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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
3
Fragmented OCR text mentions Vuknal Tinai Printing Vlu and claims of dominance over other papers. Includes garbled names like Associated Press and New York, Chicago offices, Marquette Building, and delivery charges. Likely a misread trade listing or notice about a newspaper publisher.
The Daily journal is issued every evening in Week encepe DauUuay. The Semi-Weekly Journal publishes 10 pages Tuesday through Friday. Daily editions are available in the city by carrier and mailed for weekly cycles. One year by mail is $3.00. semi-weekly one year is $1.50.
The Journal has established agencies at Last Hill Clay Kineese Grocery East 2nd Street in South Muscatine W F Miksch's grocery End of street car track W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey ermine Kecklerville Chaykan's Grocery West Hill J H Fuller Grocery.
Fragmentary notice lists telephone and business office references to Bell Telephone in the Mississippi Valley. Readers are left with unclear details beyond the presence of Bell offices and editorial mentions.
Sworn statement by Frank D. Throop publisher listing printed copies and circulation totals for December 1907. Noted figures include daily Sun editions and totals. sworn before Notary Public Arthur Hoffman on January 2, 1908 in Muscatine County Iowa.
The Chicago Tribune's Washington correspondent Raymond notes growing sentiment for La Follette as a possible dark horse if Taft is not nominated. He argues progressive Republicans could swing to La Follette to carry Roosevelt policies, with Western Republicans gaining influence. Iowa progressives welcome the shift.
The Washington correspondent argues Raymond’s changing stance on La Follette does not alter his regard for the man. It contrasts La Follette as Wisconsin’s fiery reformer and today a powerful Washington figure with Roosevelt praised for restrained, effective leadership, warning against centralized power.
Recap notes Senator Patterson's bid to shift Muscatine marshal appointment to popular election amid constitutional limits. Mentions potential general law override and timing before March municipal election. Includes brief 40 30 20 year-old notices on local clubs, legal admission, church communion, postmaster plans, illness, lecture, marriage license, telephone ties, and Valentine’s Day window displays.
A note reflecting that January 30, 1898 fell on a Sunday.
The piece argues that nominating or electing Robert La Follette would threaten American institutions due to his ambition and unbridled politics. It contrasts him with Roosevelt, warns of power consolidation, and dismisses a Third-term idea while noting Wisconsin’s senator as a powerful but destabilizing force. It ends with a city note about Muscatine street lighting funding after saloon closures.
Sioux City Tribune notes the Des Moines News withdraws from the Clover League, a group of papers operating under the same name from Duluth to Dallas. Mel Uhl leaves for Omaha as the Des Moines paper passes to a new syndicate, Scripps McRae. Sioux City Journal reports a senate poll showing 29 of 60 Republicans favor Taft, challenging a view that Roosevelt has no allies.
Report claims Taft campaign managers intend to press local movements in favor of favored sons, indicating no retreat in additional states even as discussions arise about competition within the Republican presidential nomination race.
In New York reports Shaw faced pressure at the Carnegie Trust for giving more attention to politics and storytelling than to business, while Waterloo readers note Prouty’s reply to Senator Dolliver lacked force, likened to a casual agnostic critique of the Sermon on the Mount.
At the party Camilla dances with a bold companion while Rupert watches with growing jealousy. He feels wounded by her ease and mocking words as Mrs. Brenton notes Camilla’s childlike grace and the burden of her past marriage.
Matilda Rohr of Ottumwa, an employee of the Ottumwa Optical company, has found her father in Keokuk after 22 years of absence. The daughter had not seen or heard from him during that time.
Des Moines based S C Lee Lumber company with yards at Van Cleve Chardan Peru and offices in Des Moines has assigned to S A Merrill. The firm maintains offices at 621 Iowa Loan and Trust building and is described as one of the best known lumber concerns in the state.
An apparently dazed 25 year old man was detained by Iowa City police after arriving at the city hall with about 200 grains of morphine. He claimed severe scalding in Omaha and reported flesh dropping from his limbs. He was sheltered at city hall, then sent by train to Davenport.
A New England farmer narrator confronts tariff politics while riding westward. He jokes about farmers and industry, critiques diversified farming as hype, and laments farm mortgage burdens and rural decline while recalling his wife’s death and the toll of farm life. The piece contrasts rural hardship with political promises and a call for protection.
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