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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1908
Page
8
The editor praises junior contributions and rewards two prizes for top stories about Japanese Children. She urges students to write in their own language, avoiding the book's language, and notes the honor roll deadline of November 21. Helen Raymond signs the message.
A reader’s page recalls long ago Indians living without cities or fences, describing wigwams, warfare, scalping, attire, and daily life. It notes Indians across America, schooling now in many places, and contrasts hunter traditions with modern guns. Included are letters from Mildred Marsh and Verda Maxwell and a Junior page with riddles from Mary Goodman.
The narrative describes Native American tribes like Seminoles Choctaws Chickasaws and Creeks with features clothing tools and customs. It notes women's roles in work hunting travel by water and the use of beads and bright colors. It mentions Columbus and William Penn as relations with Indians and beliefs about afterlife.
A letter from Mildred Marsh in Conesville Iowa dated October 20 1908 asks Miss Raymond for correspondence with Marietta Marsh. She notes daily school attendance in seventh grade and lists subjects history arithmetic geography grammar and spelling under teacher Miss Lara McCullough.
Conesville Iowa October 22 1908 Miss Helen Raymond of Muscatine Iowa writes to the Journal Junior maze requesting to see the page and noting she has not written before.
A pair of readers, Vinnie Reddick of Conesville Iowa and Orpah Chapman of Vermillion South Dakota, share school life notes. Vinnie lists family, schooling, teachers, music lessons, and aims to see her name on the roll of honor with references to friends and readers. Orpah describes Vermillion’s geography, the Missouri and Vermillion rivers, local schools, and the State University, signing as a new junior hoping for honor roll inclusion.
A letter from Grace Babbitt a sixth grader aged eleven describes her school subjects and daily mile walk to school. She plans to send a story and puzzle answer to the Junior page and signs as Your new junior.
A Muscatine Iowa girl Hazel Phillips writes to Miss Raymond dated October 21 1908 stating she enjoyed Indians and solved a puzzle and hopes to win a prize preferring a book as the reward She signs from 1037 Lucas St Muscatine Ia.
A letter from Marietta Marsh describes Native Americans with jet black hair and copper colored bodies. She notes their ability to imitate animal calls, use a bow and arrow and tomahawk for hunting, and their skill in quiet movement and fishing.
Marian Marsh writes from Conesville Iowa on October 20 1908 describing her school life with fifteen scholars and her teacher Lara McCullough. She is eleven and in the seventh grade and closes with a wish for a postcard album if she wins.
A brief note from a junior correspondent explains sending postal cards and a nearly full album. The writer mentions having 55 cards and says they did not write last week, thanking the recipient for a pretty postal card before ending the missive.
Elsie Hank of 1135 Logan Street Muscatine Iowa writes the editor asking to keep her name on the honor roll. She explains she forgot yesterday and hopes to be listed this week.
The note from Alta Vista Iowa dated October 17 1908 expresses gratitude for a postcard and begins a personal reply to Miss Raymond. It reveals the writer’s initial confusion before recognizing the gesture.
Muscatine Iowa October 20 1908 a letter from Blanche Mylon to Mr and Mrs Schott describes family health mentions gold fish received and postals from Blanche notes school near and invites visitors and a reply to come see them expresses hope for a soon reply.
A brief handwritten style note from Lucille Myron of Muscatine Iowa to her cousin Bernice. She mentions greetings, family inquiries, upcoming birthday, school grades, and a language test score of 100 with 92 in spelling. Floyd sends his hello as well.
A reader from West Chester Iowa writes Miss Raymond in October 1908 about sending postcards and a post card album, asking why her name is not yet on the Roll of Honor and requesting to be added.
The passage contrasts indigenous life with European notions, noting nomadic homes and lack of cities ships schools and roads. It describes gender roles, hunting and warfare training for sons, squaw labor in farming and clothing, and primitive food preparation methods among various tribes.
John Wellston of Wellston Manufacturing contemplates succession between Harvey and Burt as the firm faces new competition. Harvey bets on a tip to double his money, but Wellston warns against speculation and Maynard reveals his secret: he saved money and avoided risky bets.
The piece contrasts Indian hospitality and endurance with stereotypes of pride, cruelty, and superstition. It describes living conditions, religious beliefs, and daily life, noting numbers in the United States, birch canoes, woodland resources, and the bison rich prairies north and south of the Appalachians.
The article recalls how indigenous people, described as copper-skinned with jet black hair, inhabited vast stretches of the United States before European arrival. It notes population stability, westward shift from the Mississippi, and a transition to life resembling white settlers while detailing their stone and bone tools and early weaponry.
A 1954 letter from Vermillion South Dakota explores Columbus's contact with Indigenous peoples, describing their dark complexions and coarse hair, the misnamed Indians, and the shifting friendship and danger as settlers moved west. The author notes reservations and warns about the consequences of ill will.
A letter from Fredonia Louisiana recounts a tale of Indians tying a three year old girl to a tree and dancing around her while singing. The girl cries and is untied by the sheriff who arrives and takes her to safety. The writer hints at hope to win a roll of honor.
A nine year old student from Columbus Junction Iowa writes of sending a painting to her teacher Amy Rowland and provides address Nellore Lee Box 25 Fredonia IA in care of R M Lee.
The writer describes Native Americans as copper colored and living in tribes who hunted with bows and flint-tipped arrows. They fought among themselves, buried their dead with possessions, and believed in the happy hunting ground. The arrival of whites caused displacement and massive loss of life.
Earl Haroff recalls a moonlit winter sleigh ride with about a hundred youths. They hitched straw to two bob-sleds, rode with bells, met more riders, then turned around after ten miles for a very fine time.
A list of riddle style clues linking animals people and places to US cities such as Buffalo Raleigh Lincoln Columbus Oakland Rochester Montgomery and others. Each clue pairs an animal person or object with a city name for a playful brain teaser.
A terse aphorism from the Chicago Record Herald notes that those with limited knowledge tend to disperse it as widely as possible, reflecting on caution and judgment in public discourse.
Ballot of names lists veterans and honorees including H Ison, Elsie Helvee, Marietta Mars, Mamie Morris, Pearl Rhymer, Katherine Ree, Lucile Mylon, Blanche Mylo, Hazel Barnes, Zella Kemp, Mabel Kemp, Grace Kemp, Bernice McJunkin, Orpheus Anderson, Pearl Haroff, Tacy Smith, Willard Ransc, Pearl Mittman, Pearl Dietrick, Lillian Marshall, Clara Marshall, Lena Marolf, Anna Marolf, Gertrude Hill, Clara West, Ena Auten, Viola Auten, Clara Kothe, Everett Anderson, Verda Maxwell, Graceh Babbitt, Hazel Phillips, Vinnie Reddick, Orpah Chapman, Nverna Auten, Lutitia Adams ae.
A Berlin critic notes early fiction predicted modern tech like airships and photography. The 1795 Der Rluge Mann by Cramer features a Roentgen like image of a skeleton that foretells X ray science, imagined by authors long before its time.
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