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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1903
Page
7
A long list of Muscatine residents along with friends and relatives are noted traveling by steamers and trains to Columbus Junction Burlington Mount Pleasant Ottumwa Letts What Cheer and Burlington. Several residents visit family attend fairs and move between Muscatine Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns.
A Muscatine county notice details Iowa law fines of 50 dollars for ministers mayors and judges who fail to certify marriages within ninety days. Since 1896 twenty six licenses were issued without certification, with records suggesting some marriages occurred. The county clerk warns that listing names shows who owes fines or who may be protected by exceptions while inviting public inspection of the incomplete records.
A vintage promotion claims Golden Medical Discovery cures stomach diseases and offers a free Medical Adviser with a 21 cent stamp payment. It directs readers to Dr. R. V. Pierce in Buffalo New York for mailing details.
An archival list combines an ad for Sozodont Tooth Powder with a series of marriage notices and dates. Entries include couples such as Harris Bloom and Eva Skolnik, Ike Beresman and Katie Cohen, Isaac N. Smith and Della Hunt, Josheph Nyenhuis and Jessie M. Snider, Augustus DeForest and Lena Faires, Frank King and Maud Hazzlet, W. E. Denham and Mi nerva Shaw, Adolph Rosenburg and Eva Brown, and Charles F. Jacobsen and Eliza Hanck, spanning 1890s.
Editor F E White defends A M E church of Muscatine detailing debts paid, ongoing support by local families, and calls for proper leadership and truthful reporting. He urges continued backing from Citizens and warns against misrepresentation. The author also questions street paving management and urges practical oversight by city officials.
The proposal to straighten the Floyd river at Sioux City carries an estimated price tag of 135000 dollars. This figure reflects anticipated construction expenses and project scope for the river realignment effort.
River men recall historic hauls along the Mississippi with the Rayner brothers of New Boston scoring 80 000 pounds near a bar above New Boston. Other big catches include 30 000 pounds of buffalo by Chas Whitmore and 25 000 pounds of game fish by George Merrill. The article notes carp dominance now and discusses proposed fish law changes and river commerce updates, including the Diamond Jo fleet.
An advertisement touts California Prune Wafer laxatives as aids for digestion, liver function, and blood purification. It claims they prevent constipation and related ailments, offer a gentle, natural dissolvent, and reduce doctor's bills, with a 100 wafers for 25 cents offer.
A fisherman found a fine large button pearl, purple with a lustre, weighing 38 grains. Experts estimate its value at about $350, after already finding another similar pearl worth $250. He stored this pearl in a Davenport vault for safekeeping.
Advertisement claims deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and can be cured only by constitutional remedies. Offers $100 for any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes circulars and mentions F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. pills sold by druggists.
For comfort, good service and low rates, patronize the Nickel Plate Road. Three through trains daily in each direction with first class dining car service meals priced 35c to $1.00 or a la carte. Rates always the lowest with no excess fare. Chicago ticket office at 111 Adams Street. Depot at LaSalle Street Station corner Van Buren and La Salle Streets on the Elevated Loop.
Oriental show man George Jabour is again stranded at Dubuque and reportedly lost about 40000 this year.
Mrs. Mollie Allen of South Fork Kentucky says Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets protect against cholera morbus by cleansing the stomach when indigestion signals an attack. Attacks of bilious colic may be prevented similarly. For sale by all druggists.
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