Daily Journal of Muscatine Circulation and Agency Outlets
Official paper of City and County in Muscatine promotes its circulation lead over rivals and AP membership. It lists daily and semi weekly editions, delivery rates, and annual prices. The paper notes multiple advertising and news agencies across Muscatine and nearby areas for reader convenience.
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Journal
East Iil
Hurlbut Grocery
East 2Nd Street
South Muscatine
Toborg Bros. Groccery
Oregon Street
W. C. A. Busca’s
Hershey Avgenua
Kecklerville
Chayka’s
West Hill
J. H. Puller
Bell Telephone listings and editorial office line
Local telephone and editorial office lines appear in the obituary section with Bell system references and Mississippi Valley contact details. The readable fragments indicate listed numbers or places tied to Bell Telephone operations and editorial offices.
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Bell
Mississippi Valley
Odaidig
Circulation Statement for Muscatine Journal November 1908
Sworn circulation report for the Muscatine Journal shows total copies printed and circulated in November 1908 at 168 950. Publisher I F D Throop swears to the figures before Notary Public F L Bihlmeier on December 1 1908.
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Muscatine Journal
Sun
I. F. D. Throop
F. D. Throop
Muscatine Co
State of
Lowa
F. L. Bihlmeier
Calm view on Gompers Mitchel contempts decision
The dispatches are meagre and lack detail but suggest the court’s labor leader scoring was unnecessary. It appears they may have violated Judge Goulds mandamus to create a test case about whether labor organizations may use the Unfair and We Don t Patronize lists. The piece notes a rights question hard to settle by old standards.
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Gompers
Mitchel
Gould
Supreme Tribunal
Laws in transition impact private rights and union labor
The text argues that law must differentiate right from wrong as times change, protecting private property yet allowing collective ownership ideas. It notes possible contempt of court by Gompers et al and anticipates legislative action, urging patience until final decisions. It condemns crooks and defends sustained union efforts.
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Blank & Company
Blank & Co
Mr. Gompers
Congress
Things They Say. Cedar Rapids Republican
The Cedar Rapids Republican presents that Roosevelt relies on popular support rather than Congress and that this gives the president an advantage. It notes both sides of the question, acknowledging some bad individuals in Congress but affirming it remains a representative American body.
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Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt
Congress
Hamilton to remain in Sigourney for law practice
Hon Dan Hamilton declares he will stay on the old camping grounds and continue his law practice in Sigourney. The Albia Union praises his clean campaign, notes his near win, and asserts democracy thrives on decent defeats and honest politics.
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Albia Union
Dan Hamilton
Sigourney
Hamilton
College students discuss costs for next vacation
Clinton Herald notes that both boys and girls at colleges and universities will return home to explain the funds needed to carry them through the next vacation. Some fathers face a lengthy debate on the financial matter.
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Clinton Herald
Congressmen Left Washington Face Cold Holiday Sojourn
Scores of congressmen who left the hot air of Washington for Christmas holidays may catch cold during their stay in cooler sections where temperatures are milder. The piece notes the risk of illness during the travel and leisure period.
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Council Bluffs
Washington
Washington Democrat taunts poet Byers as useless to readers
A Washington newspaper response dismisses Major S H M X T Y Byers as a poet whose verse fails to appeal, asserting that the paper could do without his poetry while acknowledging some merit outside poetry.
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Washington Democrat
Governor Hughes Remarks Questioned
Sioux City Tribune reports Governor Hughes states he does not think the proposed measure will pass. The article notes uncertainty and outlines potential political implications for the administration and local supporters.
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Sioux City Tribune
Hughes
Reminiscences and Local Notices From Period Pieces
A community gathering at McClicus school house plans a grand circular wolf hunt for New Year’s Day. T. S. Parvin returns from California after seven years, noting changes in the town. Grace Slaughter dies at 19 after illness. Hettie Adams weds H. N. Ryan by Judge Brannan. Argus Lodge 17 Iowa Legion of Honor elects Huff, Watson, Hopkinson, Dolen, and Block to officers.
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McClicus
J. F. Samson
George Mransofer
T. S. Parvin
California
Robert Hatch
Fort Madison
Grace
H. N. Ryan
Conesville
Hettie Adams
Adams Station
W. F. Brannan
Argus Lodge No
Iowa
Legion of Honor
R. B. Huff
Thomas Watson
A. C. Hopkinson
E. H. Dolsen
W. G. Block
Young America Ahead No School After New Year
The High school scholars refuse to attend classes on Thursday and Friday after New Year despite the school board petition rejection. They vote that the board may decide, but no students will be in attendance on those days. The Washington Press highlights the wedding of Norton C. Corbin to Ella Wilson daughter of Hon. Charles Wilson.
