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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1900
Page
3
The 1900 campaign centers on fulfilled pledges, with McKinley appealing to voters on a strong record. Proponents tout prosperity, solid credit, and protection, arguing expansion will boost industrial, political, and commercial futures and unite the nation behind continued policy.
The Leader criticizes Polk county jail conditions under Sheriff Stout after Mitchelville cases. It condemns officers who aided a jail inmate’s marriage to a parolee and warns of corruption enabling crime in the capital city. The piece likens it to broader political failure and saloon influence.
G H Van Houten argues horticulture covers farm and home work beyond garden care. He urges every farm home to have a good vegetable garden, outlines planting, early cultivation, and soil preparation, and promotes strawberries grapes currants cherries and plums with variety advice and pruning methods.
Prof Rheyner is very ill with typhoid fever. Prof Mahaffa is sick and unable to teach. Harry Crull suffered neuralgia of the stomach with possible complications. Wm Newell and Mr Rabe were calling on friends and returning from trips. The ice harvest is ripe and five teams hauled from the Letts dam all week. Underwood and neighbors returned from Foster Kansas with his father’s remains for burial. The Fruitland K P s furnished pallbearers.
West Liberty notes say Mr and Mrs Geo McFadden returned Tuesday night after a ten days visit at Mrs M s old home in Illinois. May and Carl Mather of Springdale spent Tuesday night in West Liberty and left for Oskaloosa, where they at
Miss Myrtle Creese returned Monday from a week with her sister Mrs. Henry Beeson in Davenport. Miss Emma Richards, teaching in Minneapolis, came home for vacation and returned Monday night. Mrs. Fred Berckheimer of Omaha visits town briefly after a three week stay in Columbiana Ohio. Isaac Wilson a Canada based Quaker elder preached a long sermon at the meeting house Tuesday evening.
A group of signers pledges refunds on a 50 cent bottle if it fails to cure coughs and a 25 cent bottle for satisfaction or money back. Names listed include G. A. Reinicke V. B. Barkalow Nesper & Co. Jno. J. Havercamp J. Theo. Kuechmann.
Advert says dangerous coughs chest and lung pains cured in days with Mull's Lightning Cough Cure. Claimed safe for children, priced 25e, distributed by all druggists.
A pithy line on personal taste suggests that each person ranks favorites, typically starting with the most cherished choice. The note hints at how preferences shape daily choices and loyalties.
C A Risum a former Rock County farmer and Wisconsin legislator 1897 to 1899 credited Dodd's Kidney Pills with relief from kidney trouble. He cited letters from himself and an assemblyman praising the medicine and urged readers to buy. The ad notes all dealers carry the pills and prices six boxes for $2.50 by mail from The Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo N Y.
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