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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1909
Page
3
Readable lines name Kecklerville vendors along Avenue including Chavka's Grocery West Bills J. Wh. Fuller Grocery and Wm. Yan Zyl Grocery. Community merchants appear grouped by street segment.
Telegraph style fragments show Bell telephone offices in Bosinese and Wattoriat with tone of system listings. Mississippi Valley reference appears among sparse entries.
Sworn circulation affidavit for the Muscatine Journal shows February totals around six to seven thousand copies. Publisher F D Throop certifies printed and distributed quantities with an 1909 notary seal and attendance by F L Bihlmeier.
In Muscatine yesterday the Commercial club room held a crowd of about three hundred men who endorsed a move to end clique rule and establish centralized, cooperative leadership. The decision marks a shift from factionalism to organized unity among Muscatine’s leading citizens.
A Muscatine speaker urges business leaders and citizens to unite for city prosperity. He praises the Commercial club for leading the Greater Muscatine effort, calls for disinterested leadership, and urges all residents to back collective progress over selfish interests.
The Waterloo Times-Tribune reports the senate paid its respects to a saloon on Monday, a moment noted as part of official proceedings. Further details remain unclear in the available fragment.
Advertises Bit ters as a spring tonic to cleanse winter impurities tone digestion and improve sleep promising relief from Spring Fever. The copy notes thousands have taken the product.
An old advertisement promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters promising relief for poor appetite dyspepsia heartburn biliousness female complaints colds grippe malaria fever and acute ailments. It highlights broad health claims in period tone.
The article notes varied reactions to new Cuban and American legislative moves. It highlights a split Iowa senate on anti saloon bills with Senator Moon proposing limits and Democrats divided as five supported, several abstained or absent, six opposed.
The Sioux City Journal argues that attaining statewide prohibition risks hidden complications and recalls 1880s temperance failures. It warns it may create more trouble than it cures for practical temperance supporters and opponents.
The Vinton Eagle recalls the late J W Blythe noting his inability to hear praise yet his indifference to criticism. The piece portrays his broad mind, lack of vindictive tendencies, and sympathy for those who opposed him, suggesting he understood their bitterness.
In a serialized tale, a young man writes a refined, earnest letter to a mysterious singer, while the Woman in the Fog contemplates romance and independence. The scene moves from a piano room to a household ritual as a servant notes a rehearsal and a forbidden vanity.
Reminiscences of long ago cover school examinations with Miss Almira Hershey at the piano and students singing. Then notes about show business moves by Mr. and Mrs. Magee, rail extension hopes, and Frank Jarvis joining the Davenport Democrat. Also ten years back High School notes report attendance after illness, baseball club forming an athletic association, and summer term teacher appointments for Fruitland township districts.
B B Woodward, in banking at Davenport since 1856, holds the presidency of the Davenport National Bank. Mr and Mrs T B Prosser depart for Harrisburg Pennsylvania to spend a month. Mr Broomhall was elected president of the school board last night.
The Muscatine County Sunday School association announces officers for the year. President is C. H. Campbell of Muscatine. Vice president is C. W. Norton of Wilton. Second vice president is S. Croxen of Atalissa. Third vice president is J. L. Fulmer of Nichols. Secretary and treasurer is Miss P. E. Johnson of Muscatine.
Paderewski returns to America this January with plans for twenty appearances. He agreed to perform his new symphony with the Boston Symphony in major cities and then with Chicago Minneapolis and St Paul orchestras. Demand for recitals rose swiftly in Boston New York Montreal and other venues.
A 19th century health ad claims Mr Kings New Discovery cures coughs and weak lungs by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store with price listings of 50 cents and one dollar.
Ila Nichols and Hazel Ray with Lyal return home from Muscatine and Texas visitors such as Ray Swickard and B L Metcalf. A Nichols Giants vs Athletics basketball playoff ends with Giants winning the deciding game. Easter sale by M. E. church set for April 10 offering Easter dinner items ice cream cake fruit peaches and coffee.
Community notices invite residents to collect Easter dinner supplies in the evening. Mr and Mrs Hyink of Muscatine move into the Bergstadt property. Bruce Ellis of Watertown Illinois visits aunt Mrs Clara Elder.
A brief health notice cites pneumonia as a dangerous, often fatal disease arising from a cold or grip attack. It endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure and preventive aid, noting it is made for these ailments and available at all druggists.
Specimens from Luther Burbank’s gardens will be displayed at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle this summer. The exhibit includes a spine less edible cactus being developed to reclaim the southern deserts.
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