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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
6
Local brief lists bids invited for 5 000 ds dirt filling with contact to Mr Mackenze at Roach and Musser Sash and Door Company. Community notices note residents passing through city, travel details, and local ads promoting Hollister Rocky Mountain Tea with prices.
Lisbon reports eighty two Portuguese fishermen perished this week as a fierce storm battered the coast. Survivors faced privations with four men driven to madness and leaped overboard. Also noted is a medicinal advertisement for Lwoley’s Honey and Tar Compound claimed to ease croupy and wheezy illnesses in children.
We derive through this medium to express our thanks to the friends and neighbors for their kindness and also for the floral offerings and to the Cranston friends for their sympathy shown us in our god bereavement in the logy of our mother. Angle Beard Katie Beard Lizzie Carlisle
School report presented by Superintendent Ira McIntire shows enrollment 2,288 and average daily attendance 2,182.36 with 1,047 absent or tardy and 150 withdrawn. 97 re-entered during quarter, 62 truant cases, 184 mother tardies and 12 pupils using district books. tuition pupils amount to $1.
Six men were elected to membership in the State Historical Society of Iowa at its annual meeting. The new members are Raymond A. Pearson of Ames, A. I. Bakke of Ames, Dr J. L. C. Cooley of Magon City, B. Fell of Spencer, H. F. B. Hadley of Nevada, Loren Stmuakey of Des Moines, and Herbert Walter of Stratford.
T Bestenlehner and T Hansen have successfully passed state examinations before the Iowa Pharmacy Board in Des Moines. They are now enrolled as registered pharmacists in the state, having completed the required month of preparation.
Appreciated by the people. It is no longer necessary to leave your shoes at the shop for a week. We repair them while you wait. Cherry's Ady.
A fragment from Grinnell IA reports the Spug movement led by Mrs August Belmont and Miss Anne Morgan, pushing rapid growth of a relief effort against Christmas burdens. The item notes widespread support and lists notable promoters in a brief, fragmented clipping.
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