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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1906
Page
7
Local notes list residents traveling by train or coach to nearby towns for day visits including Mrs. John Biscay Pleasant Plain Mrs. A C Craddock Fruitland and James Walker McDonald Mo. Others board the North and South and Western trains to Eldon Letts Davenport West Liberty Moscow What Cheer and Wilton. Also promotions for Sleepy Eye flour and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea with 35 cent price offers.
An advertisement extols Dr A W Chases Ointment as a guaranteed cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles with a money back promise. A testimonial from Casper Walton of Michigan City Indiana touts relief after hard labor and lifting strains. The notice lists price and dealer details and then shifts to local society items including visits, a birth, families traveling, and alumni remarks from a high school event.
The public services on Memorial day were held at 2 pm in the United Presbyterian church with Rev. Wm. Mackay delivering the address. Nora Corvette left for Monmouth Illinois for college commencement before returning home to Washington Iowa. Mr and Mrs J W Smith and Miss Katie Smith attended the McKay Miller wedding at Wapello Iowa. Edward Sweeney of Clinton Missouri arrived Monday evening.
Mrs. Young of Clay City New York suffered poisoning from constipation until Dr King's New Life Pills cured her. Sold for 25 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Provides travel options by direct route and via New York City on June 2 3 4 and 5 with return extension to June 26. Requests Nickel Plate Road room 298 No 113 Adams St Chicago for particulars.
Sealed bids for cleaning and reopening the Goshen ditch in Muscatine Iowa must be filed by June 4 1906. Sections cover 16 390 cubic yards total with work to finish by January 1 1907. Bid security 10 percent and performance bond 25 percent required. A. S. Lawrence county auditor.
Wilton the commencement exercises will be held at the M. E. church with a full program including music, readings, an address on immigration and socialism, and the presentation of diplomas. Various students and local residents are noted in the attendance and surrounding events.
A large crew posters Forepaugh and Sells ads with their circus and menagerie coming to town June 20. After June 7 boards will be relaunched, with more bill posters to follow. The three ring show includes a big menagerie and open air performances plus a grand daytime parade.
Ward Maurer, Charles Nienaber, Leon Ard Agnew, Arthur Wacker, Orren McCoy, and Alexander Atwill appear as individuals named in the document.
Advertisement for Dr Hale's Household Ointment claims instant relief and permanent cure for itching skin diseases. It reduces inflammation cools burning skin heals eruptions and is sold at drug stores for 25 cents or mailed by Kenyon & Thomas Adams NY.
Ed Hendrix had a carriage accident on Linn street when a loose telephone wire tangled his horse. Commencement exercises were a success with Dr. W. Donnaldson as superintendent candidate in town. The Shellabarger funeral drew many from nearby towns. upcoming events include a Republican primary next Saturday.
Travel offer lists round trip fare of 18 dollars and 60 cents to New Haven Connecticut with return, plus 1 dollar from Chicago via Nickel Plate Road with June 2 3 4 5 dates and extension option. Details at Nickel Plate office Room 298 No 113 Adams Bty Chicago.
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