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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1907
Page
4
Pierson's House Furnishings offers a one week half price sale on wash boilers. 14 oz all copper No 9 at 2.50. No 8 at 2.25. No 7 at 1.75. 1xx tin copper bottom at 1.25. 1x tin copper bottom at .95. 1xx copper rim bottom at 1.25. 1x copper rim bottom at 1.00. Lifetime chance noted as close out benefiting customers.
A KL Pierson located at Prop 426 and 428 East Second Street in Muscatine Iowa is listed in the city records for property or business purposes.
Local briefs record births and visits across Muscatine and nearby towns. Parents Mr and Mrs Freyermuth welcome a 12 pound baby boy. many residents travel for visits, business, and chautauqua engagements. A Royal Neighbors picnic is announced at Electric Park with supper and good times.
Ten Muscatine people attend the Burlington regatta September 9 to 14. Muscatine launch owners will send at least six entries to compete against fast boats on the Mississippi. Boats entered include Arreon C P Hanley, Columbia McClung, Hope Alex Grossheim, C G Oscar Grossheim, Ripple Will Bishop, Rubert Freq Bowman with two new motor launches under construction.
Mrs Rose Harriett Stokes wife of millionaire William G Phelps Stokes returns to journalism signing with Vor Waerts to write weekly on socialism and to run a girls advice column. She began as a cigar maker and educated herself entering newspaper work.
Wapello Iowa July 27. F D Archibald and family of Monmouth Illinois visit relatives in town. Mrs Frank Hesse and children visit relatives in Clarks ville. Frank Whisler travels to Mansfield Ohio to visit relatives and many friends. Barbara Gauss of Shenandoah visits sister Mrs Grant Hook Jefferson township. Harrison Missionary society hosted by Mrs Schofield and Mrs Torode at Mrs Schofields home with lunch and sewing. Devotional 2 30 pm. Mrs W H Bothe and Harriet spent week in Muscatine for relatives and chi autauqua. Orpha Hayden returns to Chicago work after visit. E B Cook and children visiting Cedar Rapids depart for Union Depot day. Union Depot for a Day event Aug 7 by Presbyterian church. W P Bumgardner named game warden for Muscatine and Louisa counties. J R Perry of Oelwein visiting Frosts. Kittle and Zella Wright at Don Linehan home Cedar Rapids. Laura E Grime district deputy travels to Columbus Junction to install Silver Leaf Rebekah lodge officers. Alice Hunt of Winfield visiting.
An enduring family remedy claim highlights Chamberlains Colic Cholera Diarrhea Remedy praised by dealers and physicians with many testimonials. The ad suggests it saves time and money by treating upset stomachs before medical help is available.
Geneva offers a free trip to the girl selling the most cooking lesson tickets, a contest now run by church youth organizations. Girls to meet at Y W rooms this evening and a Geneva rally is set for Tuesday night with lantern slides of Lake Geneva and the Y W C A camp. Admission is free.
Paudiet's band presents a sacred concert tomorrow evening at Electric Park featuring new numbers. The program includes marches Willow Grove and Chicago Tribune, overtures Semiramide and Beyond the Gates of Paradise, selections from Faust, polkas Laurel Wreath, waltzes Wedding of the Winds, and Ninth Regiment March, with trombone solo by M Stark.
A series of cooking lessons begins next Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Armory. Miss Blanchar will demonstrate and discuss gas stove use, with seats, electric fans, and a focus on domestic topics. The program runs four weeks with lessons Tuesday to Friday, totaling 16 lessons for $1.00.
Calvin Coleman, set to be executed in Montgomery, Alabama, claims W R Fisher and a Negro named Billie killed J A Finley and that Coleman helped place Finley’s body in a carriage. Fisher was later cleared after grand jury testimony and investigation.
German Congregational Church announces Sunday school at 9 15 morning service at 10 30. Sixth union meeting at Evangelical church 7 30 p m with Rev J Jans preaching. Annual Sunday school picnic Wednesday July 31 at Weed s park. All friends and members invited. Rev C A Dettmers, pastor.
The Roach team won the first game of the second golf match at the Geneva Club yesterday by net eight points over their opponents. Roach players excelled while Sterneman suffered from handicap changes. Light turnout due to Chautauqua grounds activities. The scores from yesterday follow.
