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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
7
An advertisement touts Rengo as safe to reduce fat at a claimed rate of one pound per day. Sold in boxes for $1 by The Rengo Co. in Detroit with a mail offer of a 50c package free upon sending 10c and address. Muscatine retailer A. W. Morgan recommends the product.
Mrs. L. J. Haines leaves Sleepy Eye for a short visit with friends in Moscow. Mrs. William Dittmann departs for Wilton to visit friends. Mrs. J. Bennet of Wilton calls on friends in the city. Mrs. A. W. Whicher heads to Columbus Junction for a few days with friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. Miller travel to Lone Tree to visit George Lenz. Blanche Warwic and daughter Vena return home to Barnes City after visiting Eva Parsons at 515 Woodlawn avenue.
Fr iday and Saturday shoppers can buy Stubborn Cinderella music for 19 cents per copy at Hirt and Fesler’s. Mrs Jagow and relatives left for Wilton to visit friends, while Mrs Lee Rainbow travels to Wilton. Mrs R T Walters returns to Mt Vernon after a stop here with her husband, and Miss Mary Bennet, from Wilton, visits Optima before heading home.
Copperas Creek Illinois residents report a series of weekend visits to relatives across nearby towns. Mrs G Kleist and son William stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs Charlie Mewes near Illinois City while other families from Muscatine and Rock Island visited kin in the area including J C Hesser J Wagler G Hauck and the Franklin and Hesser households.
At Geneva Golf and Country Club a moonlight match opens tonight with local champion George Reeder and Charles Fox facing Joseph W. Eells and Walter S. Cohn. The first stroke is at eight o clock. bets run even money as spectators anticipate a high profile event and lively disputes over who will win.
Do not let a bad cough or cold drag on until it becomes chronic. Give it attention and get rid of it with Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For sale by all druggists.
In Wilton Iowa the White Pigeon Insurance Company held a meeting electing officers for the coming year. Officers named include President C W Derby and Vice President John Weaver. The Wilton Fair Association also elected officers with L N Ayres as President and Thos Boot as Vice President. The fair dates for next year were set for September 14 to 16.
A Chicago woman writes of regaining health after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nervous prostration and illness. The ad touts the remedy as a 30 year standard for female ills and urges sick women to write for advice to Lydia E. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
Alice travelers, including Miss Olga Smith and Miss Nellie Reynolds, depart Muscatine for Clinton Nichols and Nichols while others visit Davenport Davenport and Iowa City. Business visitors Dr H Thornhill Geo Herr and P Grunder are noted.
Father Kelley of Chicago writes praising Father Vaughan and the play Woman of the West shown in Muscatine with church approval. He commends moral tone, humanity and humor, hoping for more wholesome works from Vaughan. Bishop Muldoon allowed Sisters to attend the Bush Temple performance despite reports of disapproval.
Roanoke Virginia October 8 John W Kern democratic vice presidential candidate sharply attacked President Roosevelt’s involvement in the national campaign before a large audience saying the presidency has been dragged down to ward politics.
Mrs. M. Attig was a morning passenger to Lone Tree where she will spend a few days with friends.
A testimonial claims Dr Miles Nervine restores nerve energy controlling respiration and digestion, asserting cures for nervous breakdowns. Mrs W L Burke of Myrtle Creek Oregon shares rapid improvement after using Nervine, urging readers to try it. The ad notes a money back offer on the first bottle through a local pharmacist and the Miles Medical Co. in Elkhart.
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