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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1906
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening except Sunday. The Semi Weekly Journal appears Tuesday with 16 pages and Friday nights with eight pages. Published by Journal Printing Co with W L Lane as publisher and F D Throop as managing editor. Associated with Lee Syndicate Iowa Eve ning Newspapers and AP. Circulation claims exceed other Muscatine papers.
Daily delivered in the city by carrier and collected for weekly ten cents per week. Daily, one year by mail. Semi weekly, one year.
New York Office at 140 Nassau Street lists Coste and Maxwell in charge. Chicago Office at 750 Marquette Building assigns Payne and Young in charge.
Telegraphic note listing Bell telephone offices in the Mississippi Valley region. Indicates business and editorial concerns with no additional context or events.
The Journal lists local agencies for readers including Past Hill and Clay Kneese Grocery on Fast 20d Street, Morse Washburn's Grocery on South Muscatine, W C A Busch's Drug Store on Wershey Avenue, Kecklerville Chayka's Grocery, and Sharrar's Grocery on West Muscatine End of street car track.
The Iowa Good Roads move backs an amendment drafted by Representative M Z Bailey of Ringgold County to let township trustees employ farmers to operate King road drags on all roads. Work would occur up to ten times per year at a cost not exceeding 50 cents per mile and cash road taxes would be returned to supporters. The plan, supported by the Iowa Good Roads Association, targets avoiding last session amendments. The association meets in Des Moines February 7 and 8.
The Iowa good roads movement endorses the King road drag as the best tool and backs a law requiring its use. It rejects costly permanent causeways and supports a proposed road law amendment allowing farmers to hire to maintain roads with the King drag. The association will push for farmer laboring on roads and invites commercial clubs and municipalities to attend February convention to discuss all aspects.
The piece discusses an alleged Ro jestvensky letter accusing Great Britain of keeping a ready fleet to crush Russia if Togo failed in the Sea of Japan. It questions authenticity, notes diplomatic tensions among Britain France and Russia, and warns of possible British reaction if true or if proven false. It also covers Panama Canal labor issues and American engineering prospects.
A health note describes cold days exhausting a weak body with constipation and impure blood. It advises building up the system by taking a tonic to fortify immunity and restore balance.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as preventing chills colds and pneumonia and curing indigestion dyspepsia costiveness bloating and malaria It promotes today and a free 1906 Almanac from local druggists.
An older health article argues heart distress stems from the sympathetic Inside Nerves and advocates Dr Shoop's Restorative tablets and books. It advertises free book offers and a Health Token, listing six topics and boxes for readers to request specific volumes.
Germany again confronts France in tense relations amid hopes for a lasting peace across Europe. The article notes ongoing volatility and questions whether a tranquil order can emerge in the near term.
The report claims the President intervened in New York to block Odell and his allies so he can seek the Senate after his term. The article argues his aim is clean politics and to prevent party manipulation for personal gain, citing Tamany at city level and Odell at Albany.
Multiple Iowa newspapers offer opinions on state primaries and political machines. Statements warn primary laws may not alter methods, urge reforms, or affect faction strength, with talk of peace in Republican ranks and Cummins renomination implications.
The Rockford Register cites Gov. Cummins as having strong political power due to a reputation for ambition aligned with the people over corporations in crucial policy decisions.
The Register and Leader of Des Moines says that everybody is not for Roosevelt and the Burlington Hawk Eye retorts that given over 5,000,000 voters cast ballots for Judge Parker last year the Register and Leader seems near to wrong.
The Spirit Lake Beacon argues the upcoming legislature will feel the need for a primary law. If lawmakers are not convinced now, voters will decide later, the paper asserts, since the people run the country when in dead earnest.
The Rock Rapids Reporter argues a single state board for educational institutions may end healthy rivalry among schools. It contends current management fosters competition that could be harmed by a unified board system.
The Decorah Republican notes that approaching the state capital of Iowa has led many respected citizens to treat every action as political. It says politics now fills all meals from breakfast to midnight, with political acts becoming a constant feature.
The Coon Rapids Enterprise argues that a statewide primary would bar nominations through packed caucuses but notes that a candidate must spend much to canvass the country. It adds that a poor man has little chance unless popular and opposition weak.
The Mason City Times-Herald editorial calls for leadership in Iowa and argues many men could lead the fight, but notes Cummins has never shirked a duty and may face an extraordinary sacrifice in seeking another term.
The senate shows limited responsiveness to the President’s push for rate legislation. Analysts mark cautious delay as lawmakers seek consensus and political cover amid rising public concern.
The Carroll Herald quotes a local observer saying Congress must respond to national sentiment, noting a long path remains before the people's hopes are realized and asserting that the Senate cannot resist the widespread will of the country.
