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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1902
Page
7
The advertisement promotes Dr Price's Baking Powder as the standard of purity and strength. It claims no lotteries or gifts are used and asserts the powder is healthier and more economical. It warns that alum baking powders are cheap but harmful due to harmful additives.
A son is born to Mr and Mrs Frank J Stohr on March 17. Mrs Wm Cooper sails for Akron to visit relatives. Sheriff John D Stuart served papers in Wilton. Various residents visit, travel or return home from Davenport Chicago Harper Iowa and Stillwater Minnesota. Electa Chapter plans a March 19 meeting. Rev N N Rich preaches at Friends church and revival services begin. Dr Crane's tonic advertised for health fits.
The Journal publishes 23 solutions to the 400 foot rope calf graze around a 100 foot square barn. Five answers cluster near 484 708 square feet, with names E. C. Nichols R. H. McCampbell Pliny Fry F A Macdonald and B F Shaum cited as closest.
In Conesville Iowa editor E H Chapman explains a calf tied with 400 feet of rope from the barn corner can graze an area of 487 453 201 square feet. The solution is attached.
In Columbus City Iowa the Journal editor notes a calf grazing problem with a calculated ground area of 484 707.78 square feet. The solution is attached by B F Shaum.
Columbus Junction Iowa editor reports a method estimating the calf’s grazing area at 492,453.15 square feet with a descriptive solution attached by J H Wilson.
Downey Iowa editor Walter C. Schenck proposes a grazing solution calculating 493 216 38 square feet as the area needed for a calf. The note appears in the Journal.
In Muscatine Iowa the editor reports two methods solving a calf grazing puzzle. Pliny Fry of Ackworth cites a different result via an alternate approach, arriving at 484 708 6376 square feet.
In Muscatine Iowa the editor responds to a calf grazing issue. He argues a six foot rope could suffice instead of tying the calf to the barn corner, urging liberty and freedom for the animal to graze and live, signed Jas Fitzgerald.
H. S. Penney of Wilton reports a calf grazing estimate using a new method he believes is more accurate than previous techniques, yielding a figure of 484 746.15 in the cited measure.
Muscatine resident Fred Mittman asserts the calf needs 497 198 square feet if not tied inside the barn or outside with a muzzle.
The received list shows individuals and locations in Iowa with various square footage figures. Names include Blanche Fitzsimmons of Brooklyn and E C Nichols of West Liberty among others. totals range from about 476 898 to 4 280 523 square feet, with several entries from West Liberty and Fruitland.
A series of figures shows square foot land measurements attributed to residents in Iowa and nearby Illinois. Names include F. R. Macdonald and Pliny Fry of Ackworth, W. H. Fulton of Muscatine, Dr. H. L. Parney of Wilton, and others such as E. W. Wedekind, Harry Hardin, E. H. Chapman, B. F. Shaum, J. H. Wilson, Walter C. Schenck, and Fred Mittman.
Davenport resident W C Putnam receives a polar bear skin and mounted tusks and walrus skull from William Ziegler of New York. The polar bear was captured near Camp Ziegler in Franz Josef Land and the walrus near Belle Island. Both specimens came via the America and its supply ship Frit Hof from Baldwin Ziegler expedition. The pieces will be displayed in the Davenport museum as valuable additions.
John Haywood of 3931 Aspen St Philadelphia credits a friend with guiding him to Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food. After one week his stomach trouble headaches and dyspepsia faded he gained nine pounds and reports steady improvement and renewed vitality. He calls the product worth its weight in gold and affordable.
Lehigh Valley Railroad announces the old Mauch Chunk station will be abandoned. Passenger services will be moved to the East Mauch Chunk station due to sharp curves and helper engine needs. The new stop is closer to the city, improving convenience for travelers.
Promotes a claimed universal remedy labeled the best neuralgia cure and mild laxative. Urges readers to keep it on hand as a modern conclave of medicinal promises, with assertions of wide effectiveness and novelty.
A public forum column grants writers space for opinion while the Journal remains neutral on the expressed views. The note clarifies its role as a medium for expression without endorsement or rejection by the paper.
A Muscatine editor urges taxpayers and the new city council to consider Cohasset Massachusetts plans to relocate a resident with a $5 million personal property transfer, hoping tax rates drop and capital investment rises. The note cites low Cohasset taxes and potential tax relief for Muscatine.
The note claims J P Morgan pledged twenty five thousand dollars as aid while predicting the man will die poor. The wording reflects a sensational promise and a cautionary forecast about wealth.
Through tourist sleepers daily to California via El Paso with low introductory rates for routes to the Pacific coast. Sale runs March 1 to April 20, 1902, from Salt Lake Ogden Helena and Butte. Inquiries at C R I P ticket office, agent G M Gould.
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