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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1902
Page
3
The notice lists subscription options for the Muscatine Journal. Newspapers offered at $520 yearly for daily delivery and weekly collection, and $150 semi weekly for Tuesday and Friday delivery, all payable in advance. Remittances should be by draft express or money order to Journal Printing Company.
The Chicago Inter Ocean invites readers to visit its offices at 106 108 110 East Monroe Street Chicago for a tour of inspection through its building. The note promises a rare tour of the newspaper’s mechanical and scientific improvements and facilities.
The Interstate Commerce Commission conducts Chicago inquiries to aid a presidential message on interstate commerce. Sessions will cover packing house products, the Burlington Northern Pacific Great Northern merger, grain shipments, and beef. The piece questions ICC power and notes Northwestern railroad consolidation plans and potential government action.
Ten to fifteen million dollars of fruit products are yearly shipped from Southern California. Water from its streams has changed many areas from desert to productive land. Large tracts west of the Missouri River await development, to be watered for agriculture and life. Hydrographers from the United States Geological Survey study streams to map flow and high low water conditions for future water demands.
Des Moines earns a grim reputation from a string of violent incidents and gambling woes. A railroad conductor was killed in a street robbery for liquor funds, Mabel Schofield was murdered in shocking circumstances, and gambler Clinton Murray died by his own hand after losing $800 at cards. The era contrasts with the city’s past fame as the world’s largest city without licensed saloons.
Statistics show the United States as the wealthiest nation, holding about 817.5 billion dollars. The piece notes the U S lead and hints at the ranking of the next wealthiest country.
The article argues that Great Britain is the leading nation while Uncle Sam’s national debt is the smallest among nations, implying no further debate over America's status on the world stage.
Editorial side lights describe a monthly magazine edited for lunatics to be released in Saint Louis titled the Lunatic Herald. It will call itself the official organ of the insane and seek advertising from hospitals conservators and hosts catering to their supposed needs as the disease in sanity allegedly spreads.
A verse piece from the Chicago Record Herald satirically extols a self styled elite group. The speaker boasts superior breeding wealth and status while looking down on those below. The poem references Dr Nichols and lines about money and social pretensions.
Mr David Brant former editor of the Clinton Herald appears to have vanished from newspaper circles His name is missing from the Clinton Herald editorial page and has not appeared in the Iowa City Republican The piece notes his graceful pen and warns an advertisement in the Lost column may be needed if he does not return soon
A plan proposes moving a 160 foot tall red oak with 12 foot base diameter from Arkansas to Forest Park St Louis. A double tramway would run to the river, with the tree floated and towed to St Louis, a project expected to take six months. The proposal argues funds and time could be used more profitably.
Paris medical authorities report 26 185 people bitten by mad dogs treated at the Pasteur Institute with all but 107 recovering. In sixteen years in Paris more than 26 000 lives were saved by Pasteur's discovery. A monument to Pasteur will rise soon on Square de la Sorbonne.
Two years ago F. X. Rydzewski who runs a South Chicago saloon and bowling alley began saving every penny collected. He prepared a box and dropped coins in. Four men spent the day counting until evening and it was estimated the tally reached about 65 000 pennies.
Reverend Charles Klass of Webster City Missouri argues in a sermon that women should be allowed to propose marriage. He claims it would cure many old maids, affirm equality, and let women choose their partners rather than always accepting what comes.
Next to John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, Mr Peavey of Chicago held the largest life insurance in the country. He took out a policy for 1,000,000 in Mutual Life of New York two years ago and paid two premiums totaling 96,780. He also carried about a third of a million elsewhere.
Washington correspondent reports on the 1902 White House dinner honoring the Supreme Court. The event featured a formal state-like sequence, a crescent table for nearly 100 guests, strict etiquette, and U.S. plate and china on display. President Roosevelt led guests from the Blue to Green rooms, mingled informally, and the evening closed with cigars and cordial conversation.
An English juggler Johan Bedini performed from the Masonic Temple in Chicago dropping a turnip from over 300 feet. The turnip, small as a bullet, sped downward and was caught on a fork held in Bedini’s teeth.
The Paris paving bureau reports success with devi trifified glass blocks as street pavement. Ground glass becomes a paste and molded into blocks, claimed strong, durable, elastic, and weather resistant. Two main thoroughfares are laid after six months of trials with cheaper maintenance and less frequent repairs. Swiss cities Geneva and Zurich already tested glass, but Paris notes it may suit heavy urban traffic better.
The Mardi Gras celebrations will take place in New Orleans Moline and Pensacola from February 4 to 11. The Louisville and Nashville R R will offer round trip tickets to New Orleans Mobile and Pensacola at a single fare. Tickets on sale February 4 to 10 and valid through February 28. An illustrated booklet on Mardi Gras history is available by writing Cc. L. Stone General Pass Agent Louisville and Nashville Railroad Louisville Ky.
The St. Louis Mirror edited by William Marion Reedy offers a twenty eight page weekly review covering current subjects, short stories, poetry, and reviews of books plays and music. Subscribe for ten weeks at one cent per week with stamps or silver.
Philip Yoder, a section boss of the Penn Ry at Canton Ohio, died January 4 leaving a fortune of thirty thousand dollars mostly in worn bank notes that crumble with touch. The Daily Journal reports the unusual bequest and the condition of the currency.
A Chicago Inter Ocean tale describes robins migrating south to December and January canaries, eating China berries that intoxicate them. The birds lose self control, are hunted by locals including negroes, and sold in markets for two to twenty cents a dozen until spring migration resumes.
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