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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1901
Page
3
The Muscatine Journal lists subscription rates and mailing practices. Daily year by carrier costs 52 dollars, semi weekly Tuesday and Friday 150 dollars, with payments by postal card telephone or money order to Journal Printing Company.
Republicans of the 2nd Senatorial District including Louisa and Muscatine counties will hold a delegate convention at the Muscatine courthouse at 2 p.m. on Wednesday July 31 to nominate a senator and conduct other business. Delegates are 21 from Muscatine and 12 from Louisa, with all Republicans invited to participate. County chairmen are asked to arrange conventions to select delegates. J W Belia and J W Garner sign as senatorial committeemen.
Census bulletin fixes U S population center at 39 9 36 N 85 48 54 W near Columbus Indiana. Movement west 14 miles and south 3 miles since 1890 marks smallest shift in history, with long term westward trend slowing while northern states grow.
The article notes a major population shift into Texas Oklahoma and Indian Territory, while the center of population sits in northern Kansas at about 39 55 N 98 50 W. This center lies three quarters of a degree south and over 13 degrees east of the center of area, underscoring southern growth and northern enterprise.
The Knights of Columbus moves to expel saloon-keepers and others connected with liquor manufacture or sale. After a three year old prohibition and lax enforcement by subordinate lodges, the national board will meet in New Haven in July to enforce the rule, expelling offending members and suspending councils.
Voters across Polk County supported keeping the present primary system at the recent election. Precincts in favor argued the system keeps political power closer to the people and reduces boss manipulation, benefiting all involved.
In a charged exchange, critics accuse Rockefeller of using flattery to influence others while defenders call attention to his oil business. The remark sparks debate over ethics and leadership in the public sphere.
The Vinton Eagle argues the campaign centers on republican principles and the Iowa vote for McKinley. It calls Republicans to rally to the party and leaves railroad attorneys to settle their dispute.
Creston Gazette reports the turn-down of George D. Perkins by Sioux City is a rebuke of the town rather than a loss of Perkins's esteem. The piece says Perkins’s services for Sioux City and the Republican party outweighed other local instrumentalities, though the decision lowers Iowa residents’ view of Sioux City.
The note lists diverse items including a Turkish secretary tall enough to oversee affairs, ex Governor Morrill of Kansas owning a vast apple orchard planned to hold 64 000 trees, a diamond tontine graft recovery promising five cents on the dollar, and a granite shaft raised at Champoeg Oregon marking the site of the first civil government west of the Rockies 58 years prior.
An inmate from a New York insane asylum escaped to see the alleged beauty of 700 Vassar girls and returned content with his lot after a single look.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway promotes hundreds of summer resorts across Northern Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan Upper Peninsula along its line. Notable spots include Fox Lake Delavan Lake Lake Geneva and Madison with others such as Minocqua Star Lake White Bear Minnetonka and Okoboji. Illustrated booklets titled Summer tomes for .901 and In the Lake Country offer details. send six cents postage to F A Miller Chicago Ill.
An old style advertisement by J J Havercamp offering a cure for piles with a positive written guarantee and a no cure no pay promise. The pitch includes a free pile pipe with each package and a 50 cent price point for samples.
In Iowa the Sev enth district primaries heat up as Cummins backers clash with Conger supporters in Dallas Madison Warren and Marion counties. Rumors swirl over Hull opposition and Prohibition ties while Trewin Harriman and others campaign to knit a united front against Cummins.
The text notes Cummins supporters expect to back him as a possible Iowa presidential candidate in 1904 if he wins this year, while Governor Shaw is not favored by convention allies. Allison and Senator Dolliver are mentioned as not seeking a United States senate bid against them.
A humorous narrative from the Ohio State Journal personifies a postage stamp and a pink perfumed envelope. The stamp describes being slapped by a mail clerk, traveling two days, meeting a girl with blue eyes, and finally being pressed into her bosom as she reads and kisses the sealed letter. The tale ends with the stamp declaring happiness to be a two center.
Ex Governor Drake continued his support to Drake University with a 25000 dollar starter and ongoing gifts reported by the Centerville Citizen. The Iowa Conference Twentieth Century convention of the Methodist church will meet in Ottumwa May 28 and 29. Dubuque County courts rule slot machines gambling devices and indict operators. The Mississippi Valley Spiritualist association holds its nineteenth annual camp meeting in Clinton July 25 to August 28.
Passenger and freight schedules show travel from Montezuma with daily and Sunday exceptions, times for arrivals and departures, and connections on Nos. 1 10 11 12 15 6 7 8 14 21 across Chicago Denver and Evans head routes via Kansas City and St Joseph. Eastbound and westbound services include specific freight and passenger timings and lines through Wilton and Evans.
The Iowa Central timetable lists trains North and South from Elrick Junction with St Paul Express Mason City Mail Peoria Mail and Express services and Way Freight options. Coupon tickets and travel folders are available through agents Batty Seevers at Elrick Junction Marshalltown Iowa.
Notice advertising Dr J Dean, specialist in lye ear nose and throat diseases. Office on 605 West Third Street and telephone numbers Residence 2053 and office 5320.
J W MKEE attorney at law offers collections and notary services. Office over Ramworth's drug store at 114 East Second Street.
Legal notice from Muscatine North and South Railroad Company detailing actions tied to tie installations and track work at Muscatine. Officials announce project scope and expected completion parameters and identify involved parties and locations.
The Buffalo summer exposition will be one of the greatest in the nation with all arts science and manufacture represented. Niagara Falls power will run the machinery just as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters energizes the enfeebled body and aids digestion nervousness and flatulency. The genuine bottle bears a private revenue stamp.
William Allen White will contribute a striking anecdotal article on Fighting Fred Funston, the man who captured Aguinaldo, to an early issue of the Saturday Evening Post. He begins a series of character studies and will also contribute a Kansas life serial story to upcoming numbers.
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