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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
12
A crowded Muscatine day features business visitors from Davenport Wilton and Ottumwa. Names appear in society notes including Miss Geneva Crowe Miss Maude McGwiggan and Mrs Clara Kerns plus travel plans to Davenport West Liberty and Osceola. A horse sale is announced for West Liberty on November 12.
Local notices include a contest to name The Beauty Spot of Muscatine and several social visits. J C Sodini visits the tri cities. Grace Stickney of Conesville visits W S and S McKee. Elizabeth Beveridge visits West Liberty. Katherine McGucken leaves for Rock Island. Residents travel to Clinton and Marshalltown. Dennis Connell remains home with erysipelas.
Local YWCA hosts a week of prayer with daily services at 7 PM inviting all Muscatine Christian women and girls. Miss Pelasheva of Bulgaria will speak Sunday and Tuesday rally highlights global YWCA work and outreach through November 14.
A booster football contest slated for Sunday at the fair ground pits Muscatine Athletics against Davenport West Ends. Captain Boston leads Davenport, a strong tri cities team, in a game expected to be hard fought with weight favoring the visitors, while Muscatine relies on speed and clever plays to prevail.
The Modern Brotherhood of America calls a regular meeting for next Monday evening in the new quarters with refreshments and a social time. All members are urged to attend. E. H. King, President.
The Associated Press dispatch misstated that the International Text Book Company was denied a rehearing against Aaron T. Pigg of Topeka. The Supreme Court clerk confused this case with another. the matter has not yet been argued.
An old Salcomb advertisement highlights Gold Medal Flour as the preferred brand for housewives. The brief copy names Susanne in association with domestic baking.
Luther Club presents a Luther Day program Tuesday evening at Grace English Lutheran Church. Rev J A McCulloch of the Iowa Synod and Rev C M Olander of New Era will speak. include songs, solos, and an address on Martin Luther.
Des Moines speaker Howland Hanson will address the men’s meeting in the Family theatre tomorrow. His talk titled The Spirit of Chivalry in an Age of Selfishness aims to engage listeners with historic and poetic depictions of chivalric days and the influence on modern values, complemented by a musical service.
A vintage advertisement features Mrs. J. G. Mitchell and D. J. McDonald in a duet while promoting Foley's Orino Laxative as a permanent cure for constipation and liver trouble. It claims gentle stimulation of digestive organs without griping and no need for continual laxative use. A. W. Morgan, druggist, endorses the product.
A Degree of Honor dance scheduled for November 196, 1908 at Yeoman hall with admission set at 25 cents and an extra lady admission of 1 cent.
A basketball team from the local Commercial College will travel to Cedar Rapids on Thanksgiving day to play two games. The squad includes Elmus Richard Walter Molis Leonard Fuller Charles Reuling and John Roach. The Big Five from Cedar Rapids and a second town team will oppose them in the two contests against Muscatine lads.
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