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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 01, 1916

Page

5

Thanksgiving reunions mark Muscatine event list

Thanksgiving day at Muscatine featured numerous reunions and a grand party at the Couns-tory Club with about forty guests, plus an Armory dance crowd and Chava orchestras serving meals. Separate items note a wedding at 612 Lion Street, a party at 4th Street, a double wedding anniversary at G. A. Denton home, and other local social events with names of host families and attendees.

Muscatina Brumity Hove Pho Lao C Onbach Tt. S. Jackson Ing le Mull Ativy Gall Thompson Sbak Denton G. A. Denton Honey Wedekind Vincent Washington

Quit Meat When Kidneys Bother Advertisement Text

An old advertisement-style notice extols quitting meat to ease kidney troubles. It claims meat overworks kidneys, causing fatigue, rheumatism, headaches, and other issues, urging Jad Salts as a universal cure to flush and purify the kidneys, with simple daily use promises and inexpensive relief.

Anyx Kat Xrapos Tormon Fulco

Bread Famine Strikes University Town

Local bread supply collapses after Thanksgiving orders fail to arrive. With 16 000 townspeople 2000 students and 1000 visitors staying over the holiday residents scramble for homemade loaves as bakers run out, prompting improvised meals and urgent relief efforts. Ohio Prohibition Fight to be Debated in Statewide Ballot Next Fall. The Anti-Saloon League announces a state constitutional amendment proposal to push prohibition during the upcoming election.

Town City Town Ohio Columbia O'lo Theani-xalian League J. W. White League Teague

Farm Ditcher Demonstration Proves Highly Efficient

A Martin Grader and Digger Co. demonstration at the David Frye farm on Thanksgiving day showed a farm ditcher cutting a 72 rod long ditch in 45 minutes, four feet wide and 20 inches deep, with a second crow ditch dug in 15 minutes. Farmers praised the machine for speed and cleanliness, calling it the most efficient for irrigation work seen locally.

Martin Grader & Dugher Company David Frye Citaber Teen Minutes

Irrigation Implement Firm Aids Local Farmers Dispute

A fragment indicates an irrigation implement company agrees to assist a farming agency or group as part of a dispute or arrangement. The readable text names a farm and an implement company, suggesting a local support action or equipment provision to farmers.

Ure Irrigation Farmers A. Loen Farm Implement Company Stpulated

Importation of Milady's Plume Probed by Treasury Agents

Treasury investigators probe the source of Chicago censers in aigrettes and fourth feathers used in women head adornments. Despite a prohibition on such sea decorations, imports persist with about 55,000 dollars worth of t hona feathers entering Chicago in recent months.

Chicago Daz Ory United States Treasury Chiento

Hit By Auto In Theatre In Milwaukee Vaudeville

Howard Atitraph orchestra leader sustained injuries when an automobile in an act crashed into the orchestra pit during a Milwaukee vaudeville show. Police and theater officials investigated the accident as audiences watched in shock.

Milwaukee Wis Dee Howard Itraph

Iowa schools seek bigger state aid funding overhaul

Iowa Education officials urged lawmakers to raise normal training funding and consolidate rural districts. A. M. Doyce outlined requests to increase the normal training fund from 12,000 to 150,000 and total consolidated district aid to 175,000, with annual state support rising as districts grow. He noted about 20 localities have moved to consolidated districts and that modern school buildings and teacher housing improvements accompany such changes.

Doyoe Mente Te Comins Cotrao

Great flood sparks record coinage month at local mint

The Philadelphia mint minted 9,350,000 dimes 8,256,200 nickels and 28,975,450 pennies in November setting a monthly output record. Total value reached 108 million 6450 dollars. Also two million ten cent silver pieces were minted for Ecuador. Eleven months ending November 1 show gains in overall production.

Philadelphia Dee Republic of Ecuador

Banishing skin blemishes with simple powder solution

An advertisement claims a topical wax and powder treatment can rapidly remove discolored, spotty, and peeling skin. It promises a drastic facial transformation, reducing blotches, freckles, and blemishes by daily use, with soap and water to finish and reveal a flawless complexion.

Coinage Total Reaches New High at Mint

The mint reports an aggregate 65,926 dimes plus 19 other pieces including pickets and jonities. Operations run double shifts to meet demand as coinage output climbs.

Social at Haston and New Boston Den of E Hrapworth Chapels

The social at E Hrapworth Chapel Kiyo and chicken supper occurred Wednesday night at John Stevens farm home. An out of town band supplied music and the evening raised funds for Society Lycenstry.

New Haston New Boston Pworth Chapel John Stevens Pines Amusic A. Kaodly

Hammond Is Reported But Unclear On Health

Baltimore wire reports mining engineer John Hays Hammond, who has suffered stomach trouble for a day or two, is said to be hotter today while staying in a Baltimore hotel. The Associated Press dispatch notes Hammond’s condition as improving or worse with no definitive bulletin issued.

Z. H. Hammond Associated Prous Baltimore John Hays Hammond

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