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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
10
Local items detail residents traveling to Wilton Fair Grandview Grandview and El don trips to Iowa City West Liberty and Chicago. Promotions advertise mahogany pianos with 24 rolls from Hirt & Fesler Hershey Building and introductory sale discounts plus buggy sales from Mundt’s and Wilson Buggies.
Iowa State College extension officials discuss cabbage wilt research to protect Muscatine County’s $500000 annual cabbage crop. A resisting strain could reduce losses of about one fifth, with experts noting several years before commercial gains. Prices have surged this season with high demand and Heinz marketing cabbage directly.
Popular novel Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter will be dramatized at the Grand Theatre as the season opener in Muscatine on Saturday August 30. Manager Charles Salsbury expects The Shepherd of the Hills to be among early offerings. locals look forward to the pastoral play praised for its simple beauty and broad appeal.
In Saratoga New York on August 15 Albert J Fountain and Charles Davis died when their car left the road on a sharp turn at the foot of a hill and struck a tree. Earl Potter was fatally injured? hospitalized.
County Crop Advisor K A Kirkpatrick remains in demand as he tends Wilton fair activities and stock judging. He will lead stock judging at West Liberty fair on Monday, attend a Des Moines conference of county crop workers on Tuesday, and help organize a Midwest agricultural workers conference at Ames during the winter short course. He also accepted an invitation to speak to the Wapello County Crop Improvement league. A picnic near Ottumwa will convene crop enthusiasts, and Kirkpatrick notes growing interest in stock judging among local boys.
Marshalltown Iowa August 15 As the result of a feud which originated in Turkey a dispute culminated in Iowa with a clash that brought police and local authorities to intervene. An arrest followed as officials investigated the quarrel and its motives amid escalating tensions between involved parties.
Fourteen Chicago children from congested slums arrive in Wilton, Iowa, to spend two weeks with local charitable families. They come from United Charities of Chicago, which aims to place thousands of children annually in small towns. A local coordinator, Mrs. Thomas Raynor, supervises arrangements.
Rashed Gater, a Turkish laborer at Green Mountain, was found with two bullet wounds and died after naming Mehmet Braen as his slayer. Braen was chased and captured on a train near Relnbeck.
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