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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
7
Local notices highlight Fair Oaks promotion and Candy Kitchen as Muscatine gains attention. Multiple items include travel to nearby towns, visits with friends, dances in Iowa City, and Thanksgiving plans. Notables: Dr A B Clapp ear nose throat specialist at 205 East Second St and Letts M E church fundraising over $100.
A church service extols the Christ life as power over sin and gratitude for abundant national resources. It cites global production shares in wheat, coal, petroleum, copper, and phosphate, plus railway and irrigation progress. The sermon praises intelligence, speech, kindness, faith, and historical figures as gems in God’s crown.
An old advertisement touts Leach's Virgin Oil of Pine cure claiming a half ounce oil of pine two ounces glycerine and whisky mix will cure a cough and break a cold in 24 hours. It instructs a teaspoon every four hours and to ask a druggist for the genuine Leach's Virgin Oil of Pine compound prepared guaranteed by the Leach Chemical Co Cincinnati Ohio.
Lena V. Henry of Norristown Ga writes of suffering female troubles and fearing surgery. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving after one bottle and says she is cured. The letter promotes the remedy as a standard treatment for displacements inflammation and other ailments and invites women to write for advice.
A devotional passage expresses gratitude for persecution, criticism, and hardship as catalysts for spiritual growth. It praises divine guidance, heavenly hope, and the salvation found in Jesus, celebrating the downfall of the saloon and the spread of worship and charity among Christian communities.
Dick Stanley and wife from Los Angeles visit Illinois City with Mrs. Sidesinger of Tipton. Mrs. Brayton and Mrs. Morehead return from Columbus Junction. George Reeves visits his mother Mrs. M. Reeves. Elmer Schulte leaves for Moline. Mr. Boedenstead collects turkeys and geese in Rock Island. Capt. Brisbine and Theo Morehead go to Rock Island for business. Schools close for vacation. Charles France buys a Nebraska farm. Jesse Hayes to Missouri for farm land. Rev. Richardson preaches at 2:30 with class meeting. Rev. Sheppard assists. John France and Capt. Brisbine build a new ice house for the grocery. Wm. Tropel returns from Springfield. Honey deliveries: Jim Morrow 1000 lbs to Lindle Muscatine. Lin Stull 720 lbs. Mrs. Wm. Morrow 192 lbs.
E C Daily, conductor on the Muscatine Western, is visiting his mother in Algona Iowa while A C Allen of Cedar Rapids now covers the run in his stead.
In Muscatine Iowa a district court petition by D F Sullivan seeks to quiet title to a described parcel in the southwest quarter of Section 35 Township 77 North Range 2 West. Defendants include unknown heirs of multiple Foster and White relatives. Notice orders publication for six weeks and warns appearance by January 12, 1909 or default.
Mrs. Fred Frieden and Miss Annie Frieden of Wilton visited their niece Mrs. John Maurer. Augusta Wiesse sews for Mrs. Henry Windle. Royal Neighbors pre socible in Moscow. A farmer husks corn by lantern light. Henry Maurer sales set for December 8. White Prairie School starts November 30 with Nellie McGill as teacher. White Prairie Grange meets December 1 at the school for officer elections.
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