An advertisement touts Newbro’s Herpicide as a hair germ killer that eradi cates dandruff and stimulates abundant growth. It claims a pleasant scent and cooling scalp effect, urging purchase via druggists and a sample offer from The Herpicide Co Detroit.
Miss Blanche Wilson returns to Monmouth college Miss Nellie Sterrett heads to Cedar Falls to teach Mrs D C Sterrett departs for Plate Iowa Mrs W T Graham and children leave for Omaha The Methodist and Presbyterian plan two weeks of services starting January 7 at the Presbyterian then Methodist church Miss Carrie Rock and Ada Rock return to Waterloo and Grundy Center Miss Lela McElhinney leaves for Nashua Dr C A Paisley visits kin in town A telegram from Miss May Allen reports her brother's status in Scottsdale Arizona
A Buffalo physician promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a safe daily aid for digestion, breath, and complexion. Charcoal absorbs stomach gases, purifies the blood, and improves overall health with no harm from continued use. Each box costs twenty five cents at drug stores.
Ernest, seeking health, is sinking. Rev C W Lawrence of Indianapolis will preach at United Presbyterian church on Sunday January 7 and the next Sabbath. Reformed Presbyterians observe the week of prayer with services nightly at 7. Elizabeth Cubit married Edmund Baird at 5 30 with D H Elliott, C D Trumbull, J S McGaw officiating and a three course supper. The bride wore white silk and bouquets of bridal roses. They received many gifts and plan to farm at the Robert Hewitt place west of town.
Wapello Iowa items report Mrs Jno Davis visiting Columbus Junction with children. Charles Briggs returns to Iowa City to resume university studies after holidays. Bert L Christie to complete dental course with June graduation. Crescents meet Mrs Henry Keck January 5 at 2 30. R A Stuberhorn and wife from California in town for Mrs Silverthorn’s sister illness in Peoria. W A Silverthorn stock furniture racket store sold as business closes. Mrs W H Bowser and son Warren holidaying in Gladbrook and return. Mrs J E Garrett went to Vinion with Hurley Gauss after school return. D N Johnson and Wm McCullough county seat visitors. Jacob and Ora Bissinger return to Mt Pleasant. William Walker and Elias Michael of Grandview in town. W H Baker goes to Columbus Junction on business.
The February Smiths issue is one of the month’s handsomest and largest illustrated magazines. It opens with two color tone portraits of beautiful women and includes pieces such as Wanted a Parcels Post by Charlies Cochrane and What Americans Are Thinking. Also featured are short stories by Charles Fort Rose K Weekes William Hamilton Osborne and Ethel Owen, plus a serial by Mrs George Sheldon starting in this issue.
The December opening article in Myerson's American Family Magazine St Louis is by Rev Edward Everett Hale on What Christmas Means. Special features include frontispiece The Spirit of Christmas and illustrated pieces such as Christmas with the Mokis and Christmas in Texas plus poetry and biographical pieces. The issue boasts superb color pages and is described as the most beautiful magazine ever published.
The Atlantic Monthly begins 1906 with striking importance and freshness, highlighted by a trio of papers on international politics. Judge Francis C. Lowell of the United States Circuit is among the noted contributors.
Advertises one way tickets at half fare plus two dollars and round trips under one way fare. Dates January 24 and 16 February 6 and 26 to destinations in Southwest Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. Promotes homeseekers finding cheap lands and mild climate with year round outdoor work and rising land values. Write for map folders and rates from St Louis Missouri.
The article highlights works in American diplomacy by John W. Foster and Herbert H. D. Peirce plus pieces on The Mujik and the New Regime in Russia. It also calls attention to Maurice Maeterlinck On Anxious Morality, Loren H. B. Knox Impressions from Chicago Faces, and Andrew S. Draper The University Presidency.
The January issue of Sports Afield features articles on Crasp Fishing on the Pacific Coast, The Medium of Rattlesnake Gulch, The Joy of the Ski, Hatchie Coon the Southwest, and The Debatable Third. It includes T. H. Shrott’s Fifty Years of Woods Life, Doctor Yorke on Days with the Shore Birds, An Arkansas Hunt by Irbs, Perry Frazer’s Boyhood Reminiscences, and The Man with the Typewriter. New departments Mail Bag and Sportsmen Gleanings debut, with 258 Dearborn St., Chicago listed for订 ordering.
Beginning February 5 through April 7, Iowa Central Ry offers reduced one way fares to California Oregon Washington British Columbia Utah Montana and Idaho at $15 below regular price. On Wednesdays tourist cars to Los Angeles and San Francisco run via Kansas City and the Santa Fe System. Contact local agents or write A B Cutts GP and T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
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