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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1901
Page
3
John Mahin editor and Harold J. Mahin manager announce Muscatine Iowa postal registration and subscription rates for daily and semi weekly issues. Rates list daily per year and semi weekly Tuesdays and Fridays with advance payment options by postal card telephone draft express or money order payable to Journal Printing Company.
The Muscatine school board session ended with frictions as new directors clashed, prompting directors Morgridge and Hunt to resign in disgust. The dispute centered on keeping Prof. Schall and teachers Miss Coyner and Mrs. Kennedy, while critics urged replacing several staff as public pressure mounted.
Fragmentary remarks show talk of resisting change in Muscatine schools as factions clash over reform. One voice proclaims a duty to act while opponents push back, signaling a heated, unresolved local education dispute and calls to remove older female staff from schools.
The May Scribner essay by Walter A. Wyckoff describes Iowa farmers resisting communistic ideas. His 1892 tramp across districts from Davenport to Council Bluffs found farmers eager for labor, skeptical of worker ownership, and wary of shared property while stressing economic independence.
Ex Senator Pettigrew claims Hanna spent about $50 06000 to sway South Dakota votes last fall. He asserts a $50 price per vote and 10 000 ballots bought. Papers say Pettigrew received $18 000 from a railroad president for campaign work. Frank Crane offered $25 rewards for information on ballot law violations.
The notice from Sioux Falls on August 20 1900 outlines rewards to be paid by the republican and populist democratic state committees to deter corrupt voting at the November 6 1900 election. Chairman Crane signed the pledge while the democratic chair refused. Pettigrew’s charge of bribery is questioned as lacking factual warrant.
Dr George Cyril Hopkins reports five years of corn research in Iowa showing increased kernel protein from 10 92 to 12 52 and oil from 4 71 to 6 12 in high oil plots while low protein plots reduced protein to 9 34 and oil to 3 59. He bred top ears to boost desirable traits, aiming to tailor corn for sugar or pork production.
The ad promotes a cold remedy named Week's Break-Up-A-Cold Tab Lets by J. J. Havercamp. It promises a cheerful refund of the purchase price if the product fails to cure the cold, priced at 25 cents.
In the lake country of Northern Hil nois Wisconsin Minnesota and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway lie hundreds of charming summer resorts. Listings include Fox Lake Delavan Lake Lake Geneva The Lauderdale Lakes Waukesha Oconomowoc Palmyra The Dells at Kilbourn Elkhart Lake Madison Minocqua Star Lake Frontenac White Bear Minnetonka Marquette Spirit Lake Okoboji Big Stone Lake and more. For illustrated booklets Summer tomes for 901 and In the Lake Country send six cents postage to F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Chicago Il.
The life saving effect of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is praised as a remedy for obstinate coughs bronchitis and weak lungs. A Wyoming man Mr. Moses Miles credits four bottles with restoring health and weight after severe asthma. The ad notes the People's Common Sense Medical Adviser is free in paper covers and requests 21 one cent stamps to mail.
Press opinions indicate Conger will be nominated with little doubt and will accept the honor voluntarily. His stance on China is not expected to change, and the nomination will be effectively unanimous.
Charlie Walsh of Ottumwa, secretary of the democratic nations committee, is described as a silver man who also handles a $700 dividend from an Alaska gold mine. He supports the gold standard and uses silver to influence populists in political business.
The London agnostics announce a plan to raise 150000 dollars to create a free thought institute aimed at freeing the world from superstition. George Anderson has subscribed half the amount on condition that the rest is secured, but skeptics doubt the venture’s viability as it conflicts with efforts to build up rather than tear down existing intellectual and religious organizations.
The Inter Ocean recalls Henry Wade Rogers Herman von Holst Hiram Thomas and others who opposed the nation during wartime. They faced removal or obscurity as the paper argues that dissenters in perilous times lose standing and must remain silent.
The advertisement touts Benson's Plaster as the top external remedy trusted by 5000 physicians and druggists. It claims superior relief for coughs, colds, lumbago, rheumatism, and liver or kidney troubles, with awards from competing European and American plasters. Seabury & Johnson, New York, offer nationwide prepaid postage on orders.
Shiloh May 4 The Willing Worker Sewing society met at the home of Mrs. George Coriell's Thursday with strong attendance. They were invited to meet at Mrs. O Scott's Wilton home in one month. Mrs. George Plitt and daughter Miss Gussie attended. Nel Dougherty and Mr and Mrs George Corriell visited their sister Mrs James Carter of Sweetland Sunday. Mr and Mrs Charley Reed visited with Mr and Mrs Henry Ey sink Sunday. Mrs Henry Freyermuth and daughter Mildred and Misses Lena and Sophia Freyermuth visited Mrs Ed Denton and daughter Miss Minnie Sunday.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway issues South Dakota Farms an illustrated booklet covering the Aberdeen to Missouri River region, a previously underserved area now accessible by a new line. Copies available by sending a two cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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