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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1901
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal lists subscription rates as Daily per year delivered by carrier for $52, Semi-Weekly Tuesday and Friday payable in advance. Orders can be placed by postal card or telephone No. 27. Remittances by draft, express or money order should be payable to Journal Printing Company.
The Republican party of the 20th Senatorial District incl Louisa and Muscatine counties meets at the courthouse in Muscatine at 2 p m on the List day of July 1901 to nominate a Senator and conduct other business. Representation is fixed by county, Louisa 12 delegates and Muscatine 21 delegates. All voters supporting Republican principles are invited to participate in caucuses. County chairmen must call county conventions to select delegates. J W Beila and J W Garner are the senatorial committeemen for Muscatine and Louisa counties respectively.
To the Republican electors of Iowa a delegate convention will be held in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday August 1st 1901 at eleven o'clock a m for the purpose of nominating a candidate.
The New York Christian Advocate labels Elijah Dowie paranoid and notes general paresis ending in imbecility or death within years. It likens Dowie to Mrs. Eddy and Brigham Young in financial aspects, and mentions Adler’s German works tied to a Bloomingdale asylum patient.
A Clinton Herald editorial scolds the Burlington Hawkeye for urging a Republican bolt while defending Cummins who once bolted, calling for party fealty amid campaign tensions and recalling past action.
The Davenport Leader says the state race will be anti corporation while the Clinton Age warns that such a stance would doom the Democrats. The Age argues anti business rhetoric would deprive the party of enough votes for nomination next year.
Senator Jones of Arkansas once heading the Bryan democratic national committee was critical of trusts while leading the Cotton Bale Corporation, which he denied was a trust. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled the company a trust and barred it from doing business there, discomfiting Jones among his allies.
In Dubuque Colonel Davis remarks that Iowa’s old soldiers are increasingly asked to stand at the tail end of reform processions. He notes the state outgrows them, with many younger and handsomer men stepping forward, as older vets lag in reform efforts. The comment appears in the Atlantic Telegraph via the Sioux City Journal.
The Sioux City Journal reveals that Hon. E. M. Sharon of Davenport was chosen as temporary chairman of the state democratic convention due to his involvement in the gas business.
The Centerville Citizen claims Bryan would reverse his position if he did not attack everyone who opposes him. The paper frames the assertion as a political tactic criticism.
The Masonic Temple in Chicago rises twenty stories making it the citys tallest office building. Built as a landmark, it showcases early skyscraper design and anchors downtown commerce.
In Sac Sun J F Glover a Sibley lawyer announces over a year ahead that he seeks Hon Lot Thomas’s congress seat. The move likely part of political gamesmanship with unspecified reference to another office. May the best man win.
Threshermen of Washington county met and fixed prices. Des Moines authorities authorized organizing a new signal corps in Des Moines. Fairfield moves to organize signal corps with the Fiftieth regiment IL National Guard. Eagle Grove merchants ban future trading stamps. Bertha Atkinson of Des Moines sues city for damages from a billboard harming her eyesight.
The Iowa State camp meeting will be held at Clear Lake Park from July 17 to 28 at the historic Methodist grounds. Rev. R N McKaig will conduct services, with the Epworth League gathering July 29 to Aug 8. Noted speakers include Governor La Follette, H W J Ham, John Temple Graves, Lou Beauchamp, Dr Anna Shaw, Russell Conwell, Frank Bruner, and Rev Dr Hancher and Blodgett. Lodging and board not to exceed 80 cents daily. All wants in the Journal 4c a word.
Mr Bowser joins Shakespearean club vows to write an ode but his effort devolves into rhymed nonsense. Mrs Bowser objects, a tramp delivers mock critique, and the scene ends with Bowser torn from pride and his cat fleeing amid a disorderly scene.
A country visitor in the Hotel Grand billiard parlor encounters a slot machine that doubles as a lung tester. He tries to blow into a tube to test his lungs, but leaves amid laughter, saying he will not blow his penny away.
Sixteen violins and violoncellos owned by the late Sir Arthur Sullivan were sold for 1800 dollars. The top price for a single instrument was 850 dollars for a violoncello by Joseph Guarnerius. Dr Max Farrand resigns Wesleyan professorship to join Stanford. educated at Newark Academy and Princeton with honors in 1892.
A prominent real estate and insurance man, misled by a passer with a peculiar animal on a rope, believed it to be a Belgian hare and, upon learning it was a musical mule, immediately wrote a life insurance policy on the man leading the animal.
A young boy startled the audience at the Grand Opera House by interrupting the graduation scene to tell his sister's diploma was earned, quipping that he would not want a diplomat from that school. The moment reflects early stage crowd dynamics and school pride.
A high school student imagines writing poetry better than the speaker and longs for a lone spot to fish. He would read yellow covered books about lovers, catch a fish or two, broil them over red hot coals, and savor bread and butter during a simple solitary retreat.
Mr Erastus Pinkley and Miss Miami Brown discuss the circus in a Washington Star snippet. They remark on the menagerie and marvel at nature’s production of animals versus chickens, noting humor in emphasis and timing.
A shopper protests a large man blocking women at a bargain counter. The man replies he represents a family of 11 daughters, stating his duty to his relatives. The scene unfolds in a crowded store, reflecting tension between courtesy and crowding.
In a short, vivid dialogue from the New York Evening Journal a character asks Willie about his luck at a house. He replies that nothing worked. he offered to chop wood in exchange for food, and the woman fainted.
Rev. Edward Pyerett Hale of Boston recalls his shifting views on retirement from the ministry. He once thought 40, then 50, then 60 were the right ages to step down, but now states he does not give the matter any thought.
In Chicago the tobacco chewing ban spreads from Swift & Co to Libby McNeill Libby workers who read the notice but retain free profanity. A Yangers jury finds Benjamin Adams not guilty on a Sunday golf charge. Mont Clare fire injures the lady fire brigade. Lick Observatory’s 36 inch mirror is shattered halting plans for a southern expedition. Brashear will recast the glass. six months to replace the piece.
Albert Plaw of the University of California is expected to set another hammer record after throwing 171 feet 2 inches with a nine foot ring, surpassing Flanagan's 169 feet. Reportedly measured on a field day, the effort may be accepted by the A A U authorities. Plaw excels in hammer throwing though he dislikes training, possibly defending the seven foot ring mark he once held.
Peter Maher aims to travel to Ireland in the summer with his wife to visit his parents and Tony Sege’s grave. He notes there are several good fighters in Ireland and he may bring two of them to the United States and manage them.
Manager Ed Hanson suffered the death of his brother James Hanlon at Fitchburg Massachusetts. The elder Hanlon was a sibling to the famous manager. Hanson notes their father died recently after a long quiet stretch of 30 years with no family deaths.
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