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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
3
The Daily Journal is delivered every evening except Sunday. The Semi-Weekly Journal publishes on Tuesdays and Fridays nights. Subscriptions: Daily one year by mail 293.00. Semi-Weekly one year 1.60. city delivery by carrier. Members include Associated Press and Iowa Evening Press Association.
Alice of New York located at 33rd Street coordinates 30S4 handles duties with Payne and Loung. In Chicago the Marquette Building hosts operations with Payue and Loung in charge.
The Journal lists city agencies for reader convenience including Hurlbut Grocery on East 2nd Street Toborg Bros. in South Muscatine Oregon Street W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey esvenus hicheculerville Chayka's Grocery West Lill and J H Buller Grocery.
Fragmentary OCR lines indicate Bell Telephone related notices and editorial office mentions in Minnesota Valley area. The readable items reference telephones and business office headings with unclear surrounding details.
The publisher I F Throop swears the Muscatine Journal printed and circulated 6 760 copies in October 1908 with an average circulation of 6 786. Notary F L Bihl administers the oath on November 2, 1908 in Muscatine Iowa.
The piece weighs the famed industrialist’s ascent, wealth, and managerial skill while noting widespread critique of trusts and corporations. It frames Rockefeller as a pivotal witness in the government’s dissolution suit against Standard Oil and invites readers to infer contrasts between early and modern business methods.
The passage praises John D. Rockefeller’s business genius and impact while arguing the government suit against Standard Oil is justified. It asserts his remarkable ability demands greater accountability and that wealth and achievement do not excuse wrongdoing, urging a fair trial to reveal methods of competition.
A Britt Tribune piece by Bailey of Britt turns football into a comic, pointed comparison with politics. The writer mocks rules and equipment with vivid, exaggerated scenes of players, referees, and chaotic play, ending with a dramatic pileup as time is called.
An advocacy notice promotes Orrine as a treatment to cure the drink habit. It states pledges fail to stop drunkenness and warns of relief through Orrine in two forms with a money back guarantee. Price is $1 per box, mailed in plain wrapper, with a free booklet offered. The Orrine Co. based in Washington, D. C. and A. W. Morgan, Druggist, are named.
The city council met last night with routine business on the agenda. Capt. Dalzell embarked on an 800 mile Arkansas river trip on a boat earning him 8000 dollars. A past drowning of an unknown man near the steamship Key City is reported two miles above town, with presumed passage from Davenport and possible derangement. J. M. Dixon returns to Des Moines after visiting Davenport. Muscatine Island farmers form a debating society. J. W. Denham buys Purinton’s Pike township farm. Sam Hale, long a county charge, is sent to Appleton Wisconsin to live with his daughter. Mr and Mrs J Lagrille return to Memphis Tennessee to settle there. Harry Eaton, son of the late Rev E Eaton, dies in Lagrange Missouri.
William Chambers homestead on the Iowa City road, once owned by D. C. Cloud, was bought by J. S. Barnard for 3800. Barnard, a young newly wed man, has spent seven years in Kansas and Montana and now locates in Muscatine.
The passage playfully explains football terminology by comparing players to fractions and halves. It argues that three halves and two half backs combine into multiple wholes and fractions, using the terms full back half back quarter back and end to illustrate. The writer stresses the need for thorough understanding of the game to grasp the explanation.
In a continued CHAPTER III segment Vandraken questions the ethics of transferring drunkenness and disease to another, while a speaker discusses Mental Science. The talk spans mind over matter, hypnotism, and the claim that belief can avert intoxication and illness, ending with a note on the difficulty of belief.
Twenty years ago Mr and Mrs J B Lee Mrs John Mahin and A W Lee attended the funeral of Mrs Isaac B Lee in Iowa City yesterday. John Bowlby today brought to market a 234 day old hog weighing 270 pounds with growth over a pound a day. E B Edwards retires from the photography business due to failing health.
Ten years ago Muscle men report Fred Wood of Cedar Rapids elected president of the Firemen's National association at a Chicago meeting. Miss May V Patten, long in California, has returned home.
Von Tarsenheim explains a method to control another man via hypnotism and aura fusion, promising a night of dissipation for one and nightmare-edged transformation for the other. A display of colored planet rays in a two-sided glass apparatus shocks Vandraken as he marvels at impossible powers.
A dialogue fragment presents Abdul von Tarsenheim declaring his plan to end death and monetize life beyond the clergy. He mocks parsons for insisting on souls and recalls historical figures like Ormuz and Ptolemy, foreshadowing persecution as his work advances.
White Collars beat Sluggers 22 to 12 on the McKee Bliven outdoor court. Diercks center led White Collars with E Crow and R Crow at forwards while Tobias and Lemkau guarded. Sluggers fielded Holzhauer center Murphy and McKee forwards J J Murphy and Herwig guards.
J. W. Mackley of South Muscatine fractured left arm in a fall from a freight car at the Roach and Musser plant yesterday afternoon. Dr. J. L. Klein attended him.
An advertisement for Dr. King's New Life Pills from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store promises relief from bowel trouble fearing appendicitis with a guaranteed 25-cent price.
J J Havercamp sells Hyomei with a 1 price and refunds if not cured. A Peru Indiana user Mary E Bennett testifies Hyomei relieved her cough and she spent less than usual on doctors. The ad promises cures for catarrh croup grip and asthma and guarantees effectiveness.
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