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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1902
Page
2
An advertisement touts Vinol, a cod liver oil and wine tonic, as a universal cure for coughs and pulmonary ailments. It includes a testimonial from H. E. Smarz of Boston about dramatic cough relief after four bottles and cites Vinol as aiding digestion to build healthy tissue and blood.
News reports rising prices and tighter supplies as coal dealers warn of shortages. Prices for soft coal to 4.50 to 5.00 per ton amid shortages. Hides, pears, apples, cranberries, hogs, sugar, cheese, cabbage all show notable price changes as winter tightens.
Senator F M Molsberry of Muscatine and Louisa counties says the shelter to monopoly plank will be opposed by anti Cummins and pro tariff Republicans at the next Iowa GOP convention. He predicts Cummins will be renominated with little opposition and urges defeating the plank, noting tariffs as a divisive issue. He is gone to Oklahoma on a legal matter related to a land title dispute worth 15000 to 26000 dollars with Iowa parties involved.
Local market prices list corn oats hay and wheat with figures for oats barley and rye. Fresh vegetables fruits and staples include cabbage potatoes apples lemons bananas oranges cranberries figs and grapes with per unit and per sack prices. Also listed are live stock hogs cattle calves sheep and lamb pricing and miscellaneous items like butter eggs lard and sugar.
Grid of prices lists ducks mallards dressed and undressed by type with small ducks also. Fish prices include catfish oysters carp bass salmon sunfish white perch pickerel croppies with per pound rates. Fuel prices show soft coal hard coal cordwood and region quotes with a note that Hocking Valley coal price varies daily.
Port Allen ia December report notes measles whooping cough and a smallpox case as sickness rises. The Port Allen school closes for weeks, vaccination efforts increase, and local families report visits and travel. A newborn son blessed a local home and a runaway incident ends safely. community events postpone until after holidays.
Two Kansas City check girls at the Western Union office kissed during a slow moment causing a minor electric shock as their lips touched an open telegraph instrument. The incident, noticed by nearby workers, drew astonishment and has them pondering how the circuit completed.
A humorous exchange in the Chicago Daily News shows a novelist urging rich men to support literature while a plutocrat boasted of distributing pamphlets about his patent pump and that he is for literature as well.
Puck quotes a playful exchange about Edith receiving three copies of a book as a birthday joke Bertha questions the quantity while Ethel explains the gift is retaliation for four Christmases previously received from Edith, signaling a lighthearted domestic banter.
A Davenport resident Mr. E. D. Richardson reports relief from rheumatic and back pain after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Havercamp's drug store. He claims his kidneys improved and his overall condition better after one box. The ad urges inquiries by mail and notes price at 50 cents with FosterMilburn Co. as US agents.
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