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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1909
Page
3
Terms to Subscribers announce reissue every evening during the week except Sunday. The Semi Weekly Journal publishes 10 pages on Tuesday and 5 pages on Friday nights. Daily delivery by carrier within the city, weekly collection 10 cents. Rates: Daily by mail 3.90 per year. Semi Weekly by mail 1.50 per year.
Payne and Young take leadership at the Chicago office located in the Marquette Building, occupying key roles in the organization.
The Journal lists city agencies for reader convenience. Entries include East Hilli Hurlbut Grocery Fast 2nd street North Muscatine Toberg Bros grocery Oregon street Ww C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey venue Kecklerville Chavka's Grocery West FM J A Fulier Grocery and Wm Van Zr Grocery New York Office 30 34 West 83rd Street.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a city office and phone lines with unclear names. No clear events or entities are readable to define a full news item.
Throop publisher swears the May 1909 Muscatine Journal printed and circulated 6 842 copies. He notes 10 000 copies circulated on the Booster Trip May 11 and 12 are excluded. Notarized June 3 1909 by F W Eversmeyer.
The Marshalltown Times Republican publisher Fritz Norris and business manager W P Hughes announced they have bought all stock of the New Nonpareil company, publishers of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The July 1 transfer suits western Iowa readers. the firm has $100000 authorized capitalization and includes plant and equipment.
The New Nonpareil, organized in 1894 with Victor E. Bender as manager, grows from 1300 to over 15000 in circulation. Norris and Hughes trade ownership with Hughes moving to manage the Nonpareil. Times-Republican in Marshalltown remains under existing leadership.
Washington reports credit to Dawson and Beveridge for tobacco tax reform. Dawson’s 2 cent short weight tobacco packages would be repealed and tobacco taxes raised, potentially adding about 21 million dollars to federal revenue. The change would reduce tobacco company profits and ease consumer burden. The note also mentions a Pennsylvania 2 cent fare law found unconstitutional.
Chicago health officials urge prompt medical care after injuries on Independence Day. Call in a physician early, keep wounds open to air, have daily dressings, and insist on full antitetanic serum to combat lockjaw.
The Iowa City Republican reports that Howard Gould allegedly disposed of his wife for 36000 dollars annually as a dirt cheap arrangement. The Sioux City Tribune recalls Bret Harte remarking on the Heathen Chinee being peculiar.
Ottumwa Courier notes a highball cut could help Mrs. Gould live on alimony of 100 dollars daily. Davenport Times adds a further remark about the situation with alimony.
Recollections from Muscaline Journal fifty years ago note a decided push to commemorate the Fourth with a city picnic. Citizens are urged to unite and support the committee plan as the best possible approach for a demonstration worthy of the city.
Forty years ago a pleasant and rare reunion of all High School graduates with invited friends was hosted by F. M. Witter on a Saturday evening. Attendees would welcome such events to occur roughly four times yearly as commencements.
At the Muscatine Lodge No. 99 A O U W meeting last evening officers for the ensuing six months were elected. M W R D Bodman. Foreman S W Sedgwick Jr. Q James H Selden. Recorder Robert C Schenck. Financier Frank Stewart.
Waterloo police report no opportunity to visit Chinatown in pursuit of Leon Ling Hop Song or Adolph Bing as investigation stalls with no new leads.
The report notes that young Billy Bryan was wed in a secluded Colorado summer resort and adds a quip that he has not adopted the habit of advertising.
The text cites the president of Vassar College advising the graduating class of women to be helpers of men not destroyers. It notes Mrs. Grover Cleveland as an example and contrasts her with Mrs. Howard Gould.
The senate finance committee dropped its amendment on the duty on pineapples but noted several members supported the Taliaferro amendment, and Senator Aldrich reportedly had his fingers crossed during the vote.
The article portrays Coxey once leader of a tramp army now a mining magnate. He owns a large arsenic mine near Roanoke Virginia and urges Congress to impose a duty on arsenic. He rents a Willard Hotel suite at about 50 dollars per day to mingle with the wealthy.
Ft Dodge Messenger notes nationwide efforts to limit July Fourth noise and deaths. Chicago police publish a general circulation list of Donts from the Corporation Counsel. Baltimore police head vows strict restraint with no firecrackers within city limits.
A masked intruder slides through a dining room window at eleven, opens the safe, pockets a sealed envelope, and slips away into the darkness. The Cavenaugh drag chugs up the hill as the burglar disappears beyond the hedges.
Receiver Charles Giesler and G W Lohr are listed with I W P Wilhelm and W U C Mayes as Medical Examiner. H M Dean serves as Medical Examiner. Jos Morrison is named Trustee for eighteen months.
At a meeting last night the German Baptist congregation voted to build a two story frame parsonage in the shape of a T at the corner of Sixth and Walnut streets. Hon. F. A. J. Gray and Sheriff Gray returned this morning from an extended visit in the east.
Ten years ago the Eastern Star ladies host an ice cream social on Mrs. Ben Lilly’s lawn at Town avenue and Fourth streets with the Mandolin club providing entertainment all evening. Cunningham's houseboat sank after springs a leak yesterday near the warehouse.
Carrington plans to seize valuable papers from the safe but finds them gone after Kate Norah and Cavenaugh confront a mystery. Cavenaugh discovers the theft and promises to restore the documents while Norah reveals she told their grandfather the safe combination.
Carrington rises in a calm summer morning to ride with two Cavenaugh horses while recalling rumors of women riders. He learns the Cavenaughs know the burglar who emptied a millionaire’s safe, hinting at a developing mystery to be explored later.
Mr and Mrs Peter Daut and Mr and Mrs Fred Daut left Wilton for Muscatine to attend the commencement exercises at Muscatine business college. Miss Helen Hall returned home Friday after visiting friends in town.
Mrs. John H. Deaner arrived from Harvard Illinois to visit two weeks with her sister Mrs. John R. H. Latchaw. Miss Alma Budelier returned home after visiting in Muscatine. Frank Millage and Alex Atwill came home after work and institute visits. Pearl Feltman departed for Moscow for a day of visiting friends. Mrs. Herman Teufel arrived from Durant to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Mannasmith. Belle Edge returned from institute duties in Muscatine. Rena Atwill and nieces Arvella and Gladys came home after visiting relatives. Wildasin went to West Liberty for business. Fred Millage visited his mother after arrival from Muscatine. Mrs. C. M. Robinson and Ruby in Cedar Rapids were visiting relatives.
Miss Leila Bell Kilpatrick daughter of Mr and Mrs Neill Kilpatrick of Linton married George Bergen of Morning Sun in a ceremony at the Kilpatrick home. The service was conducted beneath a large wedding bell of white roses by Rev J S.
The bride from Linton neighborhood wore white silk with lace and carried carnations, and the groom in black. After a ceremony at Sharon, relatives shared a wedding supper. The couple, previously active in Sharon, will reside in North Morning Sun after August 1. A church shower in Sharon collected many useful presents.
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