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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
15
The advertisement touts an ALL-STEEL Peerless cooking range with bottom top sides and interior construction. It claims unmatched durability and popularity in the current stove line and invites buyers to locate the Peerless model.
Thompson Bros offer a guaranteed correct collar shape and claim to be the only source for achieving the proper fit. The ad emphasizes quality tailoring and invites readers to visit the shop for best results.
A shop advertises heavy weight overcoats for frosty weather in Oxford gray, blue, black kerseys or meltons. They promise perfect style, fabric and finish at satisfactory prices and offer cleaning and repair services. Ladies jackets can be altered and remodeled to current styles.
Jas H Cosgrove, merchant tailor, operates from 110 East 2d Street Up Stairs location offering alterations and bespoke clothing in a downtown shop. Local readers may visit for custom fits and tailoring services.
German American Savings Bank with capital of 60000 officers led by J L Giesler president J H Kaiser vice president and S L Johnson cashier includes directors F H Little S M Batt erton C A Mull Albert Baird John H Kaiser Gus Schmidt H Huttig J Scott Blackwell and J L Giesler. Engages in general banking loans on real estate or personal security and pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits.
Former Montana state senator Whiteside testifies in the Clark Senate inquiry, denying payoffs while admitting a proposal to suppress a minority report for 2500 dollars. He says his aim was to expose bribery and protect the state’s good name as cross-examinations proceed.
Mason Mich Jan 9 none of the state officers indicted by the grand jury at Lansing will be tried this term. Ex Adjt Gen Marsh ex Attorney General Maynard and Assistant Quartermaster Smith set for March term. Col Eli R Sutton arraigned with $10 000 bonds. Sutton faces four counts of conspiracy to defraud over state military clothing sales and related actions. Judge Weist to hear motions February 6.
At a Columbia University trustees meeting John D. Rockefeller announced a $100 000 gift for the endowment of a psychology chair. The donation underscores Rockefeller's ongoing support of higher education and science at Columbia.
Wilkes Barre lace mill workers receive a 12 percent pay increase affecting about 350 employees across the plant. The raise is confirmed in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania from the lace mills. The date is January 9.
London crowds erupt with jubilation after Gen White’s dispatch reports a heavy Boer retreat from Wagon Hill and Caesar’s Camp with repeated repulsions. Officials warn ammunition shortages and continued danger as Buller’s relief and Tugela crossings remain uncertain. Berne peace group appeals to President McKinley to end the war.
Washington reports the president established a military department comprising Alaska and assigned Col. George H. Randall to command. Randall, then with the Eighth Infantry in Cuba, will report January 15 and decide troop strength with the war department awaiting final numbers. Miners are quick to acknowledge U S government authority through a stationed soldier.
Dense fog over Union City Tennessee delays the fast mail on the Illinois Central and a freight train collision at Moffat Junction destroys engines baggage mail and several freight cars. Engineer Downing of the freight was killed. Other crew members escaped by jumping clear.
Telegrams report Mayor Samuel M. Jones of Toledo and Albert S. Dulin of Philadelphia have formed the Association of Altruists and chosen Moorestown New Jersey near Philadelphia as the site for a cooperative communistic colony. Jones is expected to move there eventually.
In San Francisco on Monday noon a riot broke out at city hall when Tax Collector-Elect Scott tried to take his office. One man was shot and several others were bruised in the ensuing clash.
Racine Wisconsin January 9 The Lakeside Malleable Iron company shuts its plant due to a strike by 40 molders. The works employ 125 men and the stoppage is linked to the company’s refusal to raise wages by ten to twenty percent.
Dubuque plans to hire 500 men for ice harvesting and store 75 000 tons of ice. Mrs John Luke of Dubuque was assaulted in her yard, choked into sensibility and robbed of 75 dollars. Dubuque protests Illinois Central division headquarters move to Waterloo. Businessmen threaten to boycott the road and argue Dubuque is a more central site for shops. Pension rolls at Des Moines show 57 926 pensioners on Dec 1 1899, with 2 226 added and 3 704 removed in Dec, totaling 56 448 on Jan 1 1900. month payouts total 53 997 65 dollars, with 2 196 766 24 dollars in reserve. Burlington plans over 2 million dollars in central southern Iowa line improvements, shorten Creston to Murray by about three miles, and remove grades and curvatures.
An advertising blurb hawks No-To Bac from Sterling Remedy Co claiming it makes weak men strong and offers a free booklet and sample. Sold by druggists for 50 cents or one dollar with Chicago or New York addresses.
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