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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1902
Page
5
William T. Estabrook, 20, drowned yesterday forenoon while swimming with Frank Bake and Paul Baker off Hog Island. Rescuers failed to reach him as strong currents dragged him into a 12 foot deep hole. Remains sent to Oxford Iowa. funeral scheduled next afternoon.
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway promotes homeseekers trips to rich farming and dairy lands along its line in Northwestern Iowa Southern Minnesota and Southwestern South Dakota. Tickets go on sale the first and third Tuesdays of June July August September October from principal stations. Contact local agents for rates and ensure tickets read via the C R I & P Ry. Jnc G. Farmer and J A Cedar Rapids Division C R I & P Ry Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Clarence Hardy, seriously injured Saturday by a blasting accident near Wyoming Hill, was taken to St. Luke's hospital in Davenport and is reported in precarious condition. His clothes were burned by flames from the explosion as fellow workmen improvised a stretcher from a bed sheet. His father, living in Oxford, traveled to Davenport to be at his bedside.
Mr. Swan reports two furnaces to be built at River Iron Works Muscatine for the district. The price is set at 2500 dollars and other school matters are touched on in the same column.
The Elburn Record notes Mrs. A G Hopkins wife of Dr Hopkins of Muscatine Iowa was severely bruised and stunned when a large Aurora car plunged into the Fox River at St Charles causing 35 passengers to tumble into three feet of water. She remained bedridden for days but is not losing an eye as first reported.
A city wide union revival movement begins in Iowa Falls Ja with all churches uniting. Evangelist Billy Sunday is to headline the meetings at the Metropolitan opera house, likely starting in October.
Citizens' Power & Light Company announces that steam used for heating in Muscatine will be discontinued from this time forward because contracts have expired. H. T. Fiske, superintendent, signs the notice to patrons.
A group including prominent Americans and two English baronets discuss bridge whist aboard an ocean liner. Sir Edward Colebrooke questions patriotism of Americans playing it while Mr. Morgan hails the game as deceitful and un-American, urging abolition. The quarrel ends with a fiery vow to "shoot" the advocate of the term.
Joseph, noted as author of the baseball poem Casey at the Bat, dies in St Louis Missouri on July 14, ending a celebrated literary career.
Gus Labarge was struck by a street car while on the rear platform of a car moving away from Dubuque Iowa Sunday night. He died about three hours after the collision at Dubuque General Hospital. The incident occurred on the rear platform of the southbound car with investigators examining the scene.
A nostalgic poem recalls a grandmother guiding a boy through rural scenes. The speaker longs for those childhood summers, the old mare, and the tender words and caresses that made love and joy feel eternal, as memory drifts like a shadow from the grave.
A fragment from Robert Mackay in June in Success recalls a rural scene with a gray mare, the morning sun, a ringing schoolhouse bell, and the midway pool as a memory inviting a ride to school. The poem evokes pastoral imagery and nostalgia.
A list from B C R N excursions shows summer meetings with reduced fares to Denver Omaha Tacoma Salt Lake City and San Francisco for groups including the National Convention Ancient Order of Hibernians National Fraternal Congress and Travelers’ Protective Association plus Knights of Pythias and other bodies. Jno G Farmer is the G P and T A for inquiries and full information.
Mrs Grant and her daughter Miss Marie were aboard the Helen Blair yesterday morning bound for Fairport. They spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ev Brandenberg and Miss Hattie Junkin at their summer cottage Fairview.
A discourse on animal bravery amid pain with a muskrat trapped underwater gnawing off its own limb to escape. The narrative contrasts this with a vignette about a haunted room where a son-in-law gathers blankets fearing ghosts and finds no warmth.
A well known town figure spent a weekend in the country and, faced with a full house, slept in the haunted room. He later confessed at breakfast that the spirits had unsettled him more than he expected.
The passage notes shifting social labels among generations with women labeled as cat or kitten, men as old women, and youths as boys or old fellows. It also contrasts American readers watching morning theater, evening papers, and imported goods like Stilton cheese, French chalk, Hungarian bands, and British flags manufactured in Germany.
The fire devouring colonel recalls battle stories to his nephews. The youngest asks if he ever ran away, and the uncle replies that fleeing is rarely wise but turning about and charging in the opposite direction can be a grand act when danger is faced.
A misapprehension over horse naming causes a club to joke about a purported death of Lord aan uehsy. The message on the tape misleads members into a faked bereavement and heavy laughter follows when the error is revealed, noting that Lord-wes owns the horse.
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