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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1902
Page
2
A vintage culinary guide extols the tomato as a versatile summer fruit and winter staple. It highlights ripeness, peeling methods, and varied preparations from raw salads to stews, grilling, baking, and stuffed dishes, praising its acidity, flavor, and utility in diverse recipes.
County and state officials urge prompt accurate school census for all residents ages five to twenty one. The new compulsory attendance law requires counting seven to fourteen year olds and ensuring at least twelve weeks of schooling per year. The period runs September first to the third Monday, with directives to directors secretaries and subdistricts.
Nellie Lack, 26, of ten miles north, shot herself in the right temple. Found seated upright, she had been in poor health and under medical treatment. Authorities believe illness and temporary derangement led to the act.
Iowa Central railway offers very low rate tickets to St Paul Minneapolis and Minnesota resorts with return by Oct 31. Minnesota summer resorts are superior and promise health pleasure or recreation with fishing noted. Consult Iowa Central agents for details.
Charles City reports J. H. Owen, longtime cashier and president of the Charles City National Bank from 1885 to 1898, now in an insane asylum at Tacoma Washington with violent affliction. He left banking for life insurance work in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids and recently moved to Tacoma with his family to start anew.
W G Block Diamond Jo line agent has sale notes from Isaac P Lusk G P A offering excursion tickets to Clinton and return for 1 25 during the Mississippi Valley Spiritualists association annual meeting. Tickets sold from July 19 to August 22 with return by August 30.
A U S circuit court of appeals decision affirms a Nebraska federal court ruling that a saloonkeeper may be liable for a patron’s death if the death results from an accident caused by the patron’s intoxicated condition in the bar.
In LeMars Iowa on a rainy day an M and St Louis engine struck a buggy driven by Mrs John Balsinger. She was instantly killed and her body badly mangled. Mrs Balsinger had been a trained nurse and was well known locally.
Events of interest to Iowans in Washington include post office discontinuation at Albany Davis county sending mail to Ash Grove. George W. Scott of Davenport gains admission to practice before the interior department. Jacob E. Fickele of Des Moines appointed a cadet in the revenue cutter service.
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