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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1902
Page
2
New York coal trust heads announce that hard coal prices will revert to the regular September rates as soon as the strike ends and deliveries resume. Chicago report says local dealers expect a drop once settlement occurs, countering claims prices will stay high through winter.
Postmaster R H Rendall of Dunlap Is offers testimony on indigestion relief after using Kodol. He claims improved health and a renewed lease on life, offering his affidavit as evidence. Kodol digests food to aid assimilation and strengthen the body, with the Chicago company marketing the product.
Local medicine promotes a quick relief for coughs sold by COADY & MORGAN and HAVERCAMP S Prescription drug store. The notice emphasizes rapid action and availability at the two outlets.
Muscatine posted 25,793 in post office receipts for the year ending July 1, 1902, with Des Moines leading at 386,426. The list shows all Iowa offices with over 10,000, including Davenport, Dubuque, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Cedar Falls, Sioux City, and Waterloo, among others, with figures ranging from about 10,000 to over 386,000.
In Muscatine county the corn crop shows large potential yields despite a backward season. Frosts caused little damage and ridge lands recover strongly, with estimates of fifty five to sixty bushels per acre possible overall. Grain and oats vary in price with quality.
Climate and Crop Service reports last week was unusually cold and cloudy with heavy rainfall across Iowa. Plowing seeding and corn cutting were disrupted and crop quality declined, leaving 46 to 50 percent of the extra heavy corn crop potentially below marketable standard though still edible for feed if weather stabilizes.
Pleasant Prairie Ia Sept 30 James Taylor of Montgomery county greeted friends in town last week. Mae Savage after visiting cousin Anna Kelley left for Virginia Ill. E A Allbee and daughter Marcia were Muscatine visitors. Mrs Lewis Shuts of Millersburg arrived for a visit. Hattie Mallicoat returned to Newton. John Jenkins came home after a three week stay with his daughter near Davenport. Fred Grimm of Sibley arrived for a brief visit. John Schmidt and Albert Nettleton went to Muscatine for theater. Mr and Mrs I L Fowler spent Sunday with daughter Mrs W A McElroy.
A detailed listing of daily local market prices for grains fruits vegetables and staples. Corn 55 60 cents oats 25 365c oats meal 3lc wheat 50 doc rye 30 4c barley 40 50¢ hay various 9 14 dollars hogs hides butter eggs lard potatoes onions cabbage watermelons coffee sugar and other goods with per unit or per sack pricing. Retail flour corn meal bran and graham priced per sack noting spring winter and other varieties.
Silk thieves robbed Chariton store of E Dent last night securing silks and satins valued at 1 200. Ottumwa dispatch reports the loss occurred at the merchant's Chariton establishment with detectives seeking clues.
The railroad advertises service from New York to Philadelphia via the Lehigh Valley with double track and stone ballast. It highlights magnificent trains and dining cars a la carte and notes stop-overs at Niagara Falls on through tickets to New York and Philadelphia.
Short price list shows spring chickens 35 to 40 cents, sugar grocers selling at $5.00 per 100 cabbage heads, and other live stock pricing details in a local market roundup.
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