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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
The weekly Journal outlines city delivery by carrier and weekly collection rates. Subscriptions include daily and semi weekly options with annual prices listed, noting differences for weekly and biweekly services.
In Chicago the Collice building on Marguette is listed with Wayne and Young in charge as costs and charges appear for a local representation matter.
The Journal notes agency offices across the city for reader convenience including East Hill dumbuc Grocery East 20d treet South Muscatice W F Mikschs grocery Oregon street Busch's Drug Store Vershey avenue Kecklerville Chaykas Grocery West Hill J H Puller Grocery with telephone lines for business and editorial offices.
It lists candidates for vice president and presidential electors at large, and state and county offices including governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, clerk of the supreme court, railroad commissioner, supreme court judges, district elector, and county officers such as auditor, treasurer, clerk, and sheriff with their home counties.
The Chicago Tribune defends its fair treatment of Bryan while arguing that practical thought and party discipline shape policy. It rebuts Bryan’s claim that voters alone rule, notes the limits of a president with a divided legislature, and urges Taft and a Republican Congress as best for reform.
Victor Rosewater of Omaha releases a translation of a circulated Yiddish document attacking Taft. It accuses Taft of disloyalty to Jews and suggests if elected he would strengthen ties to Russia, risking Russian espionage and a closed United States.
In Muscatine area notes 50 years ago the Western Stage cut fares to Oskaloosa for state fair travel, and Muscatine's Tipton road directors planned Wilton meetings to open subscription books. A man lighted before an Episcopal church and was killed by J C Shiply. Forty years ago the board of supervisors met to settle the tax levy. a coroner's inquest near Chambers mill found the unknown boy drowned. Mordhurst slaughterhouse burned at three. Thirty years ago Mrs J Bassett visited Muscatine. J Webb and Emma Winn Webb mourned lost sons Alva and others. Frank Evans sailed from New York aboard Neckar for Brennen.
A fragment reflects on Russians attempting escape from prosecution or famine in Roumania and Galicia. The speaker warns that wealth concentrates as smaller fortunes are swallowed by a few. Palaces gain brightness while misery grows in peasant homes for 79 million people and ends with a biting remark on red oil.
The piece argues bankers widely back the bank deposit guarantee law and claims the Bryan plan was pushed onto the Democratic party by a group of western bankers. It likens the issue to the free silver fight of 1896, suggesting western mining interests supported it despite professed aid to the poor.
The article summarizes Charles Edward Russell's critique of titled foreign marriages with American heiresses. It notes a planned Marl borough dukedom wedding to a Vanderbilt daughter, to gain publicity, as part of a broader Red Book Magazine series on international marriages.
Leading medical writers and teachers across several schools recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for weak stomach dyspepsia catarrhal stomach liver complaints and chronic bowel issues. It targets bronchial throat and lung diseases with lingering coughs and asserts no poisonous drugs or alcohol while using glycerine as a safe carrier. A free booklet of endorsements is offered by Dr. Pierce in Buffalo New York.
A note marks September 24 as a Sunday twenty years prior, recalling the calendar date and day of the week.
James Killough left Monday for Jacksonville to bring home Will Killough of the 50th Iowa boys treated for typhoid fever at a hospital there. At ten this morning Davenport Pearl Button Works saw one hundred button cutters strike for higher wages, leaving only one man at work.
In a continued chapter, Miss Priscilla and Miss Lavinia weigh the cost of aging in Hernshaw Forest. Joy pushes new plans, Giles resents loss of control, and a python scare tests the family’s calm as they contemplate air and Bournemouth.
The four years of Jefferson's first term brought prosperity with the Louisiana Purchase, reduced debt, and strong national honor. Jefferson and Clinton secured a wide renomination, defeating the Federalists led by Pinckney and King. Burr and Hamilton reenact old wounds. Jefferson won 162 electoral votes to 14 as the party system realigned under a new election law.
The funeral of Dr. Twigg was held at the M E church on Thursday September 17. Rev Johnson of Edgington preached the sermon with Rev Richardson officiating, and he was buried in Illinois City cemetery beside his wife who died eight years earlier. Miss Austin Sedam returned Saturday after visiting friends in Millesburg.
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