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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
2
A Columbus Dispatch snippet describes a conductor repeatedly urging a passenger to pay the fare. The passenger ignores reminders until awakened from a trance by the demand, with the conductor invoking the monetary obligation of riding.
In Gunten on Lake Thun a natural tree fountain flows from a spout high in a poplar. Twenty years ago a spring supply was directed through a shaft into the trunk, which rooted and grew into a splendid top growth, creating an extraordinary curiosity for visitors.
The quotation compares friendship to a vase that breaks beyond repair after heat violence or accident. It suggests that once damaged even originally graceful bonds cannot be restored. coarse stones can be cemented, but precious ones cannot.
James Douglas argues in M. A. P that true laughers are giants like Shakespeare and Rabelais. Cervantes and Sterne, he says, are just smilers not jolly roarers. Sterne is a diluted Rabelais, a lean ironic smile rather than a robust laugh.
A stockbroker tells how his father is valued at eighty with potential to rise to par and even exceed it. He notes the elder’s age is current but hints at improving worth. The remark playful uses market terminology to describe aging.
Readers are urged that placing wants in the Journal’s classified column reaches nearly 6,000 homes. The ad rate is stated as a low percent per word in advance, suggesting cost efficiency and broad exposure.
Four strong city clubs created the Muscatine Amateur Baseball association to crown the city champion. West Ends Spiders Merchants and Rehmel’s Spuds will count all remaining games for the title with an official scorer at each game. Next Sunday’s games begin as Yales fall 18 to 5 to Muscatine lineup includes Billings Woods Brenner Bates Berry Chayka Witte Patterson Grimes Teddy Bears win 11 to 5 over Kecklervilles.
The Wilton junior class presented a school hall entertainment last evening to a large audience. The crowd showed its enjoyment with hearty applause as several selections were performed by Dr. Smith's group.
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a compact health aid carried in a vest pocket or purse. Each six tablet box is pitched as exercise for bowel muscles and digestive support, claiming it prevents sickness by improving digestion and avoiding bulk sales.
Advertisements claim PaZo Ointment cures itching bleeding prolapsing or blind piles in six to fourteen days or money back. Offers 50 cents for purchase.
A young matron recalls a kitchen staff tale from the New York Tribune. A cook quit over a simple reason, the girl’s answer to why she left, and the room erupts with “dreadful” stories as women share further anecdotes about employers and servants.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a guaranteed cure for various stomach back and throat ailments, claiming relief for queer sensations in the stomach and vowels at the price of 50 cents from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
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