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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1902
Page
3
Muscatine Journal Daily offers yearly carrier delivery, weekly collection, and semi weekly options priced at 520 dollars per year with Tuesday and Friday delivery. Payable in advance with remittances by draft, express, or money order to Journal Printing Company. Member of the Lee Syndicate of Iowa Evening Newspapers.
G Logan Faxe of 5 Market Street Chicago and LaCoste Maxwell of 38 Park Row are named representatives in a document listing contact details for entities. The notice references these addresses as points of contact for business or legal correspondence.
The paper on file at The Chicago Inter Ocean office 106 108 110 East Monroe Street invites readers to call for a tour of inspection and sight-seeing through its magnificent building showcasing mechanical and scientific improvements of the age tied to a great newspaper.
The 1900 Chicago general conference approved a constitution allowing women to sit as delegates and to vote on constitutional questions. The change reduces the amendment threshold from three-fourths to two-thirds and follows decades of debate since 1888. Aggregate results show broad support, with notable regional divides and international votes. Governor Shaw of Iowa played a key role in promoting the reform.
The two Republican members of the U S House from North Carolina both hail from western mountain districts with white majorities. The text notes disenfranchisement of Black voters in eastern tidewater counties benefiting Republicans. One congressman is a UNC trustee. the other is a Spanish War veteran.
Critics ridicule Mark Hanna's selection as head of the committee to settle capital and labor differences, but he is remembered as a large employer with no strikes or serious disputes with his workers. Some still doubt his suitability even if all facts favored him.
The Philippine commission presents a plan for a mixed American Filipino government with American ultimate control. It urges land title settlement by homestead sales funded by bonds, continued timber licensing, mining and incorporation laws, railroad charters, and land grants to support railways. English becomes base for public instruction with thousands of US teachers, Manila hosts secondary schools, a normal school trains Filipino teachers, and night schools serve eighteen hundred students.
The editorial board of the Fairfield Ledger applauds Congressman Hedge's announcement to reappoint Charles M. Junkin as postmaster for four years starting July 1, 1902.
A editorial note argues presidents should limit public mingling for safety. It warns of unsafe remedies for stomach and bowel complaints and extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as safe and reliable for headaches nervousness insomnia indigestion dyspepsia malaria fever and age. The piece urges consumers to seek the genuine bottled product with the private stamp.
They will travel via the Burlington Cedar Rapids Northern railway chosen for direct routes to Chicago or St. Louis. Rates are claimed lowest on this line and agents can provide routes to winter tourist resorts. Contact F A or Jno G Farner Cedar Rapids Ia for information.
The Black Diamond Express departs Buffalo at noon via the Lehigh Valley for New York. Dining car service and parlor day coaches offered. Through tickets to New York and Philadelphia allow stopovers at Niagara Falls.
A. Nelson in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly discusses adventurers in finance. It outlines three types: the Breaker-in, the plausible fraudster, and the bloodless rogue who harms poor investors. H. Hunt Gravesteene, a Well Street Miner, is cited as a leading example who exploited widows and orphans. Wall Street is condemned nationwide.
The piece argues rogues in money markets are rare, yet Wall Street exposes them by diagnosis and isolation much like a plague case. It notes elaborate schemes cannot hide a fraud once business opens, while law protects the rogue and the street shuns him.
A Detroit traveler recalls Nogales on the border where a single street divides Mexico and the United States. A saloon straddling the line lets customers buy in both countries to dodge duties while a drunken American stumbles across and ends up briefly detained in Mexico.
In sparse Scottish highland parishes a farmer and minister crossed a swollen stream to christen an infant as rain hindered access. Water splashes crossed the river until the baby received the sacrament, then a whisky bottle was tossed across as a parting jest, catching it deftly near the minister.
This Youth's Companion excerpt explains fish as a diet staple, noting its digestibility and indirect brain benefits, with a list of nutritious species. It cautions on decomposition risk, methods of cooking, and possible adverse reactions including lobster and crab sensitivities.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls Canon Carter of Clewer whose nearly unreadable handwriting drew stinging notices from church officials. Bishop Maclagan once received an anonymous abusive note signed “A Tartar” prompting a secretary to reveal the culprit was Canon Carter.
A Washington Times quote praises polite untruths as social lubricant. It argues many lies arise from a kind wish to spare feelings and smooth interactions, describing them as pleasant fictions that soften blunt truths.
Hiram and Silas banter about a family member who did not lift weights but paid off a mortgage instead. The Philadelphia Record quotes the line about lifting the mortgage as a humorous remark on financial success.
A Washington Irving maxim notes that even the best effort yields limited good while a contemptible person can cause immense harm. The line contrasts noble striving with unruly wrongdoing.
A brief reminiscence in Saturday Evening Post notes that the person who stirs the fire may not receive the brightest heat or reward, a wry observation on household labor and invisible effort.
Absinth began as a harmless medical remedy used by French physician Ordinaire who fled to Couvet Switzerland. He passed the formula to his housekeeper Mile Grand pierre then to Lieutenant Henried’s daughters who cultivated herbs and sold it to peddlers. A wealthy distiller later commercialized the modern absinth with higher alcohol content.
A Pittsburg Press anecdote recalls a father explaining heaven to his five year old. The boy imagines heaven as a place of beauty and asks if adults wear mustaches there, prompting a humorous family moment about the next world.
A boy asks about caddie eyesight and a seasoned caddie replies that vision is task dependent. He notes some club members value not seeing for a price, while others pay for sharp sight, teaching judgment in what to notice and what to ignore.
A dialogue from the Detroit Free Press recalls a father admitting many serious misunderstandings with his parents while noting he was a well behaved boy in childhood.
A concise Washington Times quip notes that natural hustle often outpaces copied wisdom when two bars begin life with different starting traits. The piece frames success as earned effort over borrowed counsel.
A National Magazine remark encourages those who wish to become angels to begin their virtuous path before death. The piece frames conscientious living as groundwork for heavenly elevation.
A Chicago News quip notes that a man who insists on proving everything he says signals that his word should not be trusted. The remark frames his credibility as unreliable.
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