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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1905
Page
6
The Diamond Jo steamer Sidney arrived at Muscatine Wednesday evening on her second trip of the season. A large freight cargo was unloaded at the levee while passenger lists were light. Deck hands wore airy costumes and worked busily despite low passenger demand. the river trade is strongest in June through August.
A afternoon program at the public library delighted about 150 school children with songs reading and fairy tales in Japanese theme. Miss Florence Chase led the event with Miss Gretchen Legler and others in traditional costumes and performances. Separately a flower theft near Weed park led to a youth's capture and a police warning. Street car work advances toward park access as two picnics and Sunday baseball plans unfold in East Hill.
Relief in six hours for kidney and bladder distress with prompt relief of bladder and back pain. Suitable for male or female, relieves urinary retention almost immediately. Sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store in Muscatine, Iowa.
Ex science teacher D G Clancy formerly of Muscatine High School is ill with bone tuberculosis. After leaving teaching at Fort Dodge he returned to his Jerome Michigan home for care. He has undergone three bone surgeries and friends hope for his recovery.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for jaundice and liver trouble. It claims the medicine cures or no pay and sells for 25 cents at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
Ernest Schroeder a boy of school age at Underwood suffered a serious head injury when struck by a ball bat during an accident.
Mrs. Edith M. Crambill of Ottumwa files for divorce from her husband on cruelty and inhuman treatment charges and seeks alimony totaling 3000 dollars.
A Kentucky congressman recounts a judge who sentence a murderer, affording the condemned man a full dinner and four weeks’ delay before execution. The judge insists the decision rests with the jury and the law, not himself, and offers a grim, sardonic timing. The exchange highlights legal formality and human consideration in a fatal case.
John Jacob Astor and his clerk Fitz-Halleck formed a close bond. Halleck served from 1832 for seventeen years, becoming a trustee of the Astor library. The poet teased wealth, and Astor, amused, left Halleck a $200 yearly annuity in his will.
A London Mail quote surveys famed orators John Bright and Disraeli describing the pressure and nerves of parliamentary speaking. It recalls Bright’s fear and Disraeli’s boast of having no nerves, noting the crowd's impact on courage and ambition in the chamber.
The piece notes a simple Indian bedtime in hot weather with open doors and no stairs. Beds are wooden frames with webbing, a single sheet, two pillows per bed, and sometimes no mattress, using fine matting for cooling comfort instead.
The advertisement asserts headaches nervousness dizziness indigestion and new ralgia stem from sick nerves. It promises quick relief by soothing nerves and stimulating their action with Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills, claiming no injurious ingredients and undetectable intake apart from relief.
The ad claims Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve many ailments from headaches to neuralgia and dizziness. A customer named Mrs G H Danks of Morristown New Jersey praises the relief and notes a money back guarantee if not beneficial. Each package contains 25 doses selling for 25 cents.
A nineteenth century remark by Yuan Mei about cooking blends is cited to illustrate respect for animal souls. The author argues cooks should showcase distinct flavors in each dish and avoid homogenized meat mixtures.
Mrs Jenner and Mrs Selfdom debate grand opera and language. They argue English lyrics are as understandable as Italian, sparking a lively Chicago Tribune exchange on opera definitions and clarity.
A pair of men discuss business struggle and lack of capital. The ingrowing chin man notes the need for backing while the other, with a mange nose, agrees that without funds one must sidestep. The line captures a cautious, pragmatic tone of the era.
The Illustrated London News reports that a British husband views women’s clubs with amusement calling them places where women eat odd meals and endure discomforts that men would not tolerate for an hour in a men’s club.
A clipped from the Philadelphia Ledger notes a man who arrived barefoot in the country and now amasses millions. The quip calls him a regular centiped.
A brief Hartford Courant fragment shows a kind lady offering a nickel to a crying boy. The boy retorts that he is not crying and insists the face before him is his regular one.
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