City Notes Highlight Local Court, Fires and Civic News
City court hears assault case against Lawrence Martin with a Tuesday morning hearing. Joe Hillier pays fine for intoxication after an arrest Saturday. Library board and Boy Scout hiking trip near Pike Run noted. Airport stock transfer to city reaches 1425 shares with several assignors. Grass fire on Kemper avenue extinguished with no damage. Multiple residents resume duties after vacations. Local officials prepare for the finance committee meeting. Chautauqua patrons welcomed as Arthur W. Brown arrives in Muscatine. Community groups hold a work session and picnic at Weed park. Gas tax apportionment for Muscatine county posted for June. New car registrations listed.
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Lawrence Martin
H. D. Horst
Joe Hillier
Fred Kramer
Lombard Street
Hershey Hospital
Carl Bine
Ray Hidelbaugh
Letts
Bellevue Hospital
Muscatine County
Frances B. Rosenbaum
G. T. Nicola
Washington Street
Ford
Fred Royster
Chestnut Street
Sadie E. Daniels
Sherman Street
Willys
Will A. Appell
Grandview Avenue
Studebaker
Floyd McKinney
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Beery Addresses Rotary on Pastoral Prison Work
Dr Franklin R Beery superintendent of the chautauqua spoke at the Muscatine Rotary luncheon about his experiences as a pastor with prison inmates in Leavenworth Kansas A trumpet solo by Walter Scho field preceded the farewell to C R Warner former Hotel Muscatine manager spoken by G M Titus Other notes include visits travel plans marriages and church activities among local residents and visitors
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Muscatine
Radio Singer Marjorie Mansell Released on Writ
Detroit August 4 AP Marjorie Mansell radio singer was released on a writ of habeas corpus in the Buckley case. Judge Henry S. Sweeny ordered release after a failed $100,000 bond attempt. Mansell was the last woman held in connection with the Buckley killing of Gerald E. Buckley.
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Detroit
Marjorie Mansell
Gerald E
Jerry) Buckley
Miss Mansell
Recorders
Henry S. Sweeney
Buckley
Medium from Toronto claims Doyle message predicts October prosperity
At Mt Pleasant Iowa a Mississippi Valley Spiritualist meeting featured Leonard Benjamin who trance spoke Doyle predicted prosperity starting in October and visions of Gandhi and Lincoln, a Venus Mars communication advance, and Venus leading in many ways. A separate Humboldt fire damaged 15 acres of oats and pasture.
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Clinton
Mississippi Valley Spiritualist Association
Mt. Pleasant
Leonard Benjamin
Toronto
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Doyle
United States
India
Abraham Lincoln
Humboldt
Crain
Here
C. A. Westberg
B. D. Stove Farm
Truck Farmers Heavy Losers in County Drought Losses
Belleville reports estimates from County Farm Adviser B W Tillman show drought and extreme heat causing losses to truck farmers in St Clair county totaling about 1 million dollars. He also projects damage to corn growers around 1.8 million dollars.
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Belleville
St. Clair County
B. W. Tillman
American wins Wimnerian prize at Oxford
Oxford England Aug 4 The Wimnerian prize in jurisprudence goes to an American for the fourth time since the eighteenth century Hugh B Cox of Lincoln Nebraska a Rhodes scholar wins for the highest mark in the bachelor of civil law examinations
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Oxford
Eng
Hugh B. Cox
Lincoln
Neb
Schreurs Family Plans First Reunion at Weed Park
The Schreurs family holds its first reunion with Fred Schreurs as president directing arrangements. Mrs. Charles Nyenhuis is vice president, Mrs. Glenn Pollock secretary, Ed Schoemaker treasurer, with Mrs. Hoefflin, Mrs. Schreurs, and Mrs. Schoemaker managing refreshments and Mrs. Funck, Mrs. Hendriks, and Mrs. Altenbernd overseeing entertainment.
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Schreurs
Weed Park
Fred Schreurs
Charles Nyenhuis
Glenn Pollock
Ed Schoemaker
Fred Hoefflin
Gertrude Funck
C. W. Hendriks
August Altenbernd
Local Couple Weds at Baptist Parsonage
Miss Nina Alice Forbes daughter of Mrs Henrietta Forbes 1402 Kansas street wedding Donald G Sander son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sander rural route No 5 at 6 30 pm Saturday at the First Baptist parsonage Rev Vernon L Shontz officiated in a single ring ceremony Mrs Sander wore peach colored flat crepe gown Attendants were Mr and Mrs Francis Honts couple left for a wedding trip and will reside at the Sander farm rural route No 5 after August 10.
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Nina Alice Forbes
Henrietta Forbes
Kansas Street
Donald G. Sander
Arthur Sander
First Baptist Church
Vernon L. Shontz
Francis Honts
Sander Farm
Gage Joins Fur Business With Uncle John Slaninka
Gage enters the fur trade partnering with his uncle John Slaninka, signaling a family business expansion and succession plan within the Slaninka enterprise.
