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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1900
Page
5
Friday items include a straw hat at Hine Bros for five cents and daily city arrivals. The report lists visitors from Davenport and Davenport passengers, doctors from Omaha and Dubuque, and local residents on Firefly and other trains.
Short notice seeking pasture space for cattle or horses. Also interested in cattle line stock bought or for sale. Contact Charles M. E. Patterson Sweetland post office Muscatine County Iowa. Public notice style want ad.
The Athletic Association formed Wednesday plans track work to start Monday if training grounds satisfy. Initial crew includes Bert Hill Ralph Thompson Bert Mark Ray Brown John Ficken Henry Ficken Paul Loore Horace Herr with more to join. Prospective members include Tom Brannan Geo Lindner Earl Hudler Joe King Carl Ross. Possible meets with Davenport high school and Wilton college. Also several college scores: Wisconsin 11 Iowa 6 Notre Dame 8 Purdue 6 Wesleyan 11 Brown 1 Harvard 8 Dartmouth 0 Northwestern 5 Kalamazoo 2. Iowa versus Northwestern scheduled for tomorrow. Rod and Gun club to shoot Wednesday at the Fair Grounds.
The Philadelphia Record cites Abraham Lincoln on deception and claims persistent advertising helps sell top goods and build goodwill. It argues ads can attract customers even if quality is inferior, but lasting success comes from selling the best goods and fair treatment. The piece blends political wisdom with business ethics.
An old market note advertises Maull's Lightning Pain Killer marketed as a pain relief remedy sold by druggists for 25e, targeting general consumers.
Senator Depew cited Bret Harte to mock Chinese labor costs after a Washington dinner speech by the Chinese minister.
Friday’s Daly reports a Muscatine social event at Mrs. S A Borger’s West Second Street home with 100 guests. Guests enjoyed floral decor, silver and gold fans, and refreshments as Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. Borger led the reception with Miss Car rie Shammo as club president. The Cooking club then hosted Miss Laura Hill’s home at 311 Sycamore Street with a menagerie of games and a lively dinner, featuring ten witty young men as witnesses enjoying crokinole Captain Jinks and other diversions.
For Rent forty acres of blue grass pasture with ample water and shade located two miles north of Sweetland Center. Interested parties contact H A Carmichael at Muscatine R D Route No 2.
Advertisement notes Mull's Lightening Cough Cure as a remedy for coughing priced at 25 cents. It presents a simple sales claim without further details or sources.
Brigham H. Roberts who faced polygamy charges in a district court trial in Salt Lake City was found not guilty by a mixed jury after depositions only. Six Mormons and two Gentiles comprised the panel with mixed verdicts and jurors were polygamy opponents who still believed the law should be obeyed.
William Armstrong of Maxburg, Iowa, launches a petition in Maxburg and Madison county to raise 1200 dollars to reward the capture and conviction of Mable Schofield's murderers. Schofield's body was found in the Des Moines river near the city bath house last fall, with questions whether it was murder or self harm. Armstrong says evidence existed before the coroner’s jury but was suppressed by improper influence.
John Gilmer Speed discusses the American saddle horse's history and qualities. He traces gait development from amble and running walk to trotting and pacing, notes colonial palfrey roots, and highlights the Kentucky bred American saddle horse as versatile, educated, gentle, and well suited for general riders and Eastern markets.
Smallpox has appeared in railroad camps along the Creston to Murray double tracking in Iowa. Quarantines are in place at several camps near Creston, with patients sent to fever hospitals as symptoms arise. Health officials pursue strict sanitation to prevent spread while the Burlington construction department downplays impact on work.
William Smith and family lost their residence and most belongings when a morning fire consumed the upper story and much of the downstairs in Mediapolis. The house carried 500 dollars in insurance and about 109 dollars on furniture and clothing.
Des Moines Iowa May 3 at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Church of God the names of Rev J L V Ford Rev Mrs Ford and G M Nicols were stricken from church books and all relations with them severed A new constitution and by laws were adopted abolishing the bishop and creating the office of president in church government
During the first week in May 256000 pounds of cedar wood was sent from Navarro county Texas to pencil factories in Cincinnati Ohio and New York New York for manufacturing use.
A cargo valued at $1,000,000, shipped from Philadelphia to Russia, marks the largest farm implement shipment ever sent from the United States. The headline notes the historic scale of the transfer and its origin in Philadelphia.
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