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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
2
Publisher D Throop and L P Loomis advertise official status and staff. The Daily Journal promotes wide circulation and daily delivery, lists city offices, carriers, and weekly and yearly subscription rates. It names street addresses and local grocery partners as distribution points and lists business office contacts.
The New York Tribune argues that exploration on a heroic scale is over as nations have learned the world. It notes Pole expeditions reach conclusions with scientific accuracy and predicts the future of exploration will be less adventurous and more literary, with interplanetary visits relegated to fiction.
The Dubuque Times-Trournaal quotes Yale President Hatley asserting concentrated wealth does not kill democracy and warns diffusion of stealth around election time harms parties. A Washington Democrat recounts feeding two men on a back porch who they believe were Republicans who voted for prosperity and deserve coal on their heads.
Quotes from various papers discuss wage increases for miners two cents per ton, impacts on coal prices for 8,000,000 bushels, and debates over railroad rate protections. Mentions Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913 presidency, Browne bribery defense, Cownie’s replacement, and Cummins interstate commerce amendment. Includes a note on Chamberlain’s stomach tablets.
Washington reports indicate capital control provisions in the railroad bill, sections 13 14 and 15, are being dropped or opposed. Senate regulars and Democrats resist federal capitalization powers, arguing constitutional issues and favor state control. insurgents deem the proposed measures weak.
A compact look at distant local memories with dates and places from Muscatine County. It recalls a Sunday excursion by the Morning Star Class to Drury's Landing, a county agriculture meeting to discuss deer sales and track work, a bold theft case on Fifth Street involving a horse and buggy, a grocery store burglary scene with a dual arrest, and a bridge flooring timber shipment from Burlington.
Nottingham England May 17 1910 reports tribute to King George as the nation mourns. A Nottingham man recalls a king who assisted a London workgirl with lung illness by sending aid and arranging treatment. The piece contrasts King Edward’s benevolence with the new reign and describes proclamations, national mourning, and the impact on theater and postage stamp imagery. It notes parliamentary election issues about bribery and corruption and cases of candidates and agents in vote influence.
An aged advertisement touts Parisian Sage as the best hair preparation, promising rapid results, prevention of falling hair, and scalp relief. It claims the product can restore dull or faded hair and encourages purchase with money back guarantees. The copy cites a 50 cent price and distributor details, though some text is garbled.
An old advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy by W J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It claims the medicine acts on blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 for a cure if failing, and urges readers to request circulars and testimonials while noting it is sold by druggists at 75 cents a bottle.
A convention of bar members from the Seventh Judicial District will meet at Davenport City Court House on June 2, 1910 at 4:30 p m to nominate four judges for the November 1910 election. Each county may send six delegates. Local counties will elect meeting time and place. Attorneys are urged to convene in their counties on May 31, 1910 to choose delegates for Davenport attendance.
A Muscatine county bar convention is summoned at the Muscatine courthouse on Tuesday May 31 1910 at 2 PM to choose six delegates for the seventh judicial district bar convention in Davenport Iowa on June 2 1910 to nominate four candidates for judges of the district.
A quirky report recounts Alex Miller's Concert at the Washington Democrat office on Thursday. A fiddle-playing tramp performed Arkansaw Traveler and Lady of the Lake, joking about notes, rainproofity, and lessons, while local names and social notes wrap the snippet with brief social updates.
Stockton residents report visits and travels including Cronin of Muscatine who schooled there on Sunday. Alis I Meier and her daughters Elsie and Stella spent Saturday in Davenport.
State of Iowa Muscatine County notice states on May 18 1910 the Clerk of the District Court opened a will purporting to be Carrie Barrows Ferler’s last will and testament and set June 1 1910 for proof in probate at the district court. Any interested party may appear and show cause why it should not be admitted to probate. Jayne Hoffman attorneys.
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