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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1903
Page
5
The Daily Journal, official paper of City and County, issued every evening except Sunday, with Sow Weekly Journal on Tuesdays and Fridays. Circulation boasts greater reach than all Muscatine papers combined, with multiple regional representatives in Washington, New York, and Chicago offices.
The Journal lists agency locations in Kecklerville Chayka grocery West Muscatine Sharrar grocery South Muscatine Morse Washburn grocery End of street car track W C A Busch Drug Store Hershey avenue Extra papers available at these outlets each night. Subscribers missing deliveries may obtain papers at these agencies.
The Muscatine Daily Journal reports a total November 1993 circulation of 115,860 copies. L. Lane, business manager, swore before Notary G. M. Titus on December 7, 1963, that the figures were printed and circulated per state requirements.
The Burlington Hawkeye urges opposition to a bill that would declare President McKinley’s birthday a national holiday. It argues the country already has too many holidays and prefers honoring him through memory rather than a formal holiday. The paper notes McKinley’s lasting place in history and affection among citizens.
The Iowa City Republican notes restless imaginative people pushing toward the millennium. It concedes such unrest may spur growth but warns level headed leaders must curb reformers to prevent greater harm.
The Webster City Freeman-Tribune argues Republicans prefer to wage the 1904 political fight on tariffs rather than other issues. It suggests voters will quickly decide how to vote once they recall the Wilson tariff law and its impact.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican notes optimism that trade will pick up in January after a dull spell. It cites strong Iowa wealth production this year as a factor that should prevent business stagnation for more than about thirty days.
The Vinton Eagle argues for a minimum pay of at least $900 for a rural mail carrier and his team of horses, stating the amount is modest for the work involved.
The Cedar Rapids Republican asserts that the tax ferret law belongs to the category of fool legislation. The remark frames the bill as impractical and ill advised amid local political debate.
Des Moines Capital comments that Perry Heath might resign and show a streak of good taste. The brief notes speculation on Heath stepping down and its possible implications.
Former congressman Geo W Steele, a governor of the national soldiers homes, says the facilities are in excellent condition and caring for about 19,000 veterans. He notes there are ten homes and outlines their status and operations.
The text notes thirty two state homes offering $100 yearly per man sheltered. The newest national home sits in Congressman Brownlow's district near Johnson City, East Tennessee, with more facilities promised. A sanitarium is planned at Hot Springs South Dakota. Total appropriations for the year reach about $23,000,000.
A child narrator describes a household where parents act evasively hiding packages behind beds and in the cellar while warning the child not to investigate. The tone echoes a diaried confession by W D Nesbit as the child notices odd behavior, locks altered, and whispered excuses about a hidden mystery.
Senator Fry recalls McKinley’s debut on the House floor in National Magazine. He describes McKinley as genial yet shy, and recounts a seat swap where McKinley insists the seat belongs to Fry while Fry resists. McKinley smiles and says rules matter little between friends.
Mystic cure for rheumatism and neuralgia allegedly works in 1 to 3 days. It claims to remove the cause and make the disease disappear after the first dose. Sold for 75 cents and 1.00. H F Wiley & Co and McBride & Cope druggists.
Major C. 2:04 pace record. Charles Jarrett declines American competition next year. Frank Matty sells Ltarry L. 2.11% to Barney Demarest for George Sevier. Jimmy Briggs earns praise after McGovern bout in Boston, California clubs seek him. Jeffries declines Lew Dockstader minstrel offer. McClelland returns to New York after failed Aurelia Herrera meeting. Shadow Chimes 2:05 sold to Joseph Murphy. expected as strong road horse locally.
An advertisement touts CN as a safe non-poisonous disinfectant that kills germs and vermin, suitable for all housework from garret to cellar. It claims endorsements by health boards and institutions, with 25 and 50 cent bottles sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store in New York and distributed nationwide.
The author of Throw Out the Life Line Rev E S Ufford finished a world tour supporting himself entirely by evangelistic work. Bishop Henry Clay Morrison of the Methodist Episcopal Church South will reside in New Orleans with his family. Rev John Sinclair, the eighteenth earl of Caithness, installed as pastor of First Presbyterian Brookline Mass. The earl’s title remains for life, but a former earl willed the estate away. Rev Richard S Holmes resigns after sixteen years at Shadyside Presbyterian Pittsburg to pursue business.
In Germany bright pupils are separated from the less able by medical sorting. Do Winchester becomes Taylor University president in Upland Indiana starting January 1. Cornell president Schurman proposes a daily schedule with ten hours study and eight hours sleep. Heidelberg journalism professor Dr. A Koch has pupils write editorials reports and reviews.
Report notes King Leopold II creating a decoration known as Leopold II order. The Prince of Wales becomes honorary colonel of the Twelfth regiment of the artillery corps in Austria. Emperor William owns four light brown dachshunds with a cook and fireplace at a Monbijou Park home. King Alfonso of Spain will skip Rome in upcoming European court visits to spare Vatican officials embarrassment.
