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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1912
Page
9
Paying your bills by check is the only satisfactory way. Your cancelled checks are receipts for your expenditures. Open an account with us and make this your bank. Safe Deposit Vault protects jewelry and papers from burglars. A private drawer is $2.00 a year. Our Savings Department invites your account. One dollar to open, 3 percent interest, witnessing savings grow. Come in Saturday night.
New York December 7 Baseball magnates gather for the National League meeting. James Gatway leads from Boston as Thomas J. Lynch is favored for president after ousting Horace Vogel. Bresnahan seeks $40,000 plus 10 percent of last year’s profits from Mrs Britten. Herrmann and Murphy may clash over Joe Tinker transfer. New music ad notes 10¢ copies at Hirt & Pesler.
Athletes representing the Gojos Cubs Seniors and Bankers did not appear for their scheduled contests at the YMCA last evening. The games were postponed until after revival meetings begin. A large South End fire drew attention in the city. An advertisement touts electric Britars as a remedy for various diseases.
An advertisement by Snider Henel & Watts of Davenport Iowa pitches Mississippi land for profitable farming. It promises high early spring prices for crops including melons potatoes and cabbage, notes sugar cane corn and other staples as steady income, cites $440 per acre past earnings, offers installment arrangements, and invites a card reply to learn how 916.00 an acre land can yield returns.
Arno C Bruemmer is moved to Davenport to lead the second largest Iowa agency with about twenty staff and seven delivery wagons. A M Peacock becomes the new agent at Atlantic, Iowa, and Bruemmer departs Monday night to assume duties next day.
The Muscatine post office announces no in person mail pickup on Christmas Day to reduce congestion. Deliveries will be made, two wagons will operate for the holidays, and clerical staff will be increased so patrons receive all mail without calling at the federal building. Postmaster R McNutt confirmed service resumes after the New Year rush.
St Margaret’s Guild schedules a Christmas event at Vacuuld Cleaning Store on Iowa Ave this Saturday December 14 with a business men’s luncheon served from noon to 2 PM. Also mentions Mr and Mrs William Naget and son Albert of Royalton Minn leaving for New Era after visiting Philip Hunn at 1216 Smalley Ave. Plus an ad for three used upright planes at $100 each from Hirt & Fesler’s Hervey Bide.
Burdens of loans shift to interior stations as loans and deposits decrease. New York reports a cash reserve deficit narrowed to 74,000 but shows large withdrawals by out-of-town institutions. The weekly statement cites declines in deposits and extensive shifts in reserve composition across banks and trust companies in greater New York.
At the first meeting of the Y M C A boys conference in Des Moines Iowa Raymond Sayre of Indianola was elected president Blaine Davidson of Des Moines vice president and Leo Underwood of Council Bluffs secretary One hundred dollars contributed for the event and Bennett's Sunny South shoes advertised.
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