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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1900
Page
3
Daily except Sunday passenger service from Montezuma departs at 10 am freight at 10 40 am arriving from Montezuma at 7 10 pm freight at 6 00 pm C 2 L RP Railroad provides timetable details for travelers and freight movements on the Montezuma line.
Davenport Iowa to Clinton Omaha Denver Chicago and other points via C N W Ry with multiple daily departures and connections. Schedule lists trains to Clinton Sterling Cedar Rapids Iowa and Pacific Coast routes with times including 8:15 AM 12:05 PM 3:45 PM 7:30 AM and 10:10 PM. In effect June 10 190.
The next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Illinois Central Railroad Company will be held at the company office in Chicago on Wednesday September 26 1900 at noon. Stock transfer books will be closed from the close of business September 11 to the morning of September 27.
Harper's Weekly ridicules Mr Bryan while praising common sense and individual fit. The piece argues people thrive when matched to their true vocation, citing Dewey Grant Lincoln Tennyson and Bryan. It laments Bryan’s stage posing and commends educators including Prof. Samuel L Howe of Howe's Academy.
Notice indicates the item was entered at the Muscatine Iowa post office as second-class matter, stamped for mailing and routing.
The list enumerates first through eleventh congressional districts with assigned representatives. Notable names include David B. Henderson in Dubuque and Wm. P. Hepburn in Clarinda, with others serving various districts such as Burlington Marengo and Des Moines.
The slate lists John N. Baldwin of Pottawattamie County Ole Roe of Johnson County and J N W Rumple of Iowa County as electors at large for the Second District. Their selection supports the congressional slate and county representation in Iowa.
For Auditor A C Noble Goshen Township. For Clerk Charles Richman Muscatine. For Recorder C H Reesink. For Attorney E P Ingham Wilton. For Supervisor D D Webster Fruitland.
The article reports a massive coal miners strike in the anthracite region affecting about 149000 workers with daily wages of around $200000 and substantial disruptions to railroads and operators. It notes 130000 are unionized, with non union men sympathetic, forecasting a 75 percent drop in production and only Reading Coal and Iron Company maintaining about 20.5 percent of output.
The region faces a major coal strike with demands to abolish company stores and doctor pay, cut powder price, and pay workers in cash semi monthly. A 2,210 pound ton, weighed output, higher day wages, and a miners' $1,000,000 strike fund are cited as core terms, amid political speculation and potential broader national impact.
The article lists twelve presidential tickets, with McKinley and Roosevelt as Republican candidates and Bryan and Stevenson appearing on multiple slates. Other tickets include Silver Republican, Fusion Populist, Mid-Road Populist, Prohibition, Social Democrats, Social Labor, United Christian, Anti Imperialist, National, and National Union Reform, with various state origins for each candidate.
Des Moines residents reaction to the census listing 62 139 for the city shows disappointment as plans aimed at reaching near 70 000 are unmet while the state capital records notable growth.
The Standard Oil Company gave ten thousand dollars in cash to the stricken people of Galveston. The gesture spurs crowds with cries against corporations and a call for relief.
Hon. David B. Hill calls a boss corrupt ignorant and arrogant. Hon. Dick Croker treats the remark as a personal insult.
The Fort Dodger notes a young Des Moines woman resigning as a hello girl at a telephone company and moving to Indiana where she will receive a million dollars from an aunt's death. Clinton Herald reports Carl Schurz taxonomizing party loyalties and backing Bryan to pressure Republicans to curb his harm.
A Des Moines Leader view likens a 1904 style pow wow to political plotting as Olney and others debate. The Davenport Times quotes Bryan as the 16 to 1 embodiment of free silver lunacy, while Iowa papers mock or warn about gold standard. The Knoxville speech cited and the Chattanooga News joke illustrate partisan skepticism about banking and policy.
A fragment notes a speaker proposing to abolish the Fourth of July if a presidential candidate’s speeches were followed. The remark frames a larger political discussion about national holidays and allegiance during a period of partisan rhetoric.
Saturday’s major league games featured Cincinnati beating Philadelphia twelve innings while Boston defeated Chicago and New York edged Pittsburg. League standings show Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Boston and New York atop varying records with several games still unsettled by weather or extra innings.
At the Avoca Iowa fair a hypnotic act nearly turned deadly when a submerged subject buried for twenty four hours was flooded after a water barrel burst. Rescue came just in time to prevent drowning as air pipes failed.
Thomas Ratelife, a noted local figure, became mentally deranged and fled his home. Search parties scoured the countryside Friday night and Saturday, and he later appeared at a farm eight miles away asking a farmer to escort him home. He believed bloodhounds pursued him all night. Stcliffe, a leading Populist publisher of the Referendum, had recently sold his plant to John T. Griffiths amid family worry following the Cincinnati Populist convention.
The relatives of Rowena Bird a missionary to China say they have lost hope after officials told them she is numbered among the dead. Her brother O F Bird assistant freight agent of the St Paul read confirmed the reports from war and Navy departments.
A new safety match avoids red or yellow phosphorus and can be produced with existing plant and machinery. The article extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a fifty year standard against stomach disorders, noting imitators but praising the authentic remedy as a beacon to health. It also mentions the private revenue stamp as covering the bottle neck.
A remark notes that many young entrepreneurs begin ventures with optimism, often claiming the enterprise proves more profitable than anticipated. The quote highlights a common early confidence in new business endeavors.
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