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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1900
Page
11
The Muscatine Journal lists subscription terms and rates, noting delivery by carrier on a weekly schedule and payment methods. It provides order methods by postal card or telephone and specifies payment to JOURNAL PRINTING Co. Muscatine.
The Illinois Supreme Court stopped attempts to curb department stores by striking down city ordinances that restricted sale of meat and provisions in stores selling dry goods and liquor. The decision upholds a merchant's right to operate, citing constitutional property rights and police power limits. The piece notes possible renewed efforts but doubts success while courts protect fundamental rights.
Governor recommends establishing four new state normal schools along principal railroad crossings Cedar Falls on the Illinois Cedar Falls already hosts one Algona on the Milwaukee Atlantic on the Omaha Rock Island line Washington on the Kansas City line and talks of Columbus Junction and Wapello. Citizens meet at Wapello to push the plan.
Mull's Lightning Pain Killer advertised as a fast acting remedy priced at 25 cents available at all druggists.
Judge Bishop in Des Moines issued notices to city saloons warning that selling liquor to anyone granted a divorce for habitual drunkenness will lead to license revocation. The move follows eight divorces based on drunkenness and critics call it late and inadequate.
The Marengo Herald advocates for Hon J N W Rumple as delegate from Iowa's Second District to the upcoming Republican National Convention. It notes he is a good man but acknowledges substantial time remains to decide the question.
The Des Moines Register opposed both Wilson and Gear in their senatorial bids while Keokuk Gate City notes Governor Shaw’s inaugural message focuses on general public affairs. Shaw’s remarks cover sound money trusts and monopolies signaling clarity and comprehension.
A numerously signed Knoxville and Marion county petition asks the Legislature to end the State industrial school for the blind due to few inmates and high costs. Other notes report Burlington trials of city carrier letter registries, a $350 jury award in a wreck heirs case, and a Burlington overseer finding 105 deserted-husband cases among aid recipients, blamed largely on saloons.
Literary notes preview an upcoming Century article on Dr. B E O Meara and his St Helena diary with plans to publish extracts and a discovery tale. The issue also features Mr Whiteing on The Paris of To day and a Rock Island wall map suited for schools with mail order details.
A lettered note from the Webster and Kirkwood News highlights Rev. H. D. Herr’s poem To a Pine Tree in a Door Yard written during August. It includes Herr’s reflection on the pine as a living symbol linking earth and sky and a long accompanying explanatory passage by Mr. Kloss.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers superior facilities for travelers heading to Florida, the West Indies, and Central America. Double daily sleeping car service operates from Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago, and St. Louis to Jacksonville, interior Florida points, and on to Miami, Tampa, and New Orleans, with Nassau as a port of embarkation. For folders contact Geo. B. Horner, D. P. A., St. Louis.
An advertising claim promotes Mull's Pioneer Cure chocolate tablets for kidney and bladder diseases stomach and liver troubles dyspepsia impure blood female troubles rheumatism. It offers a dollar back if no benefit and sells for 25 cents or one dollar through druggists.
Des Moines reports the grand jury made a new report with no indictments over the lead astray of Mitchellville girls. It notes possible charges against parties aiding escape to bring girls to houses of ill fame in the city. A sworn statement by Yetta Page may implicate Whitechapel residents.
Round trip tickets valid 21 days will be sold at a single fare plus 2 00 to all points on this line in Iowa Minnesota and South Dakota north ofShell Rock Abbott Crossing and Waverly. Tickets also to many cities in Northern Western and Southern States. For details contact B R N agents or John G Farmer A P 47 ides Rapids Ia.
Rheumatic pains lame back diarrhoea sprains pleurisy sore throat frost bites killed by Mull's Lightning Pain Killer priced 25e available at all druggists.
An editorial notes that daily advertising prevents being forgotten by customers and keeps merchants in range of the purchasing public. It argues attention to ads is essential to memory and sales.
A saying notes that worry may kill more people than work because more individuals worry than work. It emphasizes the unhealthy impact of anxiety over productive labor.
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