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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
3
Muscatine newspaper notes high circulation claims and AP membership. It lists delivery details including daily evening editions and a semi weekly issue, with carrier delivery in the city and mail rates for daily and semi weekly subscriptions.
The Journal announces an arrangement of city agencies for reader convenience. Agencies include East Hildumbut Grocery East 2nd Street South Muscatine W F Mikschs grocery Oregon street W C A Buschs Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Chaykas Grocery West Hill J H Fuller Grocery. New York Office 45 W 4th St etc. Chicago Office 750 Marquette Building Payne Young in charge. Telephones listed for business and editorial offices.
Sworn statement by publisher F D Throop reporting total copies printed and circulated in June 1908. Includes per-issue distribution figures and the notary public verification by F L Bihlmeier. Located Muscatine Iowa.
For Governor B F Carroll of Davis County and for Lieutenant Governor Geo W Clarke of Dallas County run. County Auditor A S Lawrence and County Treasurer A C Shiflet are also named on the ticket.
A reflective column urges national resolve on Independence Day. It calls America to lead as explorer and pioneer, shaping humanity’s future while honoring the nation’s birth and its beacon role to the world.
The Fort Dodge Messenger interprets a rumored Cummins resignation as a test of public sentiment and predicts he may decide to stay in office. The Waterloo Reporter counsels Gov. Cummins to complete his term.
A chorus of editorials weighs Gov Cummins and national figures. Reports claim Roosevelt might retire or write about Africa for big pay. Opinions vary on resignations and vice presidential prospects, with calls for unity and caution about motives in politics.
Vic Morris stands with a wild spirit while James Kahn backs his views with life. Kahn aims to crush any obstacle to his plans and to secure aid for widows and orphans, using a 60 H.P. car as a symbol of relentless drive. The Serb Vida plot fades as Kahn presses forward.
Billy Bryan explains his worldly wisdom to Dick Finnan during a May evening voyage off Rough Isle. He contrasts experience with inexperience and jokes about delaying proposals while two youths ride in the stern, hinting at future aims and distant plans.
Dick and Billy dissect courtship and marriage among two young couples in Glebe End Cottage. They debate motives and class, recalling Molly Molloy and a ship's carpenter while debating Vic Morris's fate and a doctor’s young companion.
July 4th no Journal issue due to printers holiday. Items note O. W. John Miller and I. W. Edward Engle as trustees and H. M. Dean M. D. as medical examiner. Also a 20 years ago notice: P. H. Cook wed Margarie Harragon at St Marys Church Omaha. Margarie is daughter of P. R. Harragon Seventy-Six township. Charlotte Smith of Council Bluffs Deaf and Dumb school visiting N. Nevens. J. Springer suffers eye from bug bite under electric light.
Mrs. J. C. Van Dyke of Fredonia is nearly finished with a large fine grain elevator twenty feet wide. A severe thunderstorm struck the city early this morning with lightning causing damage to District school No. 1 and the Jacob Schomberg property among others. Pat Healey returns from a westward railroad job visiting Muscatine friends. he reports health among local Muscatine boys near Cheyenne. Clark Pinkham and Phillip Ryan also visit after returning from Cheyenne.
Muscatine lodge No 99 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen elected officers last night with A Smith as P M W, G Porter as M W, F N Garlock as F, R O Bodman as CO, E P Day as Recorder, Frank Stewart as Financier, J L MecColm as Receiver, and S W Goodhue as G.
A dramatic line questions if the family will allow their daughter to leave, imagining her soaring like a rocket through the chimney. The scene ends with a cliffhanger note: To Be Continued.
A reader from Reasner Iowa declares severe lung trouble cured by Foley's Honey and Tar stopping cough and healing lungs. He owed recovery to the remedy after doctors said consumption and hemorrhages ceased, lungs now sound. A. W. Morgan, Druggist.
Mt. Clemens is accessible without changing trains via the Grand Trunk Railway. Time tables and a descriptive pamphlet are mailed free on application to Geo. W. Vaux A. G. P. T. A. 135 Adams St. Chicago.
The White Collar Line steamers Columbia and Helen Blair depart Davenport every weekday at 7 a.m. and Sundays at 7:30 a.m., returning at 7 p.m. A Burlington boat sails every weekday at 8:30 p.m., arriving in Burlington at 9:15 the next morning. W. G. Block Co., Agents.
Dr Miles D McCabe dies in Nora Springs Ia from consumption. Mrs F C Shinnabarger and children depart for Washington for a few days. Prof W H Langenberg home from Des Moines to San Francisco sends a letter in today's Journal. James McCaw, once of Muscatine now Ottumwa, visits. Mrs Fred B Munroe leaves for Jacksonville Miss to stay with husband while soldiers stay.
The July Recreation magazine is on newsstands with healthful outdoor sports content. Articles include Sleeping Out At Home with photos, a series on Recreation houses for bun galows, and pieces on pack trips, a Cape Cod vacation, brook trout and salmon fishing, and the Future of Wing Shooting.
The department’s new summer issue titled Game Field highlights outdoor activities and leisure options. It emphasizes a distinctive summer flavor designed to appeal to all readers and encourage recreation.
The second summer issue of Burr McIntosh Monthly is on newsstands. It features landscapes and California Coast Fleet cruise photos after the New York trip around Cape Horn, color studies including a Col. William F. Cody portrait, and portraits of Robert Mantell, Sir Henry Irving, Edwin Booth, Marie Tempest, Mme Fritzi Scheff, Margaret Illington, and Maude Adams. Art from the Carnegie Galleries exhibition is highlighted, with emphasis on artistic photography and unusual beauty.
Five editorial staffers review the Chicago Convention as a perfect yet passé system. Samuel E. Moffett argues it produced a superb president pick and an untenable vice nomination and calls for a double election plan with an absolute majority, two finalists, and broad open first round.
Chicago judge McKenzie Cleland argues for suspended maximum sentences as a humane reform reducing revenge and cost. He claims imprisonment often harms criminals and that reformation occurs more effectively without incarceration, noting widespread negative outcomes from prior jail terms.
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