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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
7
Local muscatine notices list residents and visitors boarding trains or boats to Davenport Oskaloosa and Denport plus trips to Letts Wilton and Washington. Names include Helen Bates H O Kemp J G O'Brien Carl Schmidt Willa Waymack Vera Miller Rosiland Brandt and others with brief travel or visiting plans. Rocky Mountain Tea ads accompany local health notes.
Boston plans its first Old Home Week July 28 to August 3 to honor former residents. A seven day program includes a military parade coast defence maneuvers grand civic parade and various reunions with Lieut Gen Miles as chief marshal. Special days spotlight Founders Patriots Greater Boston New England Massachusetts Women's and Military Day.
The group Trust 10 protests what it calls unfair government conduct. It accuses authorities of biased actions and seeks a fairer, impartial handling of the matter.
The beef packers back an independent program for pure food testing and poison squad work led by President EB James of the University of Illinois, pledging 259000 dollars to create a nationally respected scientific board with Harvard Yale Michigan and Cornell participation. The project aims to impartial findings and broader food standards. The plan seeks to use Wiley style tests at Illinois with a wide academic board overseeing.
Charles Chick Kirk of Marshalltown Hawkeye catcher elected captain of the 1908 Iowa baseball team by the university. Judge Emlin McClain of the Iowa supreme court to host a Taft Day dinner at 6 at the Country Club on the Iowa River with governors regents and other Iowa dignitaries.
River Bulletin notes nearly stationary stages across the Mississippi from below Dubuque to Muscatine. Forecaster J. M. Shelter reports minimal changes in stage over the next 48 hours.
Advertisement notes a tonic named Vital Vim available for fifty cents a bottle at W. A. Morgan Druggist in Muscatine. The copy urges readers to brace their system and buy soon, claiming the tonic is the best on the market.
Mrs Maud Clar of Webster City and Gus Deforrest of Columbus Junction visit Springdale relatives. Miss Edith Wester weds Lon Hutcheson at Centerdale with a large reception. Springdale High School class of 1907 graduates in Friends church with seven hundred in attendance. Prof Miller to lead Rockford school next year. numerous regional travel and local family mentions throughout the week.
Allan Line announces weekly sailings from Montreal through the St Lawrence River by daylight. New steamers Victorian and Virginian with triple screw engines join Tunisian Corsican Ionian twin screws. Rates from saloon 69 dollars, second cabin 40 dollars, one class cabin 46 dollars. Allan & Company, 474 Jackson Blvd, Chicago.
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