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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
11
A Muscatine newspaper asserts its circulation exceeds all other local papers combined and is at least three times greater than any other daily in the area.
The Journal names agency locations including East Hill Hurlbut 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 Hill J H H Fuller Grocery and Wm Van Zy Grocery New York Office 30 34 West 33rd Street.
Payne and Young head the Chicago Office located in the 750 Marquette building with Bell telephones. The business and editorial offices use Bell service, serving Mississippi Valley clients.
F D Throop publisher swears that 1909 November circulation totals for the Muscatine Journal are 180,170 with average 6,929 copies. Sun, Beach, and other lines show varied counts. Notary F W Eversmeyer verifies the sworn statement.
The Chicago Inter Ocean dismisses deer hunting season death and injury tallies as fool statistics. It argues such counts illuminate little and merely reflect zealous, misguided sociological vanity rather than meaningful facts.
The author mocks the yearly collecting of drowning and Fourth of July injury figures. He argues statisticians overinterpret scattered cases to demand action, while in reality people continue living and doing as before despite accidents.
An Iowa exchange reports Tacoma Ledger advice on early Christmas shopping. It argues careful, deliberate selection honors the recipient and avoids the last minute rush and commercial excess, encouraging patience to find truly appropriate presents.
Old Clifton mentions Thanksgiving gatherings as Elmer Jennison and family visit from Muscatine and other locals attend dinners. A lantern explosion near Lenark kills Mable Slick, prompting funeral attendance. Several residents, including Marion Markinson and Grace Overholt, are noted visiting relatives and teaching changes.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at first signs of stomach liver or bowel trouble to avoid prolonged discomfort. It emphasizes quick action and personal relief through the product.
Compounded from ingredients chosen for curing digestive and stomach ailments. For heartburn belching bloating poor appetite indigestion dyspepsia colds grippe and malaria it has been very successful for over 56 years. Try a bottle today.
Recalls reminiscences from fifty years ago as the town forms The Young Folks Musical Circle for mutual improvement in music. W W Capron leads vocalists with E Unger directing an orchestra. The group practices from the Opera Chorus book. Doctors Morgidge and Little performed a near hip amputation on an eight year old patient who bore the operation bravely.
Meteorological records show this October as the coldest in ten years with an average temperature about seven degrees below normal. It is noted that old Boreas may curtail river navigation, as the ferry remains tied up due to thick river ice on this bank all day.
Thirty years ago Frankie McClintock son of Rev. E McClintock of South Muscatine was playing with boys by lumber cars on the Burdick switch when he clung to a car and fell beneath it. One wheel passed over his left leg crushing it.
The Third ward school staff and janitor laid an ingrain carpet in Principal Lukens room during vacation. He entered and was pleasantly surprised by the transformation. The M. E. Ladies plan a supper and fancy work sale on Wednesday December 11.
The Journal reports a new lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men started in the city on Thursday evening with about fifty charter members. The local tribe is named Musquitine Tribe No 95, a choice tied to a historic local Native American name.
The narrator and Hotchkiss trek through a storm toward a secluded house the Laurels. They find no lights and hear unseen footsteps while a horse goes missing and a mysterious sense of being watched grows. Hotchkiss contends with a potential injury as they debate traps and the park's presence.
Advertisement urges women to use Parisian Sage hair rejuvenator sold by Havercamp's Drug Store for 50 cents. Claims include banishing dandruff, stopping hair loss and itching scalp within two weeks with a non sticky non greasy tonic.
A narrator recalls a tense moment as a mysterious observer speaks of watching. The dialogue ends with the other man agreeing to accompany them, though physically weak, steering the escape toward an open window. He leads through the window before the pair continues. To Be Continued.
Miss Zel la Walker wed Fred Ridennour at the Walker home near West Liberty Iowa with Rev John Hinkhouse of Fairfield officiating. The couple plans to live on groom William Ridennour’s farm and were attended by many relatives and friends.
Arrivals and departures fill town social notes as Atalissa guests visit relatives. Mrs. Charles Polders and Charles Sheets of Cincinnati travel to Washington Iowa to see A. H. Wallace. J. A. Emmons returns from Muscatine to see granddaughter Mrs. H. E. Dice. Local residents visit shops and call on friends while others change trains en route to Muscatine.
The Exceptional Equipment of the California Fig Syrup Co. and its chemists enable a pure method for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. Only the genuine article, made by the original process, yields the noted benefits. Look for the full name California Fig Syrup Co. on the front to avoid imitations.
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