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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1902
Page
3
From his room the young man declares his age in a proud claim. The old gentleman asks about the intruder and the son shouts in the hall. The youth replies this is the intruder and proclaims he is now 21. Memphis Scimitar.
Georgia evangelist Sam Jones denounces New York Bishop Potter as profligate and aligned with wine loving elites. He mocks the bishop dining with millionaires and urges ministers true to righteousness to combat saloon influence and corrupt morality.
Rev. H. C. Marshall of Sioux City, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, reports broad interest but many oppose funding enforcement, preferring moral suasion. He urges creation of state temperance commissioners to enforce the law, noting other state offices exist for various regulations while liquor enforcement remains unfunded.
A 21 year old criminal lawyer’s coming of age party triggers a midnight alarm in his home. A loud voice proclaims a man is in the house, prompting the paterfamilias to rush to the scene and confront the intruder.
A street corner verse asks which kiss is truly kissatious. A school board member visits a high school latin class, mistakes an upside down book for Latin printing, and feigns reading to impress students. The column ends with a quip: three-sevenths of a chicken two-thirds of a cat and one half of a goat equals Chicago.
Rev. A. L. Hazelett, Methodist minister from Colorado City, after a Philippine tour for Gen. MacArthur, reports Manila as well governed with 109 saloons under strict oversight. He notes a drop in drunkenness arrests and praises American administration of the city.
Dr. Fitz concludes after years of data that married persons live longer than single individuals. Death rates by age show married people consistently lower than unmarried, with the gap widening in later decades. The average life for unmarried after 31 is 58.7 years, for married 64.4 years.
An advertisement promises permanent relief from constipation with Cascarets Candy Cathartic. It notes the price as 10 cents or six for sixty cents and offers a druggist refund if the product fails to cure.
Congressman Rumple introduces a bill restricting mussel fishing in the United States. It sets size limits for shells, bans harvesting January through March, and requires two years rest for beds with government marking. Penalties include fines up to 500 dollars and possible imprisonment. The measure targets the pearl button industry centered between Lansing and Keokuk and supported by Fish Commissioner oversight.
The February Woman's Home Companion features Washington's neglected birthplace and Mardi Gras carnival pieces, a Schumann-Heink profile, Civil War nursing heroism, marriage customs in Arabia and Zululand, club houses and Burne-Jones reproductions. It also previews final chapters of The Reincarnation of Captain John Radnor and other fiction, published by Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co. for a dollar yearly.
Sir Charles W. Dilke contributes a February article on The Naval Strength of Nations. It offers a broad, insightful survey of great power navies and world politics drawn from a long diplomatic career, poised for readers beyond immediate daily concerns.
The February number of 10 Story Book is out and praised as among the best. It introduces a publisher policy and a new cover design with a monthly cover change announced.
A C McClurg & Co plans two Nicaragua titles. Lieutenant James G. Walker U S N writes Ocean to Ocean about his 1898 survey trip with photogravure frontispiece and maps. A new edition of Henry I Sheldon Notes on the Nicaragua Canal will accompany it, uniform in style.
The February Harper's Magazine showcases Edwin A Abbey's first eight drawings for Goldsmiths The Deserted Village with a critical piece by Austin Dobson. It includes six notable short stories by Amabel and Amoris author, Mrs Henry Dudeny, Owen Wister, Virginia Woodward Cloud, and others, plus color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. An automobile essay by Maeterlinck, a piece on Man and the Upper Atmosphere by Professor R Soring, Sullivan diaries extracts, van Dyke poem The Dwellings of Peace, Ernest Peixotto on Rapallo, and Mark Twain's widely discussed novelette.
Six year old Flossie asks if marriage brings a husband like papa and whether remaining single makes her an old maid like Aunt Kate. The mother answers yes, the exchange framed in a Nashville Banner humor column tone.
Ad card touts Cascarets as a pleasant medical discovery that cleanses the whole system and cures a wide range of ailments from constipation to biliousness. It asserts positive effects on kidneys liver and bowels and urges purchase from druggists with a 10 to 25 cent price.
The public recalls the powerful melodrama The Convict's Daughter and will see it again at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday January 29. The show features a southern home of Colonel Gould, the old hut at the quarries, and the daring escape of Weary Willie on a speeding freight train.
W J Pure vows to pay a skilled showman a generous salary to learn what people want in entertainment. He cites Uncle Tom's Cabin draw power and laments empty seats at the Roy's Belle of New York, offering 1000 dollars and theater passes for the finder. Grand Opera house, Tuesday, Jan. 28th.
The sweet and pure play Shore Acres comes to the Grand Friday January 31. Critics hail it as a truthful home life drama with poetic beauty and no stage tricks, featuring exquisite human touches and tender sentiment throughout its nine year country run.
The Boston board of health requires sterilization of mugs shaving brushes and razors after each use. Each customer must have a clean separate towel. Materials to stop blood flow may only be used in powder form and applied to a towel. Powder puffs are prohibited.
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