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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal notes its publication by John Mahin and Sons with entry as second class matter. Subscriptions offered daily and tri weekly by carrier with weekly collection and advance payment options via postal card or telephone No 27. Remittances to Journal Printing Co Muscatine Iowa.
German American Savings Bank with capital of 60000 officers J L Giesler president J H Kaiser vice president S LiL Johnson cashier directors F H Little S M Batt erson C A Mull Albert Baird John H Kaiser Gus Schmidt H W Huttig J Scott Blackwell J L Giesler conducts general banking loans on real estate or personal security and pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits.
The government spends 50000 dollars daily on famine relief in India and expects to spend 75000000 by end of March. British officers lead heroic work, as Kipling stories would praise readers.
Robert L. Speer, Lay Secretary for the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, argues this century sees Protestant governed populations rise from 1,000,000 to 500,000,000. He claims these regimes spread global control, with Europe and Asia only checked by Greek Church and the Czar in the north.
The National Temperance Almanac cites 219 822 liquor dealers in the United States and argues the liquor trade costs far more in death and destruction than any army of similar size. It claims pensions for dealers would be cheaper than allowing their business to continue.
Herbert S. Fairall and John W. Schulze assume control of The Superior Leader. Fairall brings prior editing roles at the Iowa City Republican and Marengo Republican, plus Cedar Rapids Gazette experience. Superior, a sizable Lake Superior city, gains a well established newspaper under new management.
A Des Moines Register note claims trust managers would keep two or three lobbyists in Des Moines to steer legislative voting. The piece is accused of sour grapes and a misplaced attack on lawmakers after the trust was rejected, seen as discreditable to the paper and an unfair slur on the Legislature.
The passage notes explorers like Peary Nansen Sverdrup Wellman Nathorst Gerlach Borchgrevink and others battling polar ice yet failing to approach the poles closely. It recalls Andree’s doomed air attempt and concludes that some difficult undertakings linger into the new century, keeping to ice.
The Chicago Record notes Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of the late Mississippi Senator Bruce, as Harvard prize debater and a leading figure among 3,000 students. He won the Pastor prize in inter class contest and bridges prejudice with popularity at Harvard and Exeter. Bruce bore the name of Senator Conkling, welcomed by New York’s senator in 1875. his widow from Cleveland now leads a department at Booker Washington’s Tuskegee school.
Jos. Gibbs argues for clover use and pasture rotation to maintain soil fertility. He advises cutting green clover for a season, feeding crops to stock, spreading manure, and plowing under clover at peak growth to boost corn yields. He warns against exhausting soil by constant cropping and urges balanced pasture management.
The Rock Island Wall Map of the United States is the best offered to the public. It is very large and specially adapted to school purposes. Every teacher of geography and every business office should have one. It will be sent post paid to any address on receipt of fifteen cents in postage stamps or coin. Address John Sebastian G P A Chicago Ill.
An old style ad promotes Mull's Lightning Cough Cure priced at 25 cents promising quick relief from coughing. It appears as a simple consumer notice typical of early 20th century pharmacies.
This Sunday school piece reviews Jesus at age twelve in Jerusalem, his discovery among the rabbis, and his statement about being about his Father's business. It adds notes on circumcision, temple presentation, rabbinic customs, Simeon and Anna, the Magi, Nazareth and Jesus’ growth toward manhood.
Lillie G. Hoopes urges farmers with moderate means to beautify the home surroundings. She advises arranging buildings, adding a porch and bay window, painting, lawns with mixed trees, and roses, with careful plantings and decorative touches. Practical tips cover yard tidiness, waste removal, and avoiding junk.
A reflective line by George List condemns confinement as a suffocating condition, likening a trapped mind to a leaky barrel and urging freedom from stifling restraint. The quote conveys existential frustration and the call for open, unbound thought.
Joshua Hoopes outlines his dairy herd methods from a Farmers Institute talk on Jan 4. He favors Jersey cows for butter but notes higher nervousness and prefers gentle handling, stanchions, rapid milk extraction, and a varied winter and summer feed strategy with corn stalks oats bran and salt, plus fresh-water cycles and seasonal grazing.
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