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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1907
Page
7
Local brief with notices of travel and visits, real estate pitches, and drug store promotions. People named include Geo. White, Mrs. Chas. Brown, Miss Marie Overholt, Dr. Cal W. Smith, Rev. Graham, Dan Rice, J. F. Stevenson, A. R. Maurer, Elsie Niebling, Drew Musser, Fred Davidson, Will Fitzgerald, Hannah Ogier, and G. M. Titus. Includes railroad travel, Davenport and Columbus Junction mentions, and a housing sale offer.
More than forty boys from the Intermediate and Employed Boys classes attended a banquet at the Y M C A association building. William Randall acted as toastmaster and introduced speakers including Stewart Narvis and Harold Morgan. Rev. J N Elliott of First Presbyterian shared brief narratives from his college days. Clyde R. Moulton spoke on Camp Talk detailing summer arrangements with the Manchester Clinton and Dubuque associations.
An old advertisement touts Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and colds as a sure cure priced at 50 cents and one dollar. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store promotes the remedy amid public health warnings about throat and lung diseases.
Funeral services were held in West Liberty for Isaac Heald and Susan Buckman. Heald, born 1831 in Columbiana County Ohio, leaves wife Amelia Handy and son George of Spencer Iowa. Buckman’s service followed at the Presbyterian church with pallbearers listed. she is survived by four children and 14 grandchildren.
The article advises moderate heavy foods and emphasizes soups milk and water. It promotes daily open air exercise and notes diet rest and exercise aid prevention but not cure. It then presents a detailed prescription including Cascara Aromatic Barkola Prickly Ash and Aromatic Elixir for Rheumatism Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Several residents travel for visits and family matters around Muscatine. Rev J J Hales from Centerdale stops in town, and Glen Marstellar heads to Muscatine. Mrs Will Maxson and Mrs C B McClun plan a short visit in Atalissa with Dr Chesebro. Other locals: Aunt Lib Nichols ill, aunt/uncle sets, and numerous short trips to Iowa City Moscow and Iowa Falls.
Workers drive piles and planks at Mund Creek near Heabner's to divert the stream. Mr Heberling of Atalissa visited the area Saturday. Charles Henderson adds an extension to his home. Christ Marten installs a woven wire front yard fence. George Hunt trains a pair of colts for William Frick.
A special stockholders meeting of Anthes Lumber Co in Iowa approved moving the principal place of business from Muscatine to Knoxville. The resolution was authorized and ordered by the stockholders. Geo. P. Anthes, President. C. B. Anthes, Secretary.
President Roosevelt backs creating a cabinet headed public health department to absorb meat inspection quarantine pure food and other services. The plan would add bureaus for infant hygiene education sanitation immigration and labor conditions among others. Notable advocates include Booker T. Washington Lyman Abbott and Andrew Carnegie while many scientists were initially engaged before being told to withdraw.
Face to face we stand today with the greatest correctionary problem any country has ever had. We are confusedly trying to find the means of affording every man life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The pro rata of murders is higher than in any civilized land and crimes for profit abound as never before, threatening property and safety.
An army general orders future field uniform identification tags issued by the quartermaster department at cost to officers and free to enlisted men. The tag is aluminum and designed to identify personnel in the field.
A promotion extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for fibroid and other tumor growths in women. It quotes multiple testimonies from women claiming tumor disappearance and relief from bearing down, irregularities, and backache after using the product and its Blood Purifier.
A proposed small neck tag the size of a half dollar will bear the wearer’s name rank company regiment or corps and be kept with the owner as part of the uniform. It would aid in war as well as peacetime in accidents or other emergencies.
Ossian H. Lang praises free public lecture courses as an excellent substitute for college education. The program fosters serious study, leads to profitable discussions, and encourages collateral reading supported by public libraries. New York City exemplary in supporting this idea.
Leslie's Weekly defends Cleveland's $25 000 salary as chairman of the executive committee of the life insurance presidents association. It likens critiques to attacks on ex Senator Hill for legal fees, calling the professional services honorable and regular and noting value commensurate with pay.
Grace S. Richmond's short story A Brother in Arms appears in the April McClure's. A Yale sophomore Julius Broughton entertains a married sister and a young New Haven girl at luncheon as she departs west. The dialogue traces the sister's scrutiny and the boy's evasions in witty fashion.
Andrew Carnegie endorses the president’s moderate railroads policy in Leslie’s Weekly. He calls Roosevelt the best friend the railroads have and warns they must align with his approach or risk a harsher White House stance.
Professor George Herbert Palmer previews his essay in the April Atlantic, examining the role of professional birch wielders and the broader social context surrounding their craft.
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for advice. She has advised sick women free of charge for over twenty years and helped her mother-in-law Lydia FB Pinkham in advising.
Professor Palmer argues that the only true teacher is drawn to teaching by love, views it as a vital art, and will endure hardships and modest pay to seize its rich opportunities, a view shared by parents, students, and even children.
The Benton Company publishes April RailRoad Quotation Record with price tables for investors. Chicago & Northwestern shows 7 percent stock at 205 on January 1 1907 yielding 3.41 percent. By March 24 it fell to 127 1 2 percent, returning 5.09 percent an investment gain of 1.68 percent.
An April Atlantic article by R L Ridgman argues dissatisfaction with high tariffs fuels a broad movement. He cites political tensions in Massachusetts and Iowa and predicts growing momentum for the next confrontation.
The April 25 issue suggests a sleep remedy for certain insomnia forms. E. W. Frentz explains mil liner production and potential earnings. Francis E. Leupp describes conditions among some American Indian tribes. Four top stories are included in the contests.
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