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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
8
Sailors, 10 cents, at the Whrnder. Mrs. W. O. Duran was a passenger this morning to Davenport. Mrs. J. C. Haziett was a passenger this morning on the Firefly to Chicago, where she will join her husband.
An implausible ad fragment promotes rubber stamps from Holmes and urges a visit or call at a single phone number 2063 with a contrary command to not proceed.
The column lists price cuts and sales at Schmidt Bros Wonder Scheetz’s Geo B Jackson’s and Weisse’s Bakery. Items include bicycle lamps, shoes, hammocks, shirts, waist goods, dress skirts and baked goods. Several residents and travelers are noted visiting or moving, with routine notices of rooms for rent and local errands.
Schmidt Broxs. the old reliable piano men advertise pianos as the finest instrument on earth, promoting their store as the go to place for musical instruments.
Invitations were sent to many Muscatine residents for the State university commencement exercises. Edward Asthalter hosted the senior high class at his East Sixth street home with games and music. A men s reception at the First Baptist church by its ladies was a social success fostering mutual acquaintance with brief addresses by A. W. Hine and Z. W. Hutchinson and a lullaby by Mrs. C. F. Nevius.
River workers and rivermen discuss continued rubbish dumping along the river bank near the C R J and P tracks. They blame limited police force and marshal's absence, noting municipal help needed to enforce cleanliness.
Thomas Cullen has invented a new apron holder using two thin fasteners connected with a rubber band. It replaces back strings that often break, allowing wearers to bend stoop or tumble without losing an apron. Supply houses sent large orders, signaling strong commercial interest though patent status is pending.
Local items mention Fred and Wm Poot from Witton in the city, M M Murdock from Eliza Kl visiting on business, J H Hessen from Nichols, and Albert with C A Brookhart from Lake township touring town. The Wonder store highlights ladies and children’s shoes while Marie MaeCresney from Wapello arrives via the Firefly. Constante Schoenig faces an assault charge in Judge Rowan’s court with a suspended fine. Prof F H Shinn reports a rush in typewriter business and Edward Dreier’s good progress. Arthur Matthews plans to stay at the office Sunday morning as the professor is out.
The advertisement highlights The Ludwig piano at Schmit Bros and best deals at the Wonder store with muslin underwear and bicycles repaired. It also notes travel by Mrs Wayne Reynolds and Miss Nethe Robertson to Chicago and Tipton respectively, plus various shoppers and local businesses including Geo. B. Jackson’s silk wares, Henry Batz’s blue flame wickless stove, and Whistler’s 211 West Second street.
A Laurence Indiana woman credits Grape Nuts food and Postum Coffee with lifting her from a debilitating decline caused by poor diet and overwork. After a month she walked from bed, resumed literary work, and reports stable nerves and renewed health benefiting her daughter as well.
Market dispatch from Chicago via H J Toher Co shows June 6 1901 quotes for Wheat Corn and Oats with highs lows and closes. Livestock receipts hogs cattle and sheep noted with price ranges and day end shapes. Northwest wheat receipts Minneapolis Duluth and Liverpool signals plus weather outlook for Kansas Nebraska Illinois Indiana and North Dakota.
Ottumwa reports Charles Thornton a 30 year old miner was instantly killed at Foster Deep Vein Coat Company mine when a slate fall toppled in at 3 PM yesterday. The incident is under local inquiry.
E H Gabriel of Wilton reports John Ritter, once a Huttig painter, has come back from a California trip. Ritter bought an orange and fruit farm near Los Angeles for 500 dollars an acre and plans to relocate his family to the west. He brought a sample orange deemed among the finest seen by the Journal man.
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