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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
6
A. Blumschein, noted artist and friend of Ellis Parker Butler, lives in Paris with Butler and their wives for the winter. Butler, a prominent writer, will gain material for sketches and stories while traveling through France and other countries before returning home.
Bliss Perry's Atlantic essay Whittier for Today argues Whittier's contemporary interest is small compared with his lifetime, noting Barbara Frietchie and Snow-Bound fade from memory while East Haverhill’s old homestead draws pilgrims. It credits his hearth and home scenes with lasting human sympathy and a gentle turn to the other world.
Miss Nellie Downer of 1478 Washington Street becomes engaged to A. Bruce Minear, noted in Panama. The Panama Canal Zone study highlights Y M C A efforts with seven thousand Americans, four club houses, and many activities improving morals and social life among workers.
A Bohemian group sought after hours access to a public school room for a language class. A spokesman warned that if war came their boys would volunteer, and a Bohemian son would write home in English, translated for his mother who could not read it.
The text urges turning to corporate security for bonds when personal sureties are hard to find. It highlights the American Surety Company of New York as a quick, red tape free option for fidelity judicial license or contract bonds and advises applying immediately when a bond is required.
American Surety Company names Thompson and Thompson as attorneys and lists agents H. Howe in Muscatine A F Martin in Wilton J C Irwin Atkins in West Liberty with office and address details.
A dense list of Muscatine area market prices for grains, livestock, produce, and meats with detailed retail and wholesale figures. Timbered by a second section listing train schedules for the Muscatine North and South Railroad, showing arrival and departure times, stations, and connections.
The passage notes that in the demoralized camp life any reading would be useless if unreadable to the reader and that the school room was granted for literacy efforts, as described by Emily Greene Balch in December Charities and The Commons.
Berlin bans business men from placing advertising signs on streets and replaces them with tall wooden iron pillars. Columns, about 12 feet high, display notices rather than images. The city auctions the privilege, yields about 95200 dollars yearly, leases ten years, and requires police approval. Space is allocated by order of application with free postings by city.
The January Century will feature a leading article on the new color photography its difficulties and promise. It explains use in disease study especially skin conditions and in art lectures with lantern slides. It notes two color pages showing Steichen works in Paris and authentic family portraits surpassing miniatures.
A reflective piece urges readers to expand Christmas beyond a holiday for rest and meals. It encourages liberal spirit and generosity, inviting people to celebrate with more merriment and personal generosity than in prior years.
The Comtesse De Boigne second volume of memoirs chronicles a pivotal era in European history. It recalls her youth at the courts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and her exile during the Terror. Her father served the diplomatic corps and later was ambassador to London. The narrative features Wellington the Prince Regent Princess Charlotte Pozzo di Borgo Emperor Alexander and Madame de Brunheur.
An 1815 1819 Memoirs excerpt notes Lord Sidmouth advising contentment despite others seeking small revenue boosts. The narrator recalls a rule of life born from the exchange about a household needing more income and Sidmouth’s view that a little more rarely helps.
A January issue of Popular Mechanics explains a tramp sign code depicted in land diagrams. The article outlines symbols used to identify property features and settlement boundaries, noting practical hints for readers studying parcel maps.
Chicago market report shows wheat May at 1.06 to 1.07 with a close near 1.06, corn steady near 58, oats around 53, pork and lard mixed, hogs closing 10 cents higher at top 4.70, cattle and sheep receipts and price ranges listed alongside live stock totals and futures activity.
Market Roundup from Chicago New York St Louis and Peoria shows poultry prices turkeys 8 to 11 cents chickens 9 to 9 1/2 cents springs 9 to 9 1/2 cents Butter steady creamery 20 29 dairies 18 25 eggs 18 1/2 to 19 1/2 cents. New York rates list butter steady eggs weak firsts 24 to 24 1/2 cents seconds 22 to 23 cents. Poultry alive steady chickens 9 4 to 9 4? fowls 11 to 14 4 dressed 13 to 20 cents for chickens 14 to 17 for turkeys 7 to 12 for fowls. Wheat 1.05 in St Louis. Peoria corn 53 1/4. New York futures May wheat 1.125 corn 67.
All trains run daily except Sunday. Weight left at 30 a.m. schedule details unclear. Agent Underdoak appears as contact or agent in charge.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway announces timetable changes effective April 8 1905. Eastbound trains include No 12 at 3 00 PM No 8 at 8 50 PM No 3 at 7 19 AM No 5 at 11 44 PM and a passenger service on No 92 freight. Westbound No 91 freight also carries passengers at 7 58 AM.
A series of garbled daily train listings shows arrivals and departures at Muscatine with numbers for No. 504 through No. 603 and Wilton branch notes. The readable items indicate various times such as 6:25am 8:30am and 12:35 pm across multiple trains with daily operation and Sunday exceptions.
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