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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1908
Page
4
Fragmented OCR reveals a mix of personal notices, church references, medical updates, and social events. Names include Mrs Homer Mulberry, Dr A J, T S Bear, Miss Icy Teel, J A, and R Reuling. Mentions of Y M C A Chi d Weare Sioux City, Trinity church, and Bellevue hospital appear amid scattered dates and places.
Readable text notes cages were ordered by a wartime meeting for installation at a facility this afternoon. The phrase Bummery Furnishings appears as a label or brand cited in the context.
The ws club and Mother s Club held gatherings at H Eversmeyer and Mrs T F Beveridge residences with papers, addressed by Bryant C Preston of the Congregational church and Miss Edith Raff. Music by Miss Stirlen and Miss Hutch accompanied the events, with plans for future meetings at G B Samuels and Miriam Aid Society hosted by Sarah Bilkey.
The Huttig Manufacturing Company received a large new boiler batch from the east last night. Construction crews began moving boilers today to the engine house, planning to resume factory operations around February first. A 100 foot steel smoke stack, six feet six inches diameter, is being raised, noted as the city’s largest outside the power house.
The Court of Honor met at their hall last evening with many members present. They decided to organize a drill team and appoint members for various posts. Officers will be elected at the next meeting Monday night at the M. W. A. hall.
John Miller of 300 Clinton Street was injured yesterday afternoon when a shard of steel from a saw struck his left eye at a South Muscatine button factory. Dr. Harry Johnson Dean removed the piece and Miller was reported resting nicely.
In district court Frank S. McCoy sues Charles Kleindorf for 5000 alleging the hired horse ran away and injured him. McCoy says the horse was gentle. Kleindorf argues the animal was wild. A twelve member jury is seated.
Arrangements are set for the Missouri River Navigation congress in Sioux City opening Wednesday to form a permanent body advocating systematic river improvement. Governor Cummins will deliver the opening address, with Governors Deneen Burke Crawford and Sheldon among the speakers.
Free trial treatment for rheumatism offered to Muscatine residents who send name and address to The Rholoids Company in Washington DC. Rholoids target uric acid risers from heredity and retirees prone to gout. If satisfied after the sample, full size treatment available for $1 at A W Morgan's Pharmacy 107 West Second Street.
In Lone Tree Iowa Jan 21 Joseph Waltz age six was seriously wounded by his four year old brother Caleb while playing with a revolver. Caleb thought it unloaded and fired striking Joseph near the lung and shoulder blade. Medical aid was summoned and doctors hope to locate and remove the bullet to prevent blood poisoning.
Clergyman Receives Bryan Letter Stating He Will Not Appear Before Summer. William Jennings Bryan cannot fix a definite date for Muscatine visit but supports temperance and spiritual work and hopes to address men at the tabernacle in a mass meeting later.
Mrs. Chas. H. Bryan of Iowa City dies at age thirty seven leaving a four day old baby. Four other children, oldest twelve, survive. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs. John Ruess of West Liberty where several Bryan siblings reside.
A afternoon meeting at the Commercial club rooms saw the Mississippi River Power Boat association adopt its constitution and by laws and rename itself to include St Louis and other southern cities. Officers elected include A C Adams Muscatine president and R H Combs St Louis vice president with committees named for insignia, credentials and permanent organization. A banquet and theatre program followed at the Commercial hotel and Grand opera house featuring The Man of the Hour.
New York officials searched the Shonts residence after customs found dutiable goods valued between 1200 and 1500 dollars imported from Europe by Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts and daughter. A Shonts representative said no concealment occurred and that a servant’s spiteful report prompted the inquiry. deductions for four family members reduced the due amount to 320 dollars.
Iowa railroads race to meet a new eight hour workday law with widespread retrenchment. West Liberty reports plans to close small stations and lay off fifteen telegraph operators while keeping agents. Rock Island lines foresee removing operators to busier locales and may lay off train masters and dispatchers. The Iowa Central warns of potential strike as they plan to reallocate pay to a third worker at stations.
A group of 20 men circulated petitions in Muscatine to gather names of backers for saloon support under the mulci law. At yesterdays meeting of saloon men and petition circulators, last city election voters were reviewed and names checked. Canvass plans were finalized and petitions went out this morning with a brief session slated tomorrow morning.
The city retailers will gather tomorrow evening to discuss several matters including the mulci petition. Merchants who object or refuse to sign will join the discussion to seek a near unanimous position on the petition.
President Roosevelt plans to send a message to Congress proposing remedial legislation on employer liability. He will address objections cited by the Supreme Court regarding the old act and is expected to speak on trusts as part of the communication, though specifics are not disclosed.
Muscatine high school students plan a friendly invasion of Wilton Junction Friday evening to watch a basketball game with Wilton. The Muscatine Athletic Association aims to secure a special train if 75 students attend, with Division Passenger Agent C. C. Gardner arranging the service. Wilton would host the cheering crowd for the matchup.
In Milan on January 21 seven dead bodies were recovered from the wreckage after a collision between an express from Rome and a train from Bergamo. Twenty four people were injured in the disaster.
Money to loan on first, second or third mortgages on real estate and on undivided interests in estates. Also on chattels like horses, cattle, vehicles, pianos, household furniture, grain, and farm machinery. Loans from $5 to $5,000 with confidential service and low rates. Office over Postoffice, Bell Telephone 407-Y, open Saturday evenings.
Illinois and Iowa borrowers can obtain loans on first to third mortgages on real estate including undivided and inherited interests. Also available on chattel property such as horses cattle crops machinery and household goods. Mortgages and notes furnished with confidential service and low rates. Office over Post Office Muscatine Iowa.
Articles of incorporation and renewal certificate filed with the county recorder. The Muscatine News Company held its annual stockholders meeting at the office and reincorporated for a new twenty year term. The old officers were re elected.
A dynamite bomb was thrown at the house of Thomas Nicholas, captain of the Mohawk mine near Aurora, Biwabik Minnesota. The blast tore one side of the house apart and hurled Nicholas his wife and four children from their beds. A baby sleeping with them was badly injured. No crew is reported.
Due to other engagements the visiting clergyman Rev R W Clark will leave the city after 8 50 o clock. The Trinity church service will begin at 7 o clock instead of 7 30 to allow him to catch his train tomorrow evening.
In Tokio on January 21 the progressive and yuke parties introduced a resolution of want of confidence in the imperial cabinet over alleged faulty financial measures. Indications suggest the opposition may fail to carry the motion.
IOWA LODGE No 4 A KF and AM Beguier weekly meetings on the evening of each month. A. W. Scout, W. M. L. Johnson, Secretary. WASHINGTON CHAPTER No 4 BR AM conducts stated convocations on the second Friday monthly. A. E. Othmer, M. E. U. P. B. J. sebnaon, Secretary. Webb Council of Loyal and Select Masters holds biated assembly on the third Thursday of each month. G DL. Lestie, T. 1 me 8. L. Johnson, Recorder. DE MOLAY COMMANDERY No 1 KF, Reguisar conclave on the third Wednesday per month. G. b. Lesotiea, B W. H. Graf, Recorder.
P O ELAS MUSCATINE LODGE NO 8064 BR Pq ELKS meets each Monday at eight o clock sharp at Fikes Hall Tow Ave over Cook Musser Bank Visiting Brothers Weirville Dr H Johnson Dean B W Richards Secretary.
Highland Nobles and Muscatine Castle meet on the fourth Thursdays at Conan Woodmen Hall. All visiting members in good standing are cordially invited to meet with us. Alexander W. Scott and Professor Elma Scott seal the notice as secretary.
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