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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1914
Page
2
A vintage beauty ad prescribes nightly skin treatment with mercurized wax to remove dead skin. It claims deep cleansing of the face, yielding a clear, soft complexion and notes mercolized wax is available at drug stores. Also recommends powdered saxolite dissolved in hazel for a firm smooth wash lotion.
Reports say German officers command at Cracow while Austrians retreat under heavy Russian pressure. German troops fortify cathedrals and public buildings with machine guns and wireless gear drawing fire, as Galicia inhabitants face famine and prisoners suffer cold and hunger. Reinforcements along the Vistula aim to block Russian envelopes, with Galician fronts tightening around Cracow from northeast and south.
London reports alien enemies in England face distrust and occasional harassment while naturalized German citizens and MPs retreat from public life. Rioting targeted German shops. leaders received prison, supporters six months, others released on bonds aiming to join Kitchener's army. Public sentiment brands many Germans as potential spies amid press campaigns against wealthy Germans.
In a January 17 1914 Journal of the American Medical Association notice a claimed link between calcium lime loss and tuberculosis. Eckman’s Alterative is promoted as a safe remedy aiding recovery with rest diet and non habit forming ingredients, available through Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
A historical advertisement claims pure blood enables stomach and liver function, easing dyspepsia and loss of appetite. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the cure for various ailments, urging readers to obtain the medicine today.
British press reports fear and suspicion over German espionage and foreign residents. Spies split into wartime operatives and peaceful profiteers, with cases from Lieutenant Carl Hans Lody to Ernst, a naturalized German implicated for seven years. Scotland Yard tracked Steinacur, while authorities warn of hidden bases along Scotland’s coast and possible German submarine activity. Public mood remains uneasy amid rumors of camps and roundups.
Mrs Evan Griffith died this morning at 1 30 o clock at her home three and one half miles northwest of Columbus Junction Indiana She was born July 10 1896 and married Evan Griffith in July of the current year Her father two brothers and two sisters survive Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
William Moore wage schedule expert of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen was called to the hearing as arbitration resumed in Chicago. Cadle, who testified yesterday, was ill and not recalled. Notice to Court of Honor members to meet December 2 at A C U W hall on Chestnut Street.
Muscatine Commercial club urged Senator Kenyon to lobby for lifting county quarantine. Local buyers protest embargo while no foot and mouth disease cases exist. Yards now open to inter state shipments from non infected territory to slaughterhouses under federal inspection. First stock expected today from Jefferson and Marian counties en route to Boston. Disinfection continues. local yards not open to local stock.
Melbourne Age cites former President Taft saying the United States would not intervene if Canada were attacked by Germany, implying Monroe Doctrine may be outdated. Taft warned that troops landing would not violate the doctrine but dictating postwar government would. He suggested indemnity could be acceptable if Germany won.
Chicago December 3 The executive committee of the Progressive Party is expected to delay choosing a path for its 1916 presidential campaign. Delegates arriving for the meeting indicate the party will likely continue as an independent force, with amalgamation with Republicans or Democrats postponed to next year’s real campaign decisions.
London date line reports Henry Berger of New York who asserts American citizenship was arrested in London at 5:20 p m on December 1. Further details are unavailable in the fragment.
A man remanded after a Bow Street hearing on the charge of being an alien enemy. He was arrested at the Savoy Hotel. The arresting detective said Bergel admitted desertion from the German army. The prisoner held an American passport dated August 4.
The American Belgian relief committee denounces as baseless the Echo Belge claim that German Belgium taxed flour imported from the United States for starving Belgians at 2.60 dollars per 100 kilograms. London dispatch notes the report circulated via Amsterdam and London.
Emperor Nicholas left Petrograd this morning for the theatre of war. The action shifts the center of military leadership as Russia prepares for imminent hostilities.
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