City Property Valued At Over One Million Dollars
City of Muscatine inventories filed with the county auditor show assets over one million dollars. Buildings total 730,668.66, water works plant 446,018.66, city hall 120,000, and other properties including library, fire stations, and parks. Land values, cemetery, and fixtures add substantial totals across departments and public utilities.
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Muscatine
Greenwood Chapel
Front Street
Greenwood Cemetery
Plan To Drain Big Area Provokes Conservationists
Lansing Iowa Dec. 5. A group plans levees to drain thousands of acres of Mississippi lowlands from De Soto to Lynxville Wisconsin for farming. Fish experts call the district a natural fish hatchery and warn drainage would destroy spawning grounds and nursery habitat.
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Lansing
Mississippi
Wisconsin
DeSoto
Lynxville
Wis
Mississippi River
Rock Island
Congress
St.Paul
C. F. Culler
Bureau of Fisheries Rescue
Upper Mississippi
Culler
Evangelist Draws Large Audience in South Muscatine Hotel
Evangelistic services held Sunday evening in a South Muscatine hotel on Oregon Street drew a large crowd. The event featured a well known speaker addressing residents in the local venue.
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Old South Muscatine Hotel
Oregon Street
Iowa 5 cabbage sparked by Muscatine science gains Ames support
Iowa State College extension bulletins highlight a new cabbage variety named Iowa 5 developed with Muscatine grower Henry Hahn and Ames staff. The disease resistant early cabbage aims to revive Muscatine Island’s once thriving industry once plagued by cabbage yellows. Seed production remains a two year process with limited seed sources, as 500 plants grow in the college greenhouse.
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Agricultural Extension Division
Iowa State College
Henry Hahn
Ames
Iowa College
Iowa
Iowa 5
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station
I. E. Melhus
Plant Pathology
E. T. Erwin
Iowa State
Muscatine Island
Muscatine
Melhus
United States
Towa
Dre Methus
Wisconsin Station
Puget Sound
Long Island
Famous Opera Notables Brought To Muscatine By Students
High school seniors sponsor Mozart comic opera The Impresario at Grange Theatre Friday evening with an all star Society of American Singers cast led by Percy Hemus. Regina Vicarino Hazel Huntington star as sopranos. Thomas McGranahan sings Mozart. Gladys Craven at piano. Supt Potts notes stage setting high quality.
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Muscatine
Mozart
Grangy Theatre
S. A. Potts
Society of American Singers
Percy Hemus
Regina Vicarino
Hazel Huntington
Thomas McGranahan
Gladys Craven
Supt
Powts
Holiday Buying Underway Amid Big Displays In Muscatine
Large crowds in Muscatine visit city stores Saturday for pre Christmas shopping. Merchants report gratifying sales and expect early season records. Stores boast unusual stocks and bargains aimed at attracting shoppers from rural areas. A speaker discussed the coronation of the next universal king. Meetings are scheduled each evening this week.
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Muscatine
Argue Conference At Excelsior Meet
The Excelsior Literary society debated armament conference approvals. John Downer and Joe Lange presented winning arguments, Newton Lange and Harry Vantta spoke for the affirmative. Musical numbers readings and recitations filled the program. forty five members attended. Next meeting to be held at the Lake home.
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Washington
Senate
House
Excelsior Literary Society
A. C. Lake
Bloomington Township
John Downer
Joe Lange
Newton Lange
Harry Vanatta
Outgro Advertises Nail Treatment for Ingrown Toenails
An advertisement promotes Outgro as a harmless antiseptic for chiropodists. A few drops on skin around an ingrown nail reduce inflammation and pain and toughen the tender skin so the nail turns outward naturally overnight. The product is available from drug stores in a tiny bottle with directions.
Busy Weekend for Local Cops Ends with Several Arrests
Local police captured nearly 40 suspects over a 24 hour period, with five arrested for intoxication. Four paid five dollar fines plus costs. Lewis Sharrar jailed on intoxication charges after pleading not guilty, bond set at 100 dollars. An athletic club raid on Front Street yielded thirty men but no sufficient evidence of gambling.
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William Dwyer
Front Street
Iowa Avenue
Chistent Street
Dwyer
Edward Cress
William Grauer
Harold Foster
Robert Pringle
Lewis Sharrar
Bethel A M E Church Observes 36th Anniversary
The Muscatine Bethel A M E church marked its 36th founding anniversary with an evening program. Daytime collections totaled 24 dollars for church work, and a Friday box social and entertainment are planned in observance.
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Muscatine Bethel A. M. E
Ex Service Men To Receive Christmas Boxes In Iowa
American Legion and Auxiliary coordinators outline a drive sending 13 by 6 by 4 inch boxes to about 1,500 Iowa ex soldiers in hospitals. Each box includes candies nuts fruit cake and three handkerchiefs with sender’s name. Boxes to be mailed by December 15 to Des Moines central house for addressing.
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Iowa
American Legion ‘Auxiliary
Muscatine
Centralf House
Des Moines
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Transfer sets Miss Curtis to YWCA service abroad
Miss Elizabeth Curtis, industrial secretary of the YWCA field, has been transferred to Reval Estonia for service there. She has visited Muscatine many times and will sail for Europe soon to prepare for work in Russia next year. The move reflects a national policy to reduce field workers and centralize specialists in New York.
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Elizabeth Curtis
Reval
Esthenia
Miss Curtis
Muscatine
Russia
Europe
Field Department
Foreign Department
National Board of the Y. W. C. A
New York
Cascarets Ad Claims Pleasant Laxative Benefits
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a candy like laxative that relieves head ache biliousness colds indigestion dizziness sour stomach and promises gentle bowel relief by morning. It states one or two candies work while you sleep and costs ten cents a box with no gripping side effects, appealing to children as well.
Stolen Dr Potter Auto Found Wrecked Near Spangler
A car owned by Dr. W. W. Potter stolen Saturday night was found burned and wrecked one mile north of the Spangler chapel. Farmer John Hitchcock discovered the blaze Sunday afternoon and Sheriff Wiley was notified. Potter carries full insurance. he is the fourth local victim in two months. Two new Ford cars stolen earlier remain missing, with a third found in Cedar Rapids.
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W. W. Potter
Spangler Chapel
John Hitchcock
Wiley
Potter
Dr. Potter
Sycamore Street
A~muse U
Ford
Cedar Rapids
Bloomington Club to Offer Program
A stereopticon lecture by Rev. H. M. Vere of the Bloomington Friends Church will be given at a Bloomington Community League meeting at the church. The program includes readings musical selections and recitations opening at 7 30 oclock. Pythagoras was the first of the sages to admit women to public lectures.
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H. M. Vere
Bloomington Friends’ Church
Bloomington Community League
Pythagoras
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INGS
C. H. Young
Young Engineering Remnarcy
Otto Grocery Co
Holiday Buying
ARGUE
Excelsior
Coasters
Cation
Harry Brown
Thas
Murn
Bloomington
H. S. Law
Stewart Road
Randleman~ Bros
Grandview Avenue
L. H. Ruthenberg
Frank Chayea
Nint and Cyress
Coon & Fisher
Seventh and Mulberry
S. S. Wilcox Grocery
Woodlawn Avenue
Metzger CO
Gro. Park Ave
Muscatine City Lines
C. D. & M. Railway Co
E. L. Fischer
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