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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1908
Page
7
Multiple short items report social visits travels and errands around Muscatine Iowa. Notables include births business callers shop trips and homecomings featuring G Beck Glenn Marsteller Emma Budzine Viola Mark Lilly Ritchie and others.
The First M. E. church hosts Bishop Oldham next Sunday for morning and evening sermons on religious conditions in Asia and America. Weekly events include Monday 7:30 official board, Wednesday 6:30 Epworth League picnic at Weed Park, Thursday 7:30 mid week prayer meeting, and Saturday 2:30 Home Guards gathering with Miss Elsie Will.
Rev B C Preston outlines upcoming church events at the First Congregational church. Wednesday features lunch and a Ladies Aid all day meeting. Thursday midweek study focuses on The Parables of Jesus in Matthew. Friday offers the annual Thank Offering for the Women’s Mission circle at 3 PM.
Executive committee meeting of the Men's club at the United Brethren church will be held in the church parlors next Wednesday evening instead of Tuesday. All officers and committee members are urged to attend. Friday evening teachers meeting at the home of Mrs. Geller on East Seventh Street.
Elder D. M. Hudler delivered the final sermon in a series of Biblical talks at the Armory hall yesterday. A large audience attended as Hudler discussed the Sabbath and the Law, asking when given, to whom, and its binding under the Gospel Age.
The 50th Iowa Volunteers are urged to gather at Armory Company C Tuesday at 7 30 PM to finalize plans for their first reunion in Davenport on September 24. PF Committee signs the notice.
Ladies can redeem a soap coupon for a large 10 oz Beach Floating White Castile bar and a 1 lb package of Key City Borax naptha soap powder at no cost. This promotional deal highlights household cleansing products and a distributor's discount.
Oyster Bay dispatch quotes Theodore Roosevelt urging voters to elect Taft and a Republican Congress to continue constructive legislation. The letter to Rep. William McKinley praises laws on irrigation, homesteads, commerce, pure food, labor, safety, anti-rebate, Panama Canal, Philippines, census, naturalization, child labor, currency reform, forest, Oklahoma, Alaska, agriculture, and campaign finance controls, arguing results require continued GOP control.
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a common sense remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. It explains how proper materials and nerve force aid digestion, claims tablets digest food and boost gastric juices, and offers free trial mail shipment from F. A. Stuart Co. Marshall Michigan.
Calumet Baking accel Congress, and form a record of sub stantial legislative achievement in harmony with the best and most pro gressive thought of our people. Taft Needed By Nation. It is urgently necessary, from the standpoint of the public interest, to elect Mr. Taft, and a Republican Congress which will support him, and they seek election on a platform which pledges the party to continue and develop the policies which have been acted upon during seven years. This harmony between President and Congress is crucial.
J P Ament, former Muscatine wagon works operator and now a second hand dealer at 320 Harrison street, was arrested in Davenport on a warrant from Mercer county Illinois charging grand larceny for selling a mortgaged piano. He refused to go to Aledo without requisition papers and was freed on a $250 bond. Ament attributed the issue to a misunderstanding.
Frank Kadel a Buffalo Prairie Illinois resident died at his home yesterday afternoon after a short illness. He was about 55 and had suffered from dropsy. Widely known in Rock Island county his funeral was held this afternoon with interment in the German Settler cemetery Illinois.
Frank Trachowsky returned to his home in Montpelier this morning after completing some business in town.
Charles Warner departed this morning for the Lewis Institute in Chicago where he will begin his studies and embark on new work.
The Tribune claims William Jennings Bryan would back free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 if elected and conditions mirror 1896, based on a personal letter to Capt. James B. Ross. Bryan refuses public discussion and would not release the 1906 speech prints, leaving Taft’s Cincinnati remark unresolved.
Harmless to hands or fabrics the Gold Dust cleanser is described as a gentle cleaning product. The ad emphasizes safety for skin and materials while promoting its cleaning power.
A letter from W. J. Bryan explains he cannot publish or discuss questions outside his party platform. He notes personal letters may be private and stresses a candidate should not set forth stances not contained in the current platform. He hints he still favors free silver under earlier conditions but will not reveal positions beyond the platform.
Ad copy from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store touts Dr King s New Discovery for chest pains and pneumonia prevention. It markets 50e and 1 00 price points, highlighting rapid relief as a key benefit.
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