Break Free From Rupture With Simple Safe Method
An advertisement promises relief from rupture without truss or surgery. It urges men to regain work ability and independence, claiming a simple safest method to end worries and return to health.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
6
An advertisement promises relief from rupture without truss or surgery. It urges men to regain work ability and independence, claiming a simple safest method to end worries and return to health.
A healer promotes a no knife cure for rupture claimed to be nature’s method. The ad cites numerous “cured” individuals in Iowa including G W Coleman and F W Bassett, urging readers to write for testimonials and enclosing a 2 cent reply stamp.
Fredonia Iowa notes a busy week of visits and stays as residents and friends from Columbus Junction Eldon Muscatine Letts Cedar Rapids and Burlington call on or with family. Football sounds from Eric Brown in Rock Island and dances in Letts appear among town happenings.
Social notes from South Union Illinois Iowa recount dinners and visits among the Heabner Karns Hain and Howe families. Appointments include Miss Clara Marolf hosting guests and Anna Valette visiting Art Cole with other local relatives and travels to Wilton Muscatine Centerdale and Iben homes.
Local residents share weekend visits and call on friends in Wyman and nearby Cairo. Bailey Van Horn and family and John Marshall of Cairo visited Bert Lemons, while Mrs. Harry Davis returns from Racine Wisconsin. Other gatherings include Will McFadden’s and visits to W. W. McFadden’s.
East Hill reports elect officers for the Park Avenue M E church Ladies Aid and announce a pie social next Wednesday evening with location to be decided. Officers include President Mrs William Martin and Secretary Mrs C C Brenner. Social items note a successful Poverty Social by Tri M Club and local community briefs.
An ordinary attack of diarrhoea may be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In severe cases a second or third dose may be needed. It carries a 35 year reputation as a reliable remedy. For sale by all druggists.
Mrs Blankenhorn and her daughter from Haskins visited Conesville Friday to Monday with F G McCullough and wife. Denver resident Mrs Otto Sauer visiting uncle I W Jones went to Nichols to visit relatives. Locals attended J T Neff moving picture show at St Johns church near Arden Saturday night. Roscoe Cone and family from Mitchell S D visited en route to Davenport for M B A lodge convention. Luebbers, an Iowa Wesleyan University student, preached at the M E church while S T Shirley recovers from a knee injury.
A Des Moines woman recounts convincing her husband to try Root Juice for stomach and kidney trouble and severe headaches. Four bottles brought dramatic health improvement, with demonstrators in Ottumwa reporting nationwide excitement and many testimonials. Orders directed to A. W. Morgan.
Maude and her sister prepare to leave for Marshalltown where Frank and Willie reside. She shipped goods Monday and plans to depart Friday. Holly Emerson returns from Texas and visits his sister in Wichita who is improved. John Kennedy of Windsor Colorado visits Muscatine relatives before Muscatine to Rock Island to see a sister-in-law. Leona Moyer goes to Moline for a brief visit. Hoopes and Son of Muscatine buy a sweet potato house and land from John Gay. Hoopes and Mr. St. John search farmers for sweet potatoes and storage. Callie Buser sustains limb injury after horse incident. Dr. English says no bones broken.
Mrs I R Bancks and Mrs J C Watts report a successful S S convention at New Era on Oct 7 with thorough discussions and a hearty dinner. Guests from Davenport and local families attended, with Miss Carrie Paul at the piano and a year report read by Treasurer Mrs Roy Baker.
In Rochester Iowa on October 15 Mrs I C Wood shopped in Wilton Saturday. Nearby visits include Mrs Sam Rice and her brother Perry Slater of Moscow Sunday. Stanley Mellick visited Melvin Wilson Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Weber and children and Mr Call of Tipton visited John Betzing Sunday.
James McKinney of Aledo Illinois was elected president of the Illinois Bankers Association at the annual meeting. He is president of the Aledo bank and has served as congressman from Illinois Fourteenth since 1905. Born in Oquawka in 1852, he joined banking with his father after Monmouth College and has long been active in politics and state commissions.
Springdale records show Don Maxson traveling to Blunt Iowa and local visits by Mrs. Clark Thomas James Westfall and many townsfolk. Society item include sermons, picnics, real estate sales, cattle shipments to Chicago and a Self Culture club meeting with papers on Russia and Napoleon.
Mrs H L Duple visited Muscatine relatives and did shopping on Saturday. Mr and Mrs H H Rockafellow spent Sunday with sister Susie Montgomery in Springdale Pennsylvania. Cass Millhone returned home Sunday night from South Dakota where
Mrs. John Taylor of West Liberty spent Tuesday with her daughter Mrs. Kirk Milnes, continuing attention to land interests with family in the area.
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