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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1913
Page
3
The Thaw escape from Matteawan asylum raises questions about extradition and justice. Editorialists critique New York corruption, power, and the liberal attitude toward wealth wielding legal outcomes while pondering Thaw’s fate and Evelyn Nesbit’s notoriety.
The passage condemns the conditions that produced Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit, arguing these failures allow new threats. It warns that unremedied causes will recreate wealth driven maniacs, Nesbits, and problematic institutions like Matteawan with open doors to danger.
An elderly woman known as Mother Drury feeds and aids city bums near Madison and Jefferson in Chicago. She was attacked by a barrel house loafer crowd. water and milk were spilled, her gown torn, and she was kicked. A young policeman promised action while she urged mercy, calling the assailants boys. The piece frames her as a symbol of old‑fashioned feminine heroism and Christian forgiveness amid modern militant women narratives.
Clippings recount anniversaries from 50 30 20 10 years ago in Muscatine including shipboard losses, a steamboat explosion victim death, a pigeon shooting match at Wilton fair, real estate sale, a Republican senatorial district convention delegates list, a runaway crash near Sweetland, and local residents returning from Chicago.
Janet Allston flees Carrington’s party at a seaside resort after a failed romance. Disguised by a borrowed dress she plans to avoid a confrontation over forgotten vows. Carrington pursues as Janet confronts the scandalous mix up with Lilian Roger and a mistaken suitcase.
From The Family Physician comes a note on the boranium jujube as a flesh reducing candy. It claims fat-dispelling elements in a convenient candy form require no time or energy. The German invention allegedly offers a harmless method for corpulent individuals, with one jujube after meals and one before bed.
In a tense moment Janet resists a marriage proposal as she reveals fear of death and a desire to be alone. Carrington presses for an immediate fate and pleads to resume their relationship, planning to reveal their engagement to quiet outsiders. The orchestra swells as he embraces her.
K A Kirkpatrick advises on fertilizer use for light soils and sour land, seed selection, and sowing timing for winter wheat. He cites Iowa and Illinois findings on varieties like Malakoff Kharkove and Turkey Red, seed rates, and Hessian fly considerations for best yields and seed purity. He stresses seed treatment for smut with formalin and notes early or very late sowing as optimal, depending on fly pressure.
The bulletin shows that the money returns from winter wheat are greater than corn. It covers five years of experiments at the State College Ames Iowa. It can be obtained from the Crop Improvement Association office or by writing to the director of the agricultural experiment station Ames Iowa.
Journal snippets cover political potshots and tariff talk as McMichaels’ testimony is questioned, Republican leaders plan a comeback, Adrianople and Balkans stir debates, foreign goods loom in tariff plans, country church pushes for better schools, tailors forecast gift trousers, tight skirts gain medical notice, and whiskey humor hints at excess drinking.
The report covers Miss Maude Sandersons July 5 1913 marriage to M E Munson at Colorado Springs and their move to start housekeeping. It notes residents visiting in Fredonia Cedar township picnickers, funerals for Mrs Henry Will, watermelon harvest activity in Conceville area and relatives from Rock Island visiting Mrs J C Gay. Also mentions Maynard Bullis leaving Sperry for Montezuma Rock Island depot work.
Green Valley notes Aug 19 record visits and calls from Muscatine Davenport and nearby towns. Pete Steineman and son Dave visited Grandview. locals call on friends in Muscatine and Letts. families tour Wilton fair. several households share meals and greetings with neighbors and relatives.
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