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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
8
The item list highlights local services including lamps, insurance, wood, and good meats at Wheeler's. A city park band concert and fireworks are postponed due to cool weather. Mr and Mrs J W Rummels travel home after visiting and attending a wedding. St John’s invites orders for pies bread and doughnuts.
The column lists jewelry bargains at The Maze and various goods including stove pipe elbows at low prices. It notes photography advances by Alex Grossheim and mentions people traveling on the Western for Davenport and Omaha. It covers fresh cakes at Ellman’s, fruit displays, and trips to Cedar Rapids and Washington, D. C. for the national encampment.
Advertises ready made skirts in various colors and sizes with prices from 1.98 to 12.50, jackets claimed as best value at 10.00 and 15.00 range, plus 25 to 39 cent fabric and other home goods like sheets flannel oil cloth and carpets. Includes products for ladies misses and children, with numerous yard prices and sale emphasis.
One hundred pieces of new choice dress goods offered at 25c per yard. Worth 50c 75c and 1.00 yard, on one special counter, your choice for 25c. Also sale on Saturday of 4 cts 18 cts per yard sheeting yard wide and heavy, plus full yard wide floor oil cloth.
Chief of Police Riley Rice faced John C. Wilson who resisted arrest near Cedar Street as a drunken fracas spilled into the street. Wilson was loaded into a wagon, jailed, and fined two dollars plus costs after a night of chaotic scenes.
A Muscatine resident, unable to buy coal, visited the Journal office with a poem about braving the cold. He describes gathering warmth around the hard coal stove and praying for a return to normal as winter bites the town.
Madrid reports General Weyler minister of war will quit upon the chamber's reopening after King Alfonso refuses to sign military decrees Weyler presented.
The Rebekah Mite society met yesterday afternoon from 2 to 7 at Mrs. Charles Miller’s Sycamore street home. Mrs. Miller was aided by Mrs. Scheetz and Miss Nettie Hess. The group accomplished a good deal and set next meeting for Mrs. Ollie Pyeatt’s home at 601 Bismark Street South Muscatine.
Selling standard music at 8 cents per copy with two for 15 cents. Hirt and Fesler Piano Co located at 121 East Second Street offers the deals.
A friend of the Gallaugher family testifies about her close ties to James Gallaugher and Mrs. Gallaugher, noting cordial relations and no signs of domestic trouble. She recalls visiting before the murder and describes Holada as fidgety and uncooperative during a recent Iowa City cell observation.
When you want your clothes cleaned and pressed or your shoes shined visit the New Panitorium by Luellen Bros at 222 East Second street next to Grand hotel.
Special market dispatch from H. J. Touer & Co. Details wheat corn oats pork lard ribsa and live stock quotes for Chicago with open high low close figures and futures. Also reports Kansas City Omaha receipts northwest wheat totals weather forecasts and clearance data plus folio sale ads from Hirt & Fester Piano Co.
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