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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
8
Local notices promote Fair Oaks subdivision while residents plan visits and trips. Names include Besten Lehner cold tablets and M Sauer departing to Columbus Junction to visit friends. The piece lists shipments, services, and local personalities in Muscatine.
Women visit Hine Bros at 217 East 2nd Street to trade with husbands and sons and receive coupons for decorative chinaware. The offer promises dishes that are both useful and ornamental for the dining room or china closet.
An advertisement lists free decorated china ware from Hine Bros and a large advertising coupon incentive. It also mentions sales prospects for Fair Oaks Muscatine and a farm loan investment by J E Stevenson with details of local visits and upcoming auctions.
Day largely idle as factories close and businesses pause at noon. Matinees planned at the Grand and the vaudeville houses. Rollaway features special attractions entertain residents. A football game at the fairgrounds caps the day’s amusements.
The effects of the Consolidated Steamship lines were sold at auction for 6.5 million dollars to a bondholders committee. A sub committee will transfer assets of the Atlantic Gulf and West Indies lines incorporated in Portland for taking over the United States Steamship lines, Morse lines’ competitor.
The Woolworth 5c and 10c store hosts its annual holiday opening on Friday November 27 from 3 to 6 and 7 30 to 9 30 with orchestra music.
Water proof aprons in yellow and black received by Hine Bros. City Hat Store for Button Cutters.
Guy W. Duncan and Miss Irene Chandler were married at the Chandler home on Grand Avenue in Muscatine. Rev. H. M. Strong officiated before about thirty relatives and friends. The couple will live at 1432 Washington Street after a four course supper and a bride in a brown traveling suit bearing roses.
In Los Angeles Freddie Welsh beats Abe Attell by decision after fifteen hard rounds. Attell, featherweight champion, never gains the edge as Welsh dominates long-range exchanges and in-fighting boosts his lead. Also notes Papke Ketchel middleweight title setup and other bout cards across the country.
An advertisement claims Foley's Orino Laxative cures constipation and liver trouble by stimulating digestion. It asserts the remedy is non gritty pleasant to take and does not require continual laxative use after taking Orino. A. W. Morgan, a druggist, endorses it.
Wilton Iowa residents and visitors travel for Thanksgiving. Frank Bacon returns from Iowa State College to visit family. Local families depart for Clinton to see Dr. Chas Port and for visits in Muscatine Galesburg Rock Island Iowa City and Lynnville. Multiple relatives plan gatherings and trips over the holiday weekend.
When lungs are sore and inflamed germs of pneumonia and consumption may lodge. Foley's Honey and Tar kills cough germs, cures the most obstinate racking cough, heals the lungs and prevents serious results. The genuine is in the yellow package. A. W. Morgan druggist.
Miss Val Hudler rode to Rock Island for a daytime visit with friends. Dr. Irwin Port from Chicago arrived to spend Thanksgiving at the Port home. Miss Margaret Woodhouse left for Tipton for a brief visit. Arthur Hucke came from Davenport to join Thanksgiving hosts Mr. and Mrs. C. Hucke. Miss Kate McNulty also departed for Davenport to visit friends.
Local column notes many residents arriving for Thanksgiving and visiting relatives. John and Madie Jenkins return from a wedding trip and plan to stay with relatives near Cotter, while Horace Diehl and family visit from Missouri. Several others travel to Wapello Burlington Ainsworth and Washington for family gatherings.
Des Moines hosted visitors from Jer . J E Gray and relatives while Lyle Kinmonth arrived from Asbury Park New Jersey to see his parents. Lizzie Sipe traveled to Cedar Rapids to stay with her brother Orville Sipe. Mrs John Hamiston visited Davenport to see her daughter and family. Bessie Mishler spent a day in Muscatine. Louise Wilmering and brother Charles Outcamp journeyed to Peoria Illinois to visit R J Wilmering and family for Thanksgiving. Reverend Ween preached a Thanksgiving sermon in Chicago Seminary.
E. W. Goodloe of Dallas Texas advertises a malaria and biliousness cure using Dr. King's New Life Pills sold at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 25 cents.
Born to Mr and Mrs Claus Thomsen a 12 1/2 pound baby girl Saturday evening. Ida Metz marked her tenth birthday with a party for friends and schoolmates. Visits include Adam Eis and Kate with George Eis family, Field and Marguerite of Wyoming Iowa, and Sherman Henderson of Wellman Iowa. A Leap Year party, Grange programs, and dances are planned. farmers report corn husking finished and James Metz bought over 300 ducks.
City Council of Muscatine invites sealed bids to light streets with boulevard mantle lights for five years from contract adoption. Lights may be gas or gasoline, minimum 300 units, adjustable by council, mounted on iron posts, 60 candle power, nightly from half hour after sunset to half hour before sunrise. Bond of 5000 dollars may be required. Bids due 7 20 p m December 17 1968. Gustav Weis city recorder.
Death from blood poisoning was prevented when G. W. Cloyd of Plunk Missouri treated a dangerous wound with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The product is advertised at 25 cents by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Stores.
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