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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1901
Page
6
The column catalogs visits and gatherings around town with names like Mr. and Mrs. Wright, Rev. Newsom, Mrs. Chesbrough, and Misses Smith, Graham, Templema. It notes West Liberty corn gains, property purchases, and travels to Muscatine, Chicago, and Ottumwa. It mentions the 1901 fair preparations, repairs, and new stalls, plus a law firm dissolution and births.
A. N. Hansen of Palouse writes details on Judson Walmsley a Iowa pioneer who lived in Palouse since July 1898. Walmsley died July 23 after severe stomach and back pains, treated by the best local physician but passed away quietly at 10:50 PM with G A R guardianship.
Aug 5 to Sept 5 items list residents and visitors in Columbus Junction. Names include Sal Mumbus, Howard Simpson, Clyde Duncan, Chas Sehlunz, Chas Burns, Jimmy Weir, Ella Duncan, Clarence Shearer, Arthur Noland, W D Jamison, W D Pyles, W A Highsmith, C D Grandy, Ruth Morton, W W Allen, Clyde Erwin, Louie Humiston, and Wm Marshall. Notes on vacations, occupations, and local activities such as visiting, and a crop report reference.
A playful poem-like item riffs on a man’s nose as a comic beacon at a hot Fourth of July scene. It jests about its color, borrowed money, and the spectacle of many noses making a rainbow, ending with a joke about lighting a cigar from the nose.
Hundreds of inviting retreats dot the West and Southwest lake country along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line in Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan s Upper Peninsula. Featured areas include Fox Lake Clavan Lake Lake Geneva Lauderdale Lakes Waukesha Oconomowoc Palmyra Kilbourns Dells Elkhart Lake Madison Minocqua Star Lake Frontenac White Bear Minnetonka Marquette Spirit Lake Okoboji Big Stone Lake and more.
The Journal provides a free medium for readers to express ideas without endorsing them. It states it will neither approve nor disapprove the sentiments printed in this set aside column.
Miss Molle Herwig returns from Cedar Falls normal school while Ss M Pease comes back from Ohio after his brother’s death. Mrs W B Stewart ill, mother acts as housekeeper. Miss Della Albrosky visits Iowa City then returns home. Young men host a social with music and refreshments at Fred Hoopes. Mabel Johnson leaves for Cedar Rapids to visit her uncle. Local millwright and sawyers change jobs at Kaiser mill. Engineer Jo Fuller installs a small steam engine at Sash and Door for cooling air. Rev Joe R Hanley preaches at Maserville M E Church to a large crowd. Mrs George McCleary and Essie return from Wapello after visiting relatives.
A philosopher asserts that one can judge a man’s thoughts by the spokes in his mouth, using a vivid metaphor to describe how words reveal inner beliefs. The remark frames rhetoric as a window into character and reasoning.
Cedar Valley residents host and visit across families and neighbors. Names include Marstenla Brown Fisher Lindle Drake Toyne Dant McGavxan and others with gatherings, illnesses, a new baby, and summer visits to relatives in Illinois Mason City Bloomington Yankee Hollow and Muscatine.
Grand Trunk Railway promotes a scenic Pan American itinerary linking Chicago to Portland and Boston via Port Huron Toronto and Montreal. Beginning June 24 a fleet of Pullman vestibule drawing room sleeping cars will depart Chicago daily at 3 02 p m. for Port land and Boston. For tourist publications contact 249 Clark Street Chicago.
Keller the magician plans to shift to farming and may expand land use by converting a cow into a ten acre lot when more space is needed.
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