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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1902
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Dr David Kennedy’s Cherry Balsam as best for colds coughs and consumptions available in 50 size and regular 106 size bottles sold by all druggists.
The first national convention of employer and employee will convene in Minneapolis September 22 to 26 with President Roosevelt attending one day. Key figures from labor and management will attend, sharing views on labor problems and the eight hour movement on neutral ground for peaceful discourse. Prominent speakers include John Mitchell Florence Kelley James M Lynch Carroll Wright Jane Addams and others.
The Davenport Baptist association opens its sixty first annual convention in Iowa City with welcome by Milton Remley former Iowa attorney general. Speeches come from pastors including Rev Jacob Schultz Argo moderator Rev J W Weddell Davenport and sermon by George D Adams Des Moines College president. Delegates from southeastern Iowa attend.
Ottumwa Iowa September 10 Special Prof A W Stuart superintendent of Ottumwa public schools is out today as a candidate for state superintendent of public instruction.
A passenger trip from Chicago Union Station departing at 12 noon on The Pennsylvania Special arrives in New York at 9 the next morning. Return leaves New York at 1 55 p.m. and reaches Chicago at 6 55 a.m. for travel planning consult H R Dering A G P Agt at 248 South Clark Street Chicago.
The Muscatine county boards plan the annual meeting on the third Monday of the month. State Superintendent F M Witter urges liberal educational policy, econom y and efficiency to improve schools. He notes low wages deter better teachers and that higher pay can boost retention and standards. The meeting will address compensation of teachers and other items.
A historical listing enumerates duties of school boards as of September 15 including auditing treasurers, electing secretaries, fixing compensation and bonds, setting school sites, establishing graded schools, prescribing courses of study, directing budget and admissions, maintaining property, contracting for needs, managing funds, and issuing bonds. It cites specific sections and acts from the Twenty-eighth General Assembly.
In the American League schedule Chicago at Cleveland St Louis at Detroit Washington at Boston Baltimore at Philadelphia Next the National League features Chicago at New York St Louis at Heston Cincinnati at Brooklyn The Banks' Union of the World Lodge meets first and third Wednesday at G A R hall with officers H H Arnold president and M W Meyers secretary.
COOK MUSSER CO and State Bank and Trust Co operate in Muscatine Iowa offering banking and exchange services. HERSHEY STATE BANK lists P W Francis president Henry Jayne vice president and L G Burnett cashier with directors Sara Hershey Eddy Mira Hershey and others. They offer real estate backed loans and four percent interest on time deposits.
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