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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening except Sunday. the Semi-Weekly Journal has 10 pages on Tuesday and 8 pages on Friday. Daily delivery in the city by carrier costs 10 cents weekly. yearly mail subscription is $3.00 for the Daily and $1.50 for the Semi-Weekly.
Representatives Payne and Young are in charge at the Chicago office located in the 750 Marquette building. The note confirms their leadership and the office address.
The Journal outlines agency locations for reader convenience including East Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd Street Booth Muscatine Toborg Bros grocery Oregon street A. Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Charka'sa Grocery West Hi 3 A. Fuller Grocery and Wm. Van Zyl Grocery New York Office 20 34 West 83rd Street.
Fragmentary telephony notes mention Bell Company trainee and editorial offices with unclear labels and stray text. No coherent event or individuals are readable to confirm a news item or actions.
Sworn detailed circulation statement lists totals for Muscatine Journal during July 1909. Figures show multiple daily or period totals with entries reaching around 6 000 to 7 000 copies and a net value near 185 075.
A 1909 affidavit from F. D. Throop publisher of the Muscatine Journal states that an average of 6,854 copies were printed and circulated during July. The document is sworn before Notary Arthur Hoffman on August 2, 1909 in Muscatine County Iowa.
An editorial notes cocaine as a growing urban problem with slow reform. It cites Chicago Tribune observations on rising awareness in New York Boston and Illinois leading the way, praising Pennsylvania’s strict possession law and Boston’s Watch and Ward findings on wholesale cocaine price at 18.75 dollars per ounce.
The piece notes cocaine priced at 25 cents a grain and discusses illicit traffic driven by profit. It argues only physicians should hold the drug after manufacture and urges manufacturing controls and sale restrictions to curb illegal distribution, acknowledging slow, difficult progress.
In Keokuk the Gate City notes upheaval as China and Japan shake with earthquakes while an international loan from China falters. Council Bluffs Nonpareil jests about a Wisconsin lawyer craving manual work and lacking a lawn. Cedar Rapids Gazette cites Chinese residents in New York with white wives amid provocative remarks on tastes and foreign spouses.
Reminiscences recall repairs nearly finished with operations to resume next Monday. Weather shifts from heat to a cool northern breeze, making winter clothing comfortable after yesterday’s sultry spell. 30 years ago notes an excursion by the Social Cornet band leaving ferry docks at 7 pm returning at 9 with music by Germania and Social Cornet bands. Michael Healey builds a large barn on Cole Ferry road.
A six year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs L L Patterson of Sweetland Center, broke his right arm at the elbow yesterday from a fence fall. The paper notes a footpath from Water street to the steam boat landing cannot be laid in wet weather and is unnecessary in dry weather.
A brief note marks the 20th anniversary of a Sunday, reflecting on events from two decades ago and noting the date.
Ten years ago Harry Earl Fred Toborg and others attended the National Guards Encampment at Burlington. Ina Cate Elsie Schoemaker and others joined the U B excursion to Burlington Thursday morning. Mr Henry B Hahn left Wednesday to attend the camp meeting at Wilton.
Detective Jamieson pieces together clues from Miss Innes and others. Thomas Johnson recounts sightings and the half cuff-link connected to Mr. Bailey as the investigation shifts toward a possible motive and a flight by Halsey after Armstrong’s death.
Columbus Ind Reverend James A Bradley was fined 1 dollar after knocking down his son in law who had hurled a vile name. The incident drew light humor as the preacher defended his honor with a physical reprimand.
The council bluffs Nonpareil notes talk of retiring the two dollar bill. Bankers oppose the move while ordinary citizens say it remains handy for paying workers like a lawn mower.
Mrs Bar net literary editor of the Louisville Courier Journal declares Mark Twains Is Shakespeare Dead the year s top book. The Dubuque Times Journal notes the publishers have not sent free ads to our mail.
The Waterloo Reporter notes the paroled offender in Illinois failed to bathe for four years after release. It argues the state should have a string to pull him back and provide access to sanitary facilities at the state institution.
A small quantity of Alaska wheat sown on an experimental plot at Cherokee hospital grounds this spring was harvested. The grain is believed to yield about fifty bushels per acre, but blight reduced its hardiness compared with native wheat. The crop produced 250 bushels per acre in its early assessment.
The Outlook classifies protectionists as philosophical protectors who see tariffs as for national welfare led by Taft, and pocketbook protectionists who push duties for their own industries. It omits a third western high protectionist class allied to eastern bosses and questions their motives.
A local citizen warns the News Tribune that the city charter allows council appointment of subordinate officers and may provide for citizen elections of those officers. He cites recent tax money finds and rising assessed values as financial pressures but argues a proposed tax increase is unnecessary and illegal. He questions how to remove an officer.
J D Fulliam questions a proposed change to remove an officer for violating oath or neglecting duties, noting it requires two thirds of aldermen. He asks what in the change alarms a citizen and whether the writer seeks an office appointment.
Wyatt Sprague visits his hometown from Seattle while a Washington chautauqua draws attendees Mrs H M Letts and daughter Miss Mary Helen join others including Miss Mary Carpenter Mr and Mrs W H Hannan Miss Minnie Bowman and Cora Parkins Jake Foster travels from Chicago to Ainsworth then Mediapolis to oversee tents at the grounds Mrs William Gesner and daughter Miss Hattie head toward Keota then Kiowa Kan W T Brown leaves for Minneapolis to visit his brother Harry Harry Willmering has his billiard hall building raised with new cement sidewalks Miss Susie Spaeth travels to Des Moines to stay with aunt Mrs G W Smith around the state fair period
Try a new lunch with Yello toasted cornflakes in a large yellow package. The brand claims they are the best toasted cornflakes you can buy and urges shoppers to taste the crisp, corn flavor today.
Wilton, Iowa residents and visitors fill a string of reads with travel from Durant Muscatine and Davenport. Notable entries include Hannah Gary returning home after Muscatine visit and a West Liberty at Wilton ball game set for Wednesday at Ayres park to fit the 3 59 train schedule.
United States filed a libel in the Southern District of Iowa on August 11 1909 seeking condemnation of about 300 sacks of flour shipped from Omaha to Muscatine. The marshal is ordered to seize and hold the flour and publish notice in the Muscatine Journal. A hearing is set for October 5 1909 in Davenport to allow claims and answers.
The document records a writ issued by Judge Smith McPherson in Davenport on August fifth, 1909, with clerk William C. McArthur certifying the writ and the need to return an answer in the premises. It notes the seal of the U S District Court for the Southern District of Iowa and requests action on the allegations within the warrant.
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