A collection of quips on foreign policy and domestic finance. The Richmond Dispatch hints at a potential short Congress if a polypus like epidemic arises in Washington. The New York World notes Wall Street volatility risks with drownings implied. The Philadelphia Record jokes the English ambassador is ambitious but not diplomatic.
The Moving World reports that chilled steel shot are replacing black diamonds for cord rock drills. The nation uses 900000 miles of telephone wires handling about 2000000000 calls yearly. A sectional piano invention solves hard moving by detaching the keyboard. sections assemble after delivery, with bulk moved as a small box two feet deep.
Mrs. Fred W. Vanderbilt hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for 500 newsboys at Masonic hall in Newport. A private patients’ pavilion will rise at St. Luke’s hospital New York funded by Mrs Margaret J Plant. Miss Sarah Be Wier is the Carnegie Institute’s only woman in an executive post in Pittsburg. The Duchess of Marlborough hired an athletic instructor for her sons Lords Blandford and Ivor. Mrs Emmet Humphreys of Sherman Tennessee, heiress to 100,000 acres, is John Sevier’s great-granddaughter. Mrs Sally Elliott Parsons Pratt of Dalton Massachusetts, age ninety four, gains second sight to read and thread needles. Mrs William E Chisholm of College Point New York set aside a burial plot for her dogs, her son-in-law a Marlborough duke’s half-brother. Miss Ida Karnes of Henniker Newfoundland earned 2750 pounds of carrots from a 39 by 50 foot plot, averaging 1,229 bushels per acre. Miss Daisy D Barbee and Miss Gratia E Woodside practice law in St. Louis as Barbee Woodside. senior has years of practice, Woodside a Columbia Law School graduate, daughter of Missouri judge.
A collection of curious notes reports onions as a delicacy for monkeys discusses a junked Ferris wheel in Chicago the U S printing office output goes to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars yearly and notes vast onion seed fields in Santa Clara valley California. It also cites Osage per capita wealth and goat meat as lamb substitute along with a Pasadena ostrich farm and a Concord New Hampshire man’s oversized chessboard containing 142000 wooden pieces.
Lace jabots return with broad trims and taffeta gives way to peau de soie for petticoats. Fur mantles gain draped capuchins from other furs and robin redbreast red shades appear in velvet feathers and chiffons. Broadcloth gowns in oyster white champagne and pale tones show off soft silk girdles matching the dress tint.
An express firm delivering goods to a non consignee is liable for conversion as a warehouseman. An indorsement to the order of a person without recourse does not destroy negotiability for a good faith purchaser. A railroad may require consignees to unload within a reasonable time or pay detention, weather does not excuse delay.
Alaska has five miles of standard gauge railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad builds an all steel passenger coach for the North River tunnel. Swiss rail engineers start probation. A law limits probation to two years. A 1935 South Carolina railroad time book lists pay rules noting nonpayment if an engine breaks down and trip unfinished.
An informant reveals a Connoly sponge made of browned shavings, copperas, iron rust and other elements is used in the gas plant of Citizens' Railway and Light to chemically purify gas after washing. The process includes ovens, boilers, and storage tanks prior to lighting quality.
J J Havercamp states in a letter to the editor that he will refund the price of a Hyomei outfit if it does not cure catarrh and catarrhal deafness after the purchaser uses it per directions. The kit includes a pocket inhaler a medicine dropper and a bottle of Hyomei sold for one dollar with extra bottles for fifty cents.
A gas industry description explains how shavings and a brown black residue are treated in a large iron box to produce clean gas for lighting. Workers manage heat by shoveling hot material back to the air to renew it, with strict room access limited to staff. The gas quality is the same for lighting and stove use, though stoves would need different piping if demand rises.
Holton Missouri with 4500 residents has seventeen churches. Cleveland Ohio with a population of 381000 shows nearly one third born in Europe. Boston and Washington have small German shares. Professor Charles Zueblin cites Chicago parks as weak and near the bottom among large U S cities.
A mosaic of editorial voices from Montreal Star and Toronto papers questions revolution risks and arbitration while noting U S Canada relations and reciprocity debates. It satirizes Anglo American diplomacy and cautions against harming Canada with U S mood in trade talks.
An ad selling Anti Diuretic noting it may help children with bed wetting and incontinence, promising quick arrest of the trouble. Available at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store, 203 East Second Street, Muscatine, Iowa.
The Mohran family thanks friends and neighbors for aid and sympathy during their bereavement.
Mr Wagar of Watertown New York testifies that after four boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People his rheumatism vanished completely and he remains free of symptoms. His wife endorses them for stomach trouble and their daughter benefitted from female weakness treatment. The pills are sold in boxes at fifty cents or six for two dollars and fifty cents by druggists or by mail from Schenectady New York.
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