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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1908
Page
3
An extolled advertisement claims Kodol digests all foods like a healthy stomach. It promises relief from fullness and heartburn, lets you eat what you want, and guarantees money back if not beneficial. Distributed by E C DeWitt Co Chicago with a large 24x bottle offer.
Official Muscatine publication announces circulation superior to competitors. Details daily and semi weekly editions, delivery by carrier, weekly 10 cents, annual mail rates three dollars for daily and one dollar fifty for semi weekly.
The New York office at 3034 West S3rd Street is listed with Payne and Young in charge. The Chicago fire location is the 750 Marquette Building.
The Journal notes city agencies and businesses for reader convenience including Mast Hill Muribut Grocery East 2nd Street South Muscatine Toborg Bros Grocery Oregon Street W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey Avenue Kecklerville Chayka's Grocery West Lill J H Fuller Grocery with contact telephones for the business and editorial offices.
Sworn statement by publisher F D Throop lists total copies printed and circulated at 183 230 for October 1908. Notary F L Biblmeier certifies the affidavit on November 2 1908 in Muscatine County Iowa.
A Chicago Record-Herald report titled Fighting the Demon Cocaine discusses cocaine as a new anesthetic once hailed by doctors for replacing dangerous agents. It notes evolving concerns as physicians reevaluate cocaine’s dangers and medical use.
A 1920s-era column rails at cocaine’s reach in Chicago and Iowa, citing racial wealth and crime fears, while critiquing moral panic. It contrasts medical zeal with public alarm and mocks Cedar Rapids marriage tales and Muscatine social climbers.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable home remedy trusted for over 55 years and encourages new customers to try it today.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to tone and sweeten the stomach, restore appetite, and prevent sour risings, heartburn, indigestion, dyspepsia, costiveness, biliousness, female illnesses, colds, grippe, and malaria.
An editorial urges immediate nationwide action as citizens join in a moral crusade against cocaine. It condemns selling the drug to users, warns that habit forms quickly and damns body and soul, and calls every man woman and child to aid the fight against this deadly enemy entrenched in communities.
Miss Nancy Huston leaves for Sioux Falls to visit sister Margaret teaching there. Residents report Thanksgiving visits among Hank Brett Marston and Murray families. Della Murray and nephew Marion Markison visit Davenport, with Marion staying longer. Several locals host guests from Columbus City and Davenport as winter term begins at Olive Marston's school in Tennessee. New phone for Alex Blakes listed as 1577. Floyd Marston travels to Cairo.
Fabian accompanies the enigmatic Von Tarsenheim to a shabby room where a table for three stands beneath a cheap lamp. Elsa’s voice signals arrival as the captor dons a smoking jacket and hints at a disturbing experiment while Fabian fears discovery.
An advertisement touts Orrine as a cure for drinking problems claiming it destroys the craving and restores health. It notes two forms No 1 and No 2 with a $1 price and a money back guarantee, mailed in plain packaging from The Orrine Co Washington DC and sold by A W Morgan druggist.
Peter Crawley joins scientist Von Tarsenheim in a high stake experiment as Elsa serves a meal. Fabian, hungry and wary, watches the scene unfold while the host calculates the risks of a breakthrough. The atmosphere hints at hidden motives and looming conflict.
An advertisement notes Dr Kines New Discovery for coughs and colds sold at Havercamps Prescription Drug Store with prices 50 cents and 1.00.
The text promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as the best cure for diseases and weaknesses in women. It claims the medicine is unique, devised by a graduated physician, safe in all conditions, and contains no alcohol or habit forming drugs.
Columbus Junction Iowa November 29. J C Duncan Winfield visited. Mrs E L Paschal and Miss M A Buchanan went to Muscatine. Verna Hoover returned from Washington aboard the Firefly and back to Wapello. Funeral visit for John Headley attended in Muscatine. Miss Lillian Peters Drake student spent Thanksgiving with Mabel Foster. Sheep cars to be sold here sent to Chicago and Michigan. Nathan Metzgar Winfield visits his property on crutches after losing a foot. H E Orr discharged from Mercy hospital and home with Mrs Orr. Farmers husking corn. Mrs J D Darrow and Mrs Wm Probst visit sister in Carthage Ill. Mrs Albert McGreer Foster visits sister Wyn France. Fern Thomas Illinois City staying with grandparents. Fred Kelley family visit. Mrs Coleman Brayton Vada and Maude Morehead Illinois City visit Frank Brayton. Sick list: William France, Barnard Kelley, Charles Schnell.
The advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, taken orally to affect blood and mucous membranes. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any unsuccessfully cured case and urge sending testimonials to F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Thanksgiving visits fill the week as Mr and Mrs Ben McGinnis host family. Reynolds Hayes Lula Morehead from Illinois City visit Stella Thomas and friends. Earl McGinnis of Buffalo Prairie joins Fred Kelley for Sunday, Rosa Danner visits Kathryn Dr and Mrs Walker in Illinois City for Thanksgiving. John Hays of Buffalo Prairie calls on Frank Thomas family. Charles France has returned.
Reminiscences of long ago 50 years ago report Judge Thayer's return from the east and a Brannan lecture at the literary institute. An ordination council will meet at the First Baptist church to ordain Rev. John Cummings as pastor. Also notes 20 years ago death of P. M. Hurlbut and Michael Dillion's lamp accident in Davenport.
The Muscatine Academy will open its fall term next Friday with Thomas Brown serving as principal. Mrs. A L Fales, once a Muscatine resident twenty years ago, died in Washington City on Tuesday. Giles Humes plans a brick building on Water Street.
Milton Heinley believes his farm near Fairport holds a major coal vein after years of prospecting. Experts are set to inspect the site soon while F B Mitchell departs for Des Moines to take a night ticket agent job at Leonard Guthrie’s.
A reflective note compares human vices to weeds that overrun a field. It uses agrarian imagery to illustrate moral failings and the persistence of temptation in everyday life.
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