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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1903
Page
3
Muscatine newspaper advertisement details daily carrier delivery and weekly cost at ten cents per week. Subscriptions: daily by mail three dollars per year and semi weekly one year at one hundred cents. The note boasts circulation greater than all Muscatine papers combined and at least three times any other daily.
A Muscatine woman asks Waterloo's mayor to help her two sons find work, arguing Muscatine offers abundant employment. She cites Muscatine's large lumber industry, pearl button, box, sash and door, oatmeal, pickle plants, and Muscatine Island as world leading. She warns against leaving, noting high wages and in-demand labor locally.
The Ottumwa Courier brands Bryan’s stance as the height of political folly and urges him to be good amid debate. It frames the era’s mania around Bryan as excessive and unhelpful for public discourse.
Burrell in the Washington Press questions double standards after remarks on a black man assaulting a white woman. He asks how it would look if white men attacked black women and whether retaliation or lynching would follow, highlighting race violence tensions.
Mr. Sullivan argues the republican system of protection is doomed while the Waterloo Courier contends the democratic party has faced doom for nearly forty years yet remains raw and responsible for our prosperity.
A collection of aphorisms about temper, prejudice, and practicality. The text compares bias against red tape with popular colors, notes the folly of seeking salvation in heat, and warns against those who “have a bone to pick.”
A Milwaukee Sentinel cartoon rental depicts a stenographer mishearing a formal letter, producing a humorous phonetic letter with misspellings and garbled phrases. The piece contrasts perfect shorthand with faulty transcription and ends noting the narrator’s amusement at a new, valuable worker.
The Capital notes it seems unlikely a party emerging from Bryanism would adopt Johnsonism but warns that if Ohio advocate Tom Johnson gains the governorship and performs strongly on election day he could rise in national politics next year.
Archbishop Ireland of St Paul notes Cardinal Sarto's deep learning and prudent action in Venice, describing him as free from entangling Rome ties. The interview asserts the selection of an outsider to the Eternal City mirrors historical patterns and promises a self-guided papacy.
Col Marsh Murdock declares 1903 a fateful year with digit sum 13 and a long list of calamities. He cites atypical weather, stock-market drop, pope death, global unrest, assassinations, revolutions, crashes, crimes, a three tailed comet, sun spots, and mosquito deaths, predicting more woes in the new year.
A Western commentator recalls a Kansas legislator who urged honesty by laying his railroad pass on the table. He challenged others to do the same, but none moved. the speaker then declared no honest men remained in the chamber, only to reveal the pass from last year.
Sioux City Journal essay observes quirks of behavior in everyday life. It critiques pride in doubled work ability, social shaming after a rejection, rapid burial of the wealthy, reactions to female distress, provocation as excuse, and visible hurt as enemy delight. It ends with a shopper facing error in change.
Des Moines hosts the Iowa State Fair August 24 to 29 with livestock shows and an exhibition of state products. Pain's Ancient Rome will entertain with thousands of dollars in fireworks and a grand city spectacle. Rock Island offers half fares August 20 to 29 from Iowa stations. Muscatine fare is 4.90 with return by August 31.
Due to a large coming crop, the Iowa Central railway offers special one way tickets at very low rates for harvest laborers. Tickets are on sale daily at railway agents with liberal arrangements for return trips.
Mi-o-na is advertised as a flesh forming food that cures dyspepsia without cost unless it works. J. J. Havercamp offers a money back guarantee with every box, promising relief or full refund. The ad claims it regulates digestion, removes irritation, and improves blood, muscle, and nerve health, with a simple one tablet dose.
In a gritty city scene, Dr. McDuff follows a boy into a dilapidated tenement where a sick daughter tends her father with smallpox while a drunken sleeper nearby hints at harsher dangers. The doctor vows to help, risking quarantine and sacrifice.
Clinton Bear and Son bought a machine in Davenport and ten minutes after leaving the shop collided with a buggy, injuring no person but causing about $8 in damage. Guy Bear steered at about six miles an hour, swerved to avoid a bicyclist and struck a carriage, tipping it and jostling the horse. Settlement followed after police and lawyers mediated the dispute.
Train No. 14 the fast Eastern Express leaves Chicago at 3 p m daily and runs via Niagara Falls along the Michigan Central to New York arriving at Grand Central Station at 8 p m No excess fares Send for Summer Tour Book Address C W Ruggles G P T A Chicago
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