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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1907
Page
7
Local items list residents leaving for LaCrosse and Davenport visits, wedding attendance, and travel by steamer and trains. Advertisements promote Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, alfalfa and corn land in May, and custom screens from Muscatine Lumber. Norman Kellogg returns from naval school to surprise relatives in Davenport.
The Iowa Central Railway offers a popular round trip excursion to Minneapolis-St. Paul for $4.50 on Saturday May 18. See the local agent for details and tickets.
Wapello Iowa May 17 1907 seven graduates will receive diplomas in a May 30 exercises at the M E church with a baccalaureate sermon May 26 by Rev J N Som. The program includes speeches songs and a class poem with Sam H Erwin as valedictorian and Grace Crocker as class president.
Reports from Muscatine, Centerville, Burlington, and surrounding towns detail medical consultations for a patient with stomach hemorrhages, travel for relatives, visits by residents to Des Moines, Letts, and Washington, and social news. Notable items include Half Hour club officers elected for the coming year, a trip to Moline for Columbus Junction residents to view a new automobile, and a Keokuk medical degree graduate returning home with family.
A stray animal was taken in with a star on its forehead and a head halter. For details inquire at the police station or Bond's china store, where tumblers are also on offer for Saturday.
Frisco May 17 Geary street car line resumes service after a strike with 3.00 for an eight hour day. The city threatened to take over the road if the company did not start running cars. The line runs from Geary Kearney and Market to Golden Gate Park.
An ad for Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store urges that stomach, back or vowel sensations signal danger and promises Electric Bitters will cure them for 50 cents each.
Congressman A. F. Dawson will deliver the Memorial Day address at Oakdale cemetery in Wilton. Elaborate preparations have been made with a program of several musical selections arranged for the ceremony.
In St. Louis on May 17 Thomas Taylor a black cab driver died seven hours after wagering he could drink a large quantity of whisky. He consumed nineteen drinks without a break to prove his capacity.
A gas explosion at the Ohio Valley hospital near Pittsburg Pa on May 17 injures three men and causes five thousand dollars in damage while forty two patients are badly frightened.
Mrs McElroy state secretary of the Y W C A left for Otumwa this morning traveling via Dubuque where she will stop over briefly.
Mrs. Sarah Fox arrived home last evening after a brief stay in Chicago where she was visiting friends.
Miss Main of Madison Wisconsin visits her sister Mrs Kempton on Walnut street and shares time together during the visit.
Honora Baker of 205 East Fifth is recovering after a several weeks illness.
Frank Howard of Davenport is in the city as a visitor today.
Special report: B Shade, an elderly resident near Indian Creek six miles southeast, was injured while crossing the Rock Island tracks in town. His spring wagon carrying flour and seed was hit by a detached engine. he was carried about 200 feet and found unconscious with severe head wounds. He was taken to a shed for care. one horse was killed and the other bruised. Doctors fear he may recover.
Senator Cullom said at the White House that the candidate who logically should receive the next Republican nomination is the one the President introduced at Oyster Bay as the next President. The president’s remark shown a friendly tone toward the speaker.
The Iowa Central Railway launches its first popular excursion of the season to Minneapolis and St Paul on Saturday May 18. The train departs Elrick Junction at 7 52 p m reaches Minneapolis at 8 25 a m and St Paul at 9 00 a m Sunday. Return tickets valid on any train until No 6 leaving St Paul at 7 25 p m and Minneapolis 3 00 p m Tuesday May 21. Round trip fare is 4 50. Flyers or agents provide more information.
Very slowly falling stages forecast on the Mississippi over the next 48 hours from below Dubuque to Muscatine. Local forecaster J. M. Sherier notes gradual decline in river levels as conditions evolve.
A salesman explains to a woman about egg laying mammals. The platypus and echidna are described as egg laying mammals from South America with details on their eggs and pouch.
An actress who once played Rosa Lind recalls a night a note arrived in her dressing room. The message claimed to work for a dentist and threatened to perform the part instead, insisting on arriving at 7 PM to try the scene. The note was not acted upon.
An explanation of the phrase not worth a curse tracing its etymology from kerse a wild cherry to cerise and kirsch. It notes the expression as not properly profane though often intensified by stronger expletives and contrasts it with older phrases from Piers Plowman.
A hostess invites a guest to return next Wednesday while he explains a wedding prevents him from attending. The guest reveals the wedding is his own, prompting a humorous exchange about expectations and plans.
A Ruskin quote on simple joys frames rural life as the path to happiness. The lines praise watching corn grow, hard work with plow and spade, and the virtues of reading thinking loving and praying as the elements of contentment.
A statement notes that around 70 million animals are killed annually for fur. It highlights the scale of the industry and prompts discussion on animal welfare and fashion practices.
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