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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1921
Page
12
Washington reports indicate arms negotiators nearing a settlement on the five five three naval ratio and the four power plan. An open conference session may be called early next week to announce progress and principles on Pacific fortifications.
New York December 9. Railroad managers propose wage reductions from ten to thirty percent for train service shop and maintenance workers north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. Cuts would take effect late this month and require rail road labor board approval. Separate employee conferences set to begin early next week.
New York remembers Richard Bermingham a Fordham graduate who left medical study to patrol streets. He rose to sergeant of detectives credited with many confessions won by humane treatment and opposed to third degree methods. He arrest ed over 300 murderers and preferred the beat to promotion.
President Harry Pratt Judson imposed a ban on smoking in the University of Chicago women’s dormitories. Dorm residents received a notice from house mothers announcing the cigar ette ban without explanation as protests over perceived excessive smoking by women students were cited by the dean of women and others on campus.
Davenport Iowa December 9 Nat Osman defeated Charles Rogers by one vote to become head of the local Carmen union. Osman, an executive committee member for two years, led a conservative faction in wage talks with the Tri City Railway. Rogers was barred from voting when late to the polls after a contentious campaign echoing past clashes with management.
Sinn Fein women’s organization, led by Countess Markiewicz and members including Mrs O Callaghan widow of Limerick’s former mayor Mrs Pearse and Mrs Clarke widow of a 1916 Easter Proclamation signatory unite against ratification. They seek absolute Irish independence amid wartime losses.
Des Moines reports that the Iowa War Finance Corporation has approved 15,260,000 in loans after 385 banks requested funds. The state has already apportioned 7,129,000 to farmers, with an additional 1,900,000 approved for the week ending December 3.
Madison Wis December 9 Governor J J Blaine in a letter to Postmaster General Hays assailed the policy of armed marine guards on mail trains and urged the return of guard M M Hanson to Wisconsin for trial in the Lambrecht shooting case.
The Cunard company announces construction of six oil burning steamships totaling 100000 tons and an expansion of wartime routes. By spring weekly Liverpool to New York and Southampton to New York services will resume.
Hawley Miller, a beleaguered road commissioner, fights budget cuts while repairing a rut filled highway. A crash at the Parker home brings him face to face with Parker’s niece, the county treasurer’s ward, who mistakes him for a passerby. Their unexpected tea talk sparks a budding romance amid local road repairs.
Hawley quits his road commissioner job to seek fortune in the city. He earns a fortune but loses it in a scheme with a rival clique. Returning to the country, he reveals the truth to the Parker niece and learns the man he saved was her father, John Colburn.
An advertising piece promotes SUSTO a vitamin tonic tablet developed at Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia by Dr Philip B Hawk. It claims to restore strength weight and vitality for underweight men women and children and urges readers in Muscatine to visit Havercamp's Drug Store for purchase at about 3 dollars for a month’s supply.
A Midnight Bell opens at Palace Theatre for a two day run with five reels blending melodrama and a four child cast in an allegorical turn directed by May. Cecil B DeMille’s The Affairs of Anatol plays at Muse Theatre featuring Wallace Reid Gloria Swanson and a star ensemble in a celebrated screen chef d oeuvre.
Washington December 9 The Japanese cabinet has been summoned to convene tomorrow likely to decide on the naval ratio issue submitted by Japan's delegation at the arms conference.
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