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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
10
Saturday September 26 marks the final day of the Great September Sale with steep discounts on Axminster, Brussels, Ingram, Wilton Velvet and Bagdad rugs in sizes from door mats to 9 by 12 feet. Extra staff are on hand to assist shoppers with the lowest prices seen.
Muscatine items show visits and departures across Iowa and Illinois. Mrs. Downer travels to Davenport to visit Miss Emma Tims while C F Smith and HH F head to Davenport and Des Moines on business. Otto Mull offers German French lessons and Mile 1000 Mulberry Ave.
A local ad announces a one day sale of 200 pairs of corsets in sizes 18 to 30. Prices ranged from 50 cents to 3 dollars, with styles including silk and batiste, long and short hip, high and low bust, and girdles. Many sizes may be available.
Unknown burglars broke into the Emmons grocery store in Iowa City last night and rummaged through the place before being frightened away. The noise of broken glass alerted the Emmons household. one thief left his coat behind in the hurried escape, a clue for investigators.
Eastern coal barons plan to ship coal by tow boats from Pennsylvania down the Ohio River to the Mississippi and up to Clinton as the central distributing point for the Mississippi Valley. A $2 million capitalization is planned with a Rock Island plant and five compound towing steamers plus nearly one hundred barges. Officers include W. T. Payne of Wilkesbarre as president and F. A. Holmes of Chicago as vice president.
A fire in Kellogg on September 24 25 caused at least 100000 in damage. East Main street suffered a largely destroyed block including Bobzin Son hardware store Bobzin Bros general merchandise and opera house Burton Co State Bank Carl Bobzin residence and Alex Fisher livery stable. The Kellogg Tribune office and plant also burned.
Police report the theft of Glen Barnard's bicycle taken several days ago from in front of H. F. Barnard Jewelry on East Second street. A search of second hand stores found no trace of the wheel.
The Dale family thanks friends and neighbors for aid and sympathy after the death of their husband and father, expressed through the Muscatine Journal.
Deborah proclaims Gold Medal Flour yields Bread of superior texture and flavor, praising the product and its bakers as a mark of quality.
Miss Nellie Kanoff left on the plug this morning to visit her sister Mrs E Wieresheuser of Wilton. A Blaesing and A Baker of Muscatine were passengers to Wilton this morning to do some work on a school house there.
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