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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
3
Muscatine Journal announces subscription options for daily delivery by carrier with weekly collection. Rates listed are daily per year when subscribed for home delivery, with annual payment terms and weekly pickup details.
Candidates listed include Albert B. Cummins for Governor John Herriott for Lieutenant Governor S M Weaver for Supreme Court judge E C Brown for Railroad Commissioner and R C Barrett for Superintendent of Public Instruction The document enumerates names on the senatorial ticket and related offices.
The piece argues for party unity in Iowa Republicans to prevail in the upcoming election. It highlights drought and forest loss as drivers of climate change, urging stronger timber policy and forest preservation to avert harsher heat and drying streams across the Midwest and Pacific states.
The Cedar Rapids convention platform extols republican principles praising a declaration on human rights, opposition to disfranchisement of the colored race in the south, disapproval of tariff tinkering, and a strong assertion of the sovereignty of the people over corporations and capital combinations.
Lord Pauncefete the English ambassador works to frame a treaty satisfactory to the senate and to annul the Clayton Bulwer treaty. Once resolved the canal question could move quickly. England sees vast commercial gains from the canal and may yield its rights.
The passage discusses a possible treaty with the United States and the risk of excluding the British from the canal in wartime. It argues that even a low chance of war should not outweigh the vast benefits the canal would bring to English trade and commerce. It also notes Lord Pauncefote's belief in swift ratification and endorses canal construction as desirable for all.
China has mortgaged itself to the powers until 1940 to pay about 323 million dollars in indemnity with annual charges of 158 million. The plan funds the debt by new salt tax duties and a 5 percent maritime customs rise, avoiding a formal international guarantee. Critics warn the arrangement could invite foreign control and cloud China’s financial autonomy.
The St Paul Globe argues that if strikers stay peaceful the public bears little concern and losses fall on workers and United States Steel, but violence or coercion would invite state militia or army intervention to restore order. Philadelphia Press contends a general strike demands tangible gains and cannot succeed on sentiment alone, noting wages hours and employment are not the issue.
The Washington Star showcases a cartoon of new cut expansion trousers with Uncle Sam in a gold fund of 500 milliggns, and Maryland Democrats’ anti Negro plank depicted as a pirate ship scene with Gorman pistol in hand watching a blindfolded man walk off.
J I Nichols declares his bid for the Republican nomination to the 29th General Assembly. He states the race is subject to the Republican County Convention action.
John Wiley declares his candidacy for the sheriff nomination in Muscatine County subject to the decision of the Republican county convention.
W. Riley Rice seeks the Republican county convention’s decision as a candidate for sheriff of Muscatine County. He awaits the convention’s ruling on the nomination.
N B Ansley announces candidacy for sheriff of Muscatine County subject to the Republican county convention decision. The notice underscores formal entry into the race and party linkage in a local election context.
Lawton Oklahoma forms a new town with tents and wagons and gives its main street the name Goo Goo avenue. An exchange jokes that the vote likely reflected the ages.
A southern county farmer rejected 59 cents a bushel for 2000 bushels of corn. With 80 bushels per acre, 50c would net $410 per acre, a strong rental or dividend for a farm owner. The piece compares corn returns to older flax adages and notes land in Iowa remains valuable.
Private advices describe ongoing warfare in South Africa with widespread destruction and deserted towns. The piece then extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the cure for constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion and malaria, claiming over 50 years of worldwide use.
Wealthy patient asks for his leg to be saved but the eminent surgeon quotes three hundred dollars for the amputation. The patient notes the amount cannot restore the leg to its original length.
An ad promotes a summer vacation to Clear Lake Iowa with cool climate, good hotels and amusements. It highlights very low round trip rates via the Iowa Central route and directs readers to ticket agents for details or a book let.
In a farcical scene Mr Bowser debates the theory of transmigration with his wife Mrs Bowser at supper. A tramp's visit and a startled cat lead to the claim that Hannah Bowser's soul might inhabit the household cat, provoking sharp humor and skeptical banter.
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