Henry Franklin of Hershey avenue plans to relocate his blacksmith shop to a small rear building. The original shop site will be remodeled, and A. C. Franklin will move his grocery business into that building.
Henry Turney brought a Barnes City youth to Sigourney to answer a malicious conduct charge filed by the C R N P railroad. Judge J M Adams presided. the youth was released after paying a $25 fine. Local notes report rain delays harvest and town paving progress.
Keota Iowa weekly social notes recount Mrs H H Stownell’s return to Monmouth Illinois after a week with friends. C O Davis visited St Louis on business. Mrs Charles Corvette joined relatives, the William Nelson family. Stanton Chesney filling depot duties in Clarence Pool’s two week vacation. Rev J Willard De Yoe and wife visited from Delta. Mrs Harry Davis visited Mrs James White in Keota. Mrs Marry Wertz returned to Washington after staying with daughter Mrs James Ralstern. Andrew Campbell of Extra, a former Keota resident, arrived Friday.
Ed Lantry and Chester Masters played ball with North English team at Montezuma Williamsburg and Delta. Mr and Mrs B L Sanders and daughter Verva returned from three weeks with relatives in Dallas county Goldfield and Des Moines. Mr and Mrs T Y Wickham and baby Marian visited Ainsworth then Chicago. Mr and Mrs J W Harding enjoyed ten days in Chicago Milwaukee and elsewhere. Mrs W L Dusenberg and Master Laird visited Washington for a few days. Union meeting in Christian church Sunday with Rev L F Davis delivering. United Presbyterian trip china shower for Miss Jennie Nelson ahead of marriage to Rev John J Gardenter of Birmingham Town on July 30. Light refreshments served.
Albert Stienke and August Brendle appeared before Judge Coster for assault and battery after Mrs. Byron Wagner filed information yesterday. As both youths are under sixteen the judge remanded them to the juvenile court.
A playful critique on starting art at a young age with improvised brushes. The piece recalls Benjamin West and the cat's tail, suggests humorous DIY brushes from family items, and laments public school reliance on ready made brushes as hindering genius.
In 1820 a peasant was murdered in a Loire wood and his dog stayed near the body. In 1837 two travelers sheltered at the widow’s cottage. the dog attacked them and one thief whispered that the dog remembered. The widow alerted the gendarmes who arrested them and one confessed after lengthy questioning.
Walton lands a large catfish after a severe struggle at Big Timber Jamied. The fish weighed 35 pounds before being released and 22 pounds after measurement.
A widow from Albany moved to Brooklyn with relatives and described her late husband as a biologist in the state service. Neighbors debated her poetic view of life as she claimed his career, later revealed to have included time in Sing Sing for forgery. A professor's wife offered a blunt defense calling biologist a student of cell life.
An inscription on a peasant’s wall recalls Napoleon Bonaparte during exile on Elba. He briefly took a plowshare from Giacon, attempted to guide the plow, but the oxen pulled away and spoiled the furrow. The wall note dates the moment to MDCCCXTV. The event underscores his ongoing legend.
The Greenland whale lacks teeth and uses baleen plates. A strong ridge runs along the palate with a wide depression for plate insertion. Plates are long and flat, with outer edges of whale bone and inner fringed cribs forming a filter to catch mollusks and jellyfish.
A quotation on viewing one’s career as a masterpiece and self-fulfillment. It contrasts pride in work with loose attachment to vocation, urging a deep, purposeful connection to one’s chosen field.
A fragment depicts a father threatening to whip his son if he misbehaves. The boy responds with a defiant wish that the punishment will come so he can receive some candy once it ends.
A fair widow teases the incorrigible bachelor asking if he would take her for twenty six. He replies no and adds a sharp retort about taking her daughter to be that age. The exchange reads as playful social wit between two old acquaintances.
A fragment describes a drawing room scene where guests crowd out for refreshments while Aunt Matilda prepares to sing, juxtaposed with a greeting to George. The snippet emphasizes social routine and interpersonally playful dialogue without additional context.
An awkward homage that signals inferiority in paying tribute to merit. The line suggests a social critique of recognizing merit through flawed or insincere expressions, attributed to La Motte.
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