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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1908
Page
5
An advice piece promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a solution to bad breath in both men and women. It claims charcoal lozenges purify breath, advises post meal use, and offers a free trial by mail from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
Epidemic fears rise as two diphtheria cases are reported in three days in South Muscatine. Health Officer Fulham urges physicians to watch for alarming symptoms while quarantine blocks homes of Frank Stohr and Taylor Phillips.
Jeneval Holliday five years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs James P Holliday Jr, was severely bitten by a dog owned by Lee Baker while playing on Nebraska street. The dog sprang at her, lacerated her forehead, and bleeding wounds required Dr J D Fulham. Neighbors aided, owner says dog was not rabid.
A mass meeting on the lawn of B. Law on Stewart road organized a South Muscatine socialist local. Carmi R. Slaughter spoke on modern socialism and led the discussion as over 100 signatures were gathered for the new group with plans for a hall when formed.
The Democratic county central committee held a 10 o’clock meeting in the grand jury room of the courthouse. Candidates on the county ticket attended and discussed fall prospects and campaign funding. Plans for upcoming political meetings across the county were formed, dates largely undecided.
Rev Pliny Frye evangelist of the Friends church leaves today for Ackworth to deliver the dedicatory address tomorrow for the new Friends church at that place.
Beach's James Beach and Sons of Dubuque announce a house to house canvass in Muscatine featuring Peosta Soap and Beach's Floating White Castile Soap 10 oz bars priced at 5 cents. New Beach's Borax Naptha Soap Powder is offered with coupons for free 10 oz Castile and 5 cent powder upon two bar purchases.
In Baldwin Iowa on September 19 Congressman Albert Dawson and E P Leeds spoke to a crowd that filled the hall and then stood in the open air. Dawson argued the Republican record over the last fifty years and urged voters to choose Rooseveltism over Bryanism amid national reforms and new laws.
An advertisement asserts millions have used Foley's Honey and Tar with only beneficial results for coughs colds and lung trouble. It warns to buy only the genuine yellow package which contains no opiates or harmful drugs and to guard health by refusing substitutes.
In Redding Connecticut two burglars who raided Samuel L Clemens home were captured aboard a New York New Haven and Hartford train between Bethel and Redding after a gunfight that wounded Deputy Sheriff Banks. The suspects allegedly traveled from New York aiming to enter the Clemens villa.
Women can redeem a soap coupon for a free 10 oz Bar Beach Floating White Castile Soap and a 1 lb package of Key City Borax Naptha soap powder, offered as a free gift.
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