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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1902
Page
3
The Muscatine based Ohef Journal editorial team announces the issue was planned and executed by the veteran editor's son and associates. The editor claims limited original writing today and minimal involvement in today's contents. The paper remains the official muscatine county publication.
Facsimile pages from Muscatine Journal a half century old reveal farmer stories political notes and local ads. The issue notes Henry Clay motto and a speech by Henry O Connor and lists Whig tickets with several figures now deceased.
A compilation of veteran Iowa editors still living who began active service before 1876. It names W. W. Junkin of Fairfield Ledger, Edmund Booth of Anamosa Eureka, J. J. Richardson of Davenport Democrat, George D. Perkins of Sioux City Journal, H. A. Burrell of Washington Press, and others with long paper careers and current residencies. The piece notes numerous peers, unions, and affiliations across many towns and papers.
John Mahin recounts his 1833 birth in Noblesville Indiana and family migrations from Ireland and Pennsylvania German roots. He describes his start as an apprentice printer in Bloomington and Muscatine, his partnership with Orion Clemens, and his long tenure leading the Muscatine Journal. He reflects on 50 years of national growth, the Civil War era, and his views on ambition and public esteem. He notes marriages to Anna Herr and Anna Lee, five children, and his sons John Lee and H J Mahin with their roles in Chicago and Muscatine.
A collection of 1830s to 1840s letters to S. S. White in Ft. Madison recounts early Iowa journalism figures. It notes Andrew Logan, Alfred Sanders, and many editors like D. N. Richardson, S. M. Clark, L. W. Babbitt, and others, plus a Blooming ton capital bid and a packet of letters from Moses Couch and others.
Three business signs on Second street carry on from 1852. S. G. Stein J. B. Dougherty and H. Molis & Co. continue in the same line with the sons of the original proprietors taking over.
An older letter from Bloomington dated December 9 1836 shows Moses Couch authorized to sell 26 lots belonging to Mr White. He urges White to come up immediately and closes with respectful regards to White’s wife. The time stained packets are deemed worthy for a historic cabinet.
Ernst Borger father of Sam Borger arrived in Muscatine on July 10, 1852, just days before Mr. Mahin began leading the Journal's editorial columns. A wagon maker by trade, he traveled from New Orleans via river routes after crossing the ocean in 16 weeks aboard an old sailing vessel. He has followed the paper for about 50 years, knows Mahin well, and now enjoys a retired life on East Fifth Street.
A Lansing Iowa Journal note reports a family's cure of a summer complaint in a child using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The writer urges every home to keep a bottle, noting the medicine is well made, helpful for little sufferers, and available at all druggists.
The Journal editor expresses deep gratitude for numerous metaphorical bouquets and joy at receiving a real bouquet from young Vera Welch, gathered by her own hands and made with thoughts of kindness for the veteran editor.
The Iowa Central railway offers very low sale tickets to St Paul Minneapolis and Minnesota resorts with return by October 31. The Minnesota resorts are praised for health and recreation benefits and fishing opportunities. Consult Iowa Central agents for details.
An advertisement urges readers to buy and try a box of Cascarets Candy Cathartic tonight. The copy emphasizes genuine tablets stamped C C C and warns they are never sold in bulk, available at all druggists.
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