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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1900
Page
31
The Cedar Rapids Business College markets a farm friendly business education that trains students in shorthand, typewriting, rapid arithmetic, and simple accounting. It emphasizes detaching accounts into cash and personal ledgers and offers a Farmer's Journal-Day Account Book as an adapted tool for farmers and small businesses.
The Cedar Rapids Business College is lauded for completeness and top facilities. It enrolls about 400 pupils yearly from several states and has placed more graduates in jobs than ever, stressing ability and character over short courses.
Montpelier grew after the C R L P railroad opened in 1881 82 serving as a village of about 100 inhabitants. The pottery industry declined due to soil and other factors leaving ruins, while pumping stations and a single store with post office served locals. Farming dominates the region as shelling fades and notable residents include A J Quigley and O A Bohnsack with Rev Fitzsimmons church services and Emma Ziher teaching at the village school.
The passage portrays a thriving, high moral, intelligent, thrifty community with growth potential. It notes most trade flows to Davenport, fourteen miles away, with some commerce reaching Muscatine, highlighting its desirability and regional ties.
A brief newspaper filler promotes reading the Journal at 10 cents weekly. It contrasts riskless gain with empty talk and likens loud talk to a donkey's bray.
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