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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1906
Page
3
The Daily Journal publishes every evening except Sunday and the Semi Weekly Journal issues 8 pages on Tuesday and Friday nights. Subscriptions priced at 10 cents weekly in city delivery, or 3.00 yearly by mail. Business and editorial offices listed. telephones shown.
The Journal names local agencies for reader convenience including Fast Hill Clay Kneese Grocery East 2nd street South Muscatine Morse Washburn's gro cery End of street car track W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue Kecklerville Chayka's grocery West Muscatine Sharrar's grocery.
The article condemns Chinatown for iniquities and calls for restricting licenses. It notes the old Chinatown was wiped out by fire, revealing underground passages and hidden recesses. It claims authorities can curb those who glamorize slum life and emphasizes white observers saw only a fraction of its mysteries.
Judge Wade declares publicly that he will not be a candidate for congress this year and will not accept nomination for that or any other office. Despite his clear statement, friends and some papers in Des Moines and Dubuque persist in claiming he will run, which supporters say harms his integrity and misstates his commitments to law practice and family dependent interests.
Plans for a rebuilt San Francisco aim to bar slum areas and raise aesthetic standards. The city’s devastation is seen as an opportunity to create a greater, more stately metropolis while reducing immoral quarters that have marred its image.
A column critiques American zeal in exhuming and celebrating John Paul Jones. It notes Jones lay buried in Paris for a century before Americans shipped his remains home for multiple funerals and public awe. The piece warns against overemphasizing one hero and urges restraint.
A Kansas column reviews a satirical decalogue urging readers to support local commerce and pay cash. It mocks reliance on credit and external influence, praising home merchants and home printers for spreading news and securing livelihoods.
Claim touts Hostetter’s as best for poor appetite flatulence headache bloating dyspepsia indigestion costiveness or female ills urging readers to try it today in a period advertising tone.
Ottumwa Courier asks how readers feel about a dark horse rise. Des Moines Capital quips that Diogenes would not need a lantern in Iowa. Waterloo Courier accuses governor opponents of only denouncing, a sign of defeat. Ames Times says the governor’s platform centers on claiming everything, visible or not.
The Creston American urges expanding democratic reform after backing U S senatorial elections by popular vote to include federal judges elected by the people. The editorial argues broader citizen control of federal offices.
The Dubuque Telegraph Democrat approves Secretary Shaw, stating they measure him aright when they know him best.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes Maj. Rathbun is the sole candidate for governor not roused by the likely result, maintaining calm while others show excitement about the outcome.
The Britt Tribune declares that praise for Funk cannot diminish the spirit of the old time wielders of the tomahawk on Spirit Lake, a lasting cultural connection celebrated in his regard.
The Mason City Globe Gazette notes the tenth district will need Shaw's speeches in 1908 as current opponents may vote Democratic tickets. The remark hints at shifting coalitions and upcoming campaign dynamics.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette notes that analysts expect the next general assembly to enact a primary law. It frames the move as a probable outcome rather than a speculative forecast.
The Keokuk Gate City endorses Gov. Cummins for a second term, praising its own Democratic alignment and its stance as a straightforward partisan paper. The quote notes no pretense beyond supporting Cummins in the state’s political landscape.
The Waterloo Courier denounces everyone connected with the Perkins bureau at Des Moines as either a corporation hanger on or a disappointed office seeker in a sharp political critique.
The Mason City Times Herald notes Herriott may not have realized his track involvement was overlooked but urges him to recognize what passed over him. The Cummins paper highlights the incident as a missed or misread event.
The Mason City Times-Herald asserts the governor can win the primaries without Democratic support, noting he has two-thirds of the Republican vote in nearly all counties and a larger share in many others.
The Sheldon Sun quotes a Democrat statement that opportunities arise in Republican caucuses. It says a function within Republican ranks is a peak ambition for Democrats, second only to party success.
A Cedar Rapids Republican calls for a state campaign focusing on state issues as expenditures and taxes have climbed for five years, arguing it warrants raising those topics now. The quote highlights concern over ongoing fiscal growth and the need for debate on state spending.
The Sioux Rapids Republican-Press says standpatters support the President only to maintain party standing, not for backing reforms. At heart they oppose Roosevelt as much as Cummins.
The Atlantic Telegraph notes that A. B. Cummins remaining a political leader guarantees ongoing factional conflict in Iowa politics, with power struggles tied to his leadership and influence in the state.
The Telegraph predicts the Iowa Republican party will not harmonize under A. B. Cummins as a leader, signaling factional tensions within the state party.
The Des Moines Mail and Times notes Warren Garst runs for lieutenant governor while many friends and some nonaligned Republicans question why he was not chosen as governor candidate this year.
The Boone Republican calls the Shaw resolution at the tenth district convention unfortunate and a serious mistake. It says the resolution itself aligns with district Republicans but its timing after the appointment was inappropriate and that Secretary Shaw diverges from district sentiment on the primary tariff and ship subsidy issues.
Miss M May Jones returned home from six months in Chicago to Grandview. Local figures Rev J W Hummell, Dr Proper, C A Carpenter, F N Wilcox, B F Ogden and others visited, interviewed voters, and shook hands while preparing for elections. Earthquake near San Francisco she vibrations felt by Mrs Jane Brookins in Sonoma.
The ad touts Golden Medical Discovery by Dr. R V Pierce as a forest-root based tonic that purifies the blood and aids digestion, liver and stomach function. It warns against substitutes and claims no alcohol or habit forming drugs, touting Pleasant Pellets as a constipation remedy.
The narrator describes a Wall Street mob outside the Textile Building and his office full of reporters. He insists his campaign will be carried by his letter and refuses media spin while exposing financiers manipulating National Coal stock to prop up prices. Ned Schilling warns Roebuck’s danger as the plot tightens.
An advertisement asserts catarrh is constitutional and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces, offers a hundred dollar reward for un cured cases, and directs readers to send for circulars and testimonials.
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