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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
5
Sunday events set at the Globe and Fairgrounds with 2 30 p m baseball games and dinner options at Commercial Hotel. Residents and visitors including Dan Hicklin, Mrs Seidlitz, Mrs Bird, Inez Bachelor, Miss Anna Schumann, Mrs Kempton, Riverside vs White Sox at Fair Grounds.
The advertisement promotes sponges described as swell affairs available in all sizes from 1 cent, alongside hard water soap and bath brushes of pure bristles. It urges customers to pair a bath brush with a sponge and soap for a pleasant bath experience.
A social column item notes a chicken dinner at Brazels restaurant located at 211 Iowa avenue. Several residents are listed as visiting or traveling, including Mrs James Wilson from the Island in Davenport, Mr and Mrs Reeves from Fairport, and others visiting local homes. Bids due July 1 1905 for 10 cars of Peoria District lump coal delivered F O B Muscatine per county auditor A S Lawrence.
A New York letter asks the Y M C A of this city to help locate Mark Williams also known as Markham Bailey Williams son of Katherine Williams who has left a fortune to heirs in New York relatives and executors cannot find him. He is described as tall blonde with auburn hair and brown eyes about 26. He was connected with railway work in this city years ago and may have lived in Dixon and the west.
Captain William F. Smith of Webster City, inspector for the 54th regiment L. N. G., visited Company C and its range, praising the records and officers. He noted the new range house as the best seen this year, and a practice shoot highlighted Roy C. Brown’s 41 of 50 at 300 yards.
A fine program is arranged for the union service tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian church. Rev J N Elliott will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the Muscatine business college class. The service features organ voluntary, hymns, anthems, prayers, a tenor solo, offertory, andPostlude with readings by Rev Judson Kempton Rev W L Beatty and Miss Nellie Robertson.
Riverside prepares for a big ball game tomorrow against the Muscatine White Sox at the Fair Grounds. An excursion from Riverside is expected with several hundred visitors joining at noon. The White Sox showed improved batting and fielding in practice.
All members of the Champion Hook and Ladder Co. are called to meet at quarters on Sunday June 25 at 12 30 in full uniform to take part in a firemen memorial service per order J J Brown Foreman
Relief Hose Co 4 marks memorial services with all members ordered to attend at the hose house tomorrow at 12 30 per order of the Foreman.
If your current home no longer fits your needs, visit G. M. Titus to trade for a new residence.
The Nickel Plate line offers a $21.35 round trip from Chicago to Asbury Park for the National Educational Association gathering July 3 to 7. Sales June 29 30 and July 1 2 with return by August 31. Stops include Chautauqua Lake Niagara Falls and NYC. Meals in dining cars and day line Hudson River ride offered. John Y. Calahan, 113 Adams St., Room 298.
Tom Davidson thrives on East Sixth street property while crews grade Cypress street between Sixth and Seventh. Carrie Goddard visits a Blooming ton grandmother on East Sixth as Dora Sullivan stays with sister-in-law Mrs Welch. Bagley sells East Sixth property to J Foley and moves to East Seventh. Foley moves in, local boys argue over back street baseball on East Sixth. Mollie Frater Kate Frater Cedar Valley and Frances Boot Yankee Hollow visit Armstrongs at 712 East Sixth.
Charlotte Hare was granted a divorce from Robert Hare this morning in district court by Judge D. W. Jackson on grounds of desertion. In a separate matter, H. H. Arnold vs North American Accident Insurance Co. progressed as the defendant stood on its demurrer and judgment was entered against it as prayed.
An inquisitive Frenchman notes that most sea creatures do not die a natural death. Dead fish are eaten quickly in the ocean, preventing long hulls of remains. The deep sea is unlikely to preserve corpses, as predation and decay erase most victims.
In 1661 Evelyn records King Charles II sailing in a royal yacht race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back. The wager was £100 on a duel between a new pleasure boat and a Duke of York vessel, wind favored the other ship on return. The king helped steer at times with nobility aboard.
Four boys under ten years old are held by Des Moines police on a charge of breaking into a saloon and stealing a quantity of whisky.
Theodore Rheineschied a farmer near Keokuk has been declared insane and ordered to the Mount Pleasant Hospital for the Insane.
In a domestic exchange, a husband asks what was discussed at their literary club this afternoon. The wife recalls they spoke of a new neighbor across the street and the poet Longfellow, tying community curiosity to literary reference in a light evening moment.
An Irish or Scottish dialogue shows an old woman and her son debating the game. She says the players aim to kick the ball between the posts while he notes crowding and road-blocking players hinder the action.
A playful remark notes that when two people share a bedroom one with a toothache and the other in love, the toothache sufferer tends to fall asleep first. The observation invites curiosity about how discomfort or romance affects sleep.
A friend questions the pianist about causing a stir and the pianist admits the chatter was mainly sparked during the performance. The exchange highlights social reactions to a recital and the performer’s self awareness of audience focus.
A short quote from the Maysville Bulletin notes that others often offer advice on running one's own business, highlighting unsolicited counsel as a common pastime among contemporaries.
William Garrett writes that Maximilian and his followers were imprisoned in Querataro with influential efforts to save him. Seward failed to aid escape. Maximilian faced execution with princely dignity. A false death report reached him in prison, and he refused to cling to life, bowing to General Miranoa’s courage.
In a pond incident several children played in a boat when Marie Webb fell overboard and was rescued by 11-year-old Lewis Mathews. Local witnesses praise quick action and bravery shown by the boy.
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