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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1930
Page
3
Iowa State Melon Growers speakers at Rotary. births, illnesses, and visits recur across Muscatine. Fire calls, missing girl case, and police actions mingle with club meetings and library plans as residents share Thanksgiving and community updates.
Dr J S Leonhardt introduces Hemroid as an internal medicine to cure piles by improving circulation and strengthening the bowel. Havercamp's Pharmacy invites sufferers to try Hemroid with a money back guarantee if it does not end pile misery in the city.
Two more candidates for office filed their expense reports with County Auditor Charles Pitch forth. Justice of the Peace Coster reported expenditures of 10 dollars and George L. Sauer, candidate for a member of the board of supervisors, spent 30 dollars, both contributing to the campaign fund.
President Hoover will speak on NBC radio tonight at 7 for thirty minutes. The talk targets Four H club members and is announced by Miss Grayce Stevens home demonstration agent for the National Four H committee.
Police say a drug addict burglar shot and killed two officers before being slain. They report the suspect had prior gambling and auto theft records in Peoria and Canton. Officers arrested Mrs Nellie Munson who confessed and aided in a kidnapping of Olaf Anderson from Jamestown North Dakota who later escaped.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas met with President Hoover at the White House to back a partial non partisan program on unemployment and drought relief. A drought aid measure with administration support will be sponsored by a Democrat in the Senate and by a Democrat in the House. Democrats in both chambers will back Republican moves for higher federal highway aid faster public works and inland waterway development. The world court issue remains contentious with some Senate Republicans. Robinson doubts action during the short session.
Albert M. Gay was found dead Sunday in his Conesville residence with a bullet hole-riddled wall and a door partly open. Clyde Wolford and a friend discovered the scene after visiting Gay for medicine. the death is believed to be from loss of blood after an apparent fall. Survived by a wife Madge Hawkins Gay a daughter Oral Fay Foor and several siblings. Funeral services are expected Tuesday at 2 PM at the Foor home.
The labor icon Mother Jones is dead at age about a hundred. Born in Ireland she emigrated to the United States then Canada before returning to Michigan to teach in Monroe. Her life underlined by tragedy and activism, she inspired workers and faced jail and deportation while leading strikes for labor rights. She requested burial in Mt Olive Miners cemetery beside her “boys” and near the Virden mine riot memorial. The virulent 1898 clash and eight workers killed haunt her grave.
Mrs. Raymond Grimm and two neighbors hosted a bridge and Kensington party at the Country club on Saturday afternoon on West Third street. One hundred twenty five guests attended. Honors went to Mrs. S. D. Folsom Mrs. Harry Bomke and Mrs. J. L. Giesler. Yellow and white chrysanthemums decorated the clubrooms. A two course luncheon followed. Special guests included Mrs. Rex C. Hubbard of Des Moines Miss Blanche Lauck head of Rock Island high school English department and Mrs. Robert Lee of Davenport.
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