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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
3
Chicago UMce 150 Marquette Building with Payne and Young directing operations at the Newark location.
The Journal lists local agencies for reader convenience including Mast Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd Street South Muscatine Toborg Bros grocery Oregon street W C A Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenus hecuierville Chayka's Grocery West Mill J H Buller Grocery.
In a brief telephony update, Bell Company announces changes to business office designations and station naming across multiple valleys and memorials, affecting customer service centers and operator listings.
Sworn circulation statement details the Muscatine Journal for October 1908 with totals of 83 280. The figures show various weekly and Sunday editions and final yearly totals. The document lists multiple line items with daily or weekly circulation figures and culminates in the total.
Average circulation figures for the Muscatine Journal are sworn by publisher F I F D Throop. The notarized statement dated November 2 1908 lists the October 1908 copies printed and circulated in Muscatine County Iowa with Notary Public F L Bihlmeter witnessing.
A demure young philosopher argues against gender stereotypes noting man is not inherently vain and woman not innately selfish. She contends men appear unassuming when circumstances reveal true character despite outward pride.
The essay argues neither sex is inherently evil, blaming faults on circumstances and tradition. It contends humans aim to do good, with failures born from societal rules and collective ignorance rather than intrinsic vice. It calls for reading history to judge humanity, not quick cynicism.
An advertisement extols Bitters as a remedy to restore stomach function, stimulate the liver and kidneys, and relieve clogged bowels. The copy touts a 55 year history of use and promises effective results.
An advertisement proclaims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters the sick man's friend, claiming benefits for poor appetite, indigestion, dyspepsia, costiveness, female complaints, grippe, colds, malaria, fever and ague. The copy emphasizes broad digestive and systemic relief.
A compendium of past events notes 40 30 and 50 years ago. Details include Good Templars convention in Muscatine with officers J B Mulford Phoebe Lewis F B McGill and others and Y M C A representation in St Louis. Also mentions Eichelberger becoming Toledo editor and a Cincinnati police finding a skeletal mound burial near Downey.
Internal Revenue Collector John M. Kemble returned from Burlington with his left arm in a sling after being injured in a wreck near Burlington on Thursday. Mrs. Frank Ellman remains confined at home from a fall at the A O U W hall on Oct 4.
In a continued scene, Vandralken negotiates a high price for a dangerous book with Von Tarsenheim. They discuss using a desperate man to force payment and the offer of ten thousand pounds for a risky scheme, including threats of murder to extinguish the problem.
In talk between Vandraken and Von Tarsenheim the superstition of Ormuz is explored. The slain leave marks on the slayer, and death would free the scapegoat from the past while the slayer bears it. Vandraken fears a hidden fate and contemplates buying a device to mask his identity and avoid the future.
Mrs Louise Lewellyn of Powell South Dakota shares that Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieved her dreadful nervous headache and fully removed it after taking two tablets. She keeps them at home and has given many away to others with headaches. The Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana guarantees the first package price back through the druggist if no benefit.
A materialist man, Vandraken, senses potential in hypnotism after a discussion with Von Tarsenheim and contemplates a marginally risky but seemingly safe operation. He regards the soul theory as unlikely yet considers invisible links and planetary vibrations as possible factors in influence. The scene ends with anticipation of further developments.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Advertisement presents F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo and testimonials. Claims the cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Includes price and distributor details.
The Morning Sun column notes a United Presbyterian church bazaar and oyster supper set for December 12. It also records a congregational social with refreshments by the Woman's Missionary society and a stream of visiting relatives and locals from Prairieburg, Burlington, Muncie and other towns, plus several travel and visit updates and a forthcoming wedding for Miss Emma Carlson and Carl W. Enburg.
Guests of T C Stewart include Ton and Blanche Coulter of Ainsworth and Mrs J W Borman returns from Muscatine. Local revival planned for Thanksgiving with Rev C D Trumbull. Morning Sun Bible Society fundraiser supports American Bible Society. Art exhibit by Horace K Turner Art Company December 10 to 12 to fund classroom pictures. Exhibit launch includes Grand Canyon of Arizona lecture in London Hall December 2. County teachers meeting December 5 at 1 pm with program on community role and arithmetic course content.
The November issue features a full color Whittemore watercolor from the American Water Color Society exhibition. It highlights California in the States of the Union series with abundant illustrations and portraits of Lillian Russell Gertrude Coghlan George Arliss Edwin Stevens and Mlle Genee among others. It promotes the issue available at leading newsstands.
Ad touts Dr King’s New Discovery for throat and lung diseases at Havercamp's Drug Store with price points of 50 cents and one dollar. It frames the medicine as a powerful cure against deadly microbes.
Olive Branch residents report routine trips to Muscatine for business with D. D. Webster C. Cassabaum Roy Kemp and others visiting. Celia Nicklas returns to school in Olive Branch while farmers continue husking corn in the area and locals pass through Letts Grandview and Green Valley.
Mason ic Iowa Lodge No 2 A F and A M regular meeting first Tuesday each month E P Ingham W M S L Johnson Secretary Washington Chapter No 4 B and M stated convocation second Friday each month A K Othmer M BE H P S L Johnson Secretary Webb Council of Royal and Select Masters stated assembly third Thursday monthly in Stein s music hall G D Lezotte T J M S L Johnson Recorder De Molay Commandery No 1 K T regular conclave third Wednesday monthly G D Lezotte EB C W B Graft Recorder
I O R M Musquitime Tribe No 95 meets Thursday at 8 pm visiting chiefs invited Daniel Borgstedt Sachem Lester Smith C of R Fraternal Association Bloomington Council No 175 F F A meets Fridays at their ball over H F Bodman s Grocery corner Second and Chestnut streets members in good standing invited Q T Howard Pres E P Day Secretary
Romona Council No. 52 meets on the first and third Friday each month at Maccabee Hall. Officers listed include Isabel Norton of Pocahontas, Luella Bell as Collector of Wampum, and A A Stark as Keeper of Records.
The Muscatine Elks Lodge meets every Monday evening at 7 oclock sharp at the lodge hall on Front Street. Club rooms open daily from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Visiting brothers are welcome. Wm. J. Watson, Exalted Ruler. John P. Breen, Secretary.
Knights of Pythias Wyoming Laval No 76 announces Friday evening meetings at 7 30 in the hall on Town Avenue. Visiting Brethren invited to join. Officers B W McDougal C C F L Bibimeier K of R and G preside.
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