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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1901
Page
4
A note from the Journal announces that a Readers section is reserved for signed communications. It invites readers to send opinions, letters, and messages for public airing, underscoring unrestricted participation.
A dispute over E A Ogilvie's qualification for principal of Muscatine's Third Ward school centers on the lack of a first grade teaching certificate. Board members debate certification standards, with Director Fulham opposing the resignation and asserting Ogilvie holds a first grade certificate. The board previously voted that hiring requires a first grade certificate, and the issue highlights broader certification regulations and local practice.
River forecast through Sunday morning shows the Mississippi River falling at a similar rate from Muscatine to Dubuque. Notes surface with sporadic references to prairie du Chien and St Louis as regions along the river corridor.
President Titus of the library board announced the Musser library cornerstone will be laid at 10 o clock Monday morning. Rev Stafford to speak and the public is invited. Copies of the Journal and other Muscatine papers will be placed in the cornerstone. rain postpones to Tuesday.
Druggist A W Sawtelle of Hartford Conn extols Chamberlain Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as life saving after a shore vacation. A grateful lady customer credited it with saving her life while at the shore and a man with cold pains recovered after repeated doses. Sold by J J Havercamp and W C A Busch druggists.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate denounces Dr George D Herron for his recent marital entanglement and urges federal laws to stop men from abandoning wives and children.
Morning traveler Miss L Maisenbach sails to Rock Island for several days then intends to visit her aunt Mrs Weber in St Charles Missouri.
Literary notes review discusses two essays in Ainslee's May issue. The leading piece, Two Bosses: Platt and Croker, is praised for its mastery though author unnamed. Earl D Berry contributes The Men That Control Our Railroads, analyzing the eight men who dominate U S railway mileage.
In the May Forum Prof. Theodore S. Woolsey of Yale, an international law authority, discusses how wealth growth in the United States reduces foreign corporate ownership but increases foreign government loans in American markets. He offers investor considerations before funding European states.
H. W. Fisher & Co. of Philadelphia will publish Almon Dexter’s volume And the Wilderness Blossomed about mountain lakes in Maine. The book centers on developing a flower garden in northern Maine woods and growth in the surrounding area.
In The Engineering Magazine May number E Phillips highlights British backwardness versus American progress in iron and steel. An editorial analyzes the new steel trust, questioning its advantage to members and its effect on U S leadership in global steel markets, noting skepticism about regulatory influence.
May Scribner features a new short serial by Kate Douglas Wiggin lasting three months. The Diary of a Goose Girl tells of a beautiful American girl fleeing a persistent lover to a goose farm in an English county with illustrations by Shepperson.
A circulating Iowa millionaire list, allegedly sourced from the New York Herald years ago, is deemed unreliable. Named Des Moines figures include Cassidy Callanan Hubbell Polk Newton. others like Ingersoll and Youngerman are deceased or indeterminate. The piece notes few true magnates in Iowa and questions the list’s accuracy.
The notice promotes Eucaline as a powerful antiseptic for households and mucous membrane diseases like diphtheria and bronchitis. It claims unmatched effectiveness as an antiseptic and deodorant in sick rooms and states it is for sale to all druggists.
The five year old daughter of W B Mathews former county commissioner was found on Horse Heaven plains near Prosser Washington after a weeklong search. She had crawled into a badger hole exhausted from hunger and thirst and died within days.
Cardinal Gibbons will sail for Europe next week landing at Naples and traveling to Rome for duty visits to the pope. He will then visit Berlin and parts of Holland and may travel further before stopping to see Cardinal Vaughan in England. Bishop Alfred L. Curtis will administer the archdiocese during the absence.
American capitalists present M Sepiaguine minister of the interior with a project to construct a belt railway around St Petersburg. Estimated cost is 5,000,000 rubles about $2,575,000.
The Journal states market reports will be fuller and more up to date in the future, after a period of curtailed coverage, aiming to improve accuracy and usefulness for readers.
Mrs. Harry Barnard has returned home from Red Oak after visiting relatives. Dr. Jeff Fulham is ill at home and potentially facing appendicitis. Joseph Fredericks has died at Mr. Pleasant's place. his body will arrive here tonight. Harry Shellabarger of Fredonia Iowa died at 22 from consumption. funeral set for 19 o'clock tomorrow. The Grace English Lutheran church in this city will be dedicated Sunday May 19 with attendees from Davenport Rock Island and Moline and noted speakers.
Northbound trains No.3 St Paul Express and No.5 Mason City Mail run daily and Sundays with listed times. Southbound services include No.6 Peoria Mall and No.4 Peoria Express plus Way Freight. Coupon tickets sold nationwide to US Canada and Mexico via Geo S Batty and L Seevers agents in Marshalltown and Elrick Junction Iowa.
South and North bound station times show No. 1 to No. 4 trains with departures from Muscatine Fruitland Grandview Wapello and Elr Junction. All trains run daily except Sundays.
The Lehigh Valley railroad line between Niagara Falls Buffalo and New York Philadelphia offers panoramic scenery. Fast trains and dining cars provide la carte service as travelers enjoy entrancing views along the picturesque route.
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