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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
3
The document lists pavement and curb work for Improvement District No 20 with line items for street improvements and lot owner assessments. It includes numerous property descriptions with measured frontages and proposed costs, plus apportionment totals, and ends with an advertising note on homeseeker excursion fares and a Vinol blood purifier promotion.
The Muscatine Daily Journal lists JOHN MAHIN as editor J M Beck as managing editor W L Lane as business manager and notes it is the official paper of city and county The paper appears daily except Sundays with a semi weekly edition on Tuesday and Friday nights It provides mailing and carrier delivery rates and claims circulation superiority over rival Muscatine papers.
Reece G Logan pays 935 for a building at 140 Nassau Street in New York. LACOSTE & MAXWELL appear as involved parties. Chicago reference noted as context.
The Journal lists agencies around the city for convenient access. Kecklerville Chayka's grocery West Muscatine Sharrar's grocery South Muscatine Morse Washburn's grocery End of street car track. Extra papers sold nightly. missed subscribers can pick up papers at these agencies.
The article outlines the president's stance against price-raising combinations, noting the beef combine's collapse as Wall Street reports confirm, and cites potential government action to strengthen the Sherman act while beef barons face a rocky path and retreat.
Cuba builds new enterprises in cotton and coffee to supplement sugar and tobacco. Textile fibers and fruit growing show promise, with experiments and expansion under way. The island seeks diversification as the path to lasting prosperity.
The excerpt notes that wealth concentrates on sugar and tobacco in the south and that widespread prosperity depends on diversifying industries beyond these crops to lift the masses. It stresses the need for broader industrial base to achieve lasting prosperity for all citizens.
The Journal announces a 36 page annual edition to appear Saturday. It will summarize past year achievements in Muscatine and chart future progress. It will include business news from firms contributing to growth. Send items to the office early for tomorrow’s early press.
The president’s assertion of nondiscrimination in appointments will challenge Southern chivalry more than his lunch with Booker T. Washington, seen as a test of social norms and political courage.
General Miles remains in the Philippines and reportedly revises his anti imperial stance as much as circumstance and personal dignity allow.
A Life magazine remark questions Dr. Soak’s discovery of three new diseases in the past year. The exchange notes they are curable but imply long recovery times and potential lucrativeness for those involved.
A brief quip from the Chicago Post reflects irony over a deceased man named Smithkins and the question of his posthumous fate or progress. The exchange implies ignorance of the dead man's situation and plays on the phrase getting on.
A Detroit Free Press exchange quotes Frisbie and Perkaste discussing the horseless carriage. Frisbie notes further improvements are needed to make the invention harmless, highlighting early concerns about automobile safety.
A fragment notes a judge describing a bargain sale aimed at women with items advertised as marked down by two or three sizes. It mentions Tempting Cincures Jacqles and Waggles Shots in passing.
A playful poem-like observation praises a woman's hat as daring and coquettish while noting under the brim her eyes spark with mischief. The speaker confesses aesthetic discomfort yet admits the hat suits her, likening it to a dream one would hate to dream about.
John Talbot, a Blinker Bros. bookkeeper, is locked inside a vault after a night of misplaced urgency. He uses a candle as the building settles a crack forms, suffocating him briefly, while two armed men attempt to force entry for the vault contents.
The article explains sour stomach or acid dyspepsia and its effects on health. It promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a radical cure for digestive disorders, citing specialists Reed and O’Leary and noting the remedy’s price of 50 cents per package. It claims the tablets restore digestion, strengthen the stomach, improve appetite, and are harmless.
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a remedy that cures deep chest coughs by restoring healthy tissue in the throat and lungs. It also includes a free sample offer and lists the address of Scott & Bowne, chemists at 409 Pearl Street.
John, a ten year employee with a meager salary, defends a vault during a daytime burglary using a hidden revolver. He wounds one intruder and, after the incident, helps identify the captured burglar. The firm, a stock company, promotes him to secretary and treasurer and he becomes wealthy.
The Muscatine City Council levies a special tax to fund street and alley improvements in Improvement District No 20. After notices and no objections, the council confirms assessments on abutting properties up to twenty five percent of current value, creating a lien on each lot or tract.
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