Wife of Eddie Santry Warns Girls to Beware of Sports
The widow, Mrs Santry, recounts abuse by pugilist Eddie Santry, who trained in Muscatine during his early years. She details financial straits, failed business ventures funded by her mother, and a faith shift, while a manager arrives seeking bankruptcy filing ahead of England trip.
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Eddie Santry
Muscatine
Eddie
Henry Eigenmann
Mulberry Street
Geneva Island
Farmer Burns
Iowa
Burns
Santry
Chicago
Englewood Baptist Sunday School
Mrs. Santry
Helen Marr
Hammond
Ind
ALL TO CARRY MALL Passengers Locals and Freights to As
Local transit update notes passenger service and freight movement to and from the mall area. Officials announce enhanced schedules and route adjustments to accommodate shoppers and deliveries. No incidents reported, focus on reliability and access during peak hours.
Death Parcel Scam Hits Muscatine as Mail Train Policy Expands
The Muscatine item warns residents to beware a grafters scheme that mails express parcels to deceased relatives and charges the living. It notes post office policy shifts by Postmaster General Payne to make trains mail trains and to pay train staff as postal employees, a move tied to rural delivery growth and mail security.
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United States Postal Service
Payne
Shellenberger
Post Office Department
United States
Railway
Postal Service
Minneapolis
Grand Forks
N. C
Omaha
Typhoid season warning to Muscatine residents
A note from many physicians warns Muscatine people about the typhoid season and offers timely health suggestions to prevent illness and protect the community.
Long forgotten typhoid warning spans Muscatine water fears
An old Muscatine typhoid fever advisory urges boiling drinking water and disinfecting discharges to curb illness. It notes August as peak season and warns that even clear spring water can harbor germs, urging filtration avoidance, handwashing, room fumigation, and community cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Boards of Health and Physicians
United States
Stone chosen as grand chief of locomotive engineers
W W S Stone, longtime Rock Island engineer and former Muscatine resident, was elected grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland. Son of John and (the late) Mrs. Stone of North Mulberry street, he has overseen Rock Island engineers for two years and guided major locomotive operations including the Golden State Limited. His rise honors a western Iowan and reflects his industry and foresight.
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W.W. S. Stone
W. S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
P. M. Arthur
Cleveland, O
Muscatine
John Stone
North Mulberry Street
Ainsworth
Golden State Limited
Rock Island
Iowa
Mr. Stone
Beardshear Memorial Plan Seeks Former Students Help
Former students living in Muscatine of Iowa State College at Ames are asked to assist in planning a Beardshear memorial book. A committee writes that the volume will feature Mr Beardshears best work across different lines and show him through his own writings.
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Iowa
Muscatine, Kewanee
Illinois
Kankakee
Indiana
Kewanee
Ethel V. Bronson
Muscatine, Kewanee and Eastern Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Ames College
Muscatine
State Agricultural College
Ames
Dr. Beardshear
Beardshear
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John Graham
William Baxter
Baxter Detective Agency
Waterloo
G. M Itus
Sound
G. M. Titus
Titus
District Court
Washington
Supreme Court
Nois Side
Tacle
Foun
Kewanee, Ill
Wanee
New York
Council Bluffs
Old Presbyterian Church
Cuncil Bluffs
Burlington
Davenport
Fulton
Kewanee and
Maine
Ey Syndicate
Aledo
Mascetine
Plan Beardshear Memorial
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