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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1900
Page
5
Edward Steahr of 512 Grover Street in South Muscatine nearly died after ingesting Paris Green while heavily intoxicated. He recovered with medical help and vows total abstinence, blaming whiskey for driving the rash act. Neighbors describe him as a hard worker and a peaceful neighbor.
The speaker notes large turnout for a street fair with troubling stories about the event. He questions city tolerance and hopes such activities end. Charley Peterson and E Potter moved lumber from the picnic grove to John Powells for use by Sunday school groups and future Hazel Dell school needs. E Potter and wife visited Muscatine to see his father H B and plan trades with merchants. Tom Seawright from Muscatine Island passed through this organization on Tuesday.
A boy in a grocer’s shop reads prices aloud and computes totals, revealing it’s his arithmetic lesson rather than a purchase. The tale expands to anecdotes about Kruger’s pipe, precocious children, a purse in South Africa, a Highlander nurse, and Bank of England giddiness over a flagstaff rate indicator. The piece closes with a note to Read The Journal.
Rain slows the Davenport Stone Company work on the cemetery chapel, but crews push ahead in muck and floodwaters. Stone foundation rises while brick on site awaits placement, with six foot by four to five foot blocks moved as walks and drives. The chapel promises shelter for funeral attending and waiting moments this fall.
A Chicago board report lists opening, high, low and close for hogs and cattle with large receipts. It also notes wheat, corn and oats arrivals from Kansas City Omaha and Northwest regions with price ranges for meat and produce and a general market unsteady tone.
Grain and live stock items with prices listed for corn oats rye hay and mill products. Corn at 33-35 cents shipper price 32 cents. Oats 20-22 cents. Oatmeal pay 21c old oats 20c new oats. Hogs at $5.00. Flour and meal prices shown for family use and mill products.
Clear Lake Iowa becomes a premier summer retreat drawing visitors from Iowa Illinois Minnesota and neighboring states. The lake offers cool views ample fishing saline baths and deluxe hotel service with low round trip rail fares promoted by the Iowa Central Railway and G S Batty Marshalltown IO.
The steamer Young offers a 60 mile Rock Island to Black Hawk Tower ride for 75 cents. Tower parties of ten or more receive free tickets from Rock Island to Black Hawk and return. Departures at 6 30 a m Sunday Monday Wednesday and Friday with return to Muscatine by 7 45 p m. Basket dinners available. Contact Wm G Block for details.
For sale two iron settees and two iron chairs suitable for lawns. Inquire at thie af fica.
An ad for Weeks' Break-To-A-Cold Tabs offers a cold treatment that promises no cure and no pay. Sold by J. J. Havercamp as sole agent for 25 cents.
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