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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1902
Page
5
Hard coal remains scarce in Muscatine as eastern strikes and mine closings push prices up. Dealers report little stock, with New York prices cited at eight dollars per ton, equating to about twelve dollars in this region. Demand shifts to coke and soft coal amid looming famines and a buyer’s market.
An advertisement extolls Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for weak nerves, exhausted tissue, poor blood, and insomnia during hot weather. It claims physicians support its benefits, including new pure blood, stronger nerves, improved digestion, and restored energy, citing Mrs. J. N. Morgan's testimonial of relief from nervous prostration and sleeplessness.
Frank B. Wheaton of the treasury department arrives in Muscatine to survey possible sites for a new government building and to study bids. He will tour Iowa towns, consult with bidders, and report to Secretary Shaw, with final site decisions delayed until title and legal matters are resolved.
Fruitland Iowa July 29 The Island M E church ice cream social drew a good crowd with net proceeds of 22 dollars Mrs Jefferson Chambliss and daughter Marcia returned home after visiting Walnut Iowa Mark of Muscatine gave a talk to the Island Epworth League Miss Sadie Hummel Grandview spent Sunday with her brother R T Hummel Julia Funk Muscatine visiting relatives on the Island Mrs John Hunter visited Salem Muscatine last week Anna Richards a Muscatine dressmaker spent a few days at home.
A scrambled price list shows corn meal per sack twenty cents, bran one dollar, shorts one dollar twenty five, sugar four ninety five per hundred sacks, sugar cut loaf one dollar for fourteen cents, granulated nineteen pounds per dollar, dark coffee per pound green seventeen to twenty cents, Rio roasted fifteen to twenty five cents, Golden Rio green twenty cents, butter prime yellow seventeen and a quarter to twenty five cents, butter creamery twenty cents, eggs seventeen and a half percent per dozen, turkeys dressed fourteen cents, old chickens dressed twelve cents, alive eight cents, lard twelve and a half to fifteen cents, bacon twelve and a half to fifteen cents, ham fourteen cents, cheese per pound, leaf sage thirty five cents per bunch, lemons twenty to twenty five cents per dozen.
Fine 199 acre tract near Muscatine with improvements and a price of 0 dollars. An additional 0 acres at 5 miles from Muscatine priced to attract buyers. Other good farm bargains within 2 percent miles of Muscatine. Money to loan and city property for sale.
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