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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1909
Page
13
Terms to subscribers state the Daily Journal publishes every evening except Sunday while the Semi-Weekly Journal appears 10 pages Tuesday and 8 pages Friday nights. Daily by carrier in city, weekly collection at 10 cents. Annual mail rates: daily three dollars per year and semi weekly thirteen fifty per year.
The Journal outlines agency locations across the city for reader convenience including Fast Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd Street South Muscatine Toborg Bros Grocery Oregon Street W C A Buschs Drug Store Hershey Avenue Kecklerville Chaykas Grocery West Hill J H Fuller Grocery and Wm Van Zyl Grocery New York Office 30-34 West 32nd Street.
Payne and Young lead the Chicago office at 750 Marquette Building with the business and editorial departments listed under Bell lines. The advertisement includes contact telephones for the business and editorial offices and notes Mississippi Valley connections.
Publisher F. D. Throop certifies November print and circulation figures for Muscatine Journal. A notarized declaration dated December 1, 1909 in Muscatine County Iowa confirms the average circulation of 6,929 copies.
A compact summary of Nicaragua’s size, coastlines, population and key towns drawn from an International Bureau of American Republics briefing. It notes Nicaragua covers 49,200 square miles, has about 600,000 people, and highlights Pacific and Caribbean regions, major ports, and one railroad connecting Corinto, Managua, Granada, and Lake Nicaragua.
The article outlines routes to Nicaragua from the Atlantic via New York, New Orleans or Mobile or Pacific via San Francisco, plus routes through Mexico or via Panama. It cites 1908 foreign trade totaling 7.5 million with exports 4.5 million and imports 3 million, lists U S goods bought and Nicaraguan exports to the United States, and describes Nicaragua’s government, geography, and climate including latitude, longitude, and varied tropical to highland climate zones.
Washington dispatch notes Comptroller of the Treasury denying travel pay to Captain Lucien Young despite his heroic acts including rescuing a man at sea and aiding 137 sailors after the Huron wreck. It also mentions former Secretary Cortelyou’s public quiet, President Gompers seen on Pennsylvania Avenue, and Hawaiian liquor importation letters to Senator Dolliver amid tariff clashes.
Despite last night’s storm and spotty ice the audience for D. C. Richman’s lecture on The Character of Josephine was large and eager. Citizens braved bitter cold, with the thermometer at seven below zero, while a derailment delayed northbound trains for hours.
Forty years ago report warns thieves are about town watching farmers who sell pork and then tail them for robbery. James Essex of Rock Island county four miles from the city was robbed of about $30 by such burglars last Friday night. An attempted burglary in another case is noted. Look out for them.
Thirty years ago an accident on the B C R N line at Columbus Junction at about 6 30 yesterday morning saw thirteen freight cars thrown from the track in a likely cause that remained under investigation with no injuries reported.
Daily updates show slow but steady work on the bridge. Contractor Gellatt cut the middle pier piling and a barge of rock was placed for riprap. Over two hundred carloads of rock have been unloaded forming two large piles, with more than one hundred yet to arrive. A corps of masons arrived to work on the piers.
The Muscatine camp of the Modern Woodmen held its annual meeting with a large turnout. A three member committee including Ashton Giesler and Caple was formed to purchase a suitable present for Chief Forester Eaton of the champion drill team in appreciation of his services.
In the tower confrontation, Hotchkiss and I fend off bullets and force entry. A frightened servant hides, and we reassess who attacked, while imploring her for help. We question Jennie about the estate after Mrs. Curtis’s death and the missing staff, seeking truth and safe passage to Pittsburg.
West Liberty updates Rock Island timetable with No 18 now 11 00 A M bound for Davenport Rock Island and Chicago No 8 at 10 30 A M No 10 at 5 15 A M while No 70 east bound and No 25 Mountaineer west bound removed Eastbound trains now altered and several residents observed in Muscatine Iowa City and Colfax trips. local visits and family news fill the rest of the page including a church bazaar netting 85 dollars.
Unclear text raises question about why the Babytenian king instituted henpeivg pardons. The fragment also contains a garbled line about the king next. No verifiable events or named entities to summarize.
Sage tea for darkening hair makes a comeback, with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur praised for restoring color, preventing shedding, and promoting growth. Sold by druggists at 50c or 1.00, or mailed from Wyeth Chemical Co. 74 Cortlandt St New York City. recommended by A. W. Morgans Pharmacy.
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