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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1916
Page
5
An advertisement offers Q Ban Hair Color Restorer that supposedly revives color glands, restoring gray hair to a dark even shade. It promises softer, thicker hair, dandruff and hair loss reduction, money-back guarantee, 50 cents for a large bottle at Morgan Drug Store Muscatine Iowa, with mail orders available.
Miss Jonnie Greenblatt left this morning for Chicago to attend the University of Chicago.
Muscatine business leaders plan nonpartisan tribute at a luncheon to welcome Vice President Thomas M. Marshall next Friday evening. The committee will coordinate with the Democratic party in charge of arrangements for the visit.
A noon luncheon telegram urged Muscatine business leaders to join Washington harvest home festivals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Time constraints prevented formal acceptance, but several merchants planned to attend and many more were expected to participate in celebrating Washington’s observance.
Herbert G. Thompson former county attorney of Maxentine county and longtime Scott county Democrat declined at a meeting last Saturday to support Meredith. He said Meredith would sign a local option mule tax law if the next legislature passes it while expressing pro German sympathies and support for Wilson.
A plan to permanently organize a Muscatine Red Cross chapter will be enacted at a Hotel Muscatine meeting Tuesday evening. Officers will be elected as local interest groups back the drive following the visit of Red Cross field agent A. Bowing.
The South Muscatine group the Heart Breakers will hold a Friday meeting to elect officers and plan winter events before disbanding at spring’s end due to many members being away. The branch library will be re established this year. Absent members include Mimer Appal Fort Dodge Harry Bomke Battery C Brownsville Alfred Lemkau Chicago and Harry Vanatta Mangum Okla.
Rov C L Young, popular pastor of United Brethren Church, is returned for another year. Journal reports this after Toledo state conference decisions. Congregation had anxiously awaited assignments and supported his continued leadership. Rev J C H Light named state superintendent. Local pastor’s success prompted unanimous vote for renewal.
A Letts Iowa gathering at the Westbrook home honored newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. James Westbrook formerly Miss Ellen King. Relatives and grandchildren joined a one o’clock dinner for about forty at a long table festooned with garden flowers. Attending were T. W. Westbrook and family, Furnas family, Wagner family, Westbrook siblings, Dickersons, and the Flahers from Muscatine among others. A card party followed at St Marys Aid tomorrow with details to be announced.
Chicago reader Mrs J May testifies to relief from female ailments after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She cites pain, irritation, bearing down, backache, nervousness, and poor digestion improved. The appeal invites readers to try the remedy and seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Mass.
A vintage ad promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur compound for darkening hair naturally. It claims a simple brush-on application restores color, with a 60 cent bottle sold by local druggists and notes it isn’t a disease cure.
Knights of Columbus invite residents to a gathering in city rooms tomorrow afternoon. Tables for Five Hundred and Cinch will be arranged starting at two thirty, with a luncheon served and prizes awarded for top players. Admission is twenty-five cents. Hostesses include Mrs Franc Bielefeld Mrs August Fuller Mrs Herman Fuhlman Mrs Bessie Hayes and others.
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