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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1900
Page
4
Classified lines advertise a first class Emerson square piano with easy terms from Batteys Jewelry Score. Also offers children selling unused house articles for spending money. The Journal advertises low rates at just a half cent per word.
A public notice urges readers to leave a lost pair of spectacles at the office. It promotes finding money by rummaging unused household items and advertising them for sale in the Journal. It invites readers to use want ads for sale trade rent help and more at half a cent per word.
Charles J. Alvord Jr., a longtime note teller at the First National Bank of New York, vanished after defrauding the bank of 700000. Authorities say the theft spanned years and was concealed by manipulated records, with recovery hoped to reduce the shortfall.
A bank note teller Alvord is suspected of stealing large sums by accessing the mail and cash, with rumors of stock speculation and a 75 000 dollar loss. Investigators note the bank’s strength and that no other suspects are named. Alvord, about 50, with wife and three children, vanished a week or ten days ago amid questions of how his irregularities remained undetected. News also discusses Baltimore business leaders rallying for McKinley Roosevelt and opposing Bryan amid fears for industry and currency.
Two railroad men, Hugh McKenzie and John Knight, contracted smallpox in the Harlow block of Marquette on October 24. They were quarantined at an isolated dwelling and are slightly affected, with many people exposed before detention.
At the turn of the century analysts estimate England still has about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal unmined and available. The figure highlights immense potential energy resources as industrial demand grows.
A 1892 New York Press cartoon and accompanying affidavits challenge Adlai Stevenson’s patriotism. Witnesses assert he praised Lincoln’s enemies and sold revolvers to traitors while copperhead ties and Knights of the Golden Circle records surface. The document endorses McKinley and Republican leadership amid Philippines conflict and party unity.
The Republican Party of Iowa pledges a vindicated program from four years ago, denounces the failed currency attempt, defends public credit and money stability, and calls conservatives to prevent anti monetary forces. It supports self government for newcomers, entrusted authority for their development, and measures to curb restraints on trade and the power of concentrated capital.
The text urges not to doubt, but to judge as possible what others manage. It emphasizes believing in one’s own capacity to achieve what seems proper and practicable, even if the task appears hard.
All Republicans who voted for Fremont and who expect to vote for McKinley are asked to leave their names and addresses with the chairman of the Republican County Central committee at Republican headquarters 114 East second street J. W. McKee Chairman Co. Con. Com.
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