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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1900
Page
4
A public notice announces osteopathy as taught at Kirksville Missouri offering treatment for all diseases in men and women. It explains health as natural and disease as disturbance of circulation, invites trials after other methods fail, and offers free consultation and exam for thirty days with daily hours 9 am to 5 pm except Sundays.
Advertisement lists John J. Havercamp Theo Kuechman McBride Cope J J Coady Nesper Co as sellers of a famed rheumatic remedy. Claims it is the most effective cure for rheumatism in all stages.
Excursion tickets issued on the first and third Tuesdays in May through August cover Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo within Iowa Central Railway territory. The fare is one fare plus two dollars for the round trip. Inquiries to Geo S Batty G P and T A Marshalltown Iowa for territory dates limits and other information.
The Iowa Firemen and the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway offer one fare round trip tickets from all Iowa points for the annual tournament in Cedar Rapids August 7 to 10. For full particulars contact nearest agent.
Attorney General Remley advises that most state printing must be contracted via competitive bids. Only laws journals reports letter heads envelopes labels stay with the state printer. A Des Moines swindle involving blank spaces and forged notes is described in the article.
Fort Dodge faces a wave of seventeen fires in forty eight hours with no clue to the arsonist. Police and special patrols guard the city as barns and warehouses burn including the Gund Brewing Co storehouse and Congresssman Dollivers barn amid warnings to citizens to watch their premises.
In Oskaloosa Iowa two youths posing as United States department of agriculture representatives were caught attempting to cash promissory notes. They gathered farm statistics with a printed census like form asking for acreage stock mortgage status and banking details before soliciting the farmer’s signature.
Indianapolis August 6 A real estate firm offered 240 acres of farm land for 5000 and gas belt city lots at 125 each plus a cottage for 1500 with money and deeds placed in bank. If McKinley wins purchaser gets both property and money, if Bryan wins firm gets the money. Rosenthal of New York accepted the farm offer and pledged more on McKinley’s victory.
District Manager James A. Campbell served notice on clerks and salaried staff in Youngstown after Saturday night that their services would be dispensed with. The layoff affects over 300 employees, many decades with the company, amid wage-scale disputes with Amalgamated. In Michigan a gun accident threatens Mrs John G Lake in Sault Ste Marie. no doctor, prayer meeting held, husband claims relief.
Fire at Monico Wisconsin on August six wiped out the business block and several residences. A tramp is suspected to have started the blaze in a barn. The Monico House valued at five thousand with fifteen hundred insurance burned along with a large store building two thousand dollars a delivery barn and horses two forty four dollars private property four thousand and farm machinery and grain five thousand dollars.
Charles Miller of Chicago defeated Burns Pierce of Boston by a third of a lap in a twenty five mile motor paced race on the Manhattan Beach track. Jimmy Michael was unable to race Miller and Pierce was substituted due to illness.
A quoted line contrasts marrying for money with marrying for love and notes Filthy Sucre as bank bills after years in circulation. The reflection emphasizes financial value over romantic motive and defines a slang term.
Milton M. Letts of Columbus Junction owns a lake on his farm near Wapello and has full jurisdiction over its fish. An attorney general opinion states private lake owners may seine fish without permission, as the water is not fed by state streams and ownership resides in the landowner.
A pleasant day trip on the steamer Young offers a 60 mile ride to Rock Island and an electric car route to Black Hawk Tower now open with added attractions. The Young will provide free tickets for Tower parties of ten or more from Rock Island to Black Hawk and return. Basket dinner accommodations are excellent. The ship leaves Muscatine at 6 30 a m on Sunday Monday Wednesday and Friday and returns at 7 45 p m. For more information contact Wm G Block agent.
Opening prices, highs, lows and closes for Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard Ribs and more on the Chicago board. Receipts and market flow for live stock and dairy notes, with visible supply totals and inland and Northwest wheat receipts.
Muscatine Iowa notes daily market prices for grain flour mill stuffs and produce. Entries cover flour sacks oats corn meal hay beans plums peaches bananas lemons oranges lemons and misc items with unit prices and per unit ranges. Sugar listed at wholesale grocer rates.
An advertisement touts French Tansy wafers, claiming a celebrated French physician used them privately to treat painful or irregular periods. The sale spans over ten years with reported relief, urging purchase of genuine red wrapped boxes for two dollars from La France Drug Co and J. J. Havercamp's drug store in Muscatine, Iowa.
Illinois Central lists July and August round trip tickets from Cairo and Paducah to U S western points including Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Spearfish Deadwood Rapid City Glenwood Springs Ogden Salt Lake City Sheridan and Casper with one fare plus two dollars. Colorado Utah tickets allow stopovers. South Dakota Wyoming routes permit west of Missouri River stops within set transit limits. Final return date October 31 1900. Information from J F Merry A G P A Dubuque.
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