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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
4
Notices from Muscatine chronicle daily life with residents boarding trains to Davenport Lone Tree and Sheffield for visits business and education. Mentions include Foxy Grandpa cigars Berlin Studio photos Bankers association chautauqua in Columbus Junction and Mrs Elizabeth Eichenauer funeral set at 2 pm Sunday.
H. Schmidt & Son Co announces a display window tonight featuring the Ludwig piano. The notice invites shoppers to view the instrument as part of a promotional event and highlights the new piano model.
A roundup of residents departing for Davenport Council Bluffs Cedar Rapids and Columbus Junction for family visits business matters and chautauqua events. Local notices include a museum raffle delay a Maccabees picnic a funeral tribute and railway personnel changes with brief community updates.
Comic figure Happy Hooligan appears in a display window and invites passersby to see him tonight.
The funeral of John Bersch was held at St Marys Church at 9 30 this morning. Rev Father J Grieser led services then brief tribute to the deceased. A long funeral cortege followed to St Marys cemetery with pallbearers Martin Havercamp W H Fayle Andrew Wirtz John McEvoy Peter Bermel and H C Lenhard.
One of the handsomest displays in the city features the Ludwig piano at H Schmidt and Son Co top music store. Visit tonight as the storefront will be illuminated all aglow with lighting and attention to the showpiece while the play Hooligan as King dominates the scene.
Frederick A Drake and others transfer 85.87 acres of southwest sec 32 township 76 range 2 to Louis Drake for $1 with love and affection. Anna Catharina Small sells three acres more or less across sec 31 77 1 and sec 25 77 1 to John W Gardner for $259. James B Walsh sells east 5749 feet of Lot 4 Block 142 Muscatine to Robert Welch for $1. Wesley D McCabe and others transfer Lot 1 Block 1 East Fairfield to John W Gardner for $500.
Sabbath school at 10 o clock followed by the 11 o clock morning sermon. Children’s meeting at 6 45 in the evening with the regular evening service to follow. Midweek prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30. Miss Abbie J Lake is pastor.
A local rumor centers on Dr. Singleton visiting the house of a young widow nearly daily, with discussions suggesting she is ill. The exchange hints at concern over the physician's intentions and the widow's condition.
A terse reflection contrasts writing a single word on stone with composing a thousand on water, attributed to Gladstone, emphasizing enduring clarity over fleeting noise. The aphorism highlights the value of precision and permanence in expression.
Catholic communities in Muscatine will observe the ascension of Pius X with special services at St. Mary's and St. Matthias. St. Matthias opens at 10:30 a.m. with high mass and a music heavy program, including remarks by Father Leonard and bells tolling after Te Deum. St. Mary's holds 2:30 p.m. services with sermons by Rev. Giglinger of Davenport and a vespers sequence ending with benediction. The St. Matthias choir features prominent local youths, while St. Mary's program emphasizes sermon and musical offerings.
The passage notes revenue cutters patrol the seas enforcing quarantine, inspecting ships, aiding in rescues, and serving as ambulance and fire department support for the government. It recalls the first cutters built under Alexander Hamilton and highlights their wartime under navy authority but peacetime treasury control, saving lives and property valued in the millions yearly.
A bitter January night sees Marshal Suvoroff press a sentry with a trap question about stars in the sky. The soldier calmly counts to 109 before promising to tell and later is promoted, ending the encounter on a humorous note.
A Harlem mother notes her twins, both boys, share misdeeds and questions in tandem. She says twins demand as much attention and make as much noise as four ordinary children, though they are not bad. The observation highlights mirrored behavior and synchronized inquiries.
The text argues that life demands activity across all beings from plants to humans. A life without noble work, whether for self support or public good, is empty and abnormal. Work strengthens life while idleness destroys it, and everyone should labor to follow a universal law governing creation, despite beliefs that idleness might be virtuous.
In a household tale a surgeon with three leg amputations in one week discovers a daguerreotype of a young girl showing one leg. His daughter asks if the image is of her mother when young, prompting a remark about the mother’s missing leg.
The Macedonian was to get a new mast at Brooklyn navy yard under Captain Hudson. Old Jack Stady asked the commandant to bury him in a coffin made from that mast after his death. The captain agreed, and the mast was cut into boards for the coffin.
Miss Arabella Paxton fainted after riding a dizzying merry-go-round at the county fair. Mrs. Jennings received her disheveled cousin, who, shaken by the ride, needed a settee to regain equilibrium. The machine had been described as frightening enough to erase ten years’ growth.
A bride sits on a high stool wearing her many dresses, which guests remove one by one in display. The final gown is described as the most beautiful while the groom watches from a corner, kept from touching the dowry.
In a scene labeled Her Excuse a widow tells her dressmaker she must delay payment after a death. She explains they are still too sorrowful to consider financial matters.
The text explains that cardiac wounds leak small amounts of blood into the pericardial sac, causing mechanical interference with the heart’s pumping action and leading to suffocation. It notes that outcomes resemble gradual suffocation and cites American Medicine.
In a playful misquote from the Baltimore American the exasperated mistress jokes with a servant over broken Dresden china. The servant claims to have yet to break the record for destructiveness as a witty aside.
A terse exchange shows He warns against self harm after being rejected by She. He dismisses the idea as pointless while She asserts he is not her master and refuses to accept the breakup, implying a tense relationship.
A humorous quip frames a man inviting a friend to celebrate with a joke about a fresh excuse to mention to his wife. The brief reflects light social banter typical of a newspaper humor snippet.
A londoned line shows a character chiding a friend for refusing to lend a valuable item. The exchange hints at expectations of mutual aid among companions and raises social tension over generosity. The tone suggests a humorous or lightly critical social moment.
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