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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1900
Page
4
An advertisement for Prof J Reiser promises comprehensive personal advice on business affairs love and marriage with guaranteed satisfaction. It claims to reveal truths about friends foes and loved ones and offers confidential private consultations at 309 Sycamore Street with special terms for callers.
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific offers a one fare plus 70 cents round trip to Des Moines for the Iowa State Fair from Aug 23 to Sept 1. Fare includes one admission to the fair grounds and good for return through Sept 3. Agent M Gould.
The Muscatine North and South railroad offers round trip tickets to Clear Lake with two days board and lodging at Whitaker’s Lake Shore hotel for 11 dollars and 10 cents. Tickets available during July and August.
Two iron settees and two iron chairs suitable for lawns. Inquire at this office.
In Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, M H notes rising traveler crowds in August traveling from Muscatine to San Pedro, describing the island's geography, climate, stage coach routes to Eagle's Nest camp, and the growing resort life with camping grounds, hotels, and bay attractions.
Joseph Dryfuss a Sioux City traveling man now at Mount Clemens Mich sent by his house to Dawson City to sell goods met a California youth who gambled away his money and asked Dryfuss to cover losses Dryfuss lent 25 dollars for a temporary hold The youth later sent a 25000 draft from a California bank claiming Dryfuss shared in his Nome gold find and sending a letter from Nome asserting Dryfuss earned a share of his profits and should be counted in joins the claim in repayment with interest.
The Muscatine baseball scene faces renewed doubt as Wapello fails to show and fans denounce management. Local figures note poor support, discuss prospects for weekday or Sunday games, and highlight the strength of players like Kautz, Dudley, Brenner, Cole, Vetter, Deutschman, and Gardner while citing lost Burlington plans and stalled Athletic Club activities.
A sudden north wind cyclone hit Sheboygan Wisconsin at 1 PM causing eight large buildings to be wrecked and about 200 small houses blown down. Roofs were torn off and many people trapped under debris. Losses exceed 300000 dollars as the storm moves southward.
Thomas Hobson of Leon valley reports a rattlesnake chased his children nearly three quarters of a mile across his farm in LaCrosse Wisconsin. Hobson killed the snake when it neared the farmhouse door as the children, exhausted by heat and fear, fled. Rattlers are usually defensive, making this chase exceedingly rare.
New York mourns 80 year old John Lamb known as the doll doctor who cared for broken dolls in his later years. He ran a doll hospital mending fractures speaking boxes eyes and limbs and restoring toys for young owners.
Baseball scores recorded yesterday show Cincinnati 15 over St. Louis 7 in St. Louis. New York 4 over Pittsburgh 2 in Pittsburgh. In the American League Minneapolis 4 defeated Chicago 8 in Chicago. Buffalo beat Detroit 3 to 2 in Buffalo. Cleveland won 7 to 3 over Indianapolis in Cleveland. Kansas City 6 over Milwaukee 4 in Kansas City.
Preparations are underway for the 46th annual state exhibition and fair to be held in Des Moines from August 24 to September 1, 1900. Organizers anticipate wide participation and notable displays across agriculture, industry, and culture.
A train will depart Muscatine at 9 30 a m for Wapello and return at 7 p m. Round trip tickets cost 60 cents and are valid only for that day and the specified train. The train will stop at the Fair Grounds to board and alight passengers. Charles Howard, General Manager.
A group including G. A. Reinicke W. B. Barkalow Nesper & Co. Jno J. Havercamp and J Theo Keuchmann offers refunds on Greene’s Warranted Syrup of Tar. If a 60 cent bottle fails to cure cough or cold a full refund is promised and a 25 cent bottle is similarly guaranteed against dissatisfaction.
Special summer excursion rates are offered to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden Sheridan Hot Springs Custer Deadwood Spearfish via the Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern Railway. The offer targets travelers seeking affordable rail trips to Colorado Utah Wyoming and South Dakota for leisure months.
Ticket validity spans August 21 and September 4 to 18 with return by October 31 1900. For rates and routes, contact any Cedar Rapids Route agent for details.
A reader argues against placing a hospital on sites near Riverview and other residential areas. E H King and Mr D favor several locations but fear property devaluation. Jayne Park west of the city is proposed as a picturesque alternative overlooking the Mississippi River and Muscatine Island.
A block twelve lot in Ogilvie's addition is proposed for a hospital. The high ground is bounded by Spring and Popular, Tenth and Eleventh streets, near a street car line and water mains on Oak street. The unimproved block is owned by one person and would be wholly available.
Figures from the bureau of statistics show Chicago’s official population at 1,608,575, marking a ten year rise of about six thousand. Also noted are scattered items from political and social events including Irish archbishop remarks and local accidents.
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