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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal lists post office delivery and carrier collection terms. It details daily and semi weekly subscriptions, advance payments, and ordering options by postal card or telephone, with remittances to JOURNAL PRINTING Co., Muscatine Iowa.
TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Irregular or tardy delivery of The Journal should be promptly reported to the business office. Every copy should be delivered before 6:30 p.m. Complaints should be made promptly if the delivery is late. Subscribers are requested to provide boxes or designate a secure place to leave the paper from weather or molestation.
The Daily Journal offers regular delivery during the summer vacation season. Notify the Journal business office in person by mail or telephone to arrange ongoing home news while away. Address updates can be made as often as desired.
The Journal offers guaranteed ad changes if copy is in the office by 9 a.m. Ads are on sale daily at news stands run by R. A. Holmes, E. Davidson and C. W. Hodges. All customers can be supplied.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow's report estimates Neely at Havana embezzling 131000 to 150000 dollars and alleges Rathbone unauthorized per diem drafts and extravagant charges. The probe names other officials involved, detailing expensive coachman and footman expenses, faulty stamp destruction schemes, and extensive private travel charged to postal funds. Four lesser officials are also under arrest as the scandal weighs on public morality.
A brief tally of U S military casualties in the Philippines since August 6 1898 showing totals for died of wounds and accidents died in action and other causes with a grand total of 4810 casualties in the period.
Former Iowa governor Larrabee, back from Europe, contrasts Iowa under Republican labor protections with centuries old Democratic regimes. He says Americans are fortunate, noting more prosperity, liberty, and advantages in Iowa and urging workers to value footholds at home.
Wallace’s Farmer denounces the Belgian hare craze as a costly, misfounded boom. It argues the so called Belgian rabbit is merely a crossbreed, compares meat to ordinary rabbits, notes nuisance factors, and claims real Belgian hares do not exist in captivity.
Report from Bombay details 17,700 deaths in one week as cholera spreads. Viceroy Curzon relays to the Secretary of State for India urgent relief figures totaling over six million people on aid across provinces and states, with aid calls remaining critical.
The article recounts Thorny Lafon a New OrleansBlack man who earned about 600000 and left most to charity including a colored school and two homes for the aged one for Black residents and one for whites. A white mob burned the school citing racial tension while a Black desperado killed white men. The mob is condemned as vicious as the Boxer Rebellion or Armenian massacres.
The article notes Bryan works to align his use of personal influence for ratification of the Paris treaty with Philippine policy. It cites Roach’s recent Des Moines speech as proof he cannot harmonize these actions.
A political note envisions Bryan Jones as Nebraska senator if he wins, with a Democratic House to back him in politics. It argues for a Republican Congress working with a Republican President to ensure harmony in governance.
The Dubuque Times quotes that Mr Rathbone once held a high post in the postal service and faces harsh scrutiny. It asserts American good faith will be vindicated though the process may lead to penitentiary time.
The Burlington Hawk Eye queries why a United States senator exchanges letters with a general of rebel forces and accepts from him information harmful to the government, suggesting concern over loyalty and national security.
Going to Paris receive travel help from agents of the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway. They can ticket you through from all stations via New York and steamship lines. Contact Jnc G Farmer A G P T A B C R N Ry Cedar Rapids Ia.
The Carroll Herald cites grasshoppers threatening crops as sign of Bryan strength in Nebraska. Cedar Rapids Republican notes Fort Dodge Messenger Algona Upper Des Moines and Jefferson Bee backing Delliver for US Senate. Clinton Herald quotes Roach calling the Democratic ticket a deceptive Populist coalition.
Colfax Iowa August 7 The Iowa State Epworth League Assembly ended its fifth annual convention with strong attendance. Dr Bronson led the ministerial institute and morning address, Rev John F Goucher preached in the afternoon, and the closing services highlighted a financial success. Improve ments and new cottages are planned for next year with continued support from Colfax and other Christian communities.
The Muscatine North and South railroad offers round trip tickets to Clear Lake with two days of board and lodging at Whitaker's Lake Shore hotel for 11.19 dollars. Tickets go on sale during July and August. The second part, a humorous classroom exchange, notes trees not bearing fruit and pupils replying they are good to climb.
The passage warns that many will rush to Nome City Beach Alaska chasing gold, risking health as the true wealth. It promotes Tostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure all for stomach issues, liver and kidney vigor, digestion, constipation, malaria, chills and fever, claiming natural tonic benefits free from narcotics and urging use to prevent colds and malaria.
Miss Freavees Smith of Chattahoochee Tennessee cites health improvements after switching from coffee to Postum Food Coffee. She reports calmer nerves and better digestion, claiming her friend in Knoxville and her daughter also benefited, and urges others to try the beverage. Postum is advertised as providing elements to rebuild nerve centers.
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