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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
5
Special Dispatch from Chicago markets lists hogs and cattle receipts, prices for pork, lard, and dried beef, plus futures for wheat corn oats and regional stock data. It notes open and close prices, car counts, and deliveries, with current rates on fruits vegetables hardware lumber and meats.
Chicago reports mixed commodity trading with Wheat unsettled May to July futures, Oats lower, Rye firm, Barley steady with varied screenings, and MESS PORK and LARD showing active demand at specific price ranges. New York notes steady Flour, spot WHEAT and CORN with options easing and several price quotes for oats and white corn.
Market for hogs was moderately active with prices easing. Pigs sold around 2.69 dollars, light hogs near 4.57, mixed at 4.50, and heavy packing and shipping hogs around 4.72 dollars, with several lots noted in the reported ranges.
Muscatine markets list prices for wood lime cement coal grain and flour with dollar figures and per bushel rates. Live stock dairy produce and beeswax show varied prices and a note that market conditions are unsteady.
In Alden Iowa on January 24 a worker at Simpson and Cousins elevator was found wedged feet first in a bin while loading grain. George Coleman about 38, an employee for five months, likely entered a bin during operation and suffocated. He leaves a wife and young son.
Headquarters Allison Post No 34 G A R Audubon Iowa January 12 1909 endorses Comrade Capt Wm T Rigby Cedar county for Department Commander of Iowa G A R. The post praises his patriotism, service with the 24th Iowa Infantry, and fitness for the role and hopes for his election at the Davenport encampment next spring. Adjutant E B Cousins and Post Commander H M Talbot sign.
The advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal remedy for dyspepsia rheumatism scrofula salt rheum catarrh and impure blood. It also pitches Hood's Pills as non irrit ating mild and effective heartened by claims of healing.
Two Des Moines brothers of the 51st Iowa were mustered out in Manila and instead of going home sent roughly $1000 travel pay to their parents to settle the mortgage on the little family home. They reenlisted in the 11th Cavalry being formed in the Philippines and will serve two more years for the sake of family. F. E. Jones later joined the 51st Iowa Band that played Muscatine on January 31 under Co. C 50th Regiment Iowa National Guards.
An old ad promotes To Cure Cold While You Sleep with No Cure No Pay offer at 25 cents. It touts Weeks Break-Up-A-Cold Tablet and Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer as cures or reliefs for pleurisy diphtheria croup colds winter cholera and various pains. J Havencamp is listed as sole agent.
Musserville records a string of small projects and events. Homes gain additions porches and new foundations while a church railings and a boiler foundation are installed. Local officials, funerals, lectures and Epworth League events are noted along with family visits and employment changes. The piece closes with the death of Mr. B F Curtis and his funeral plans.
Wilton journal reports Miss Rose Hickey visiting Muscatine. Geo Waldron returns from Cedar Rapids. Mrs Ella Smith closes millinery, heads to Davenport. Nellie Reynolds visits from Muscatine. John Morresey travels to Louisville seeking old army comrades for back pay recovery. smallpox scare reaches Aversville Cedar County from Dixon Illinois. a veteran from the Civil War is laid to rest at 5 AM.
J L Irwin is on the sick list. Jim Metz and Ed Fix went to Davenport on business. Mr and Mrs John Munson welcomed a baby boy. Arno Kretchmer, now of Davenport, visits home for two days. Jim McCelops of Muscatine is sawing wood locally. Miss Clara Brandt from Davenport visits her brother A C Brandt for a week.
Dispatch from Charleston reports labor scarcity across West Virginia with five thousand coal miners needed and mills idle. It notes six week delays at Huntington C O and half year orders for American Car and Foundry, blaming past demand declines on Democratic Free Trade and praising post repeal improvements under Professor Wilson.
Gainesville Sun notes Florida now on a solid economic foundation with diversified interests. It asserts that after orange grove destruction, other industries have grown less vulnerable to cold, preventing major losses even in harsher winters.
Superintendent H. B. Hayden of Council Bluffs schools is named to the Iowa State Teachers Association to organize apparatus testing for eyesight and hearing in children. Local officials conduct room investigations and report findings to Hayden's committee for statewide results next association meeting. Prof. Patrick of Iowa University joins the committee.
Winter in the South offers mild climate and prime hunting and fishing along the Gulf Coast between Mobile and New Orleans. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad advertises through cars from Northern cities with first class accommodations at moderate prices and Florida through schedules. Write Geo. B. Honner in St. Louis for folders.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers extensive facilities for tourists and travelers to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau. Daily sleeping car routes run from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St Louis via Jacksonville to interior Florida points and to Miami Tampa and New Orleans. For folders write Geo B Horner D P A St Louis Mo.
The Isaac Epperly farm in the south part of Muscatine county near Letts Iowa is offered for sale. It includes about 300 acres of meadow pasture and tilled land with a good house orchard and improvements. Timber land totaling 148 acres in three pieces is also for sale or rent if not sold soon. Small & Shellabarger administrators. Letts Jan 23 1900.
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 of Shell Rock Abbott Crossing and Waverly. Tickets also valid to many cities in Northern Western and Southern States. For information contact B. Co. R. and N. agents or Jnc. G. Farmer A. G. P. and T. A. Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Judge H H Trimble and Palmer Trimble of Keokuk sold a portion of their Mount Sterling area farm near Mount Sterling to Charles W Rand of Burlington for 22000 dollars in cash. The transfer was recorded with a deed and the First National Bank honored a dollar draft in Mull's Pioneer Cure.
The St Louis Republic comments on the New York Society for the Promotion of Health and Happiness advising it to relocate from New York to a calmer home as a fresh start.
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