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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1905
Page
8
LocalNews notes a Riverside baseball defeat 12 to 3 at the fairgrounds yesterday. Several residents traveled today to visit relatives, attend business in Cedar Rapids, or return from weekend trips in Peoria and Washington.
A mixed page item notes Dr King’s New Life Pills sold at Havercamp’s Drug Store for 25c and local investment guidance from G M Titus at 213 Iowa Avenue. It then lists a long sequence of brief social notes on visitors, travel to Peoria, family trips, and shopping in the city, plus a firing of public notices and ads about housing, loans, and coal supplies.
The Muscatine county institute reports rising attendance with 170 names on the roll and more expected tomorrow. Rev. J W Potter of First Methodist led devotional exercises at the opening of the morning session and Miss Daisy Ansley of West Liberty gave a notable recitation. Registered today were several Muscatine residents and out of town guests from Wilton Fos ter Lettsville Conesville West Branch and West Liberty.
An advertisement promotes Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back claim. It states prices of 50 cents and 1 dollar at Havercamp s Prescription Drug Store and urges readers to try the remedy for lung troubles.
If your current home does not suit you, visit G M Titus to explore exchanging it for a new residence.
Nickel Plate schedules 12.25 statewide round trip from Chicago to Buffalo with July travel dates and August return limit. Stopovers at Chautauqua Lake points, low fares to Fort Wayne Cleveland Erie and other eastern points. Three daily trains with first class equipment and dining cars. Meals priced 35c to 1.00. service a la carte. No excess fare on Nickel Plate. Write John Y. Callahan, General Agent, 113 Adams St Room 298 Chicago. Illinois.
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt a wife recalls asking her partner if she enjoyed a brass band before marriage. He confirms, but she mentions a black mark on her wedding finger, hinting at a misinterpretation in their past.
The text extols Joy as a powerful germ killer and radiant force that defeats discouragements and illnesses. It claims joy can do more for health than any tonic or medicine, presenting a strong positive view of joy as therapeutic.
A renowned doctor suggests the best outcome for a man with diabetes is not to discover it, a blunt remark reflecting on how early diagnosis can burden patients and the challenge of many diseases in hospital settings.
A pondering quote attributed to Swift reflects on knowledge and discernment about when to act. It suggests prudence in choosing the moment to act rather than rushing or delaying actions. The fragment emphasizes the value of timing in wise decision making.
A bolt of lightning hit Henry Busch's Lucas Street residence during a severe storm last night. It damaged a cistern pump and screen door, scorched the doorstep, and burned the Citizens Railway fuse box across the street, leaving the family shaken but unharmed.
Private wire data show daily bid and ask ranges for wheat and oats with July September and December futures. Northwestern receipts indicate Minneapolis today 206, last week 175, last year 278 and totals 222 today, 184 last week, 293 last year at Duluth and overall.
Commodity roundup from Chicago on June 26 shows wheat, corn, oats, and rye quotes with varying levels. Spot and July contracts index wheat at around 1.00 to 1.06 dollars and corn around 55 to 56 cents, with oats near 31 to 33 cents and livestock futures in the mid to high seven dollar range for July and September.
Chicago report shows cattle receipts at 16 000 with prices up 10 to 15 cents, hogs receipts 30 000 about 10 cents higher, and sheep receipts 15 000 rising 10 to 15 percent. Cattle mostly 5.25 to 6.15, hogs 5.25 to 5.57, sheep 3.50 to 5.25 and lambs 4.50 to 7.65 across grades and weights.
Butter holds steady with creameries at 16 19 a cent per pound and dairies at 15 8 c. Eggs are easy at 12 4 to 14 4 c per dozen with total receipts 4 1 3.
Chicago June 26 poultry market reports easy turkeys at 14 to 15 cents per pound chickens 16 to 16 and a half cents springs 16 to 20 cents per pound.
New York market report shows butter prices for creameries 17 to 21 cents, dairies 15 to 20 cents, imitation creameries 16 to 19 cents, factory 13 1/2 to 16 cents. Eggs at Western markets 14 to 17 cents.
New York June 26 Dressed broilers 20 to 25 cents per pound fowls 19 to 13 cents pound turkeys 13 to 17 cents per pound markets show steady demand and price ranges for poultry products in the city trade.
Wheat July 8234c. Corn 52% 524c. Oats 304c. Market notes from St Louis on June 26.
Peoria market notes corn No 9 priced at 52 and 52 1 2 cents per bushel. Prices listed for No 9 reflecting grain trading activity in Peoria on June 26.
Market ticker lists opening high and low for multiple stocks with nunerous percentage changes. Notable entries include Am Sugar, St Paul, Mo Pac, Reading, Penn, Reading, N Y Cen, Ill Cen along with overall close figures and varied percent movements.
A compact table of percentages lists U S steel and allied sectors with figures for Melcs Se Tenn coal Colo fuel and railroads Great W Mex Cen among others. Percentages span 19% to 152% across multiple columns, indicating contrasting performance indicators within the period.
Dr M C Briggs formerly of this city died yesterday in Chicago at about 70. He once commanded the G A R post here and served as constable. Survived by wife three sons and one daughter. Relatives in Sycamore street were informed. Funeral services were held in Chicago with burial planned for tomorrow.
Willie Hoffbauer oldest son of Hugo Hoffbauer Buffalo mayor died suddenly in Billings Montana at 33 or 34. Body to be on Milwaukee train as funeral planned at parental home Fifth Street interment Rose Hill Cemetery. He leaves a wife, parents, one sister and two brothers.
Davenport’s Rust’s Yales fall to West Liberty in a grim 11 inning contest. Johnson fans 10 Yales while Hinricheson fans 11. Crowd roars as West Liberty pushes across a run in the tenth to seal a 4 to 3 win.
Stockholm June 26 Swedish council of state postpones discharge of time-expired navy personnel as a precaution pending crisis settlement.
Terre Haute Ind June Mayor Bidaman issues proclamation banning firearms concussion detonating powder cannons dynamite crackers for the Fourth of July to ensure a noiseless holiday.
Alfred Coleman of Charter Oak sustained injuries in a collision during a baseball game that are likely to prove fatal.
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