Elks Back City Electric Plant in Muscatine
Muscatine Elks adopt a resolution urging municipal ownership of the city’s electric light and power plant. A committee, James J. Ryan Clay Kneese and A A Zollner, will work with the Iowa Municipal Home Rule League to promote a city owned plant and lower rates. The vote was nearly unanimous with one negative ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Elks
James J. Ryan
Clay Kneese
A. A. Zollner
Iowa Municipal Home Rule League
Elks
Muscatine
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Iowa
Seid
Leonard Bowen
West
C. A. Hahn
Stolen Furs Worth 200 Dollars Prompt Reward
William Strohmeier offers a 50 dollar reward for the location of about 200 dollars worth of furs stolen from his shed in Andalusia Illinois. He reported the theft to Sheriff R J Wiley after hearing a noise at 2 am and finding most of his mink muskrat opossum skunk and coon pelts missing.
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Andalusia
Ill
William Strohmeier
R. J. Wiley
Strohmeier
Garment Workers Strike Settled With 14,900 Back At Work
In New York on December 6, Benjamin Schlesinger president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union reports about fourteen thousand nine hundred clothing workers, from the November 14 strike, are back in 376 shops that have settled with the unions. An additional 340 workers have applied to union chiefs for settlement.
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New York
Benjamin Schlesinger
International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union
Decoration Day and July 4th Fall on Same Weekday
The notice notes that Decoration Day and July 4th occur on the same day of the week this year, affecting local observances and scheduling.
Interior Departments Report Says Untapped Wealth Looms
Washington Dec 6 The Interior Department reports vast untapped national wealth across 400 million acres of public land coal and oil deposits dominate the estimates with royalties possible totaling over 12 billion dollars The secretary urges reclamation plans and federal support to develop resources and relieve future tax burdens Alaska’s riches are highlighted with 21 million acres of forests and vast agricultural potential pending transportation and centralized administration to unlock them.
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Washington, D. C
Fall of
Interior Department
Fall
Alaska
Department of Interior
Home Department
United States
Seward
Fairbanks
Point Barrow
Seward Peninsula
Cross Examination Sheds Light on Muscatine Gas Rates
The Muscatine gas rate hearing resumes with Engineer L. R. King of United Railway & Light admitting that citizens pay about five cents per thousand cubic feet toward the current litigation. City Attorney Tipton questions expense apportionment between gas and electric departments as the hearing continues before Special Master John A. Gusher.
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Mustine Lighting Company
John A. Gusher
City Hall Chambers
Court House
L. R. King
United Railway & Light Company
King
E. R. Tipton
Muscatine
B. J. Denman
United Light and Railway Company
Joe R. Lane
Davenport
E. M. Warner
Musgatine
Dean Raymond
Lighting Company
Electric Railway
Tipton
Muscatine Lighting Company
Walter S. Bemis
State Commission Seeks Car Payroll Cuts Amid Fare Plan
The Illinois state commerce commission urged a 15 to 20 percent payroll cut for surface car lines including officers and laborers in a federal court filing. The move accompanies Chicago’s bid to lower surface fare from eight to five cents. The commission claims annual savings of about 6.98 million dollars plus 4 million more from other cuts.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
Illinois State Commerce Commission
Indictments in Small and Curtis Case Questioned by Judge
Judge Claire C. Edwards in Lake County Illinois ruled the circuit court need not approve Sangamon county grand jury actions in the Len Small and Vernon Curtis prosecutions. Defense attorney C. C. Le Forge challenged the grand jury report and indicted counts as defective for failing to specify a crime by the governor and alleged conspiracies and a confidence game.
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Waukegan
Ill
Circuit Court of
Lake County
Sangamon County
Len Small
Vernon Curtis
Grant Park
Claire C. Edwards
C. C. le Forgee
Grand Jury
Edwards
Mr. le Forgee
le Forgee
Civil War Vets Gain More Pension Money
Washington reports pensions for wars prior to World War I rose to 258,815,842 in the fiscal year ending June 30, increasing by 45,420,528 from the prior year though about 6,000,000 below the appropriation. Centerville’s Mayor Rees notes a flood of bogus silver dollars circulating. The record for shorthand dictation stands at 425 words per minute.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
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Elks Back City Electric Plant
Garment Workers
Santa Claus
Santa
Engineer King
Muscatine ‘Lighting Company
Ald
James Figg
B J Denman
Utilities Corporation
Denman
Mat Starck
Starck
West Third Street
Elgin
Elgin and Waltham
H. J. Theil
F. W. Swan
East Second Street
Dad
Circuit Court
Centerville
Rees
Vocalion
The
Phonograph
Imidt Ausic
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