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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
3
The Daily Journal of Muscatine Missouri publishes daily except Sunday and semi weekly editions on Tuesday and Friday nights. Daily delivery costs 10 cents weekly. Daisy subscription is 3 dollars for one year. semi weekly is 1.50 per year.
Journal Agencies lists city offices and shops for reader convenience. Entries include East High durbut Grocery on East 20d street, South Muscatine, W. E. Miksch's grocery on Oregon street, W C Basch's Drug Store on Vershey avenue, Kecklerville Chayka's Grocery, West Hill J H Puller, Grocery.
Throop, publisher, swears the Muscatine Journal circulated 5,865 to 6,000 copies in July 1908. Notary F L Bihlmeier witnessed the oath on August 6, 1908 in Muscatine County Iowa.
The Republican State Central Committee of Iowa announces a delegate convention in Des Moines on September 9, 1908 at 11 a.m. to nominate a judge for the Supreme Court vacancy and conduct other business. Delegates elected June 2, 1908 will assemble August 29, 1908 to select convention delegates.
Republican delegates elected at the June 2, 1908 primary will convene at the Court House at 11 a.m. on Saturday August 29, 1908 to choose 16 delegates for the state convention on September 8, 1908. E C Stocker is chairman and Co R Stafford secretary.
A short reflective piece urges readers to ponder the futility of conflict. It notes that while the phrase borrowed from another work may be seen as pessimistic, it offers serious and sincere food for tomorrow.
The text argues that work builds, creates, and saves, while strife only destroys and retards progress. It emphasizes that those who pursue self gain through conflict fail, whereas diligent, conscientious labor benefits others and society. Strife leads to futility and retrogression.
The piece urges readers to act against world greed and injustice. It calls each person to examine their duties to others, neighbors and countrymen, and to take concrete steps, from cleaning up property to saving a soul, with work needed "in front of you, under your very nose."
A call to action echoes as a speaker urges decisive steps in the face of a looming challenge. The text frames the moment as a crossroads demanding concrete plans and leadership to move forward.
A 1908 copyright notice for Horace Annesley Vachell's novel The Turn of the Tide. It states registration at Stationers Hall and all rights reserved.
Cynthia Charteris recalls past care and lessons between her and Guy. She questions fault, reflects that love rather than respect shapes growth, and in a quiet resolve kisses him before departing to face the moment. The scene hints at a turning point in their troubled relationship.
Recurring notes from 60 years ago recount August 22 as a Sunday and 40 years ago noting Isaac Long streth a large farmer near the city. Captain Stewart of Stewart and Son plans to buy new boot and shoe stock east. The Mississippi Valley Telegraph line dispute hints it will not pass Muscatine and may run Rock Island to Keithsburg.
Ludo Thayer resigns from the role of message deliverer and collector for the Western Union Telegraph company. Henry Powell will take the position on September 1 while Henry Mayes serves interim duties. Joseph Carr leaves today with two large apples from his city premises one War field eight ounces the other Topeka nine ounces. P. J. Ryan has been invited to ad-
In a tense drawing room scene Angela Tempest coolly faces Guy as Edward Tempest presses for the end of their marriage. Angela recalls past lovers, wealth, and manipulation while hinting at her complicity with John Tempest and the hidden motives driving the family dispute.
At the West Liberty fair grounds a ladies gold watch with closed face engraved with N was lost. A liberal reward is offered for its return to Miss Pearl Nichols. Various residents and travelers, including Mrs. Frank Spright, Miss Margarette Spright, and others, are noted in town movements and visits surrounding the event.
Cornelius Reece traveled from Council Bluffs carrying the body of his brother Mack Reece aged 42. He leaves a wife and two children. Governor Larrabee appoints Dr. W. O. Kulp as Iowa commissioner to attend the deep water convention in Denver on September 26.
Ten years ago Lieut. Fred B. Munroe arrived in Philadelphia as battalion adjutant of the 50th Iowa. Mr and Mrs J E Stevenson recount a buggy accident with soreness but no serious injuries. Sherman Detwiler, with Roosevelt’s Rough Riders at Montauk Point, praises the location as the prettiest place he has seen.
Miss Vita Stevens returns to Nichols after a brief stop at relatives. Kate McCabe arrives from Oklahoma and other cities for a visit before returning to Iowa City. William Brown travels from Dubuque to spend time with family. John Mumm visits Lone Tree and Ed Priess before heading to St. Paul. George Randall and E. Sexsmith host fairgoers from West Branch. Mrs. E M Warner departs Muscatine after visiting J W McElravy. George Ward heads to Oklahoma City to see Ephraim Lamborn. James Crawford and Alvah Nichols make train trips to Anamosa and Cedar Rapids respectively. Ella Robbins visits town for the fair. Annette Jackson entertains Mildred Coulter from Iowa City. Helen Vogle irons a Rocky Mountain Limited trip.
The article discusses the knock-out blow in boxing and portrays stomach vulnerability as key. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for indigestion, liver, blood, and digestion related diseases, claims mucous surface cures and nasal catarrh relief with Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Offers free booklets and medical adviser, with no alcohol in ingredients and glycerine used.
Many residents and guests pass through Muscatine touring friends and attending the fair. The report notes John Janney traveling to Iowa City for a ill relative, Clark Nichols selling a 200 acre farm, and multiple residents from Davenport Lone Tree and Muscatine visiting town or departing for home.
In this advertisement a Toledo company claims deafness from catarrh can be cured with constitutional remedies. It asserts ear inflammation blocks the Eustachian tube and vows to pay one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It urges sending for circulars and lists Druggists selling Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Zillah Gold Medal Flour is produced on honor RosaBet. The statement highlights a brand attribution connected to RosaBet.
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