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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1913
Page
6
Washington, May 1 report says abuse of roads has hurt efficiency. counsel for the New York, New York, seeks remedies and clearer policies to improve transit and infrastructure reliability.
Haven and Hartford and the Boston and Maine railroads today submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission their final analysis of the inquiry into their operation. The briefs follow closely the lines of the oral arguments presented last week. Counsel Ay Ithare asserts that the torrent of abuse has a serious effect on the morals of the organizations and that principal officers have spent much time preparing for hearings and trials before state and federal bodies.
James Walters, penniless with forty five cents, opened a post office letter and learned his father had died leaving an estate worth over thirty thousand dollars. The message from his aunt Mrs. P. G. Petty of Knoxville named the inheritance. Walters had fled Nashville thirteen years earlier. Mrs. G. A. Salmon of Columbus Junction and Mrs. Clara Allen and Mr. M. L. Babb of Kansas City accompanied by others spent a brief time in the city before returning to Columbus Junction.
Representative Pepper of the Second District introduced seventy four bills in one day in the house. Most were private pension measures but several public bills also appeared. Notable items include a leave of absence for arsenals and navy yard workers, a refiled suit to reopen the powder trust case, a dam project across the Mississippi with Great Northern Development Company support, and rules against time devices for government workers. Also proposed are penalties for employer intimidation during elections and revised compensation rules for postal workers among other changes. Pepper plans to press these measures as committee roles form.
May 5 column from Atalissa Iowa reports visits and moves including Mia Kittie Watterman and family visiting Grandma Lundy, Alice Baralow on sick leave with bronchitis, and several families relocating between Will Nachbaur’s, Owensboro Kentucky, Des Moines, and Colorado. Also notes a murder near Salmon Idaho involving Henry Brown, with Brown’s birth in 1862 and surviving family.
An old advertisement touts TIZ foot bath as relief for tired, swollen, or painful feet with corns and arches. It features claims of happiness from foot soaking, urges purchase via AL Coon in New York and Walter Luther Dodge & Co in Chicago, offering a money back guarantee and free trunk handles.
The excerpt notes uncertainty about the motive behind a murder and hints it may be revealed in the trial. It expresses sympathy for the bereaved family, especially the wife, whose health is in a fragile state. Local readers are urged to understand the distress of those affected.
Wilton May 16 Special After a two day session the Southern Iowa conference of the German Town Synod of the Lutheran church concluded with yesterday afternoon’s close The program featured papers on women in church and society by Rev H Brogk nat of Teows City and on the movement for men and religion by Rev Salzmann of Grinnell Rev Julius Doden of Wilton read How to Prepare a Good Sermon The conference will meet next year in Iowa City during the last week of August.
Washington May 16 President Wilson may place consular representatives under the civil service. White House officials said changes could affect select consuls generals at major posts, limited to positions formerly held by political favorites, not promoted within the consular service.
An 87 year old man in Uniontown Pennsylvania died Wednesday in Monongahela township Greene county after a trolley ride misfuncted his time relatives say Louis Eberhart lived about two and a half miles from the Monongahela river and never rode trains street cars or steamships Miss Frances Ramondo of Columbus Ohio returned home after visits at Mrs Mary Miller's at 08 East Third Street
Mrs Maria Primrose of Newell Street Brooklyn New York reports a three month chronic cough ended after taking Wind remedy. She credits the medicine with easing coughing improving sleep and boosting strength. Druggist W Morgan offers a money back guarantee if it fails to help.
The city council debated a motion by Alderman Rainbow to draft an ordinance banning beekeeping within city limits. The proposal to impose a permanent injunction against bees was defeated after a lively exchange. Some members argued for bee nuisance controls, while others warned against hindering new industries.
Pleasant Prairie May 12. Delayed report of residents visiting friends and relatives across Hazel Dell Blue Grass MontpelierMuscatine and nearby areas. Embroidery club meetings at Mrs Ray Bakers Wednesday. various residents travel on interurban lines and visit kin including Ed Kephart Fowler and Baker families.
Kansas City May 15 Jim Hurst manager of Wildcat Ferns announces a ten round welterweight title bout with Patty McIntyre of Canada set for June 7 in Winnipeg. Ferns also schedules Antone Lagrave in Taft California on July 4 for a twenty round fight.
A long reader Q and A column features Dr Lewis Baker offering generic tonics and remedies for nervousness weight, digestion, bronchitis, and hair loss. The piece advertises various elixirs, tinctures, and tablets sold through druggists, with claims of curing chronic ailments and improving health, without medical diagnosis.
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