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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1906
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening through the week except Sunday and the Semi-Weekly Journal appears with 8 pages on Tuesday and 8 pages on Friday nights. The papers are AP members with circulation guaranteed to exceed all Muscatine rivals combined.
Terms offered to subscribers outline daily city delivery by carrier and weekly collection of ten cents. Mail options priced at three dollars per year for daily delivery, with semi weekly at one dollar fifty cents per year.
New York Office at 1140 Nassau Street lists La Coste and Maxwell in charge while Chicago Office at 750 Marquette Building names Payne and Young as managers.
The Journal names agency locations around the city for reader convenience including Fast Hill Clay Kneese Grocery Fast 2nd street South Muscatine Morse Washburns grocery Find of street car track W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Chayka's grocery West Muscatine Sharrar's grocery.
Fragmentary notice outlines Bell telephone business offices and the Mississippi Valley area. Readable items mention Bell offices and related facilities with unclear details.
The Republican voters of Iowa are called to a Des Moines convention on August 1, 1906 at 10:30 a.m. to nominate candidates for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state auditor treasurer attorney general supreme court positions clerk superintendent of public instruction reporter railroad commissioner and other business. All voters who support Republican principles are invited to elect delegates with representation ratios to be announced.
The first Chautauqua held in Muscatine is declared an unqualified success with receipts a little over $4,000 and expenses expected to be similar. All bills will be paid and a possible nest egg left for the association to begin again next year. The achievement came through hard work and strong citizen support amid initial organization challenges. The board organized, program work began, and early interest concerns were overcome.
The Muscatine Chautauqua opened with strong public support, a first class program, and hearty backing from business leaders. Despite selling about 1,500 season tickets against a 2,000–2,500 goal, crowds responded with enthusiasm, tents planned for next year, and praise for organizers and the street railway service. The event concluded amid positive reviews, a favorable weather run, and plans for a stockholders meeting to wind up this year’s affairs and elect a new board.
Newspapers credit Secretary Shaw with handling Panama bonds skillfully. Bonds at 2 percent drew par, yet he raised them to a premium near 4 percent, netting about $1.2 million for the treasury by creating an artificial market.
The West Virginia first district GOP convention endorses protectionist policy as the path to prosperity. They praise Republican achievements, approve a gold standard and stable money, and denounce Democratic efforts to repeal tariffs, warning of risks to labor and industry.
The Clinton Herald notes that party faction harmony wears thin and may not hold. A Boone Republican says it will not be a Cummins belt if two Republican candidates run, arguing there is little need for Republicans to discuss responsibility for the current state of affairs.
The Cedar Rapids Republican urges enforcing the state primary law to reduce Cummins vote count while the Ringgold Record notes the issue. The Marion Register questions a universal definition of progressives, suggesting the term means many things to many people.
The Cedar Falls Record believes the faction with the majority of delegates should name the Republican state convention nominee and expresses faith that the convention will do the square thing.
The Des Moines Capital notes Republican Party No 1 will work with no olive branch from Party No 2. It describes a hostile, daggered fray with malice and revenge and questions what the coroner’s verdict will be.
A Washington Democrat denounces Bryan, saying conservatives are the wrong leaders for the times. He argues conservative statesmen fail to accomplish anything and display complacency, warning that such policy yields no progress.
The Iowa City Republican warns that congressional candidates will back Cummins while distancing themselves from his acts. They argue Cummins' renomination would threaten the party nationwide, presenting a difficult challenge if he wins a third term.
The Dubuque Times notes the state committee will investigate fraud claims at the caucuses primaries and conventions with testimony admitted and no threat of bolting should intimidate the committee the credentials committee or the convention. It asserts calling the inquiry an effort to steal the convention from Gov Cummins signals fear of exposure of methods used to gain county control.
The Keokuk Gate City denounces Gov. Cummins in response to Cedar Rapids Republican's claim under the line Could This Be True? The Gate City says Cummins is too small and selfish to write such a letter, accusing him of loyalty only to himself and personal advancement, dismissing party patriotism.
The Davenport Times warns that mounting factionalism in Iowa politics could spark trouble at the Des Moines convention. It urges Republicans linked to Perkins and Cummins followers to push for fair play and reject technicalities to avert clashes.
A promotional piece praising natural health and Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery. Claims thin blood fatigue stems from stomach mistreatment and advocates glyceric extracts of native roots plus Black Cherrybark as a safe tonic to improve stomach liver and blood without alcohol or habit forming drugs.
The Journal presents the third article in a series on pen and ink drawing. It notes illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson and mentions the article is part of a 20 article program with the drawing printed as an art supplement.
The article analyzes Gibson's whimsical design titled design for a bachelors wallpaper, a four face diamond pattern made by cutting and pasting four distinct Gibson girls. It explains the pattern construction, irregularities for realism, and how the faces form a seamless repeated motif in period wallpaper style.
Farouche senses danger to Aimee as Gaspard and accomplices plot to abduct her. In a wine crowded hall, Gaudais taunts, Raoul’s ally Gaspard orders restraint then loses temper. Gaspard returns to Aimee’s door waving an ax, awaiting a chance to force her obedience.
W. S. McKee declares his bid for county clerk, subject to the Republican county convention's decision. He invites Muscatine County Republicans to note his candidacy and goals.
R J Wiley declares his bid for the Republican nomination as sheriff of Muscatine County subject to the county convention's decision.
A claim circulates that many deaths blamed on heart trouble stem from acute indigestion, which Electric Bitters can cure. The advertisement from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store promotes the remedy at 50 cents.
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