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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1901
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal lists MAHIN as editor and Harold J. Mahin as manager in its masthead. It notes entry at the Muscatine post office as a second class matter.
Rates list daily subscription per year delivered by carrier with weekly collection. Semi weeklyTuesday and Friday payments in advance. $15 percent order by postal card or telephone. Remittances by graft express or money order payable to Journal Printing Company.
The Omana school board ordered banning married women from public school teaching claiming support by husbands. The Chicago Record Herald argues marriage should not affect teaching ability and praises qualified married women, noting capacity to teach is not defined by marital status.
About thirty five thousand volunteers are returning to the United States from the Philippines with all but two detachments back home. On June 30 general and staff officers are discharged and Major General Shafter retires. Major General Wood remains in service as brigadier general and Cuba’s governor general. A standing army of four thousand six hundred will stay in the islands.
The piece rebuts reports that Comanche Kiowa lands will be open to settlement at no cost. It explains no acre can be taken without pay, even after allotments. Remaining lands will be sold for Indians at no less than $1.25 per acre, countering homestead seekers’ claims.
A circulating circular invites African American residents to join a colonization movement toward an Ethiopian republic in central Africa. Authorities label it a utopian fraud aimed at extracting money. Signed by C. B. Martin, D. R. Thomas and W. H. Sweeney with Chicago named as headquarters.
The article notes officials secretly study trusts under the Sherman law with aims to attack them in court. It states government wins under the Sherman act prove it is more sweeping and effective than previously thought.
Report states that 95 percent of Idaho women exercise their voting rights and their influence keeps alcoholic men from holding official positions.
In a village scene Farmer Knubbs reflects on fame fading after death as he reads the Weekly. His wife Jason asks why, prompting a quiet meditation on memory, time, and the tone of the town’s local journalism.
The Plaindealer hints at a photo of Williams Jennings Bryan and offers a year’s subscription to the first reader who correctly identifies him. The challenge appears as a playful parlor game featured in a Puck citation.
Clinton Herald reports Reichenberg Austria June 26 1901 that a force of sixteen American ladies led by Gen Macomber Des Moines captured and held Dresden for days with four Iowa support from Reichenberg. The group toured Europe from Gibraltar to England, enjoying opera galleries and concerts before returning by steamer around August 1. Frank W. Mahin.
Preparations are complete for the Moline chautauqua assembly to run July 11 through 22 at Prospect Park. The varied program promises a pleasant outing with camping tents available from 31.06 to 4.00 for the season. Rev. J. F. Robinson of Moline can provide more information.
The Detroit Journal notes Hiram Cronk of Herkimer County New York is the sole surviving male pensioner from the War of 1812. Born in 1800 he is 101 and lively, with a lifelong democrat record and a family famed for longevity. A 100th birthday reunion drew over 100 relatives. Cronk enlisted in 1814 in the mass militia and served with distinction through the war.
An elderly man recalls voting for Andrew Jackson and for Cleveland while noting fatigue ends his participation. He explains he quit at Grover and calls it a half day. Cronk has long used tobacco and alcohol but hopes to live on with his daughter.
In a prohibition town two Iown men drank 100 bottles of lemon extract as whisky substitute and died. Prohibition in too large doses is dangerously potent and lethal.
A New York society woman gives birth to a baby girl described as three legend, who dies soon after birth. In later life she would not have ridden astride without reversing the other way, a noted fashion concern of the era.
A five year old queries his mother about the story’s reference to a great grandmother and questions whether all grandmothers are great. The dialogue notes a child’s curiosity and family storytelling.
A Sunday school scene features Johnny answering why Solomon wed many wives with a witty line about becoming the father of his country, reflecting a playful exchange on biblical topics.
A teacher asks for the object of the verb strike in a sentence about Thomas striking Henry. The class discussion reveals a student answer linking labor themes to grammar, with a future walking delegate offering shorter hours and higher wages as the response.
A playful exchange between a dray horse and a carette horse centers on hats. The dray horse suggests an Alpine hat for comfort, while the carette horse humorously says it ate its hat out of hunger and cannot get another.
Travel notice for through tickets from Buffalo to New York and Philadelphia on the Exposition Express. Luxurious sleeping cars with a 3 PM departure and 7 53 AM arrival via the Lehigh Valley line. Stopovers allowed at Buffalo on all through tickets.
Iowa news brief items report Buffalo Bill show in Fairfield on August 15. County clerks of Iowa plan a Des Moines state convention July 11–12. Ot tumwa wooes Wheeled Scraper plant amid tax incentives and shipping advantages. Embezzlement ties two Philips dept store workers. ex Governor Drake funds major building projects in Centerville. Harvest talk and local gossip mix with a lottery scheme in southern Iowa offering farm tracts as prizes via a stock receipts guess.
A weary tramp enters town dodging a policeman and asks a pious elderly man for food. The man instructs his dog Towser to deal with the intruder, sending the dog after him as the tramp escapes, trousers frayed in its teeth.
A neighbor’s hired girl from the country conceals a romance with her lover while her mistress suspects troubling secrecy. The tale recounts the intrusion of the lover and the cautious opening of dialogue amid long silences and implied tension.
A verse advising shopkeepers to attract customers with a neat well lit store on a popular street. Focus on fresh well arranged gold and goods, attractive windows, modest prices, courteous service, active salesmen, and promoting bargains rather than self praise. Encourages online printer leverage and high quality warranted goods.
The republicans of Seventy-Six township will meet in caucus on Saturday July 13 at 5 p m to select delegates to the county convention and to transact any other business before the caucus. W Meeker Committeeman.
The Republicans of Sweetland Township meet at Mount Grove school house on Saturday evening July 13 at 8 p m to elect nine delegates to the county convention and to transact other important business. J H Van Camp Committeeman.
The republicans of Bloomington township meet at the court house on Saturday July 13 at 9 30 to select delegates for the county convention on July 20 and to transact other business before the caucus by order committee
Goshen township Republicans are called to a caucus in Atalissa on Saturday evening July 13 to select delegates to the county convention committee.
Fruitland Township Republicans meet at Lone Tree School house on the evening of Saturday July 13 to select delegates to the county convention committee.
Moscow township Republicans will meet on Saturday July 13 at 7 30 p m to choose six delegates for the Muscatine convention on July 20 and to conduct other business as needed. By order of committeeman S M Hoskins.
Republicans of Lake Township will meet in caucus at Lucas Grace School House on Saturday evening July 13 at 7 30 p.m. Committeeman.
A playful note envisions wireless telegraphy with Mars while promoting Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a superior cure for stomach liver and bowel issues. It pledges fifty years of cures and warns to look for the genuine stamp over the bottle neck.
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