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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1902
Page
3
The notice advertises city subscribers and mail rates for Muscatine papers with terms for daily and semi weekly editions. It asserts daily circulation is greater than all other Muscatine papers combined and at least three times that of any other daily.
G Logan Payne of 935 Marquette Building Chicago and Lacoste and Maxwell of 140 Nassau Street New York are listed as representatives in the notice.
The Journal lists agency locations in Kecklerville Chayka's grocery West Muscatine Sharrar's grocery South Muscatine Morse Washburn's grocery End of street car track. Extra papers will be on sale every night at these places for convenient access by regular subscribers missing delivery.
The Doukhobor group from Assiniboia Canada petitioned Washington for refuge in the United States citing religious freedom. Officials respond that public lands are available only to U S citizens or those declaring intent, and those who reject American laws cannot be accommodated.
Special offer from Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy corporate partners. Over two hundred thousand trial bottles and pamphlets shipped free in exchange for name and post office address, with paper mentioned. Claims 91 percent benefit leading to larger purchases and cites kidney liver bladder and blood diseases and constipation. Pills available at drug stores or direct at $1.00 per bottle with multi-pack pricing.
The excerpt praises Roosevelt's labor and capital philosophy and urges action by both sides to secure peace and prosperity. It mentions repurposing Knoxville’s unused blind asylum as a place to confine inebriates, noting the building and grounds cost about $50,000 and could be adapted for this use.
The text cites President Roosevelt decrying the senseless slaughter of game and the butchering of elk for antlers and tusks, remarking that Burrell would be impressed by the severity of the phrasing.
Hoopesville December 6 report of Epworth League “Hard Times” social at A H Fisher home. Ida Fisher leads. costumes, conundrum partner selection, grand march, prizes awarded to J E Hoopes Mrs Stark and Elsie McCleary Walter Settmire. Mush and milk refreshments. about 50 attendees. Also notes painting at Fred Seltzer’s house, box factory to start next Monday, and Bernhardt Heitmann funeral details with family lineage and pallbearers.
The Iowa Central railway offers low rate round trip tickets for homeseekers on the first and third Tuesdays of November through April 1903 to western southern and southeastern points. Fare is one fare plus 2.00, valid 21 days from sale. Inquiries to any Iowa Central ticket agent or A. B. Cutts G P T A Minneapolis MN.
A. E. VanCamp of Highmore South Dakota and his brother J. H. VanCamp of Sweetland toured the city today. A. E. VanCamp has represented the McCormick harvester firm and has been appointed postmaster at Highmore, soon assuming duties and leaving road work. Muscatine friends celebrate his appointment to a lucrative posting in the busy South Dakota town.
Dr G C Stone, longtime Burlington resident and former Iowa City resident before the Civil War, died on the 3d ult at age 73. He moved to Iowa in 1844 and served as representative of Iowa's first district in Congress from 1876 to 1878. He also served in the Crimean War under a commission from the Russian government.
Chas H Yale and Sidney R Ellis present a kaleidoscopic spectacle The Evil Eye billed as The Further Funny Freaks of Nid and the Continued Comical Contortions of Nod at the Grand tonight. The act promises humor and pantomime from Nid and Nod, drawing an eager audience.
Ezra Kendall famed as a worldwide humorist heads the three act comedy The Vinegar Buyer written for him by Herbert Hall Winslow. Liebler & Co. presents a first class production with an excellent company, Scenery and effects. The rural eccentric plot follows a rich young woman and heroic suitor as a villainous lawyer plots against them.
A vivid stage drama delights audiences of all ages, drawing sympathy for its depiction of drunkenness and its consequences. The performance has drawn over 100 000 attendees including family heads and church members, praising its lifelike portrayal of vice and misery.
School opens with renewed pupil interest after vacation. Miss Epperly returns from Chicago while Miss Herr is expected soon. High school boys lose 11 to 31 to Company C. girls basketball practices renew on the armory floor. Philomathean society meets with Morgan as president and a varied program. Debates favor athletics in school life. Next game scheduled December 6 against Business College.
Ed Ridner of Clinton pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his aged father-in-law Moses La Barge and received a 12 month term in the state penitentiary at Ft. Madison from Judge P. B. Wolfe. Fred Dyser, a colored man, was shot to death in a Cleveland resort in Lucas County on the 3rd. Allen Postum, also colored, is jailed on murder charges.
Bob Burdette led a Revival at Old Zion Methodist Burling ton praised in the Hawkeye. An eight year old colored boy preached in Buxton then Ottumwa born in Atlanta Ga and with his mother predicted two deaths in Buxton. Postmaster general orders free delivery March 1 at Centerville with four carriers and thirty letter boxes. Enoch Potter and wife celebrated their fifty sixth wedding anniversary at Morning Sun. Lottie and Tottie Mitchell drowned skating on thin ice near Iowa Center.
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