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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
3
The Daily Journal is issued every evening except Sunday. The Semi-Weekly Journal is issued 10 pages Tuesday and 5 pages Friday nights. Daily delivered in the city by carrier and collected for weekly 10 cents per week. yearly mail subscriptions: $3.00 for daily. Semi-Weekly yearly $1.50.
The Journal establishes city agencies for reader convenience in New York and Chicago offices with Payne & loung and Payne & young in charge. Agencies listed include East Hill Hurlbut Grocery East 2nd street South Muscatine Toborg Bros grocery Oregon street W C Ra Busch's Drug Store Hershey avenue hecklerville Chayka's Grocery West Hill J H Puller Grocery.
Classified notice fragment lists telephones business office Bell and editorial office Bell with references to Mississippi Valley and names Owen and others, indicating a directory type brief.
Sworn statement shows an average daily circulation of 6685 copies for September 1908. Publisher F D Throop swore to the figures before Notary L Bihlmeier in Muscatine County Iowa on October __ 1908 with the official seal.
For Presidential Electors at Large Thomas T. Anderson of Warren County and John T. Anundson of Cerro Cordo County. For Governor B. F. Carroll of Davis County. For Auditor of State John L. Bleakly of Ida County. For Treasurer of State W. W. Morrow of Union County. For Railroad Commissioner Nathaniel S. Ketchum of Marshall County.
The Muscatine county Republican party urges voters to elect capable candidates for county offices. D. D. Webster seeks a second term in the state legislature, A. S. Lawrence for county auditor, A. C. Shiflet for county treasurer, W. S. McKee for county clerk, and A. Stoops for sheriff.
The piece urges voting for T. W. Stoops for sheriff and H. C. Schoemaker for county recorder, J. C. Coster for county attorney, F. M. Witter for county superintendent, J. C. Hazlett for county surveyor, and Dr. E. H. King for coroner. It praises the Republican board of supervisors and urges cross marks in the first column, ending with a prompt to consider Walsh.
The piece charges the Walsh brothers with spending large sums and offering freebies to influence the congressional race. It warns that if Mark Walsh is elected, he would serve private interests tied to a coal and navigation company. It questions district honor and representation in Congress.
The Journal quotes Rep. D. D. Webster saying his senate vote will be determined solely by the result of the Republican primary held with the election next Tuesday. He pledges to follow the will of Iowa GOP voters as expressed in the primary to seek re election and represent their sentiment faithfully.
Voters urged to mark every square in the first column from top to bottom. The Republican party nominates a full township ticket in Muscatine township and calls for electing every nominee.
A brief prompt asks readers if every voter they know is registered urging awareness of registration status and civic responsibility in a concise evening reflection.
A call to Congress urging voters to oppose the money barrel and vote for the honor of their district for the sake of citizens and families.
The narrator discusses traits tied to northern races and maternal instincts among women such as nurses and governesses. He predicts Joy Vennable will devote her life to other children, not her own, and criticizes Esme Burgess and a self-centered man.
A voyage tale intertwines a seafaring captain haunted by a cottage dream with a fatal collision as the Luna nears fog near Easthampton Water. A bride and groom are linked to a perilous encounter, the captain ordering reverse engines as danger closes in.
Fifty years ago October 31 Sunday noted. forty years ago J A Parvin returning from Henry County Reform school trustees meeting. grand reunion of the 24th Iowa Infantry in Cedar Rapids attended by Muscatine residents. Thirty years ago Good Templars officers elected. boat Park Painter returned to Dubuque. accident in Sweetland township. butter theft near Third and Cedar streets. Twenty years ago Miss Maggie E Schaeffer returned from Des Moines. Dr Seth Cox visiting Muscatine. fire at I Oakley’s livery stable Columbus Junction loss 10000. others visiting, travel notes, corn display, and Rev E C Paget’s western tour with updates.
The Captain directed a crewman to retrieve cork-jackets hidden under a bench as passengers fled cabins in fear. The ship faced a perilous moment with the Luna’s anchor flukes close to its smoke-stack while the Captain maintained composure at the rails.
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