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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1900
Page
5
Susan F. Stone notes New England farmers inspire home surroundings with tidy layouts and attached outbuildings. She cites John Barnard as a model of well fenced grounds and tropical plant beds, and advocates bottled milk as a local advance.
Muscatine Iowa market details list wood lime and cement prices. flour wheat corn oats rye and meal rates. live stock poultry and dairy prices. beeswax hides and leather values. produce like potatoes celery lemons bananas cabbage and more. hardware nails wire and galvanized barbed wire. lumber prices for boards flooring shiplap joists and finishes. general market steady to weak with varying items specific.
The United States is expanding its territory while transportation and communication networks lag behind, a situation likened to a calf growing one end at a time. The piece notes rapid territorial expansion without accompanying infrastructure development.
Advertisement announces Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold tablets with no cure, no pay terms. Priced at 25 cents, sold by J. J. Havencamp as sole agent.
A discussion on New York social life contrasts city hospitality with smaller towns. It notes that crowds and constant events overwhelm country transplants, sometimes shrinking their social worlds. The piece cites a New Yorker who sought a quieter country base for leisure and work.
The Gulf Coast between Mobile and New Orleans offers mild climate pure air and even temperature for winter escape. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad provides through car service from Northern cities with Florida connections and first class accommodations at moderate prices. Write Geo B Honner D P A St Louis Mo for folders.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers superior facilities for travelers to Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, and Nassau. It runs double daily sleeping car lines from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville and on to interior Florida points, Miami, Tampa and New Orleans for overseas embarkation. For folders contact Geo. B. Horner D P A St Louis Mo.
A lighthearted scene unfolds as two men wager publicly drawing onlookers and curious bystanders. The event draws a crowd eager to watch the outcome and partake in the quirky display.
The body of O Pressier was interred after a large ceremony with Mechanics Band, the Legion of Honor, and German Mechanics Aid Society members in Mascatine. Mourners lined the route from West Seventh to the city cemetery as the hearse passed to the church procession. Officers from Muscatine escorted the casket, and the crowd overflowed the German Methodist church, marking a widely attended tribute to a respected law officer and friend.
Eugene V. Debs says organized labor greatly improved since 1895 with 1899 marking higher, broader organizing across states. He notes stronger local unions, broad advancement, and predicts labor may vote independently as industry centralizes, while calling trusts an economic growth and potential future blessing.
The Muscatine Trades and Labor Assembly met in Assembly Hall with new delegates taking oath and signing the roll. A revised convict labor bill outlined by Attorney Coldren will advance to Des Moines. Officers elected: President J J O'Brien, Vice-President Fred Walton, Secretary T J Grant, Treasurer J J Engel, Sergeant-at-Arms Mason Peck.
Advert shows a chocolate tablet medicine promising cures for kidney disease rheumatism liver trouble impure blood stomach trouble dyspepsia and female complaints. It advertises a dollar draft guarantee and cashability if the medicine fails with prices 25c and 1 sold by all druggists.
A New York Weekly item records Mrs McCarlem demanding a refund for a piano lamp she bought, insisting the lamp is defective and asking the dealer to take it back. The exchange shows frustration and a plea for resolution.
A reflection on the idea that strict honesty in daily commerce may conflict with achieving profit. The line contrasts ethical conduct with competitive advantage and questions whether integrity limits growth.
A trove of items from a midweek town page includes the Y M C A Ladies Auxiliary meeting at 3 PM tomorrow, Court of Honor concerts at Woodmen Hall, and visits from Ottumwa guests. Hawkeye Lodge Masons meet Tuesday with third degree work. Debs speaks at Stein's Hall tonight. A Batavia merchants’ merger forms a new firm, while Des Moines heat and winter weather chatter fill the chatter. A humorous job-seeker scene closes the clipping.
Three guided tours of Puerto Rico are planned from Chicago on January 11 February 15 and March 8. Pullman sleeping and dining cars will transport travelers to New York then aboard steamships Ponce and San Juan to explore the island by rail car and boat. Tickets cover all expenses and the trips are led by Walter Boyd Townsend under The American Tourist Association with manager Keau Campbell.
The Pittsburg News notes ministers average just over 470 dollars annually. It argues why many young men favor railroad and trust leadership roles over the ministry.
In this reflection a speaker argues that while any honest labor is respectable, pursuing a higher quality or better job elevates honor and personal virtue. The idea contrasts modest work with aspirational career advancement and social esteem.
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