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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
3
The Journal by Journal Printing Co provides details for New York and Chicago offices with executives in charge. The New York office at 140 Nassau Street lists La Coste and Maxwell, while the Chicago office at 750 Marquette Building names Payne and Young as in charge.
The Daily Journal appears each weekday except Sunday with semi weekly editions on Tuesday and Friday nights. Home delivery costs 10 cents weekly. mail rates are 3.00 yearly for daily and 1.50 yearly for semi weekly. Government agencies and readers can find the paper at local outlets including Kneese Grocery Fast 2nd street East Hill Morse Washburn's, Busch's Drug Store W C A Hershey avenue Kecklerville Chayka's and Sharrar's.
The fragment references an editorial office and telephone matter involving Bell. It mentions Valery and TM in unclear context, with garbled terms suggesting a telephony or newsroom note. Further readable details are insufficient to determine a clear event, date, or outcome.
Sworn circulation statement shows the Muscatine Journal printed and circulated 149 840 copies in July 1997. Publisher I F W Throop signs, declaring the figure accurate, sworn on August 12, 1907 before Notary William R. Jayne.
A brief discusses two large company failures, Pope Manufacturing and Camagg Co., attributing them to loan shortages rather than relapse. It links these collapses to seven months of money market stringency caused by overextension, overconfidence, and stock watering, noting government anti-corporation activity as a push but not the cause.
A critique advocates punishing individuals behind corporate law breaking rather than fining companies. It argues fines harm innocent investors and stresses government action to curb inflation and restore confidence. Henry Clews is cited urging imprisonment for guilty executives to stabilize markets.
The engineer in charge will visit town this week. Despite bond market delays the Keokuk plan will be built and then spur other cities to follow. River towns could soon exploit vast horsepower potentials nearby.
The striking telegraphers claim company control is tight while managers say they are in excellent shape handling all business. With such opposing views, the public faces growing inconvenience and financial impact from the quarrel as observers split on who lies.
City marshal reports a 3 365 587 assessed value on which a 1 percent tax is levied. Last year similar rate on over 2 5 million. Peaches offered at 1 peck or 1 cent each. Mrs Campbell's Young Ladies School opens fall term September 1. Thirty years ago was Sunday. Twenty years ago S Cohn leads bids for representative with others like Garrett term question. WCTU meets Tuesday at 8 at the Methodist church and Equal Franchise is the topic.
At a Saturday meeting the city marshal was authorized to hire special night police as needed to curb burglaries and street fights. A heavy rainfall broke a drought, easing farmers fears for the corn crop. A Muscatine meeting was announced for soldiers to plan a city reunion.
Mr Harriman says he will build the new headquarters at Omaha as soon as money is obtained. He implies funding from his own capital though usually others finance his deals. He notes he has never shared profits with financiers.
Ten years ago the Never Grow Old pleasure club chartered a wagonette to Lilly's cottage at Keokuk Lake to await their husbands who joined them that evening. Also an accident at the depot where a shell exploded on the track injuring Sergeant Sam Fox, sewn by Surgeon Robertson, blamed on a prank by a soldier boy.
A state discussion favors reorganizing the assessment system and placing a trusted local man in charge of county property listings to ensure fairness and equity, eliminating the need for tax ferrets.
A Michigan man arrested for fatally shooting a barber who attacked him during a haircut stirs sympathy and raises questions about justice as the unwritten law is cited in the case. The Ottumwa Courier notes political rhetoric around the incident.
The Davenport plan to close on Sundays faces opposition arguing it will shift commerce to Rock Island Illinois. Proponents say Rock Island would welcome the effect if Davenport leads the move.
Report from San Francisco says workmen opposing bribery will dominate the next labor convention. It notes it will be good for the city and a better thing for organized labor when the dishonest element is weeded out.
Operators and officers of telegraph companies have muddled public messaging on the strike situation, leaving residents unsure of how services will be affected.
The street railway system at Independence Iowa, inaugurated by horseman C W Williams, has been dismantled with poles removed and track torn up. The project marks another decline of a once thriving boom town.
President Small of the Telegraphers union says a couple of millions are needed to prolong the strike and anticipates possible aid from Bell Telephone. The report notes the telecom firm might assist in sustaining the stoppage.
"Uncle Billy" Waring of New Jersey claims to forecast weather by his hogs tails. He expects a brief communication from the White House on the matter.
It is announced that Coxey has broken out again and will lead another pilgrimage. It is unclear where he expects to recruit followers or where he intends to travel with them.
In Cedar Rapids on Thursday night railroads faced washouts worth thousands of dollars beyond the 2-cent fare law. The damage disrupted service and raised concerns over infrastructure funding.
A Keokuk Gate City item notes humorously that if a picture of Judge Landis is hung at the University of Chicago it would likely not be painted in oil.
Governor Vardaman admits defeat in the senate race due to Republican votes. An exchange notes that this reflects progress by Southern Republicans, seen as a positive development by critics.
