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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
5
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will not hold the June 12 picnic at Citizens' Railway Park. Instead a stag banquet will celebrate the Muscatine lodge anniversary in the lodge hall. Committees will reconvene Sunday morning to finalize plans. a parade remains uncertain.
Miss Sue Stone reports on the Waterloo federation meeting held at the Twentieth Century club home of Mrs. G. A. Heidel. Officers for the year are elected and a summer outing at Mrs. E. J. Zeidler’s Geneva cottage is planned. The report covers Elizabeth Swank’s Waterloo home for working girls and notes ban on mixed meals. members urged to study laws on marriage and divorce and civil service reform. The season closes with a picnic planned for June 6 and a well attended meeting.
The article notes support for national legislation to protect the Cliff Dwellers area. It mentions a bill pending in Congress to designate the land as a national park and links the move to Hepburn Pure Food efforts.
Mrs. Emily Darrow led fifteen young girls on a Sunday outing to the chautauqua grounds with picnicking, flower gathering, and a singing program. Others included local families at similar social events, and several residents traveled between Muscatine and Washington for church meetings and visits.
A Midway Tennessee reader shares a testimonial for Seven Barks and Globe Pets as a cure for long standing headaches. The letter praises the remedy, notes a 16 year relief and offers a money back guarantee through Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as special agent.
Mrs. A. Blake and family from Fre donia arrived this noon aboard the Firefly for a brief business visit to the city.
Advertisement touts Pa's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for bad temper and indigestion. It claims regular use cures dyspepsia quickly, improves complexion, removes facial blemishes, and lifts mood, with price 50 cents per box and six boxes for 2.50.
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