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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1914
Page
3
The Journal outlines its founding, local subscribers, and distribution details. It lists Muscatine area advertisers and merchants along with office contact numbers and staff roles. The notice emphasizes circulation dominance and subscription prices for weekly and semi weekly editions.
The piece argues Edison faced a costly mistake from gambling on insurance, drawing a parallel to the United States risking war by overreliance on armaments. It urges sober defense policy, praising isolation yet demanding a strong navy and coast defenses, and criticizes the inadequacy of current coast fortifications and naval strength as inadequate for national security.
The piece praises Secretary Wilson’s report outlining mediation, conciliation, and arbitration as tools to prevent industrial warfare. It stresses early action, preserving face, and a sane program as preferable to drastic measures, while acknowledging possible inadequacies yet deeming the experiment worth trying.
Hetherton eyes Philomena as she parries his affections over a blue gown. She teases him about The MacCarty and dances, all while weighing her own mind and a hinted betrothal. He presses for a promise, she hints at past rivalries, and their game of choices continues.
A retrospective column from Muscatine Journal files recounts events from fifty years ago through ten years ago. It notes monte operators on the railroad learning the ropes, cattle shipments from Adams and Onawa, Hanukkah observances, a depot notice in Morning Sun, a cemetery road hay ride for a birthday, a Burlington wedding trip, and Prof. W B Patty’s radium and liquid air lecture journey.
In a tense scene Philomena resists a quick elopement with Hetherton while MacCarty cuts in, declaring he will bankroll the lovers to wed. Philomena concedes love over poverty, MacCarty boasts he will protect them, and the trio ends with afinal embrace and wary plans amid financial schemes.
Kalona Iowa reports a week of local activity with G J Petersheim visiting Iowa City for business, Jesse Kepler visiting family, Emmett Louck serving as Washington county juror, Howard Smith from Wellman joining the News office, Supervisor Dunlap aiding county year end work in Washington, and W J Swain with J F Durst at a hardware and implement meeting in Iowa City.
The Journal notes men’s gift woes for Christmas and suggests merchants are pushing new wares to spark ideas. It urges women to visit shops and study ads to discover something different and novel beyond the usual canes, neckties, and pocketbooks.
Secretary Wilson outlines the Departments mediation and conciliation role in labor disputes. The plan emphasizes nonpartisan negotiation, arbitration as last resort, and a federal system akin to diplomacy to protect wage earners while avoiding judicial action. Two commissioners of conciliation are used in major cases to provide balanced views.
The Beachey sisters Miss Martha Mary Bertha and Lizzie left Kalona for home in Indiana after a several week stay with local friends. Kalona plans a formal high school building opening on December 18 with a pupil program. Mr and Mrs George Rupener of Town City visited over Sunday at Mrs JL Memlin’s home.
Wilton Iowa reflects a busy weekend as many residents traveled to Muscatine and Davenport for visits and business. Master Milo Templeton, Miss Sophia Collison, and several families joined relatives, while Rev J J Brabbs and Mrs Brabbs visited in town. Local residents also made short trips to Muscatine West Liberty Rock Island Davenport and Iowa City for visits and errands.
Monday afternoon activity includes muscatine visitor Henry Giessler and West Liberty a few days stay by R D Wilkerson Ed Jensen and Adam McCoy. Women’s Home Missionary Society met at Mrs H B Nicolaus with papers on Deaconess work and temperance discussion.
An old advertisement urges readers to mail five cents and request Foley products. It promises a free trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills for back and kidney pains, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for cleansing, to be sent by Foley & Co of Chicago JIL to the reader's town via local dealers.
Cedar Valley reports the marriage of Arthur Buckman and Irma Carter at Rock Island Illinois on December 14 1913. Buckman a Wilton resident and Carter formerly Miss Irma Carter will reside on a Wilton area farm after March 1915.
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