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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
4
A 14 year old boy, son of Edward Maher of 515 West Fifth Street, fell on the ice at Butler's Pond yesterday afternoon. He struck hard and fractured the wrist bones, marking the first skating accident of the year among a group of skaters on the pond.
A six man party led by Henry Beh and including Benjamin Peh George Shoemaker George Smith M Bernick and Fred Enders departed last night for Centralia and Mexico Missouri to work across the country for about a week in search of housing opportunities.
Winchester Indiana resident Dc W Lynch reports his son suffered membranous croup and found relief after Foley's Honey and Tar. He credits the remedy with saving his boy's life after one dose at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
John Alexander Dowie, born near Edinburgh May 25, 1847, rose from healer to financier shaping Zion City. He shifted from Congregational preacher to faith healer, built Chicago tabernacles, faced health authorities, and planned Zion City on a vast 7628 acre lakefront site with geometric boulevards.
J Ogden Armour known as the king of the wheat pit cleared 210000 yesterday mis large holdings and 6 million bushels moved on the market. Brokers in Milwaukee Chicago seaboard and northwest received selling orders as Armour pushed prices and dominated trading. He reportedly scaled the market and could lift prices to 1 dollar with traders watching his moves.
A meeting will reorganize the high school orchestra and elect officers with a new director. The orchestra aided last May festival and remains separate from glee and mandolin clubs. Students plan a skating club with a five mile trip to Muscatine slough tonight.
City items note Mackey's sale and December hours and a highly anticipated basketball clash at the Armory Friday night versus the college team. A marriage license was issued to Fred Schwartz and Marie Rann in the county clerk's office this afternoon.
A witty exchange between two housewives on efficiency and reliability as a metaphor for daily domestic routines. The younger extols smooth operations while the elder questions the dependence on routine without checking accuracy.
Sale offers houses and lots from 850 to 3500 dollars with well located parcels. Includes three farms priced 40 to 100 dollars per acre. Two houses for rent and opportunities to invest with lands in Missouri excursion.
Muscatine moves toward gas and gasoline street lighting with Cleveland Vapor Light Company installation to begin soon. Welsbach offer tied to price disputes. council favored Cleveland bids and expects most work before frost. Market notes show dried fruits scarce with prunes 5 to 15 cents, peaches and apricots at 15 cents.
Judge D W Jackson issued a temporary injunction preventing County Auditor Noble and County Treasurer Ed Stocker from entering in the tax books or collecting certain taxes on the Milwaukee cutoff property of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad. The filing, made yesterday by attorneys Jayne and Hoffman, claims the executive council overstepped its authority in initiating the tax collection.
One way rate with two dollars additional for round trip tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of every month. Return limit twenty one days from sale date. See ticket agents of Iowa Central for rates and information or address A B Cutts GP &T A Minneapolis Minn.
A long list of current wholesale and retail prices across grains meats and produce. Items include oats feeders 35c, oat meal 30c, wheat 80c, rye 40c, barley 35 40c, hay 6 8.90, apples 1.00 per barrel, onions 1.00 per bushel, potatoes 0.75 0.85 per bushel, sugar 5.35 5.40 per 100 pounds, hogs 3.50 3.75, cattle 2.75 3.00, sheep 3.50 4.00, lamb 4c per lb, dressed chickens 10 12c, live chickens 5 9c, turkeys 12 1t c, wild ducks 25c, various produce and dairy prices, butter 20 28c, cheese 17 20c, vegetables and fruits with per unit prices, fish prices, fuel prices for wood and coal ranges.
Bickers refers to his office attire as an evening suit to emphasize equality with fellow clerks, a remark noted by the Boston Transcript.
A proverb notes that soliciting a man’s counsel is a refined form of flattery. The quote implies admiration without obligation, suggesting the asker values expertise while keeping freedom to choose actions.
Trains depart on fast and southwest routes with numbers 12 8 86 4 11 and others. Limited Mengos operate between Chicago and St. Joseph and Chicago and Denver via the ran line. Nos 1 3 85 86 run daily except Sunday, Nos 7 8 now to Washington, Nos 8 4 daily, Wilton branch schedule shows departures and arrivals between Wilton Muscatine and daily service with a sleeping car option. Tickets and time-tables available through Rock Island agents.
A garbled traffic or operations note references Mast-Weight operations on West Road with timestamps around 4:49 pm and 10:53 am. It mentions units or groups WD OG TP and Me numbers but lacks clear details or outcomes.
Despite garbled text the item refers to a rail line Old B C R and N offering passenger service to Montezuma at 8 15 am daily except Sunday with freight at 10 pm and 8 40 3 8 arcive from Montesuma with an agent named Pugh.
On November 1 a new schedule goes into effect for Muscatine North and South railroad trains. Southbound trains No. 1 and No. 3 depart Muscatine at 11:00 a.m. and 5:40 p.m. arriving Elrick at 12:55 p.m. and 7:35 p.m. Northbound trains No. 2 and No. 4 depart Elrick at 7:00 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. arriving Muscatine at 9:00 a.m. and 3:33 p.m. The trains run daily except Sunday.
Going North trains listed include No. 8 Mason City Mall No. 15 St. Paul Express and No. 45 Way Freight with times and days. Going South shows No. 4 Peoria Mall No. 16 Feoria Express and No. 44 Way Freight with times. Coupon tickets to United States Canada and Mexico with rates and folders available from A Cutts in Unionapolis and J. A Ewing in Rock Junction Iowa.
Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway East Division lists Ottumwa to Chicago trains going east except Sunday No 4 at 8 33. Going west except Sunday No 5. No 3 62 p.m. and No 4 02 p.m.
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