Muscatine Paper Claims Leading Circulation
Circulation is guaranteed greater than all other Muscatine papers combined and at least three times that of any other daily newspaper.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
3
Subscription Terms for The Daily Journal and Semi Weekly Journal
The Daily Journal is issued every evening on weekdays including Tuesday and Friday nights for the Semi-Weekly Journal. Daily delivery in the city by carrier costs 10 cents weekly. one year by mail is 3.00 for the Daily and 3.00 for the Semi-Weekly.
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Daily Journal
Eae
Representatives Payne and Young Take Charge
Representatives Payne and Young assume leadership at the Chicago office located in the 750 Marquette Building, signaling a new administrative direction for the agency.
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Representatives
Payne & Young
Chicago
Marquette Building
Journal Agencies list for city readers
The Journal names its agency locations for reader convenience. Agencies include East Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd Street South Muscatine Toborg Bros Grocery Oregon Street W C A Buschs Drug Store Hershey Avenue Kecklerville Chayka Grocery West Hill J H Fuller Grocery and Wm Van Zyl Grocery New York Office 30 34 West 33rd Street.
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Journal
East Hill
Hurlbut
East 2Nd Street
South Muscatine
Toborg Bros
Oregon Street
W. C. A. Busch’s
Hershey Avenue
Kecklerville
Chayka’s
West Hill
J. H. Fuller
Wm. van Zyl
New York
West 33Rd Street
Circulation Statement for Muscatine Journal April 1909
Publisher Throop swears the April 1909 issue of the Muscatine Journal had a stated circulation. The affidavit notes the Muscatine County newspaper printed and circulated the required number of copies and is sworn before Notary F L Bihlmeier on May 3, 1909.
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I. F. PD. Throop
The
Muscatine Journal
F. D. Throop
Muscatine Co
State of
Lowa
F. L. Bihlmeier
Lassae Sun
Asee
Cnn
Impractical Feller as Visionaries Overcoming Scoffs
The piece argues that individuals labeled impractical Feller by skeptics often prove critics wrong as Wright brothers and others pursued revolutionary aims. It recalls Langley and Columbia, noting how ridicule can obscure future breakthroughs and how persistent visionaries shape science, invention, and society.
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Wright Brothers
Dayton
Columbia
America
Noah
Langley
Impractical dreamers in aviation praised for daring progress
The article laments ridicule toward early aviation pioneers who faced public scorn after failed heavier than air flight attempts. It argues skepticism stifles discovery, cites history from ark builders to Columbus, and warns mocking the impractical feller risks losing breakthroughs that could ease human burdens.
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Columbus
Boosters Visit Wayland Engaging Local Grads and Visitors
The Muscatine Boosters stopped in Wayland for a brief 12 20 arrival, passed through town, handed out leaflets and pencils to excited school children, and entertained locals with a lively band. The trip aimed to showcase Muscatine, meet regional business people, and provide recreation as the group enjoyed their excursion.
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Wayland
Boosters
Waylandites
Throop
Muscatine Journal
Muscatine
Muscatine Boosters Visit Muscatine Retail Trade
The Muscatine Boosters, more than 100 strong and led by an excellent band, traveled in a special Rock Island and Iowa Central train to get acquainted with local retail trade and advertise Muscatine. They are an enthusiastic group of businessmen.
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Hedrick Journal
Muscatine
Rock Island
Iowa Central
Wouldn’t You Try the Bitters for a Weak Stomach
An advertisement touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a long trusted remedy for indigestion dyspepsia belching heartburn constipation liver and kidney ills and malaria fever. It urges readers to buy today and check the private neck stamp to avoid counterfeits.
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Hostetter
Ice Shipment for St Louis Market Heads to River Barges
The steamer Jennie Linn lies at Atman & Co. ice house above the city loading two ice barges for St. Louis. Two more barges were loaded in Davenport. Atman & Co. report about 80 tons shipped from their city house and have bought out rivals.
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Jennie Linn
Atman and Co
St. Louis
Davenport
Messrs. Atman & Co
M. L. Fisher
Board of Education
Iowa
Muscatine
Greene
Crawford
Monona
Worth
William Fultz
Moscow
Runaway Plank Road Scenes and Local Tales From The Era
A compilation of past local incidents including two frightful runaways along the plank road causing wagon damage and frightened teams. The piece also recalls a Golden Gate excursion party, a theft arrest, and a writer named Mr. Butler detailing his writing routine and upcoming works.
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South Muscatine
H. J. Vail
Priester
Appel's Corner
Prosper Plessy
Mr. Pessy
Rubelman & Co
Mr. Vail
Second Street
Household heating and a returning family visit note
Ten years ago a bold housekeeper who insisted the stove stay put is now seen as prophetic. Mr and Mrs C R Fox return from a Pennsylvania visit with their son Sergt Sam Fox, who met them in Chicago while en route to Cuba with U S volunteer engineers.
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C. R. Fox
Pennsylvania
Sergt
Sam Fox
Chicago
Cuba
U. S
The Man Behind Pigs and Pups Fame Ellis Parker Butler
Walter Aden Dyer profiles Ellis Parker Butler, famed humorist and Muscatine native, tracing his rise from a grocer's boy to a celebrated writer. The piece details Butler's Portland like routines, early poems, discovery by Ellery Sedgwick, and his quirky methods including waking at 2 am to dream plots and jot ideas in a lavender notebook.
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New York Times
Walter Aden Dyer
Ellis Parker Butler
Muscatine
Flushing
Mr. Butler
Iowa
Fairbanks
Day
Butler
Truth
New York
Ellery Sedgwick
American
Mr. Sedgwick
Pig
Balanc
Cascarets promise bowel health and strong muscles
An advertisement urges readers to stop using certain liquids or pills that irritate the bowels. It claims Cascarets strengthen bowels, tone muscles, and restore healthy function, selling a box for a week and noting it as the world's biggest seller with a million boxes monthly.
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Cascarets Roc
The Lure of the Mask Chapter XXII Continues
The group faces a botched setup as a supposed Italian princess is revealed to be a fraud. Carabinieri arrive with a formal inquiry about invitations while the real princess claims incognito possession of Villa Ariadne and orders royal permission. The situation escalates as authorities press for formal crown authorization.
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Crawford
Baring
Corso Umberto Primo
Rome
Historic Cure Promise From A Questionable Remedy
An old prescription touts a remedy claimed to heal delicate women for over four decades without intrusive examinations or questions, asserting privacy and wide use in homes despite dubious medical credibility.
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Dr. Pierce
World
Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y. de
Preece
People’s Common Sense
Piles Cured at Home by New Absorption Method
An advertisement promises at home cure for piles with a new absorption treatment. It offers immediate relief and permanent care, requests four addresses to send details and free trial samples, and suggests referencing local contacts. Mail to Mra Mf Summers, Box P, Notre Dame.
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Mra Mf Summers
Box P
Notre Dame
Notice to contract aqr is Muscatine sewer bids
Sealed proposals for Sub sewerage District No 3 mains in Muscatine Iowa will be received by the City Recorder until 7 30 p m June 1 1909 for constructing large pipe sewers manholes and basins with storm connections and appurtenances. contractor must post 500 bid bond and bids may be rejected. James J Ryan city engineer May 21 1909.
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City Recorder
Muscatine
Iowa
City of
City of Muscatine
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