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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1901
Page
5
President George D. Adams of Des Moines college was elected at the state convention in Muscatine last fall. He spoke at the First Baptist church in Des Moines on Imputed Righteousness using Romans as text. The sermon drew a large attentive audience and was praised as plain gospel, free of eccentricities.
An international Week of Prayer is observed with strong attendance as many churches join in united intercession from Jan 6 to 13. The Evangelical Alliance urges believers to dedicate the period to prayer for the church, un saved world, and global harmony, with watch-night services and daily themes leading to Jan 13 sermons.
A local rural telephone company led by Will O. Jones has laid a nine mile line from Cotter toward Crawfordsville serving thirteen users who paid 18 dollars each for construction. Members include Thos. Johns store Griffith & Co. store D. R. Hughes and several local residents. The company plans a second line to Crawfordsville with more subscribers and each member contributing 20 dollars. They will use Weedish American phones.
Broad marketing for a nurse run remedy in New York Children’s Home. Claims to break up colds in 24 hours, cure feverishness, headaches, stomach troubles, teething disorders, and destroy worms. Sold by druggists for 25 cents with free sample by mail to Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Union Valley notes report wedding bells and improving health, with residents attending Sunday school and teachers chosen. An entertainment at the church on January 14 includes Canada Frank, admission 10 to 20 cents, and the valley schoolhouse hosts a weekly youth lexicon. Rev Griscell will preach twice monthly, and the R. R. club hosted fifty at the church with a fine supper. Cedar Hill youths boast trapping exploits, asked to identify animal names, with details at 2 to 3 PM.
Two separate stocks of general merchandise are offered for sale in good towns. Titus and Jackson are listed as sellers or partners in the enterprise.
The notice touts Dr Miles New Individual Treatments for nervous diseases as superior scientific remedies after twenty five years of work. It promises a Fifteen Days Trial Free with payment only if results satisfy the patient and cites multiple cured individuals and wide reach from Chicago to Europe.
Street buyers report no major market changes except hogs, which bounce. Potatoes bought at 25 cents rise to 40 cents for first class, with creamery stock at 40 cents. Prices for cabbage eggs hay butter apples oranges and other staples are listed with varying bids as market stays unsettled.
Corn 28 to 30 cents, oats 20 to 22 cents, rye 40 cents, wheat 55 to 60 cents. Timothy hay 8.50 to 9.50, other hays 4.00 to 5.00. Corn meal per sack 1.00 to 1.10, flour spring 1.15 to 1.26, winter 1.10. Buckwheat 60 cents per bushel. Hogs 4.75 to 5.00, cattle 2.75 to 3.25, calves 4.00, sheep 3.00 to 3.50, lambs 3 4 cents per lb, spring chickens 6 cents. Potatoes 40 cents per bushel, cooking apples 30 cents per peck, eating apples 25 to 60 cents per peck, sweet potatoes 25 cents per peck, turnips 10 cents per peck, cabbage 10 cents, onions 25 cents per peck, bananas 1.00 to 2.60 per bunch.
Chicago markets report for January 8 1901 by H J Tober Co brokers with Mercantile standings. Includes wheat corn oats and live stock figures such as hogs receipts 43000 cattle 3500 sheep 14000 and daily car lot counts with price ranges and closings.
A dispatch from Oskaloosa reports a dispute with the Blue Jeans Co at the local opera house. Treas urer F C Mackey of Muscatine demanded a settle ment after seat counts differed from management reports, prompting a show cancellation and a potential suit against Oskaloosa opera house. The Boston owners are notified.
In a Sheldon Sun item a mother notes three visits by children totaling twelve, a five o'clock drop in, and a head of the household asking for mail then for papers. He says he takes no regular papers but occasionally a sample copy, prompting Ed to shut the window in disbelief.
List of letters awaiting pickup at Muscatine Iowa week ending January 8 1901 includes men Fred Bailey Charles Beatty J C Bennetts John Calahan John Campbell Robert Ford George Friends G F Guston W M Hunter K Johnson George Kern Charles Musser Baren Sherman T A Stevenson Joe WI and women Bertha Anderson Tilly Johnson Ida Munn A L Shanks Sadie Weare Ola Wilkerson plus instructs recipients to say advertised W L Roach P M
A powder named Allen's Base is advertised to cure chilblains frostbites dampness sweating and swollen feet. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with free sample. Address Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The Burlington Route offers tourist sleeping cars three times weekly from Omaha to Los Angeles. One car goes via Kansas City and two via Denver and Salt Lake City, with a round trip using both routes at no extra cost. A 72 page illustrated book titled California can be mailed for six cents. J Francis, General Passenger Agent, Omaha.
For sale is a seven room frame house and full lot in good condition on the street car line for 1400 dollars. This is a bargain. Call at once Titus and Jackson.
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