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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1905
Page
4
A sweep of brief items lists visitors and locals in Iowa along with shop news. Notables include C G Croxen and Dr Speers in town, Y M C A field meet travelers, and several Chicago and Clinton visitors. City Railway Park events and Hawes M W A drill are noted with band performances.
A syndicate of Muscatine Iowa and Stillwater Minnesota capitalists has purchased the West Coast Veneer company at Raymond Washington four miles up the Willapa river from South Bend. Buyers include William Kaiser Charles Mosqua J H Kendig Frank Shoemaker Timothy Donovan and Henry Stack. They plan to add a double cutting band expand capacity to 150000 feet daily and install a spruce box factory with operations starting in a couple of months.
An advance copy of the Commercial club advertising booklet arrives, ready for distribution Monday night at the club meeting. It is 12 pages plus a four color cover, compiled under L. E. Clark with imprint by Record company and press work by John Barclay. The package includes new club stationery showing up-to-date effort.
The Muscatine post office and many city banks and businesses will close on Memorial Day May 30. The post office will close at 10 a.m. for the day with carriers delivering first then at windows from 9 to 10 a.m. General delivery and money order windows open until 10 a.m. Mails will be received and dispatched as usual.
A. P. News describes three leased wires between New York and Chicago and two by day, delivering over 60 000 words daily to papers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Operators earn high salaries, use automatic sending machines, and abbreviations to speed transmission. Receivers type the letters as fast as they arrive, driving speedups in sending to match the swift readers.
In Trenton on May 27 the government wrapped up its case in the U S district court against J H Stone H C Quintard and James and Charles W Russ of the Nonpareil cork works Camden charged with conspiracy to defraud by placing iron bars in life preservers. Defense contends actions followed orders from purchasers.
Faint spells are often linked to biliousness and stomach issues but early heart weakness shows through shortness of breath asthmatic breathing chest pressure and hungry spells. Treating the stomach ignores the heart as the source of trouble.
A testimonial from Mrs Effin Clough of Ellsworth Falls Maine says she suffered fainting spells and severe heart trouble for years but improved after using Dr Miles Heart Cure. She says after three bottles she feels cured and offers a money back guarantee if the first bottle does not help.
Muscatine mayor issues a Memorial Day proclamation requesting that all business houses suspend operations Tuesday afternoon May 30 to allow clerks workers and the public to attend Decoration Day services at the court square and listen to orations at the courthouse in tribute to Union soldiers.
A Muscatine woman paid $1 to register her dog Penny with the city clerk. The article lists several dogs with paid licenses including Shakespeare, Budweiser, Bogus, Rube, Jumbo, Two Step, and Dewey, noting a decline in dogs named Dewey. Officer Oberhouse will continue collecting the remaining taxes.
J B Forgan president of the First National Bank of Chicago and Percy Proctor with former Missouri Governor D R Francis were rear ended near a street car in Chicago after a Commercial Club smoker. Francis suffered a sprained right ankle. Forgan and Proctor escaped unharmed.
General agent Frank Burns is in Muscatine arranging for Carl Hagenbeck's famous animal show to appear around mid June. The 35 car caravan with two advance cars promises top tier attractions familiar to those who attended last year's world fair, a European staple now touring America.
After the success of the Recekahs program at Odd Fellows hall on Wednesday evening, the Old Maids association will present the same entertainment again on May 31. The committee reports strong demand for a repeat performance and has approved the new date.
A reprint of General Order No. 11 issued by General John A. Logan in 1868 establishing May 30 as Memorial Day. The text urges decorum and reverent graveside tributes, calls for safeguarding national memory, and asks posts to observe fitting services and garlands for soldiers, sailors, and marines who died in the Civil War.
In Success Magazine Cleveland Moffett notes how wealthy individuals delay bills, recounting a $20,000 wedding trousseau that remained unpaid for over a year until a collector confronted the multimillionaire in the street. The item also reports Frank W. Moses of Mason injured by a falling tree.
Col. Frank Bishop issues orders requiring regimental commanders to report by June 15 the officers needing mounts from the adjutant general for the encampment. Mounts are charged for eight days whether used or not. officers may furnish their own mounts and request transportation by the adjutant’s office. New range score cards offer duplicate scoring where individuals keep a copy.
The Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto foundered off the southern coast of Chile with a crew of 171 aboard. The incident occurred near Santiago on May 27.
Farmers in Cambridge report bottom lands under water since May 9 as the Skunk river runs about a mile wide.
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