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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening except Sunday. The Semi-Weekly Journal appears 5 pages on Tuesday and 12 pages on Friday nights. Publisher is W. L. Lane and Managing Editor F. D. Throop.
Terms to Subscribers. Daily delivered to the city by carrier and collected for weekly 10 cents per week. Daily one year by mail $3.00 Semi weekly one year $1.50.
Des Moines bureau at Fourth and Court streets led by Leon Brown. Washington bureau under Marlborough Harold J. Mahin. New York office at 140 Nassau Street with La Coste and Maxwell overseeing. Chicago office at 750 Marquette Building managed by Payne and Young.
The Journal enumerates merchants and stations across the city for reader use. Fast Hill and Clay Kneese Grocery on East 2nd street. Morse Washburn's grocery at End of street car track. W. C. A. Busch's Drug Store on Hershey avenue. Kecklerville and Chayka's grocery. West Muscatine features Sharrar's grocery.
A terse item lists telephone lines and business office notes for Bell in the Mississippi Valley region. It catalogs editorial and business office references with partial numbers and fragmented local identifiers.
Wording certifies the Muscatine Journal circulated 143 310 copies in May 1905. Publisher W L Lane swears the figures reflect actual distribution including daily totals and Sundays.
Subscribed and sworn before me on June 3 1995 in Muscatine County Iowa by F. W. Eversmeyer Notary Public.
Muscatine faces a transportation dilemma as rail suppliers dispute equipment limits for a 5,000 person Morrell excursion. Milwaukee cannot handle the crowd, Rock Island has limited cars, Ottumwa shows strong interest. City urges fairness and urges railroads to maximize service if possible.
The piece contrasts local push to draw 5000 visitors for a Morrell outing with railroad reluctance and regional business interests. It then recounts the Amana society’s origins in Germany and Iowa, its communal wealthholding system, 19th century relocation, incorporation in 1859, and religious mission to live and work in common under Christian faith since 1843.
The society in Iowa and Johnson counties governs a 26,225 acre landholding with 1,759 members as of 1905. It operates agriculture and animal husbandry for subsistence, funds common needs, maintains meeting houses and schools, and limits profit to preserving members rather than banking or expanded commerce.
The Muscatine region anticipates the Hennepin canal completion within two years. Construction near Colona Illinois advances with locks nearly finished and a Rock River dam planned near Sterling to feed the canal. An appropriation of 500000 by Congress funds the project as engineers finalize feeder plans.
Government funded canal work progresses with restored banks and expected canal boats soon. The project aims to connect to the Illinois river and Chicago waterway, potentially aiding Muscatine commerce and export of regional products, with interest from local shippers.
The piece cites editorials from Keokuk Gate City Togo and other papers noting a Republican tilt in Iowa. It quotes Cherokee Times on peace, Bloomfield News Republican on Senator Dolliver, Cedar Rapids Republican on whiskers, and Cherokee Democrat on trust issues versus Tom Lawson medicine.
The Glidden Graphic contends Secretary Shaw, speaking for extreme protection, promotes a minority doctrine.
The Marion Register argues that before any commission of politicians gains power to set freight or passenger rates, the current agitators will all be angels.
The Ottumwa Courier reports improved census returns yet Ottumwa believes it lost ground to nearby cities. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil calls the state census worse than useless. The Marshalltown Times-Republican notes farm labor demand, good summer wages, and transport to harvest fields reducing urban loafing and charity reliance.
The Creston Advertiser-Gazette disputes Mr Campbell claiming Iowa population loss over five years ties to railroad rate discrimination. It argues rural areas suffered while manufacturing decline was not the cause and cites differing opinions on railroad policy.
The Rhode Island legislature made misrepresenting a newspaper or periodical’s circulation a misdemeanor with fines up to 100 dollars or up to six months in jail. The piece argues that false circulation claims cheat advertisers and undermine honest publishers, praising the new safeguard.
Charlotte and Henri D Aubant cling to a fragile romance as Aunt Frederica rests nearby. He asks for a willing and free kiss while she wrestles with maidenly shame and desire, then she flees to avoid scandal, leaving him in a haze of dreams and moral tension.
D Aubant invites Stuart to his sitting room as evening settles in. Stuart rests by the fire on his rug while D Aubant prepares his pipe and lighting ritual, signaling a quiet, contemplative moment between them.
A Boston despatch to the Sun on May 5 1900 outlines new rules for barber shops. Mugs brushes and razors must be sterilized after each use and a clean towel used for every customer. Powdered material only to stop bleeding, powder puffs banned, and Herpicide advertised as an antiseptic hair care product.
Pennsylvania Short Lines offers tickets from Philadelphia New York Baltimore Washington and Asbury Park with stopovers in all listed cities. June 29 to July 2 dates promise very low rates for an excellent vacation trip. Address Geo Jenkins T P A Des Moines Ia for details.
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