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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1900
Page
8
Our ten and twelve dollar suits illustrate our price ability and fashion sense. They are designed with the latest style, superbly tailored and trimmed with serge body lining and striped sleeve lining. Garments offer excellent service. See our fall hats and elegant line.
The Journal asks subscribers to report irregular or late deliveries to the business office and ensure papers are delivered before 6 30 p m. Complaints should be filed promptly if late and readers are asked to provide secure delivery locations.
The Daily Journal invites readers away for the summer to have home news sent to them regularly. Notify the Journal business office in person, by mail, or by telephone. The address can be changed as often as desired and the paper will follow them on their travels.
The Journal requires ads to be in by 9 a.m. to guarantee changes or same day handling. The newspaper is sold daily at R. A. Holmes E. E. Davidson and C. W. Hodges news stands. All customers may be supplied.
R O Childs of Peoria Illinois praises Beggs German Salve as the best general household remedy. It cures cuts burns scalds old sores and skin diseases and claims to permanently cure piles. Available at J J Havercamp's.
Reverend H. D. Herr denounces the recent street fair blaming city officials. He warns of danger to youth and womanhood and appeals to church members to stand against such events.
A First Congregational sermon by Rev. H. D. Herr condemns the past week’s street fair as a three fold tragedy. He likens Isaiah's prophecy to Muscatine and calls for citizen protest against gambling tents indecency and moral decay. He urges merchants and Christians to stand together to cleanse municipal life.
Advertisement offering numerous farms near Muscatine and across Iowa and surrounding states. Listings include 100 to 315 acre tracts with features such as houses, barns, wells, cisterns, fruit, timber, and price points from 5 to 50 per acre. Also city lots and insurance services. Call or write for details.
Fruitland community notes invite all to Hopson Hall for a Saturday meeting where important business will be discussed. Local residents travel and visit relatives in Musserville Buffalo Letts and Des Moines. The school board met to elect officers as Hummel mourns a horse lost to lockjaw and Alma De Camp shows a new organ.
A trained nurse recounts using Grape-Nuts for weeks, noting improved energy, mood, digestion, and stamina. She reports gaining nine pounds and claims the food’s predigested quality aids patients, praising its convenience in hot weather and its appeal to appetite.
The list records varying items from Oakland including illness relief for most, H Baker’s twins are very poorly, John Morse’s sale on Wednesday, visits by J K Solomon and wife to Mt Aer, Dora Shoop's school plans in Columbus Junction, and Agnes Hines visiting Lone Tree friends. A frost warning hints melon season ending. Julia Hines rushed to Muscatine for Wm Hubbard’s illness.
A summary of historic items notes five more bubonic plague cases in Glasgow, others include the Mainz Social Democrats meeting, a St. Petersburg rope works fire causing 750000 dollars in losses, Boer general DeWet's reported death, a fatal carriage accident near Dresden, a California stage robbery, deaths of Dowie follower Ollie Kendall in Chicago, imperial messages of sympathy from Emperor William, world trip returns by George Baldwin and family, Philadelphian James Smith’s Kruger mission, Brundage named Pan American official for Buffalo, and political upheaval as British Parliament plans dissolution.
An advertisement urges readers to heed early indigestion nervousness and impure blood to prevent chronic dyspepsia and nervous prostration. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy that stabilizes the stomach nerves and purifies blood, and Hood's Pills as a cure for liver ills with a 25 cent price.
A witty snippet notes a girl sharing her picture on a lapel, and a drunk man implicating affection. It also jests that a man receiving an unfamiliar letter must be billed, while drunken men sometimes become pious.
An old druggist ad touts Mull's Light pain killer as instantly relieving internal and external pain. It promises absolute purity and guarantees cure, with a price of 25¢ and 50¢ at all druggists.
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