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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
13
An old ad claims kidney sickness drains nerves and causes fatigue backache and urinary issues. It urges using Deans Kidney Pills to prevent dropsy diabetes or Brights disease and cites Mrs Mark of Muscatine Iowa praising relief after ten years of kidney trouble.
The Daily Journal announces its status as official paper with broad circulation. details show publisher Journal Printing Co and editor in chief. Subscription options include daily by mail at 3.00 per year and semi weekly 10 pages Tuesday and 8 pages Friday nights.
Journal Agencies lists local storefronts for reader convenience with addresses in East Hill South Muscatine Oregon street Hershey avenue Kecklerville West Hill and New York Office 30 34 West 33rd Street including East 2nd street Toborg Bros W C A Busch's Drug Store Chayka's Grocery J WW Fuller Grocery and Wm Van Zy Grocery. Each entry notes a grocery drugstore or company name and street location.
Representatives Payne and Young are in charge at the Chicago office located in the 750 Marquette Building.
Fragmentary OCR mentions Bell business office and editorial office with address 80 Mississippi Valley in garbled form. No clear events or names to define a full news item.
Sworn statement lists monthly circulation figures for Muscatine Journal for November 1909. Publisher Throop certifies totals and alt numbers from multiple routes and districts. notarization by F W Eversmeyer on December 1, 1909.
The State Historical Society publishes Harvey Reid’s account of a violent Jackson county confrontation in which Sheriff Warren and Col. Thomas Cox led a posse of over forty men to arrest horse thieves and counterfeiters. The group reportedly fired and fled, with red flags raised at the leader W. W. Brown’s Bellevue hotel, as night fell on casualties and wounded.
Adjourning to morning, a frontier tribunal ballots with red and white beans. It settles on four to thirty lashes and sending the group downriver in skiffs without oars. None of the gang returned to Jackson county. some were tied to Colonel George Davenport's 1845 murder on Rock Island.
The Burlington Hawkeye reports the commission plan won a decisive two to one approval in the special election with a 1,370 majority. The victory swept every ward and precinct, signaling strong public support and setting a positive course for the new city government. The paper notes high expectations for the forthcoming mayor and commissioner elections in March.
Conesville residents hosted relatives from Burlington Davenport Muscatine Des Moines and Trenton over Thanksgiving. Invitations went out for Clarence Kranz and Hazel Estle to wed in Conesville. The new Reformed pastor Rev Schreffler from Astoria Ill. will preach next Sunday at the local church.
Miss Anna and Frieda Kretschmar visited Miss MaeGrete on Sunday. Rev. C M Olander and Will Sauer spent Sunday in Muscatine. Blossom Plumly of Muscatine visits Gatton home. Arnold Kretschmar and family at Max Kretschmar’s. Henry Sywassink attends school in Muscatine. Sauer family went to Everly for the death of George Soehren. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Carlson on Nov 18. Lydia Frieda and Anna Kretschmar visited Davenport last week. Ladies Aid met at Mrs Olander on Nov 24. Frank Myers left for Boston to stay. Wennerberg chorus from Augustana College to concert at church on Dec 8. Chorus of twenty male voices with solos, duets, instruments. Johnny Wassink family dined with J O Holtz on Nov 12. Max and Arthur Kretschmar made a business trip to Davenport on Tuesday.
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets provide relief from stomach irritation and dyspepsia. Made with Bismuth Subnitrate Pepsia and carminatives, they come in 25 50 cent and 1.00 packages. A. W. Morgans Pharmacy, 107 West Second Street Muscatine, sells them exclusively.
A collage of brief items recalls lectures by Hon. T. S. Parvin at the Iowa City Lyceum, a thief fleeing with boots, a jail stay and a $21.05 fine, Muscatine Western travel notes, and anniversaries of church dedication. Also nostalgia and Thanksgiving reflections mark “Twenty Years Ago” and “Thirty Years Ago” snippets.
In Cresson Hotchkiss and a weary narrator push through a storm to locate the Laurels estate. They chase clues about Miss West Mrs Curtis and Sullivan tied to a train wreck at the Flier, while a weary sleuthing night unfolds with muddy roads and dwindling hopes. A ledger of local names and family ties follows as they press on in darkness.
The Wellman area reports surveyors laying out the route for a new interurban road. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Scott Griffith. School enjoyed a two days vacation. J M Dodds remains very ill with rheumatism. WRC held a full day meeting with inspector present and orderly proceedings. Amy Folger visited her Washington home over Sunday. Ella Faulkner also visited relatives.
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