Local news notes and ads from Davenport area
Local column items list residents traveling to Davenport Nichols Morning Sun and Morning Sun area visits. Advertisements promote Mahogany piano used one year for 318 dollars from Hirt & Fesler and housing finance options from Titus Loan & Investment. Multiple residents, including Miss Clara Nef and Mrs. J A Zybarth, are mentioned with travels and errands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hirt & Fesler
Hershey
John Holmes
West ‘Fifth Street
Nichols
Rea
Rebecca Urdangen
East Eighth Street
Oakville
Educators to Judge Exams at Annapolis
Washington D C Aug 18 The Navy department will submit the entrance exam to naval academy to a jury of educators 2000 high school principals and college professors for verdict Rear Admiral Victor Blue ordered 2500 copies of the last spring exam with a set of queries to be answered by educators to settle disputes over the exam stiffness Critics claim the exam is so rigid it bars average youths Figures show about half of aspirants pass the quiz
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Washington, D.C
Naval Academy
Navy Department
Mit
Victor Blu
Congress
Iowa City News Bolsters Prohibition Efforts
Federal officers raid bootleggers around Iowa City with Deputy Collector George W. Bird leading. County Attorney W. R. Hart vows prosecutions under federal and state liquor laws as several offenders are expected to be convicted in the coming six months. Mary G. Chawner, former University of Iowa instructor, plans return to Iowa City after health and land title matters. Frank Kenney is badly injured after a motorcycle collision on College Hill. Hog raisers win leniency for fair exhibits due to serum shortage. George Schuppert and Charles Murphy face court over threats. Justice Herring to hear further Tuesday.
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Towa
City
Jas
George.w., Bird
Davenport
Iowa City
W. R. Hart
United States
Iowa
Hart
Mary G. Chawner
University of Iowa
North Dakota
F. RE. Ansley
U. 1
Board of Education
Frank Kenney
College Hill
Iowa State ‘Veterinariane’ Board
Johnson
George Schuppert
Charles Murphy
Ivoryman
Schuppert
Murphy
Justice Herring
Muscatine Officials to Visit Town City for Ball Game
Muscatine city council members and local officials travel by rail to Town City for a planned ball game marred by rain. Delegation includes Captain Fred W Hoff man Alderman Claus Lemkau Fire Chief John J Brown City Assessor Ed Vanatta and others as they pledge to defend Pearl City pride in a rare indoor sports spectacle if the game fails to proceed.
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Muscatine
Town City
Fred W. Hoffman
Claus Lemkau
Lee ‘Rainbow
John J. Brown
Ed. Vanatta
Joe Homeler
Harry Caple
R. E. Johnson
Herbert G. Thompson
Pearl City
Athens
Iowa
Mushroom farming grows in South End area
The South End hosts a new industry with a mushroom farm run by John Petit, featuring over 1,500 feet of beds and long shipments to Davenport and Chicago. Petit also raises chickens, selling more than a thousand birds this year, and plans fall planting with extensive fertilizer orders.
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South End
John Petit
New Hampshire Street
David Browning
Davenport
Chicago
Pedit
Entertainment at Muscatine Delegation Event
A lively gathering in Muscatine entertained the delegation with music and merriment. Guests and hosts enjoyed a pleasant occasion highlighted by convivial moments and shared hospitality.
Red Men Lodge Fish Fry and Picnic at Island
The local Redmen lodge held a picnic and fish fry at Boxer’s Island yesterday with about seventy five picnickers ferried in on four trips. Frank Boke and Ray Moore led the event. a hall game between married and single men was unsettled. Horseshoe pitching occupied the day. Adam Nischwitz and Sam Gilbert supervised a noon fish fry of about seventy five pounds of channel catfish. The party returned to the city around 8 pm.
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The
Redmen
Boxer’s Island
Frank Boke
Ray Moore
Adam Nischwitz
Sam Gilbert
Germans to sail flag guard for Bremen voyage
Washington August 18 Selected as a guard of honor for the American flag the German patri otic society of America sends ten officers of the minute men Washington a semi military group with the flag gift of the Daughters of the American Revolution to New York and aboard a chartered liner to Bremen Tomorrow they will join society delegates on the voyage unveiling a 3 million monument to Napoleon's overthrow will be another event during their travels in Europe They wear continental style dress for the occasion.
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Washington, D. C
Drugists of Nation Meet in Nashville Convention
Druggists from many sections of the country gathered in Nashville Tennessee for the American Pharmaceutical Association sixty first annual convention opening today and continuing through Saturday. National boards of pharmacy and pharmaceutical faculties will hold meetings concurrently.
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Nashville
Tenn
The
American
Pharma‘ceutical :Association
Ita
National Boards of Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical’ Faculties
Death of Carl D Aldman’s Infant Son at 108 Earl Avenue
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Carl D Aldman at 108 Earl Avenue died Sunday. He was born August 2 of the current month. Burial will be tomorrow at Greenwood Cemetery. Also notes on local residents: Mrs Harry Freeman recovering from several weeks illness. Sam Wells ill near Sa son and Kansas streets. Mrs Lou Hubbard near home on Demorest Avenue recovering. Erma Rainbow and Cathleen Rainbow visiting relatives in Moline. Mrs Edward Hahn returning from a ten week trip to the Pacific coast.
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South End
Cone
Henry Hill
W. M. Forbes
Kansas Street
Conesville
Carl D. Aldman
Earl Avenue
Greenwood Cetery
Harry Freeman
Demorest ‘Avenue
Sam “Wells
Moline
Edward Hahn
Maccati Island
Pacific Coast
West
$50,000 in Gems Stolen at North Wales Hotel
Jewel worth fifty thousand dollars stolen from a hotel in Llandudno, North Wales. A girl in charge of the gems placed the bag down briefly and another bag with the jewels was substituted. The thief escaped in an automobile after the switch.
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London
Eng
Llandudno
Wales
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Poplar Street
Art Riddle
East Sixth Street
Wilton
Clara Nef
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Lily Moeller
Buffalo
Anna’ Witte
Newell Avenue
L. Watters
J. Wilking
East Seventh Street
Marie Stanton
Ethel Stratton
Jange Street
Fredonia
Misgy
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Mullberry Avenue
Chas, Patton
John Klady
Clinton Street
Richard Dickerson
Cypreus Street
Washington, Ia
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A. B. Fitzgerald
West Eighth Street
Lena
Anna Gerrie
Inez Montreal
Second Street
Grandview
Henry Gerdts
Logan Street
Fruitland
Harry Gray
Gertrude Goeser
Inez
S. Mi Kile
Culver Street
Hirt,&Fesler
Titus Loan & Investment Company
Iowa Avenue
B. Cc
J. H. Fuller & Son
Lucas Bt
Annapolis
Navy” ‘Department
Iowa’ ‘City
Wildo
Battle
Rogers
Herter
Princess
Alderman
Daniel William
Shenandoah
Paul
Mary
McQuesten Hardware Co
Keen Kutter
H. F. Barnard
Jewelry
East Second St
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