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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
3
The Daily Journal printed each evening except Sunday with city carrier delivery and weeklies collected at 10 cents weekly. Subscriptions: Daily by mail $5.00 per year and semi weekly by mail $1.60 per year.
The Journal names agencies serving readers across the city including East Hill Hurlbut Grocery Fast 2nd Street Booth Mascratine Toborg Bros Oregon Street C Buschs Drug Store Hershey Kecklervile Charvka Grocery Weert Hill J H Fuller Grocery and Wm Yen Zy Grocery.
An entry lists the New York Office at 30-84 West 33rd Street with Payne & Young in charge. It mentions the Shicego Office at 750 Marquette Building with telephones and an additional Bell related office. Includes Bosineee office and atorial office marked Bell 20.2-30 Miselezippi Valley and Jonooe.
Sworn statement by publisher F D Throop lists average copies printed and circulated for March 1909. Notary F L Bihlmeier attests to sworn qualification. Muscatine County Iowa is the locale.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Taft’s pledge that federal judge selections will be free from political pie distribution and that political considerations will not influence appointments. It cites past debates on court respect and warns that nominees with undesirable antecedents have appeared, though Taft aims for merit in the bench.
The article argues that the Senate must accept nominations without political influence as President Taft seeks to change the federal judiciary. It predicts a lasting impact if the habit of nonpartisan appointment becomes established, noting judges serve life terms and reforms will take time.
The Missouri legislature is poised to pass the Lane bill ending contract convict labor. About 2,000 convicts now work for 60 cents daily, mainly making garments and shoes. After January 1 they would be used only for clothing and supplies for state institutions, with counties allowed up to fifty convicts for road work.
A man with a smooth tongue signed a contract with a Davenport Muscatine theater to show advertising slides by stereopticon. He collected 6 from several businessmen as advance payment but no ads appeared. His current post office address is unknown.
Washington gossip says Speaker Cannon may seek the Illinois Senate if Hopkins fails re election. Friends in the state are lining up support while speculation hints at Walter I Smith of Council Bluffs as a potential successor to the speaker if the move materializes.
The Burlington Gazette notes how wealth fails to guarantee happiness. It mentions Swift, son of a Chicago packer, being committed to an insane asylum, and Bertha Krupp, daughter of a German gunmaker, filing for divorce.
The piece notes Mr. Bryan turning 49 now and outlines his ages in future years 1912 to 1932, suggesting the democracy will not need to seek a new candidate for a long time.
A Waterloo newspaper column brands interracial marriage between a Japanese man and a white woman as a warning against opening gates to Asian groups. It claims race mixing leads to amalgamation and trouble.
Keokuk Constitution-Democrat argues there are twenty million dollars in waterway reasons preventing Governor Deneen from vacating the executive chair. The piece frames pressure from canal and river interests as a political obstacle to resignation.
The Old Court House Building will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the Court House on Tuesday April 6 1909 at 2 oclock p m. Terms and date for removal will be announced on sale day. A S Lawrence County Auditor.
Merrihew and Hillard plot a European tour funded by risk and romance. They discuss Kitty Killigrew, a theater singer, and hint at forgery and mystery around a Lady in the Mask as they plan a March departure for Europe aboard the Celtic with Italy as backdrop.
The item recalls a 50 year march to marriage by Rev Winkler and Miss Loch. It notes George Wiley and A E Pratt opening a wholesale and retail grocery in Foster's Block opposite Mason's hotel. A mining accident kills a twenty year old, and Rev A Moore visits from Wisconsin as his wife returns from St Louis.
A Muscatine business men meeting is planned in the mayor s office tomorrow evening to organize a Board of Trade. E O Upman, formerly of the Courier, plans to start a new Cass county paper using Marengo Citizen material. John B Hatch departs for Chicago tonight seeking employment opportunities.
Thirty years ago Zack Badgett the barber has taken Robert Patterson as partner and will run three chairs at his avenue shop. They plan a thorough clean up and redecoration to make the finest shop in the city and invite calls. Plus a fatal mine accident report: James Barker Jr., of the Washington Coal Mine Co at Perlee Jefferson County, killed about 2 o'clock.
Messrs Sam Berger and Wm Bliven return from Chicago and plan to open their new store early next week. Bishop Newman will lecture at the First M E church tomorrow evening to a large audience. Overnight a fire alarm awakened the town when a fire damaged Mrs J Daniels wood shed at 417 West Fourth street. barn and shed insured for 250 dollars with Woodward and Carpenter, though only shed burned.
The M. N. and S. round house is complete and well equipped to handle three engines with three passing tracks. It remains heavily used with three engines stationed there and expects higher business soon. Mrs. John Cunningham and grandson Charles depart for Chicago to reside, Charles leaving Barry Manufacturing Co after long service as a plumber.
Dean Briggs, a friend of athletics at Harvard, is a familiar presence at big games and knows players by name. He often watches practice at Soldiers Field, carrying his green bag of books, and is described with keen, undergraduate-like interest in football moments despite the college head’s historical stance on the sport.
A playful verse traces Eve designing jungle dresses and hats to win admiration while Adam complains of skimpy or silly styles. She experiments with lilies and feathers, then a sash and changing laws of fashion, declaring she will dress for herself despite his scorn.
Fletcher and Miss Louise Fletcher have been welcomed into the younger senatorial circle. The Fletcher home is set to be a social hub during the extra session of Congress, signaling a busy period for Washington society.
Keota records list E A Hulse returning from Barron Wis due to ill wife and reports a successful Barron meeting. Edna Davis and Irene visit Des Moines. Mrs Fish returns from Chicago. Harris family visits Richland. Edith Dayton resumes studies at Cornell Mt Vernon. Several Keota residents travel to Washington Des Moines and New York area for visits and events.
Mrs. Charles E Townsend of Jackson Michigan, wife of U S Congressman Charles E Townsend, is noted as a probable Senate candidate.
The chef at Giorgiana insists on Gold Medal Flour for all dishes, stating it as the sole acceptable brand and excluding alternatives referenced by Veronica.
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