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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
3
Representatives Payne and Young oversee operations at the Chicago office located in the 750 Marquette Building.
The Journal publishes a directory of city agencies and vendors including Bast Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd street South Muscatine Toborg Bros grocery Oregon street W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Charka's Grocery West Bill J H W Fuller Grocery and Wm Var Zy Grocery with a New York Office address at 30 34 West 83rd Street.
The Muscatine Journal publishes a sworn circulation statement for May 1909 with figures showing total and daily averages. Notable totals include 6,825 and 6,815 in various categories, with other daily and period numbers referenced and printed in the record.
I F D Throop publisher of the Muscatine Journal swears the May 1909 paper had a certain number of copies printed and circulated, excluding 10,000 on the Booster Trip May 11 and 12. Notary F W Eversmeyer certified the oath June 3, 1909.
The Sioux City Journal argues that James E Patten deserves apologies from newspapers and ministers yet notes he would prefer not to receive them. It recalls an editorial from the Louisville Herald on the Ethics of the Wheat Pit praising Patten while criticizing his profits as famine price wheat drives hardship for the poor. The piece questions Patten as a producer and contrasts his fortune with rightful value received.
The author draws a sharp contrast between Patten and vulnerable wheat pit victims arguing that Patten profits from others toil while bread remains essential, unlike beds in an imagined earthquake scenario. The piece condemns perceived market manipulation and social indifference.
An Ottumwa Courier tale of woe describes a wind up music machine in a downtown office. Employees suffer through a loop of Star Spangled Banner Dixie and other tunes, debating replacing cylinders or altering the order to avoid more misery. They warn the inventor of the torture will answer for it in the next world.
Burlington Gazette teases an up to date sporting guide listing Senator Bailey's boxing bouts. The feature promises records of Bailey's fights and related athletic notes for readers seeking historical sports data.
A local notice urges prompt action as a young man faces pressure over a June wedding. The message warns delays could be fatal and emphasizes the urgency of the situation in Iowa City.
An Omaha church pastor tries to use prayer to remove an obnoxious barn, hoping success will earn him a favorable post with the Waterloo Civic society.
Des Moines Capital notes that democratic statesmen quickly backing republican tariff schedules suggest tariffs will not figure as a campaign issue. The editorial implies cross party support will mute tariff controversy in the upcoming election.
A Marshalltown Times-Republican want ad proclaims its value at 15 cents, promising to do the talking for you while a hired man plows corn. The ad emphasizes cost efficiency and labor savings for readers seeking services or labor.
Keokuk Gate City reports discussions in Waterloo about making June 2 a holiday. The Waterloo team did not lose a game on that date this year, and no games were scheduled for June 2.
In a Sioux City Journal item the senate expresses curiosity over a blind senator who can reel off statistics by the yard. The article notes that interest in statistics themselves tends to be limited.
Des Moines notes Haddock, the young sprinter who established a new Missouri Valley meet record in the 100 yard dash yesterday, is noted to not smoke cigarettes.
The report notes that many listeners leave the chamber when Senator La Follette begins to speak, suggesting the Wisconsin statesman uses the session’s end to select his chautauqua topics for the summer circuit.
A Chicago preacher argues his brother ministers should study the fields and orchards rather than the slums. The columnist notes such a view may lack world understanding to guide others.
Notes from a rural area recount a hopeful crop outlook after a local trip and list attendees at church committee meetings. Reports include Muscatine party praise for an Emma Judd concert in Davenport and various visits by residents to friends and relatives. Memorial day events by Modern Woodmen of America and Royal Neighbors featured parades and cemetery tributes led by Rev Joe R Hanley.
G B Dow principal conductor on our railroad for ten years resigns to take a main line passenger post from Davenport to Des Moines. He departs tomorrow. John Smith succeeds him after years on the main line.
About 2 a.m. A. J. Westbrook of Seventy-Six heard a rumpus in his barn. He went out and found eleven tramps tucked in the haymow. They were ordered to leave and, after some stubbornness, did so.
Twenty years ago the First M. E. Sunday school raised $300 to buy books. Ten years earlier a small practice game by doctors in Journal alley prefigured a doctors versus lawyers match at Park Place Friday afternoon. Lawmen lineup includes Richman Sawyer Kent Eversmeyer Coster Bowen Stapleton Williams Horan Jackson Warner Richman Ogilvie. Doctors lineup lists Dean Heidel Norton Oliver Klein Schmidt Durkee Myrick Weaver Coady Fishburn.
Hillard returns to Sonia at the Villa Serbelloni after a day by Lake Como. He seeks closeness while she tests his resolve, recalling shared dreams and secrets as they discuss a past night and plan future secrecy. The scene blends romance with lingering doubt as the chapter ends.
Ray mond Preiss twelve year old son of Mr and Mrs E R Preiss died at home in East Fifth street West Liberty from measles and pneumonia Funeral services will be held at the house Tuesday afternoon Harold Preiss survives with his parents and the family note includes other local movements and visits by residents including Bertha Briggs Howard McGowan June Wheeler Jap Sterns and Gail Martin
Frank Isett of Richland purchases H. D. Oakes grocery store and will take possession Wednesday. At the depot Charley Boiles becomes night baggage man succeeding Bert Coolridge while Rush of Brighton succeeds Chas Belding as night operator. Belding is sent to Brighton. Mr. and Mrs. E R Lacey left for parts unknown.
A London hospital records show alcohol given to patients in only 71 of 32 years, with 7.3 percent in-hospital death rate for 1904, below the 9.1 percent average in other London hospitals. The piece notes doctors often use alcohol with drugs, but cites Dr. Pierce’s glycerine base remedies and lists several medical figures endorsing these ingredients.
Preparations are underway to welcome the Prince and Princess Nashimoto as they travel from Europe to the United States. They have spent time in France and will depart London for New York within a short period, with arrival expected in June. The princess, a niece of the mikado, has gained social prominence in Europe.
A vintage advertisement urges quick relief from stomach and kidney troubles with Electric Bitters, priced at 50 cents, from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Fragmentary dialogue reflects rural speech about baking with Gold Medal Flour. A mammy figure protests the idea of heating biscuits, asserting cultural memory and practical know how in a brief regional vignette.
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