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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1902
Page
8
New Armory hosts Co C dance Saturday night. Scheetz’s advertises celery plants prunes and croquet sets. Bartlett Bros. offers sugar and fruit specials at the old Achter building. Mrs Toben visits, Loedelink welcome newborn, Berry and Burtner ride to Davenport, Dr Dalzell returns from Davenport.
Shoppers eye new Saratoga chips at St John s and a fresh line of graniteware at Scheetz s. Shoppers urged to see a self rocking crib in H G Ficken s window and bargain tables with prices cut to the quick at Wilson s shoes. A Co C ball Saturday night offers 50 cent admission.,Gossip notes include H G Ficken Mrs Eugene Derby of Wilton visiting, Scheetz John Leibbrand family en route from Dubuque, and Bartlet Bros coffee promotion. An ice cream social is planned by German Congregational church.
The Teetzel Directory of Cleveland reports a Muscatine city directory near completion for August with about 8 000 residents over 17 years. Authorities say this implies a population between 15 000 and 16 000, higher than the last census, and growth evidenced by rapid new houses and rental demand.
Island farmers report a tough battle with crop pests to save melons. Rain and cool weather threaten further losses, though cabbage yields are strong. The month’s unusually cold weather prompts many to wear coat collars up as residents hope for warmer days and rapid summer warmth.
It is noted by a leading poultry expert that hens kept only for eggs lay more and better if no roosters are in the flock. The text warns that uncured clover stored in barns heats and will burn if exposed to air, but can be kept safe by air exclusion to produce clover ensilage as a palatable dairy ration.
The piece urges cleaner farm cellars with plastered walls and bright floors, arguing a well kept cellar boosts utility and safety. It links tidy home surroundings to better communities, noting attractive school grounds reflect local homes and foster nicer living environments.
The last day of the Muscatine county institute featured finished classwork in the morning and examinations in the afternoon. Lectures by competent instructors were highly enjoyed and many teachers plan to apply the practical ideas back at their schools.
The article notes the English sparrow averages three broods per season with the first brood producing another, a rapid propagation rate. It explains how pests persist and increase despite enemy pressure, highlighting the growth of sparrow numbers.
In four years the elm crotch has hosted bluejays robins catbirds and mourning doves in turn this year a grosbeak sought the site but failed to claim it
Many farmers face a range of problems from quack grass and squirreltail on lawns to burdocks squash bugs and aphis in fields. Reports mention borers cankerworms chicken mites and flies and ailing cows hogs and calves.
The author argues that even with better highways allowing high speeds, laws will restrict speed for public safety making motor travel feel as slow as twenty miles per hour on a fast mail train.
A young friend begins cattle farming by purchasing three registered Polled Angus heifers and a bull. With proper care, he plans to build a profitable herd within ten years.
River forecast ends 1902 June 28 at 8 a m. The Mississippi will stay nearly steady between Dubuque and Davenport while rising between Davenport and Muscatine by about 0.3 feet in the past 24 hours.
A Minnesota farmer reports sowing four pounds of rape with an early millet crop and claims the rape regrew after millet harvest, providing abundant sheep pasture until frost. He anticipates challenges in curing the millet with mixed rape content.
The passage notes that flood damage in the Mississippi valley is greatest not in crops or bridges but in soil erosion. Millions of acres of prime farmland lose fertility as topsoil washes away, with farmers contributing much of their best land to the rushing waters carried to the sea.
Leysen's Shoe Store slashes prices on spring and summer low cut shoes. Shoppers urged to buy now for reduced prices on footwear.
Quotable exchange from Brooklyn Life shows a brief, sharper back and forth where one speaker hints at a point to prove, while the other interrupts with a confident correction. The fragment hints at a domestic or social dispute tone typical of the period's humor.
President G Stanley Hall of Clark University questions the near absence of insanity among negroes, citing potential insights from Dr. Babcock of South Carolina state hospital. He suggests slavery era sanity levels hid rising cases as civilization advances.
Experiments by the department of agriculture in Connecticut show Sumatra tobacco can be produced under cover at 25 cents a pound with a yield of 1,000 pounds per acre. At market value of 1.25 dollars per pound, a handsome profit is realized. The method may extend beyond Connecticut.
The writer tends a little over half an acre of vegetables and small fruit. Seeds are sown and land kept weed free with a Planet Junior cultivator. So adaptable and useful is this tool that we prefer it to the best man with a hoe for free labor.
A robin digs for worms on a lawn while a nearby cock sparrow with a young brood follows, snatching a fat worm from under the robin’s beak and carrying it to its nest. The robin appears unfazed by the distraction, calmly continuing its task.
A description recalls a wood pasture entry blocked by bars made from black walnut rails cut over fifty years ago when walnut sold for 15 per thousand feet. The stumps of those trees were later dug out and sold for more than the value of the trees when they were felled.
A local sale offers 5 yard pieces of 36 inch percales and odd remnants at half price. Wash skirts are listed at 1.25 dollars.
The ad invites readers to visit the east window with over four hundred waists in colors and styles priced from 50c to 3.98. White waists range 75c to 3.00 plus options. colored waists from 50c to 3.98. It promises flattering fits and a Saturday sale.
Sixty four ladies fine tailor made suits in all colors and sizes offered for Saturday sale. Some misfit suits and fine goods priced at 40c on the dollar. Ready to wear all wool suits one day only with prices from $5 to $10, worth up to $25.
The Wisconsin Press association and guests traveled on the Diamond Jo packet Dubuque from Muscatine to St Louis with 190 aboard, enjoying music from an engaged orchestra and a reception in LaCrosse. Stops included Red Wing Lake City Winona LaCrosse Davenport Burlington and a rail return from Chicago. cold weather dampened the trip but it proceeded as annual tour with visits to the world’s fair grounds.
In a light exchange from a Philadelphia Press snippet Tess notes a summer trip, while Jess confirms a noticeable change in appearance and predicts a seaside vacation, reflecting playful social chatter about plans and bodies.
Bartlett Bros advertises Golden Rio coffee as the best in the city priced at 15 cents per pound. The offer appears from the Iola Achter building location.
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