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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
2
A New Orleans reader recalls a Arkansas tale where a widower marries his daughter and the son marries the widow, creating a web where the son becomes father in law to his father and ultimately his own grandfather. The account links multiple marriages to a tangled family tree, ending with the observer noting the son becomes his own grandfather.
Advertises $23.30 Chicago to New York and return via Nickel Plate rail October 3 to 6 with return by October 14 1902. Three daily trains with vestibuled sleeping cars meals in dining cars priced from 35 cents to 1 dollar. Chicago depot Harrison Street and 5th Avenue and 111 Adams Street ticket office. John Y. Calahan General Agent 113 Adams Street Chicago for particulars.
Pine Creek Iowa notes include visits by H Hefel of Davenport and Sherman Purcell of Muscatine, Ed Kemper's travels to Davenport, and Ed Fix's return from Burlingame Kansas. Delegates chosen for the county convention in Muscatine on September 13 are Julius Welsch Otto Fitchner Chas Fix and George Racho.
Special excursion to New York via Nickel Plate road with tickets on sale October 3 to 6. Travel must depart New York by October 14. Reservations or sleeping car space available through John Y. Calahan General Agent at 113 Adams St Chicago.
Des Moines Iowa September 12 The Second district democrats debate loyalty to the Des Moines and Kansas City platforms Judge Wade refuses to back the Kansas City platform while John E Craig seeks both gold and silver votes in the First district Wade plans an active campaign and hopes to win Johnson county support while others align with the party stance.
B Stecher delivered hogs to Montpelier at seven dollars per hundred. August Kemper marked his 35th birthday with neighbors. Des Moines Silas Jonson and Durant’s Frank Bierkamp visited selling corn binders. Kretschmer builds a molasses mill and touts cane growth. Pears ripen in Muscatine County with Rennerd’s trees yielding eight bushels each. Hartman sold apples in Durant. Miss Duffield’s scholars visit home for weekend. Henry Minke’s wagon accident injures team. Irwin Bros plan a large hay barn. Altenbernd returns from hospital eye treatment.
Wilton Louisiana September fair attracts crowds with autos from Muscatine and West Liberty exhibitors. Contests for children on Wednesday and afternoon speeding races draw strong attendance. Winners listed in pace and trot events include Purdy Iowa City and Edmee Iowa City among others.
William Zeigler cabled Evelyn Baldwin urging Baldwin to return home promptly after a maritime court ruled in favor Baldwin in the America dispute. Zeigler has sought full details of Baldwin's Arctic feats while Champ awaits instructions at Tromsoe for the failed Franz Josef Land mission. The America and Frithjof will likely winter at Tromsoe for repairs as plans for the expedition are reassessed.
An Illinois Central Railroad agent advertises a circu lar booklet promising money from a coming land boom. The notice hints at speculative profits and includes a call to write for details as a salesman touts future property gains.
A homely girl believes a man who claims that pretty girls make poor wives, reflecting a common past stereotype about beauty and marital prospects.
New York on Sept 12 reports Russell Sage working in his office despite doctors concerns. He says he does not feel badly but appears pale. He recently drew notice by declaring the Morgan method of gigantic capitalization a menace to commercial prosperity.
A giant self moving machine in central California combines a traction engine header and threshing unit to cut a 36 foot swath over 40 900 acres of barley. It weighs over 100 tons and travels at about 3 1 2 mph with eight workers operating the thresher.
O Austin, chief of the bureau of statistics in the treasury department, leads an effort to improve domestic trade statistics. Dr J T Crowell, an expert from the bureau, travels to major cities to discuss with boards of trade and other officials the adoption of better collection methods.
Oregon streams received tens of thousands of Eastern brook trout this year while Ontario added 16 000 adult black bass to new waters over 400 miles. The paired data illustrate how stocked fish rapidly enlarge regional fishing resources across states and provinces.
An aphoristic reflection notes that much of the goodwill started locally remains confined, unable to extend beyond home bounds. It suggests domestic generosity often lacks reach beyond immediate circles.
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