29 Dec 1928
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Newspaper
Manitowoc Times
Location
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1928
Page
1
Local Brillion residents hosted friends and relatives from Green Bay Manitowoc and Milwaukee during Christmas and New Year visits. The page lists numerous callers and hosts including the Schwaller and Luecker families, Mr and Mrs John Jonson, Miss Blyira Wunsch and others, with multiple trips to Appleton Whitewater and Newton noted among the gatherings.
Local church notices list First Reformed with Sunday school at 9 45 and English service at 9 45, German at 10 45, Lord's Supper, choir, and multiple prayer meetings. Also First Lutheran, Emmanuel Evangelical, St Pauls Me North Seventh, and other denominational services, New Year events, Bible school, confirmations, cantata parts, and assorted choir rehearsals and meetings through January.
Mrs Hattie Meyer Jantin, a Toledo widow at 29, chairs a directorate at a major airplane plant, continues to influence aviation after two aviator husbands. She helped start a factory after WWI, now grown to risk heavy production in 1929. She has never learned to fly and remains a member of the Early Birds group alongside pilots like Katherine Stinson.
A series of holiday services, choir performances, and church meetings are listed for Epworth and surrounding churches. Events include a tenor baritone duet and soprano solo, Sunday pageants, New Year worship and prayer services, Ladies Aid, and Lutheran and Presbyterian activities with times, locations, and hosts. A brief community feature on aviation pioneer Mrs Junkin recounts postwar plans in Troy and Glen Ridge, noting her early model glider work and family ties.
Christmas gatherings span Sheboygan to Port Washington with the Fitz and Kniere families hosting relatives over the holidays. A party at the Endries home draws Clemens Endries and Herman Endries among others. In parallel, Dr. Mac faces a tense Paris mystery as Constance and Sheila hinge on a hotel lead while a staged photo threatens to expose their carefully masked ruse.
In St Louis the trial centers on Charley Matlock accused of murdering his wife, Mrs Helen Matlock, amid a salacious backdrop of a cabaret scene. Key witness Miss Rose Jokerst, a 21 year old night club dancer known as The Cabaret Rose, testified to the events that led to Matlock’s death. The case features a dramatic sequence including a grand jury, a freed suspect on bond, and a charge of second degree murder pending, with Matlock facing possible prison time.
The Chinese government plans to enforce its own tariff controls starting January 1 despite foreign opposition. The United States supports the move, provided American interests are not discriminated against. Tariff issues remain complex and poorly understood, with China seeking greater autonomy while facing foreign scrutiny and domestic nationalist pressure.
Four thousand Chinese workmen lose their jobs in Tientsin as British American Tobacco closes its local factory. The manager announced the decision stating the factory has been taxed out of existence.
Mr and Mrs William Tengen welcomed a baby boy on Christmas Day. Mr and Mrs Frank Matlal of Manlowee visited Adolph Steiner. A second Christmas day card party at the Reh tauer home filled five tables for sheepshead with prizes to Mrs Adolph Steiner first, Mrs Henry Thiel second, and Mrs Casmer Young consolation. Women’s prizes awarded to Williem Ha linger first, Henry Thellber second, and Casmer Young consolation. a delicious Lynch was served to guests.
A famous physician’s prescription Thoxine promises near instant relief for sore throats and internal cause relief. It claims it outperforms gargles and salves, with safe, pleasant use for the whole family and cough relief. Sold by Groffman’s and other drug stores with a money back guarantee at 86c, 60c, and $1.00.
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