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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1912
Page
6
National League directors discuss the Bresnahan Pirates offer and August Herrmann's inter league schedule plan. Possible 64 game inter league championship and August meetings loom as Giants, Reds, and Brooklyn face cross league play prospects.
Yanmas City Missouri hosts the final day of the Middle West Bowling Tourney as five man teams wrap up. Local players join entrants from Sioux City Omaha and other centers to complete singles and doubles events. D A Wolfe of Topeka leads in singles with 654 while Karl and Buah of Chicago top the doubles after today’s play begins.
Four pair in holiday boxes in black slate navy and maroon offered at $1 per box. A practical Christmas gift option with sensible style.
In Chicago Cyclone Tommy Thompson and Fred Earp of Moline will clash in a windup. A preliminary bout between Sandy Mc Govern of Mock Island and a Moline arrestler promises additional interest.
Jim Flynn and Luther McCarty prepared for tomorrow night’s world heavyweight championship bout in Vernon after final training. McCarty weighed about 205 pounds with Flynn around 186, and betting favored McCarty at ten to eight though sparring partners were scarce and training uneven.
New York December 9 Sullivan former Amateur Athletic Union treasurer will donate a silver belt for the athlete who scores the best long distance time in specified races. He aims to spur wider participation and lift U S endurance in time for Olympic competition.
Four players from semi professional teams in New York are in a Brooklyn hospital with serious injuries from yesterday’s championship game between Bullocks and Vernons. The Verons captain halfback fullback and right end suffered broken bones and brain concussions as their team lost 12 to 0.
Local items include the Sellers family moving to a dormitory room from Front Street sparked by a recent purchase. Mrs. H A Utter’s birthday handkerchief shower funded nearly $40 for the Children’s Orphans’ Home at Council Bluffs. Updates note travel plans to Amarillo Texas for health reasons and a visit by Fred J Thomas of Moline to relatives. A Muscatine fire crowd trip, Mrs. E W Keley’s Iowa City return, and a Columbia City United Presbyterian men’s conference preview with Rev J Convelec delivering a keynote on Foreign Mission Investment.
Central Association alumni progress to major leagues as Frank Boyle prepares Muscatine roster. Notables include Marquard with New York Giants and Kent with Brooklyn Dodgers. Magee of St. Louis, plus numerous ex Ottumwa, Burlington, Oskaloosa, Waterloo players now in Cubs, White Sox, Reds, or Browns organizations.
The Altiora club presents a program at Sweetland Methodist Episcopal church with the playlet Plain Mary Brown and other numbers. Members are Muscatine High School graduates and the Epworth League society will host the event, expected to draw many local attendees via Interurban service. It is the third winter entertainment by Muscatine clubs.
The program features Phyllis Hodsden and sisters Miranda and Jenessa Hodsden in named roles alongside Mrs. Van Sittart and Miss Frances Bielefeld. Music includes piano pieces Norwegian Bridal Procession and Twilight, violin solos, an instrumental trio, and a vocal solo, performed by Messrs Cook, Ribak, and Miss Verna Miksch with others in the club.
Construction on the East Ninth street stock yards by the Rock Island system under R J Haney will require another week. Crews completed the unloading platform with a three inch concrete floor and now work on fences sheds and pens, aiming for completion by Saturday. The yard upgrades promise the most sanitary stock yards in the area with new drains and concrete pens, a point of local pride.
Fire Chief Frank Curry expresses gratitude to Muscatine residents for their support during the Roach and Musser fire. He thanks all city volunteers and extols the courtesy and assistance shown to the firemen during the incident.
A dynamite bomb exploded at dawn on the doorstep of Tullus Cardoner's meat market on Chicago's west side. The blast wrecked the building, shattered windows, and sent fifty sleeping men from beds. Three nearby stores were damaged, over a thousand windows broken, and property loss is estimated at $35,000. One arrest was made by police.
The Davenport and Muscatine Interurban company has begun stock yards at Pleasant Prairie and near the Gray farm, along the 1 & M line, to boost shipping facilities. The first stock load crossed the rails Saturday, signaling continued rural stock transport via the interurban route.
Sweetland M. B. Jorje announces a called meeting Wednesday night to elect officers and handle important business. Railroad connections via Wilton tracks join interurban routes to the loop Park Place, enabling direct car delivery to the wallrading platforms and anticipated growth in stock carrying.
Mrs G W Bishop and children of Grand avenue left for Monticello to visit relatives for a few days. William Toborg of Cannon avenue left Saturday for Moline to spend Sunday with friends. Mrs Toborg left earlier in the week.
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