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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
10
The page compiles town notices and advertisements for The Batterson Stores and local businesses. It mentions sales on Winter Goods, prices on used pianos, and promotions at The Batterson Stores plus film showings at A MuseU and other theater notes. It also records residents traveling by firefly to Chicago and visiting relatives, with brief social notes and a few names.
A 20000 dollar shipment of furs weighing over 10000 pounds left Muscatine for St Paul on No 21. Greenblatt company of Mast Second street shipped 28 bales of mink possum skunk badger and other local furs. A large transfer to Chicago on No 30 followed. freight value over 200. The haul marks the year’s largest Muscatine fur shipment with several weeks of local trapping tied to Mercer county.
Twelve Cedar Rapids residents met with Harry G Hill to outline revival work in Davenport associated with the Sao Paulo Y M C A and to discuss a city revival series. J B McNiel and H G Hill traveled, with plans for December sessions and citywide campaign.
Edward F. Smith of Worcester sues the Boston American League Baseball Club for 5000 alleging he bought two tickets at the gate, was forced from his seat, detained for an hour and a half in a grounds detention room, and denied access to the game at a Boston World Series event on December 5.
The basketball tournament at the YMCA continues with a Gojo club versus Seniors game and a Bankers versus YMCA clash tomorrow night. No games are scheduled until Wednesday evening, December 18.
Iowa bowlers from Ot tumava and Waterloo participated in singles and doubles at Kansas City. Events continue tonight with more than fifty Kansas City bowlers expected. Five-man teams were not contested. An engraved watch valued at $200 and exhibition prizes were displayed on Grand Avenue. A brick was hurled through a plate glass window in the early morning burglary.
Promoter Coffroth received word from Wolgast’s manager Tom Jones that Wolgast’s left arm and hip had strained, making a return unlikely. Frantic Burns, the Call and Heavyweights, pressed for a larger purse, but Coffroth postponed staging a January 1 bout.
Clavson today telegraphed support to representatives at the River to River Todd convention and Wanter meet at Colfax to back Lara Youns of Des Moines for president while the local association backs Ri Ns Carson of Iowa City for secretary. Hove's Crows Again notes Pat Crowe was active in Cedar Rapids car robberies. he was released then re-arrested and jailed for six days.
Chicago University girls overwhelmingly back Michigan rejoining the Big Nine conference. A college paper vote found no dissenters among co ed supporters, with only one girl expressing displeasure and a rumored spat with a Michigan co ed.
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