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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
13
Wednesday notes flash across town from Battey the jeweler to Thompson's Book Store pianos and mask sales. Local arrivals include Alva Feastal to Keota and Geo Lamphere from Wilton as well as Mrs L A Beaver visiting Davenport. The Muscatine Maroons prepare for the season as wool blanket sales bloom at McCorm Dry Goods Co. and Jones & Rice Cream Cornmeal earns praise from grocers.
Titus and Jackson promote choice first mortgage loans claiming years of experience and no losses and inviting readers to invest by calling or writing.
Hundreds of low price items across 5 and 10 cent counters at Sheetzs located at 111 East 2d Street draw shoppers. Local store features deep discounts on everyday goods and household essentials during a clearance event.
An old housing ad urges Halstead & Son for wall papering in a spare room, promising improved decor before guests arrive.
In the interim readers are advised to turn to Realing the Watch maker for watch and clock repairs at 205 West Second Street. The note promotes entertainment while awaiting the Opera House project.
For centuries minds have sought solutions to the squaring of the circle and the problem of health. If you have lost health through stomach neglect or abuse, take Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to restore and maintain health. For fifty years it has cured constipation indigestion dyspepsia fever and ague malaria inactive liver and kidneys. Any druggist keeps it. Accept no substitute.
The Journal invites reader contributions to a broad Here and There column. Letters critique Rome and U S expansion, discuss imperialism, public works like a cemetery chapel, Opera House thoughts, and lynching law ideas.
The Strand in London is noted as belonging to no fewer than five parishes, underscoring its complex parish boundaries and historical ecclesiastical divisions.
Elbert Glidden of Rippey Iowa died by self inflicted gunshot this morning after prolonged illness. He left a wife and three children in comfortable circumstances. He was alone when he used a revolver and the fatal shot entered his breast passing through the heart and causing instantaneous death.
A. O. Thompson a druggist died after a lingering illness age thirty eight with wife and three children funeral Thursday at 1 p.m. Benjamin Oates died of pneumonia at home aged seventy five seven months eight days born near Leeds England leaves a wife and three grown children funeral at M E church tomorrow at 2 p.m.
The 20th Century Quartet hosted a masquerade at Assembly Hall for Muscatine football supporters with about 50 couples in masks and an evening of pantomime and grand march. A chafing dish supper followed at the Le Moyne Porters home on North Mulberry street. The Oatmeal Office staff then hosted a lively afterglow with music cards and dancing. Nearby, friends celebrated Jack Bodkin’s birthday at 1209 Smalley avenue with games and refreshments late into the night.
The dean of Westminster offers a grave in Westminster Abbey for John Ruskin's premains. Kentucky governors contest committee extends evidence time by two days. The transport Thomas carrying Maj. Gen Lawton and Maj. John A Logan Jr. expected to arrive from the Philippines next Thursday or Friday. Nearly 140 dealers from Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma attend the twelfth annual Hoo Hoo Lumbermen convention in Kansas City. The house committee on interstate and foreign commerce discusses a government cable across the Pacific with many officials present. Senator Elkins of West Virginia is studied as a vice presidential possibility by Republicans. The United Mine Workers and coal operators hold a large Indianapolis conference with 175 leaders from several states. National Guard representatives meet in Indianapolis seeking larger federal support. The French chamber begins hearings opposing the U S reciprocity treaty with iron workers and rail supplies opposing its rejection.
Sacramento Jan 24 Gov Henry T Gage issued a proclamation ordering an extra legislative session to convene Jan 29 to elect a United States senator to succeed Stephen M White whose term has expired and to pass needed amendments to state laws The Republican majority legislature failed to elect a successor amid a protracted deadlock and a Republican will likely win the seat
New York police report William F. Miller who ran the 520 per cent Franklin syndicate in Brooklyn is now located in Canada and is under surveillance. Authorities would not reveal his exact city or town of residence.
Austin Texas January 24 the Texas legislature met in special session to consider a proposal from the state tax commission created at the last session to revise the entire taxation system of the state.
Cottonwood, sycamore, elm and basswood logs wanted. For prices inquire at the office of the South Muscatine Lumber Co. in Muscatine Iowa.
Probate notice states that Sarah Furnas of Muscatine County has left a will read publicly January 15 1900. The will is set for hearing and proof on April 4 1900 at the district court. Interested parties may appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. J W Eells clerk of the district court.
The Muscatine Electric Railway revives the old half hour timetable. Cars depart the switch at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour and the line ends at 0 and 30 minutes past the hour. First car from the office at 6 15 a m and from line ends at 6 30 a m. Service runs every 30 minutes to 10 30 p m.
Travel notice advertises economical personally conducted tours leaving Chicago on Thursdays via Colorado Springs and Scenic Route and Tuesdays via Kansas City Fort Worth and El Paso to Los Angeles. It promotes excursion cars attached to fast trains and invites readers to write for itineraries with maps, rates, and berth reservations through local agents.
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