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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
4
A signed notice offers a refund on a 50 cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Tar Syrup if it fails to cure a cough or cold and a 6 cent bottle to prove satisfaction or money back. The undersigned guarantee appears to cover customer claims and refunds.
Fifteen graduates of West Liberty High School received diplomas in a crowded program honoring teachers and a receptive audience. The evening featured class songs poems recitations and prophecies with standout performances by Edna Smith Hazel Henderson and Ward Jakway.
Muscatine Journal promotes its new service as unmatched in the city, claiming timely telegraph summaries from the Scripps-McRae press. It boasts a complete daily record of world events printed each evening, noting coverage rivaling Chicago papers.
Gratulating the graduates, the community notes many presents and flowers. The closing program Saturday night includes music, invocation by Rev. Robert Bradley, class songs by Edna Smith and P Vernon Barclay, a solo by Mrs. Emma Luse, and diplomas presented by I A Nichols. Teachers listed include L T Hill as superintendent, Mary W L Phelps principal, Edith M Brooke and Ora B Nichols as assistants.
Chas H Van Alstine once in charge of the Des Moines exchange and previously with the Iowa Telephone company was released without trial after the Guaranty bond covered about 700 dollars. The Telephone company declined to prosecute under pressure from his friends and family. He has started a business in Indianola.
A fragment suggests debate over medical practice and uniform methods. It notes doctors study similar books yet may differ in applying knowledge to individual patients. The tone hints at tension between conformity and personalized care in medicine.
The Muscatine Journal increases city reporting with three reporters and new equipment. A Mergen thaler linotype and Hoe Webb press expand capacity to deliver original matter each page. Readers are urged to rely on the Journal for nightly Muscatine city and county news.
The Iowa Central Railway offers greatly reduced ticket rates for upcoming meetings and conventions across multiple cities including East St. Louis Nor' Manchester Sioux Falls Burlington Iowa City Des Moines Ames and Rock Rapids. Dates span May to June with events for German Catholic Soldiers German Baptists Supreme Lodge A O U W Seventh Day Adventists Lutheran Synod Scand Evangelical Lutherans alumni associations and veterans groups. For tickets and schedules contact Iowa Central agents or Geo S Beatty at Marshalltown Iowa.
Going to Paris we offer route information and booking via all stations on our line through New York and any steamship line. Contact Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway agents or Jno G Farmer A G P T 4 B C R N Ry Cedar Rapids IA for service.
Special dispatch from Chicago markets covers prices and receipts across hogs cattle and wheat. It lists brokers J Toher & Co H E McKay manager and notes openings closes and daily fluctuations with regional references to Kansas City Omaha Minneapolis and Liverpool wheat.
Comprehensive listing of prices for wood, coal, grain, flour, mill stuffs, oats, rye, corn, hay, cattle and hogs, dairy, eggs, cheese, honey, sugar, wax, hides, fruit and vegetables, meat, hardware, lumber and related goods. Features per-unit costs and market notes, reflecting an active but fluctuating market.
The message came yesterday afternoon that Mrs. Fox mother of W A Fox died yesterday morning at her home in Prophetstown Illinois. Mrs Fox and her daughter Miss Florence left on the midnight train to attend the funeral.
The B., C. R. & N. announces a single fare round trip from all Iowa stations for the Prohibition Convention on June 12-13. Tickets go on sale June 11-12 and return valid through June 14. Contact B., C. R. & N. agents for tickets. Cedar Rapids Ia. Jno. G. Farmer, A. G. P. & T. A. B., C. R. & N. Ry.
Congress adjourned sine die at 5 pm with the House voting to adjourn after agreeing to Senate amendments on the naval bill. Senate delays over the ocean survey dispute, centered on the coast survey bureau, kept final action tight. A social finale followed with thanks to the chair and a Pettigrew joke about a condemned cannon. A gallery spectator shouted a religious message as the session closed.
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