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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
3
The piece touts Scott's Emulsion as the original and superior standard for 35 years. It warns against imitators, claiming alternatives are thinner and inferior unless diluted by water. Ad copy also promotes a savings bank and a children’s skate-book with an address for Scott & Bowne in New York.
The Daily Journal and Semi Weekly Journal serve Muscatine with freighted detail. F. D. Throop publisher and L. P. Loomis editor lead the operation. Agencies spread through the city include East Hill and West Gill. Telephone lines connect business and editorial offices.
Sworn statement by publisher F D Throop lists total copies printed and circulated for November 1909 as 180 170 with monthly averages around 6 929. Notary F W Eversmeyer certified on December 1 1909. Names Muscatine Co Iowa and publisher Throop appear as charges in the affidavit.
The Rock Island and Frisco split drew wide attention and crowned H A Mudge as Rock Island president. From a water carrier to railway chief, Mudge’s ascent is celebrated as an inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement in the railroad world.
A profile traces the ascent of a man who began carrying water for Santa Fe rail workers in Kansas near Sterling, rises through station work and telegraphy, and becomes president of a major railroad system by age 53. His career shows steady preparation, integrity, and merit rather than shortcuts. Also includes an advertisement praising Foley’s Urine Laxative with testimonials from W W Ward and A M Morgan.
A Muscatine Iowa transfer page lists multiple real estate transactions. Emma Gerischer to Carol ing Darby and others convey parcels in sections 34 and 31 with nominal sums, plus several transfers by James Bradford Rhoda Canon John Spalding and others. Considerations range from $1.00 to $3,600.00 with properties including lots blocks and NW quarter segments, subject to roadways and specific lot boundaries.
A notice urges immediate purchase of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at first sign of stomach liver or bowel trouble to prevent unnecessary suffering and improve health.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as compounded from refined ingredients and adapted to cure heartburn belching bloating poor appetite indigestion dyspepsia colds grippe and malaria with over five decades of reported success and a call to try a bottle.
A compact retrospective notes December 4th was Sunday forty years ago and includes a safety valve explosion at the Nevada mill, small mill and oatmeal mill updates, a county poor house discharge, a new fox and wolf club, a reading circle, and a destructive ten years ago fire at a residence on Sixth and Linn streets with significant losses and insurance.
Hotchkiss sleeps as I reflect on Alison West and my poverty. A whispering guest haunts the gallery above the ghastly room, seen by a cat that stares, then fades, leaving the chamber in eerie silence. The cat's wail breaks the stillness as night deepens.
Hotchkiss and I chase a mysterious intruder aboard the train. We locate clues in the library and sleeping car, noting a lurking figure who appears to be Sullivan. The pursuit continues as dawn light creeps through gilded corridors.
Testimonial style ad claims nervous prostration can be treated with Dr. Miles Nervine. Highlights a patient Mrs D I Jones from Cleveland who improved after using the product. Describes nerves as the source of vigor for heart, lungs, stomach, liver, and kidneys, and promises money back if no benefit.
Winded searchers locate a suspect in a tower room high above a roof. Hotchkiss urges the intruder to surrender and promises safety if he comes out peacefully. The scene ends with a door knock and a promise of continuation.
Washington editor Judson C. Welliver surveys congressional voltage over proposed inquiries into sugar and customs frauds, navy reforms, and Meyer's broad program. He notes Borah pushing for a probe while the administration weighs harm to trials against transparency. A joint-committee naval inquiry is floated to address yard mismanagement and bureau abolitions.
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a "constitutional" remedy that cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and urges readers to send for testimonials while noting Hall's Pills for constipation.
An article notes how two women who resemble sisters can be mother and daughter, stressing that a woman's health reflects local feminine vitality. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a prompt relief for female weakness, claiming improved vigor, complexion, and vitality without alcohol. Letters to Dr. Pierce are confidential and free. Buffalo NY.
West Liberty reports the C W E M Day service set for Sunday at the Christian church with an planned program. The column lists residents and visitors including Ethel Downing Iowa City guests Pearl Harrison Columbus Junction and many local movements and travels among the town's residents.
Mrs E B Gregg of Duluth Minn visits Muscatine with friends. Mrs Emer Stokes hosted the Women's prayer meeting and gifted Mrs Everett Phelps with cooking utensils. Muscatine visitors J H E McIntosh Robert Brooke and R J Wiley attended business. Dorothy J Hoover plans appointments in West Liberty December 8 for shampooing manicuring and scalp treatments. Muscatine residents Rufus Brown and family attended the Marstellar Templeman wedding and stayed with their son William Brown.
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