County Assessor Budget Hearing Set for Aug 11
The Muscatine county assessor's office proposes a 1953 budget of 17 950 with 10 a m hearing Monday Aug 11. The county conference board approved the plan including administrative 13420 office expenses 2450 appeals 500 of review 1000 andage and survivor 5an etc. An estimated 3010 balance will leave 14940 to be raised by taxation. last year 16060 was raised.
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County Conference Board
Board of Supervisors
Mayors of
Theunty Board of Education
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Esnes
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Board of Health
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River Stage at Davenport Seen at 13 Feet Tuesday
Weather bureau estimates in Davenport indicate the Mississippi may reach 13 feet late Tuesday or Wednesday as the river rises downstream. This morning it stood at 10.9 feet, up 0.5 foot in 24 hours, with the prior day rising 0.6 foot and Muscatine flood stage 3 feet higher.
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Mississippi River
Weather Bureau
Davenport
Muscatine
Mrs Crees 79 of West Liberty Dies After Illness
Nellie To land Crees 79 died at Mercy hospital after a brief illness. Born December 13 1872 in Hlinois she lived most of her life in Atalissa. Survived by daughters Ethel Dotson and Edith Ridenour six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral rites pending at S C Snider Funeral Home.
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West Liberty
Nellie Toland Crees
Mercy Hospital
S. C. Snider Funeral Home
Crees
Hlinois
Atalissa
John Crees
Ethel Dotson
Edith Ridenour
Phoenix, Ariz
Wrence
Island Co-Op Begins Cantaloupe Shipment Season
Muscatine Island Cooperative starts sending May cantaloupes to area breakfast tables from its loading station. About 225 bushels handled Wednesday with heavy deliveries expected next week. Watermelons projected next week with improving volume. crates shifted to lettuce crates for long distance packing.
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Maxcstine
Muscatine Island Cooperative Association
John Holliday
Mr. Holliday
Holliday
Our Yesterdays The Tribune and the old maid image
The Tribune mocks The Journal as an old maid while praising old maids as newsworthy and generous. Foster notes a child’s disappearance in Sixty Years Ago, describing how Andrew Kleist slept atop a straw stack until found by mosquitoes. Major John circle held an ice cream social on Dr Fulham’s lawn with Japanese lanterns.
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Dr. E. B. Fulham
Walnut and
Third Streets
Astronomers Seek Clues About Distant Cosmic Events
Astronomers explain that observations reflect past moments as light from stars travels across space to reach Earth. The current state of the universe remains unknown, since any sighting shows events from years ago.
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Earth
High Weeds and Corn Block Intersections Warn Drivers
Iowa State Safety officials warn motorists to beware rural intersections where tall cornstalks and weeds obscure vision. Department data show 54 to 70 fatal rural intersection accidents last year, many occurring in late summer.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Safety Department
Alderman Ford Hilton Proposes Sanitation Budget Amendment
Budget action outlines directive to city attorney to draft an amendment requiring owners of multi family dwellings to report tenant names to the sanitation superintendent. The budget passed with 6 to 2 vote, Weeks and Thomas dissenting.
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Ford Hilton
Weeks
Thomas
Park Place
Creosoted Lumber Glued Into Heavy Timbers
A new method enables gluing creosoted lumber into heavy structural timbers. Previously it was thought impossible to bond creosoted wood. The narrative notes basalt lies about 20 miles below the earth’s surface where rock remains solid under immense pressure.
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