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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1908
Page
9
Local news notes a rapid headache relief with Bestenlehner tablets. The dispatch lists numerous residents visiting, traveling, or leaving for events in Davenport Muscatine and nearby towns, with births announced and social visits recorded.
Florence Kinsley is home after blood poisoning from a foot laceration at Hershey Memorial Hospital. Her younger sister Gladys or Clytie was moved to Mulberry Avenue hospital with the same illness, caused by a splinter and resulting infection. Both are improving.
Grand showing fall goods with rugs 1.00 to 25.00 each. Japanese, Brussels, Axminster, and ingrain styles in multiple sizes. large Velvet and Wilton Velvet rugs offered, cut from various prices. New silks dress goods percales ginghams hosiery underwear carpets linoleum oil cloth lace curtains portiers bed sets displayed across departments.
Department offers handsome imported black voile skirts trimmed and ready to wear. Sale features all colors in Panama styles with regular value up to five dollars, now marked down with special discounts across the assortment. Great value for fashionable skirts at reduced prices.
Our store offers double the variety of ladies and misses suits skirts petticoats waists jackets gravenettes and more in our ready-to-wear department. Nearly two hundred dresses and over five hundred skirts in voile silk Panama and more. Visit the largest Eastern Iowa department for handsome lines at popular low prices with courteous service.
Hundreds of new voice skirts Panama silk serge and other styles priced from 2.98 to 12.50 in black navy brown wine grey and many novelties. The store boasts the greatest variety in the city and prices well below the lowest for quality. Come this week.
A newspaper ad promotes a September sale on silks including 28 yard bundles of taffeta silks, 39 yard lots of varied colors, Banzai silks, Habutai, black taffeta and colored options. Prices range from 50 to 88 cents per yard, with many items cut down from higher values. Strong emphasis on color variety and discounted values.
A local notice urges attendance at a Faithful Attendants social gathering this Friday. Organizers describe a friendly event aimed at community bonding with light refreshments and informal activities.
Sunday School attendance rewards announced for Mulford Congregational church. Miss Alice Mulford will host a Friday evening gathering at the church for perfect attenders with refreshments and social time. An executive committee meeting of the Mulford Men's club is planned for tonight to arrange future sessions. Leonard Plessy is named as Mulford Church delegate to Davenport for the Christian Endeavor state meeting this week.
An Ugly Gash Should be covered with clean band ages saturated with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Heals burns, wounds, sores, piles. 25c. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
The Family Theatre reopens after a hot season closure with refreshed interior work by Manager Sodini. Vaudeville acts are booked through William Morris of New York and Chicago, with two souvenir matinees weekly offering free keepsakes for ladies. Night prices are 10 and 29 cents, and a $5 gold prize will be awarded to a ticket holder on Wednesday and Friday nights. Three performances daily, with new bills each Monday and Thursday.
North Prairie Iowa reports a baby boy born August 27 to Mr and Mrs A C Houvernagle. Russell Horton of Denver spent time with his uncle William Campbell and cousin Harry Smith. Lamont Smith and Mrs Smith will depart for Mt Pleasant on Monday as she enters school to prepare for the ministry.
The Boston Store advertises a large ready to wear department with about two hundred stylish ladies and misses suits in broadcloths stripes and checks. Prices range from 10 to 50 dollars with many options and custom tailoring at guaranteed good fit or no sale.
Dr. Evermann of the Bureau of Fisheries inspected proposed government dam hatchery sites in Muscatine with MU faculty Lefevve and Curtis from the University of Missouri. They toured the river by car with Commodore Bishop and Henry Umlandt, then by launch Spray to assess locations along the banks.
The White Rock hatchery visit includes Dr. Evermann and Professors Lefevve and Curtis meeting at the Commercial club at 5 PM then a post dinner reception for Muscatine business men before the party returns to Davenport at 8 19 PM.
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