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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1902
Page
3
Readers are invited to visit The Chicago Inter Ocean at 106 108 110 East Monroe Street to tour the magnificent building and inspect the newspaper’s mechanical and scientific improvements. The offer highlights the paper’s interest in the age’s advancements and invites curiosity seekers.
Governor Odell argues the fight is over the Sabbath not liquor sales and warns local option would undermine a divine ordinance. He asserts Sunday saloons would threaten societal rest and religious duty, urging state wide consensus to keep Sabbath protections intact.
Kansas farmers in southwestern counties plant sugar beets after a 10000 dollar bounty. 77 growers harvested 337 acres yielding 1760 tons with an average 15.2 tons per acre and 17.8 percent sugar, yielding about 17.03 dollars per acre profit. Governor Savage of Nebraska pardons ex state treasurer Bartley, who after embezzling 201000 dollars was released and then pardoned unconditionally.
Washington jan 15 special correspondence the Panama canal proposal collapses under senate probes leaving no support for the French syndicate. Hepburn presses forward for the Nicaragua bill prevailing in the house with little senate backing while seeds for Iowa congressmen and a note on pennies fill out the page.
Carroll Herald says there is no factionalism in Iowa republicanism or in relation to the national administration. The paper asserts there is no Shawism nor anti-Communism in state affairs, presenting a view of a homogeneous party.
Scranton Journal reports Speaker Henderson quits the Metropolitan Club in Washington after the board faulted his indiscriminate entertaining of congress members. A governor noted the club should be an association of gentlemen and suggested some congressmen lack grooming or manners.
The Waterloo Reporter notes city expenditures last year in Iowas towns including 1.1 million dollars for dwellings and blocks 650000 for railroads 80000 for gas and electricity 111000 for court house jail and residences 60000 for water works A Cherokee mayor caused a youth to be fined 25 dollars for distributing obscene literature from an Omaha firm Two Tama residents Herzog and Burns were arrested in Illinois by Pinkerton detectives for alleged bank robbery and murder involvement Boone Standard publisher John M Brainard suspends the weekly paper after thirty years Des Moines council approves a 59000 loan to a water company at 2 percent interest for a water main to the army post site Carnegie proposes a public library in Marshalltown with city maintenance and a library tax of 3300 expected to rise with Carnegie funding
A reflective poem urges walking softly into the New Year with humble, kind steps. It calls for steady purpose toward better deeds, unity with a friend, and helping others while time remains. The verse ends with a prayer for divine guidance.
The piece notes lawmakers avoid discussing the Shaw banquet scene while another Washington resolution pushes for direct popular election of U S senators. Senator Dubois of Idaho leads the effort, though no immediate path to passage is seen.
Washington reports confirmed by officials that Massachusetts Governor Crane has been offered the post of secretary of the navy and will succeed Secretary Long in early spring. The article notes a Supreme Court date of January 27 for an application to bring a formal complaint to the court’s attention.
The Journal prints daily special letters from Des Moines and Washington that cover state and national legislative history. The letters provide enough detail to inform readers about ongoing political developments without overload.
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