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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
9
A physician recalls childhood memories from the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial. He describes a vast hall of brass instruments and a Turkish coffee room where Turkish servers shouted, frightening him as a four year old observer.
A lawyer recalls memory from age three at Cape May with his father in the water while a psychologist notes people may remember earlier years. They discuss compiling earliest memories, but fixing dates to match ages proves challenging.
Local bakery advertises fresh home made bread pies cakes and doughnuts all prepared on site. Casual shoppers are invited to sample a variety of baked goods described as pure and fresh.
The article traces punctuation from Aristophanes in ancient Alexandria through Charlemagne to a fifteenth century revival by Aldus Manutius. It notes Warnefried and Alcuin designing stops and symbols, with later neglect and reintroduction shaping modern usage.
A Chicago News excerpt describes how punctuation was first developed by printers to indicate stops and intonation. It notes that early writers used isolated letters with no connecting lines and spacing that hindered rapid reading, before standardized marks were adopted.
A candlelit cellar scene features an egg candler declaring no egg is insalable. He jokes about buyers for rotted eggs including kid glove makers and confectioners. He imagines splitting shells, selling yolks to bakers and whites to papermakers in a satirical barter tale.
Directions tout a home mix called the Dandelion treatment for backache kidney issues and rheumatism. Recipe uses Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Syrup of Sarsaparilla with dosing after meals and at night. Claims promise gentle kidney relief and elimination of toxins to ease pain swelling and urinary trouble.
Miss Besse Speer of Traer departs after a week visit. Mrs. E. L. Paschal returns from Muscatine. Mrs. O. S. Jamieson and son Will D. Jamieson visit Shenandoah and go to Wapello. Various residents travel to Davenport Muscatine and Council Bluffs. a Rock Island motor car passes through. new baby born to Frank and Elsie Letts of Clarendon Texas. W. H. Ogier improves health. Harry Hall leaves high school work due to eye issues. Nettie Dill resigns as postmistress after four years.
Today's market notes show wheat futures at May 103% to 104, Dec 100, corn at 61% for May and Dec, oats around 47–50, pork near 16.00, lard around 9.30, ribs 8.45 to 8.62, with hogs closing at 6.30. Chicago cash grain prices list No. 2 red wheat around 1.01–1.02, corn 62 cents, oats 48–49 cents. New York butter 29–30 cents, eggs 32–33 cents.
Cattle at 3 500 head steady to strong with beeves 3 50 to 7 50 and cows 1 65 to 5 35. Hogs receipts 30 000 mostly 5 to 10 cents lower. light 5 35 to 6 05, heavy 5 45 to 6 20, bulk 5 80 to 6 15. Sheep receipts 12 000 strong. lambs 4 25 to 6 40, yearlings 4 50 to 5 25. Butter steady at creameries 21 28 c, flats 19 25 c. Eggs firm firsts 27 c.
New York Poultry Market reports dull conditions with live poultry at 12c for springs and 11 1 2c for fowls. Dressed poultry irregular with springs 15 20c and fowls 11 14c, spring turkeys 12 17c. New York Grain Market notes December wheat at 1.10 percent and corn at 71 cents.
Wheat futures for December at 99 percent. Corn December at 59.4 cents. Oats December at 45 3/4 cents. Market round up from St Louis.
Peoria Illinois reports corn market activity with No. 3, new corn priced at 60 cents per bushel on November 6.
A local market listing shows prices for corn market 45c, oats market unknown, wheat 80c to 85c, cracked corn 1.70 per cwt, popcorn on ear 1.15 to 1.25 per cwt shelled 1.40 to 1.75 per cwt per peck 0.30, bran 1.30 per cwt, oil meal 1.75 per cwt, shorts 1.35 to 1.40 per cwt, barley per bushel, chop feed 1.70 per cwt, hay 6.00 to 7.00, and a local live stock market where shippers pay with choice heavy at 5.40.
Prices listed for choice and rough beef, pork, mutton, veal, and poultry. Also values for dairy, vegetables, fruit, fish, wood, coal, and flower market items with unit prices across multiple categories and regions.
In the Illustrated Bits comic strip a character named Dolly notes a change in Miss Oldgirl from vowing to marry only on an excellent proposal to accepting any good offer. The joke hinges on lowered standards and wit about romance.
A speaker asks a child about a crow meeting ending in a verbal insult. The father responds with a simple yes and a playful pun about a “caw cuss” among crows. The exchange reads as a light, humorous vignette from a newspaper page.
The piece explains how early U S currency practice led to the dollar sign. Merchants noted sums in United States money amid mixed coinage, writing U S with the S sometimes crossing the U, creating the familiar two downstrokes and curve. The habit persisted as the United States minted currency became legal tender.
The 1788 law from the state of Franklin details salaries paid in animal skins. Governors receive 100 deerkins annually while chief justice gets 500 deer skins and other officers a mix of raccoon beaver and mink skins. Members of the assembly are paid per diem in raccoon skins.
A small city boy named David, visiting the country, hears an echo along the river bank. After mother explains, the boy declares he knows what an echo is, calling it the shadow of a voice.
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