the product he gained twenty pounds, can work twice as much, and now endorses the food publicly.
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L. R. Dan
Grace Hotel Chicago Gracefully Cheapest Stay Warners
Special notice urges Muscatine readers to choose Hotel Grace in Chicago at Jackson Boulevard and Clark Street for convenient lodging and reasonable prices. It promotes the hotel as the best option when visiting Chicago and asks residents to try the Grace on their next trip.
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Chicago
Grace
Jackson Bonly and
Clark Street
Riverside hotel at depot offers rental terms
In Riverside Iowa the three story brick Hotel Hardy at the B C R N depot can be rented on reasonable terms. All correspondence about the property should be sent to H I Swift Riverside Iowa.
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Riverside
Hardy
H. I. Swift
Evangelist Attacks Dancing at Wheaton Church
Chicago reports Evangelist W A Sun day denounces dancing and euchre playing as causes of sin. He tells a Wheaton Methodist audience that dancing fuels passion and urges couples to leave the ball room if a partner drags them toward pleasure, warning that gambling and social dancing corrupt youth.
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Chicago
Evangelist W. A
Wheaton
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