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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1913
Page
3
A garbled but readable notice lists city establishments and ads for groceries drugstores and markets including Hurlbue Grocery Leet Muscating Toborg Grocer and Puller Grocery. It details the Daily Journal and Semi-Weekly Journal publication schedule, circulation claims and subscription rates, with contact lines and office staff names.
A garbled roundup from Muscatine era notes various topics from football and golf to whaling costs and political chatter. Mentions Waterloo, Frank Boyle, a Kansas City golfer, a whaling vessel payoff, and local opinions about public policy and arrests while weaving in scattered regional names and humor.
A Cedar Rapids Gazette survey notes Austria-Hungary rapidly expanding its navy, separating it from the army under specialist leadership amid Balkan conflict concerns. Davenport Times observes youth entering world service. Burlington Hawkeye laments severe midwest winter and urges end to 1913 weather. Keokuk Constitution Democrat and Des Moines Register items touch on social and political topics, including divorces and reflections on wartime diplomacy.
Washington May 31 Special The National Press Club plans a June 6 contest pitting statesmen against newspaper men to decide who writes the Congressional Record better. President Wilson may attend to root for the statesmen while defeated candidates lose access to the people. Senator J Ham Lewis of Illinois is honored by Democrats to oversee quorum when major votes arise. President Wilson worries over Senator Fletcher's absence as tariff schedules near vote. Uncle Joe Cannon also follows the proceedings.
This clipping compiles nostalgic notes from Muscatine's past with references to 39 and 30 years ago, emigration wagons in spring, Louis Bladernman’s Denver trip, a drowning incident tale of Willie and a companion, and 26 to 10 years ago reports including a Persian missionary visit by Miss Carey and local moves by J Lea Makin and May V Patten.
In a haunted foundry strike crisis, Nettie and her father face Raymonds push for a permanent force to finish the contract. Ted Raymond uses a ghostly performance to compel workers to resume, exposing his control as the men cope with eerie sightings and a dangerous, tense showdown.
Jones' ball crosses the street for meetings as a clever stage trick. A tower lantern séance uses a magic lantern with heavy smoke to fake a dramatic scene. Police and an engineer are involved, but the narrator asserts no one is dead and plans a celebration end the night.
K A Kirkpatrick warns current damp showery weather favors apple scab fungus. Fungus damages fruit, leaves, and buds, threatening an unprecedented crop. Advice includes leaf litter cleanup, Bordeaux and lime sulfur sprays, and precise timing from pre bloom to late summer, with recommendations to consult the Iowa State College bulletin for detailed spray schedules.
An editorial discusses high school staffing and salaries in Muscatine noting four inexperienced teachers hired, challenges to board decisions, and calls for more experienced hires. It cites principal and subject teachers’ monthly pay, compares regional averages from the Iowa Educational Directory, and questions political influence in staffing.
ABE MARTIN mentions the centenary of the plug hat, recalling early maker moments and a brief cultural nod, while scattered notations appear about Bud’s grandmother’s passing and a string of scattered figures and city names, suggesting a clipped page with miscellaneous entries.
A Auburn New York man named J. A. Farmer reports permanent relief from kidney and bladder trouble after using Foley’s Kidney Pills. He notes no return of pain or backache over a year and recommends the remedy highly, as does A. W. Morgan of Av.
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