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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
7
Short visits and daily notices fill local pages as residents travel to Cranst on Letts Independence and Gladwin. Health tips and ads for loans, pumps, and farm mortgages mix with names like McQuesten Epperly and Frater.
LaCompt the King of Fire Eaters headlines at the Bijou Theatre this week with electrifying acts such as igniting carbon with 500 volts and chewing white hot ends. Arthur Yule and company supply musical impersonations, Klein and Erlanger entertain as European pantomimists, and kinodrome pictures are praised.
Mr. J. P. Klote of Edina Missouri says Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured his stomach trouble after trying many medicines. Sold by all druggists.
Agnes Miller Walker and William Earl Fitzsimmons were married November 11 1908 at the bride’s mother Eliza Walker’s home in Wapello. Rev A L Hill officiated with about sixty five guests in attendance. The bride wore a Swiss gown over satin with veil and carried white roses and ferns. Guests enjoyed a chicken salad fruit salad olives nut bread coffee brick ice cream and cake supper. The Swastika club served as waiters. The couple will reside on the Pfeiffer farm four miles west of town after wintering with friends.
Advertisement claims ZEMO a clean external liquid cures itching skin diseases by drawing germs and toxins to the surface. It states instant relief and permanent cure for all skin or scalp ailments. For sample write E. W. Rose Medicine Co St. Louis and buy from A. W. Morgan 107 W. 2nd St.
The passage describes the back as the mainspring of a woman’s body and notes that ache signals trouble. It lists nervousness headaches and lower body pains as signs needing immediate care and asserts a single remedy restores health.
Mrs Will Young of Rockland Maine and Mrs Augustus Lyon of East Earl Pennsylvania praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from backaches and cramps. The ad notes the product has three decades of use and claims to cure female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibrous tumors irregularities and nervous prostration.
Wednesday night for Chicago, where they will spend a few days. The guests include Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phoenix and daughter Olive of Davenport Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. T Correll of Cooksville Ill, Frank Coulter of Burlington, Mr. and Mrs. Al Morgan of Muscatine and Miss Lydia Hannan of Columbus Junction.
Captain Walter Blair described a busy season for government river work. Improvements between Lake Pepin and St Paul, riprap on Bay Island near New Boston, and new boat yards at Dubuque and Stillwater set the stage for a stronger Mississippi. The fleet will winter at Dubuque and Rock Island as engineers collect shipping data along the upper river.
The article details a dam building method using a hundred foot willow mattresses laid in two layers and bound to stringers. Rocks are loaded to sink the mattress into place under water while steamp capstains control placement and depth. The design features overlapping sections to form a stable incline reducing direct current impact.
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