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Gage
John Slaninka
Senior Luther League Plans State Convention Picnic
Delegates for the state convention to be held in Fairfield Ta will be chosen at a Grace English Lutheran church picnic at Weed Park Tuesday evening The group will meet at the church at 6 o clock Miss Hazel Brei Miss Hazel McLain and Wilbur Umlandt lead preparations for the outing
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Senior League
Fairfield
Luther League
Grace English Lutheran Church
Weed Park
Hazel Brei
Hazel McLain
Wilbur Umlandt
Pythian Sisters Plan Lawn Social Co operated by VFW Aux
Officials of the Pythian Sisters lodge announce a lawn social at Mrs. J. G. Dermidy's Mulberry Avenue home Tuesday evening under the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary auspices. The regular business meeting precedes at Odd Fellows hall at 7 30. After a short session members adjourn to the social.
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Pythian Sisters Lodge
J. G. Dermidy
Mulberry Avenue
Veterans of the Foreign War Auxiliary
Odd Fellows Hall
Otterbein Guild to Review Annual Play Plans
The Otterbein guild of the United Brethren church will discuss its yearly play plans at a Tuesday evening meeting in the church basement. Miss Verda Covell will direct a program presented at the gathering.
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Quild
Otterbein Guild of the
United Brethren Church
Verda Covell
Children Burned as Fire Breaks at Picture Show
In Sao Paulo a children's film show ended in tragedy as a fire struck when clothing ignited from film material. Twenty three children were burned with ten feared dead, amid chaotic evacuation and medical treatment efforts. A separate item notes a California inventor proposing an airplane powered by a revolving cylinder with dual inside and outside blades.
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Sao Paulo
Brazil
California
Miss Kemble to Leave YWCA Post Upon Expiry
Miss Kemble will not seek reelection as associate secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association when her contract ends September 1. She has led much of the Girl Reserve work since January 1924 and since then served six years as Girl Reserve secretary. She supervised five summer camps and focused on high school and grade school girls.
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Mildred Kemble
Young Women's Christian Association
Cedar Falls
Young Women’s Christian Association
Miss Kemble
Girl Reserve
Associaton
Death by self action in Sioux City plant tragedy
The body of Joe Wells of Sioux City was found hanging from a rafter at the Welle Coal company plant. Authorities attribute his death to the extreme heat and despondency over ill health.
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Sioux City
Joe Wells
Welle Coal Company
Youngstown Sheet and Tube says merger necessary
At a hearing on an injunction to block the merger with Bethlehem Steel Thomas J. Bray testified the company had to merge to survive due to steel industry conditions. He backed prior statements by James A. Campbell and Eugene Grace regarding dividends and costs.
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Youngstown
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Thomas J. Bray
Cyrus S. Eaton
Bethlehem Steel Company
James A. Campbell
Sheet and Tube
Eugene Grace
Bethlehem
Dance Orchestra Sets 72 Hour Endurance Record at Legion Home
Doc Wenak and seven musicians pushed past 72 hours of continuous music at the American Legion home, beating the prior record by 50 hours. Spectators crowd the venue as fatigue grows, with a planned 100 hour target and 96 hours reached by Tuesday afternoon.
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Doc” Wenak
American Legion
Legion
Legion Home
O. K
Tuesay
Actress gored by bull in Mexican ring
Monterey Mexico Aug 4 Celia Montalvan a Mexican actress was gored by a bull in the local ring today and was painfully though not seriously injured
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Monterey
Mexico
Celia Montalvan
Iceberg Sinks Most Mass Beneath Surface
Report notes an iceberg with nine tenths of its bulk submerged and only one tenth above water. The average iceberg mass is stated as exceeding 100 million tons.
Greater Talkie season announced at Fox Palace
The Palace theater promotes a Greater Talkie season urged by manager John Creamer. He claims better talkies will boost theater business and draw shoppers, noting producers and exhibitors including Fox West Coast theaters support the initiative for stronger community finances.
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Palace Theater
John Creamer
Creamer
Fox West Coast
Woman Burned to Death in Farmhouse Fire
Buckeye Iowa August 4 AP Mrs John Wirds Sr 64 died Sunday while burning mites out of a chicken house at her farm two miles south of Buckeye Her husband and four sons survive the incident is reported from the area
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Buckeye
John Wirds, Sr
Here
Tree Sitter Sets World Record With 506 Hours
Des Moines August 4 Seth Perkins finished a 506 hour bird's perch stunt aiming for a world tree sitting record. He ended the feat at 11 am after extended hours aloft.
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Des Moines
Seth Perkins
Siegfried Wagner, Son of Richard Wagner, Dies in Bayreuth
Bayreuth Germany Aug 4 AP Siegfried Wagner prominent composer and son of Richard Wagner died here today at age 61.
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Bayreuth
Germany
Siegfred Wagner
Richard Wagner
Obituary for Leona Wiegand of Great Falls Mont
Mrs Leona Wiegand a lifelong Illinois resident died at her Great Falls home. She was born March 27 1900 near Eliza Illinois and married to Do Wiegand on December 31 1920. Services set for Wednesday at Wittich Funeral Home in Muscatine at 2 PM with Rev Caleb Larson. Surviving husband two sons parents and one brother live in Great Falls Grandview and Illinois.
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Leona Wiegand
Great Falls
Mont
Muscatine
Wittich Funeral Home
Caleb Larson
Illinois City
Wiegand
Eliza
Do. D. Wiegand
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ilinois
Charles
Ellis
F. S. Tice
Clarence
Grandview
Willing Giver Offers Mother-in-law for Aged Home
In a Lustige Blaetter Berlin item a collector asks for donations for an aged female home. A willing giver offers his mother-in-law to help the cause, signaling a humorous note on charitable exchanges.
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Lustige
Blaetter
Berlin
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