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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1903
Page
8
Household furniture almost new to be sold Tuesday afternoon December 15 at 415 Iowa Avenue. Furniture includes chairs tables and cabinets from a private sale not an auction. Sale beneficial to interested buyers in the neighborhood.
Classifieds for investments offer loans with security double the loan amount and terms up to 10000. Local business and social notes report travel, store goods, and visits among residents like G M Titus, J T Boland, and Harriet Kemptner with multiple city to Davenport trips. Court case on guardianship continues in district court.
The Maennerchor ladies announce a fair on Wednesday December 16 at 114 West Second Street. Dinner and supper will be served along with a sale of fancy work. The dinner menu includes noodle soup chicken mashed potatoes baked beans celery jelly rolls pies coffee roast beef sauer kraut pickles cranberries bread cake tea.
H. L. Carpenter, a prominent drayman of Waterloo, Ia., was instantly killed today when struck by an Illinois Central passenger train. The incident occurred as he attempted to cross the tracks, ending a locally noted day in the city.
G M Titus offers a program to fund the lot, build a house, and sell on installments with a small down payment. He claims working men and others can own homes without renting, citing his 26 years of mortgage loan experience and a large base of clients nationwide. His office is 118 Iowa Avenue.
Grand Rapids MI December term opens with twenty water deal cases postponed for a week. Prosecution requests postpone. Lant K Salsbury sentence for bribery deferred. Alderman Malachi Kinney bound over to superior court for trial on bribe allegations with $2000 bond.
Japan reports 200 000 registered leprosy cases yet yields harsh treatment for victims. Men and women, young and old, are cast out onto highways and left homeless, surviving on sporadic food parcels from distant donors.
In the library at Highclere Castle Hamp shire the table and chair are preserved as artifacts once used by Napoleon to sign his abdication at Fontainebleau.
Botanists describe Palestine as a land of flowers with some 2 500 distinct kinds. The eastern sun enhances colors rarely seen in our hazy clime. Wild blooms are localized so acres and miles reflect a single flower’s hue.
Wapello Iowa obituary notices the death of John Philip Keck an elderly resident who died at his home Saturday from a paralytic stroke suffered two weeks earlier. Born in Brunse Bavaria Germany on March 11 1820 he was 83 years 9 months and one day old. He immigrated to Wapello in the early 1850s and later worked as a butcher.
Twenty thousand young children stand daily and nightly in London streets offering various articles for sale.
The passage explains Samoa consists of nine islands in the southern Pacific. Upolu is among the largest and is noted as the home of writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
One pound of Indian tea yields seven and a half gallons of tea of a given strength while tea from China yields five gallons.
Obituary notes the death of Mr Keck a longtime local businessman and immigrant who leaves four children and a bereaved wife. Funeral is Monday at 2 pm from his home with Rev Schultze of the German M B church. Interment in Wapello Cemetery.
Each Chinese cavalryman receives about $4 a month and must provide fodder for his horse. If his horse dies or is disabled, he must supply a new one at his own expense. This makes the cavalryman very careful of his horse.
In Bohemia a three day fishing chase at Prince Schwarzenberg’s pond yielded a catch worth 32000 dollars. The event occurs once every three years and drew attention for its scale and value.
The article notes that southern Indian Mohammedans consider pulverized diamond the least painful and most effective poison and store it as a last resource. It also mentions a sixteenth century Italian belief in the diamond’s poisonous character.
General Weaver of Iowa denies he supports Judge Alton B Parker for the Democratic ticket. He says he has a choice but has not declared himself yet and is not for Hearst Gorman Bryan or Cleveland. Harold J Mahin.
English novelist Herbert Spencer was cremated at Hampstead today in a ceremony attended by a small group of invited guests. The event followed his death last week and was reported from London on December 14.
Pittsburg Pennsylvania December 14 The Federal National Bank resumed business today after a two months suspension under very auspicious circumstances.
The Cascaden foundry, a leading Waterloo manufacturing firm, burned to the ground today. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars with 35000 dollars covered by insurance.
A sensitive dog follows a man wearing his master’s boot and avoids the track of the man in unfamiliar boots. The dog’s behavior highlights how footwear cues influence tracking and obedience to familiar scents.
The Catfish is described by experts as easily tamed and trainable much like pigs. The remark follows the recall of several educated pigs touring the country, seen as a notable compliment to catfish training potential.
Boone Iowa December 14 Rev John Wesley Snodgrass age92 veteran Methodist preacher dies after brief illness in Iowa. Snodgrass longtime church leader began ministry in early 1860s and served many congregations across the state ending a seven decade career.
A study suggests that increased parental involvement may correlate with a higher likelihood of children developing croup. Researchers note the association but call for further investigation to determine causality and underlying factors.
Statement on the moral cost of envy noting its ruinous toll on fortune and happiness. The quote warns wealth cannot compensate for envy’s drains and social costs, urging restraint and virtue over material gain.
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