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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1908
Page
10
The Boston Store in Muscatine begins a sale at 9 a m offering two hundred ready made suits from New York tailors. Ladies are invited to view the largest collection in the city with prices from 8 to 50 dollars and promises of savings.
Saturday sale features navy and white waists cut from low prices, lace and habutai silk styles, and new silk waists in black blue and brown. Also discounts on Tricot flannel yardage dress fabrics and all wool Danish cloth, plus Panama and voile skirts at cut prices and bold color options.
Saturday sale expands with two hundred corsets in long, short and medium styles. Prices range from 75 cents to under two dollars as stock shifts from $1.25 to $3.00, with assorted sizes for boys and girls fleeced underwear and union suits also on sale.
Silk prices are quoted at $1.00 per yard with bargains at $1.25 per yard. The listing highlights oil boiled black Integrity warranted Tafetta silk and Peau De Soie silk, described as wide and double face, offering premium quality at this rate.
Long percale kimonas in many colors now 50 cents each, previously 1.25. Long heavy kimonas dark colors at 1.00, cut from 1.50. Ladies white dresses and white silk dresses offered, with former prices up to 7.00. Black silk dresses and fresh styles marked down from 20.60. Silk petticoats and Heatherbloom petticoats with deep flounce and dust ruffle on sale.
Advertises discounted textiles and linens for Saturday sales including calico yardage 50 pieces, bleached Shaker flannel, Lonsdale muslin, large Huck towels, ready-made pillow slips and sheets, cotton blankets in various sizes and colors with bargain pricing. Mentions domestic counter yard goods and special values for a Saturday event.
Dr Cal W Smith treats hay fever inhalation. Leibbrand Ryan Co. offers underwear and hosiery in wide selection. Dust received two barrels Sept 4 batteries. Frank Ashcraft noted. Miss Lydia Weiss of Atalissa returned home after a short city visit.
A stream of notes from Muscatine features visiting residents from Ames Davenport Davenport and Des Moines plus shop promos. People like J G Alexander and William Gardner are noted travelers and locals shop at Leibbrand Ryan Co. for coats and furnishings.
At the Daley Tunch wagon on Sycamore street a nighttime disturbance led to Joe Miller receiving fifty days in county jail after a police court arraignment. Thomas Tith faces trial this afternoon for assaulting John Brown, with lingering tensions from the alleged restaurant incident.
An advertisement extols Beach's Floating White Castile Soap for toilet and bath. It claims the soap is pure, floats, lathers freely, and wastes nothing.
Max Stewart seven year old son of John and Lillian Stewart died Sept 29 after eight days of fever. He was born Jan 16 1901 in Morning Sun Iowa and attended the public school and Sunday school at the M E church. Funeral was at 10 39 Thursday at home conducted by Rev Zimmerman with Elmwood Cemetery as burial.
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