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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening except Sunday. The Semi-Weekly Journal is issued 10 pages Tuesday and 8 pages Friday nights. Daily delivered in the city by carrier and collected 10 cents per week. Daily by mail one year costs $3.00. semi-weekly one year costs $1.50.
New York unit listed as 303 West 83rd Street with Payne and Young handling affairs. Chicago office located at 750 Marquette Building serves as the second contact point.
The Journal has established agencies for reader convenience including Fast Hill Hurlbut Grocery on Fast 2nd Street Borth Muscatine Toborg Bros grocery Oregon street W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Chayka's Grocery West Hill J H Fuller Grocery and Wm Yan Zyl Grocery.
Fragmentary listing shows Bell telephone offices and contacts in Mississippi Valley region with numbers and references to Edison and editor offices. Unable to determine full context from OCR but preserves key entities and regional references.
Publisher F D Throop swears the Muscatine Journal printed and circulated a stated number of copies in February 1909. The sworn statement, sworn before Notary Public F L Bihlmeier on March 2 1909, includes the circulation totals and printing figures for the period.
In the Oskaloosa Herald Edison asserts a young man can succeed without college, though schooling aids progress. The Washington Democrat notes a spelling error in the Sigourney Review while remarking it prints six bank statements, suggesting better pay than accuracy as Etter is away from home.
Davenport Times questions if Iowa can become evenly balanced with factories in cities to serve residents with low freight costs. It asks whether farmers want a strong home market at their doorstep for farm products and notes Iowa already has several factor ies.
TM REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO CLIPPINGS REPORT MUSCATINE JOURNAL 50 YEARS AGO. The Muscatine Insurance Company advertisement is noted as a reliable local institution with directors including Peter Jackson and J.S. Hatch. President George C. Ston and secretary H. W. Moore are named. Also of record are marriages in Bedford and Wilton Iowa with local clergy and witnesses.
Forty years ago the Atalissa school board chose William Lundy as president and I N Branson as vice president with P Buckman as secretary and J H Adv as treasurer. Benjamin Hargrave became director. At 11 this forenoon residents were shocked by news that Dr. Christian Hershe of three miles west was shot and killed by a man named.
Twenty years ago March 10 fell on a Sunday. Ten years ago Archie Keath son of Mr and Mrs A A Keath of East Eighth street lost a $7 50 bundle of dry goods on his way home from downtown. He had laid the bundle by while watching boys fly kites, then found it missing on return after searching.
The piece argues against a proposed Blue law banning Sunday amusements, warning it would hurt factory workers who rely on Sunday recreation and could drive factories from Iowa. It contrasts state development with farms and calls for balanced growth rather than restricting industry.
The Manson Democrat reports a bustling print shop led by Jack Dalton with massive production figures across presses and jobbers. Surging orders threaten a flood of work by mail and other transport as plans grow, while the firm eyes expansion, new machinery, and civic ambitions to boost prosperity.
Advertises Electric Bitters as a painless remedy for weak back kidney trouble. Claims Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store sells it for 60 cents.
White Prairie Ia March 10 The White Prairie Grange will meet March 18 at White Prairie with a debate on wives share of family funds and various readings and talks. The Wilton Pomona Grange meets March 27 at 10 am with a basket dinner and degrees open to other granges. Local notes mention travels and a funeral in Wilton and typhoid illness in Arkansas.
Dr King’s New Discovery relieves throat and lung trouble quickly. Available at stores in 50 cent and one dollar sizes.
Mrs. Maria Hoopes receives word of daughter Kathryn Hadley s death from West Branch Iowa. Hadley family recently moved from Canada to visit Iowa relatives. Mrs. Mary Smith of Muscatine visits Ed Rynearson s. Wm Vanatta and family relocate from Illinois to new home formerly Asa Johnson s. North Star school closes for the week. J E Raidebaugh visits John Negus. George Moser installs telephone on Gettert line. Mrs Jefferson s marriage surprises friends with best wishes. J S Garnes to ship cattle to Chicago today.
Instructions for lamp maintenance include keeping the oil bowl full, turning the wick down when unused, and boiling burners in Gold Dust washing powder solution to cleanse. Clean chimneys with warm water and washing powder, wipe dry, polish with old news, and cool lamps in water to harden chimneys.
Doctors endorse Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for weak nervous rundown women and publish its known ingredient list on each bottle wrapper. The advert argues against secret nostrums and cites the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York as authority for the medicine’s proven composition.
In New York a wealthy American, John Hillard, lives quietly with a small staff in an unfashionable house packed with hidden treasures. His loyal Roman servant Giovanni, aging but spry, dreams of returning to Italy while wondering about a mysterious singer whose voice he cannot fully trust or name.
The item describes a resident week in Muscatine visiting relatives and friends then returning home on Thursday. It notes No. 4 school closed a week ago Friday with a program and mentions many visitors. Miss Marolf plans a four weeks vacation at West Liberty before spring term. George Dittmer elected sub director for the coming year. Adolph Blank shopped in Davenport on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Dittmer shopped in Walcott on Monday.
Mr and Mrs Standford Gregory left South Cedar Iowa for Ohio to establish their future home as Mrs G Gregory remains in poor health. Miss Maude Rockafellow visited a friend in Iowa City over the weekend. Union Valley and West Liberty Telephone Co held their annual meeting electing C M Millhone president and H L Bowman secretary treasurer. The Rockafellow family visited H W Rockafellow in Pleasant View. Gala Medal Flour received an honor. RosaBet.
Stockton Iowa reports Mr and Mrs John Dittmer hosting a large group for Mrs Dittmer s birthday. Relatives and friends visit, while neighbors and kin travel between Walcott Durant Davenport and surrounding homes. Several locals depart for school and shoppers travel to Davenport and Walcott. The community notes a lodge dance and social gatherings through the weekend.
The Oliver Typewriter Company offers the No 5 model for 17 cents a day, promoting universal typewriting. The ad argues longhand abandonment in favor of legible typing and highlights schools training youth in Oliver use. It claims Oliver has the largest sales and leads the push for universal typewriting.
The 17-Cents-a-Day plan makes the Oliver Visible Writer easy to own. It targets households by framing the purchase as affordable and within reach for every home and individual. The ad emphasizes small daily costs from everyday spending.
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