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Young America
Washington Press
Norton C. Corbin
Ella Wilson
Charles Wilson
Muscatine
Mechanics' Aid Society elects new officers for year end
The Mechanics' Aid society elected officers: President Fred Peterson, Vice President Herman Schmidt, First Secretary William Lang, Second Secretary Carl Schroeder, Treasurer Nick Bast. The Merry Christmas War is set for Stein's hall Friday evening with a cast including General Santa Claus E F P Schall and Uncle Sam Richard Fox.
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Fred Peterson
Herman Schmidt
William Lang
Carl Schroeder
Nick Bast
Stein’s Hall
Santa Claus
E. F P. Schall
Uncle Sam
Richard Fox
Columbia
Ida Ruckdeschel
Angel of Death
Ellen King
R. S. McNutt
Peter Familias
M. P. Goff
A. Singlewoman
Daisy Kemper
E. H. King
You Can't Stop Your Heart From Beating
A tale from Rochester Herald about George Christie and the song You Cant Stop Your Heart From Beating. Christie and Bert Fitzgibbon collaborate on the lyric, but a joke ends in heartbreak leading to a grim punchline. The second anecdote recalls Hannibal Hamlin in a Hampden caucus claiming a large and respectable gathering.
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George Christie
Bert Fitzgibbon
Christie
Rochester Herald
Hannibal Hamlin
Hampden
Political Exigency and Strained Alliances Across Time
The piece argues that political expediency drives politicians to acts that fail scrutiny. It notes the old adage that politics makes strange bedfellows and recalls that such pressures existed in both contemporary and early colonial eras.
Obedience and Spirit in the Waterloo Times Tribune Voice
The Waterloo Times-Tribune reflects on loyalty to authority and calls for the president to be filled with the week’s spirit. It emphasizes duty to a boss and questions personal reasons to resist orders.
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Waterloo Times-Tribune
Travelers' baggage tariffs urged by American Travelers League
The American Travelers' League seeks a tariff reform to raise the duty-free personal baggage limit for returning Americans to 500 from 100 dollars and to abolish the sworn declaration and baggage examination currently required on arrival. Clarence W. De Knight represents the league before the Ways and Means Committee in Washington.
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Washington
the Journal
Washington, D. C
American Travelers’ League
The
League
Ways and Means Committee
Clarence W. DeKnight
What It Meant to Bill
New York school official Patrick Jones discusses corporal punishment ending in schools. He recalls a pupil named Bill who faced a savage geometry recitation and quips that the square of the hypotenuse equals a beating, a line highlighting harsh discipline from a Boston Herald quote.
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Bill
Patrick Jones
New York
Boston Herald
Travelers face customs glare as tariff debate looms
The article discusses proposed tariff changes and a long standing customs practice. It notes traveler complaints over personal inspections and the sworn declaration shift under De Knight. The American Travelers League seeks raising the duty free limit from 100 to 500 dollars, opposing a mere 200 dollar increase.
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Secretary of the Treasury
League
Tax on Travel Abroad Reconsidered for Fairness
Mr DeKnight notes hardship from abroad travel and baggage limits. He recalls 1897 retail push to tax trips abroad as luxury and argues travel is no longer for the wealthy. He says a $100 baggage limit unjustly targets American women who cannot buy a gown and accessories for that sum in Paris.
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DeKnight
Paris
Pierce
Fabian confronts his past and the devilish pact
Fabian studies notes and a diary to piece together his life from Oxford to a glass case incident with a masked man. He recalls selling his soul for ten thousand pounds, facing fear and guilt, and plans to return to Oxford and ordination. The morning after, he confronts his reflection with despair.
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Abdul von Yarsenheim
von Tarsenheim
Fabian
Oxford
St. Martin‘s Street
Hell
Euston
Fabian Dare
Vandraken
Devil-may-care
Cinb
How One Doctor Successfully Treats Pneumonia
Dr. W J Smith of Sanders Alabama credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the sole lung remedy needed in pneumonia treatment. He notes repeated success in controlling the trouble and recommends it as superior to other cough remedies. the product is sold by all druggists.
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Christ
W. J. Smith
Sanders
Ala
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