In Davenport many residents are getting acquainted with long distance telephone service as usage grows. The article notes rising interest and daily calls expanding beyond local lines.
Iowa analysis notes county weeklies favor standpat politics while supporting State Superintendent Riggs on education. Though Riggs inherits standpat roots and nomination, he adopts a progressive stance in schools and pushes for advancing reforms.
The Des Moines Capital quotes a scathing attack on a lawyer who plans to insert ambiguous phrases into a divorce decree to thwart last winter’s statute. The critic calls him an intellectual dunderhead moral pervert and a polluter of justice, urging disbarment.
Sidney Herold argues Hon Claude Porter should be the Democratic candidate for the U S Senate. He contends Hon James B Weaver is not the Democrats of Iowa choice for senator.
ORONO B L Metcalf of Nichols was in this vicinity on business. Mr and Mrs Will Maxwell and children from south of Cone and Mrs John Snyder of Cone visited at the J S Boulby home. Mr and Mrs Cass Hawkins were Lone Tree visitors. Ira Owen and family enjoy visiting O Crother of Indiana. Will Hawkins family in Lone Tree. Della Bliven to wed Mr Pond of Ottumwa at Rube Marks home Thursday evening. Jo Gideon visits Alexander Minn. John Newton and Cedar Rapids nephew visit relatives here. Ralph Babbit family attend Miss Betts funeral at Lone Tree. L M Cecil paints house barn and builds a new house. Muscatine workers. Peter Gideon Grand Island Neb and Mery Bennett Winterset Ind return home after visiting Joseph Gideon.
A fragmented note repeats the title The Spoilers by Rex E Beach and urges saving the text for later reading. The casual fragment hints at a reader who intends to cut out and preserve the work for future access.
Morehouse faces a furious mob guarding three hundred thousand dollars housed in the Alaska Bank. McNamara defies the crowd with the aid of Helen Chester as Glenister and Wheaton pressure for immediate delivery under court warrants.
Glenister pushes forward as a tense group resists a cruel law. A banker, pale helpers, sun burnt men, and blue eyed Scandinavians stand united in defiance while soldiers with fixed bayonets push through the crowd at the doorway. The scene ends with a command to clear the room as Wheaton demands an explanation.
Dr Hale's Housein Ointment claims to permanently cure itching burning and obstinate skin diseases. Relief comes with first application and complete cure follows. Clean pleasant to use contains no grease or oil. Available at all drug stores and directly from Kenyon & Thomas Adams New York.
The Muscatine City Council adopts a resolution ordering permanent four foot wide concrete sidewalks on Maiden Lane from Roscoe Avenue to Newell Avenue. Property owners must build within ten days of notice, sidewalks to align two feet from the property line and six inches above street grade, extensions to curb lines at intersections, per 1907 ordinance. Mayor J Asthalter signs, City Recorder Gustav Weis attests. Adopted August 15, 1907.
City records show a resolution ordering concrete sidewalks on Woodlawn avenue from Mulberry to Oak, four feet wide, following city measurements, with extensions to curb lines. Property owners must complete any required new walks within ten days of notice, per Gustav Weis, City Recorder, August 14 1907.
City Council resolves to build five foot concrete sidewalks on Eleventh Street between Mulberry and Oak in Muscatine. Sidewalks to be placed 2 feet from property lines and 6 inches above street grade, extending to curb at intersections. Owners must build if notified within ten days, per Gustav Weis city order adopted August 1 1907.
IO WA LODGE No 2 A F and 4 M meets first Tuesday evening monthly. Washington Chapter No 4 R and M holds stated convocation second Friday each month. Webb Council of Royal and Select Masters meets third Thursday monthly in Stein's music hall. De Molay Commandery No 1 K T regular conclave third Wednesday each month.
Muscatine Lodge No. 804 B P O Elks meets every Monday evening at o'clock at the Elks Hall 122 Iowa avenue over Cook Musser Bank. Visiting Elks welcome. Dr H Johnson Dean EB BR W W Richards Secretary.
The Muscatine Homestead No. 336 meets every Wednesday evening in Yeomas hall above Jacob Fisch and Sons hardware store on East Second Street. J. M L. Payne is foreman and Mrs. B. C. Ingraham serves as Correspondent at 510 West Street.
F. Co. and Muscatine Aerid No. 815 announces weekly meetings every Tuesday at 8 oclock in Eagle Lodge hall over Dunbar restaurant. Visitors are welcome. W. C. Towers serves as W. P. John P. Breen is secretary.
Electa Chapter No 22 meets the second and fourth Mondays monthly. Mrs Fannie Reinicke W M and Mrs August Othmer Secy listed. Also references I O O F.
Eagle Lodge No 10 A O U W meets every Thursday evening at K P hall Iowa avenue Brethren in good standing are invited to attend W F Schoenig M W H S Howe Recorder E H Dolsen Financier
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