Former Muscatine Sunday School Family Destitute Contest Closes
The Muscatine area reports a destitute family, former residents of Sweetland, facing ruin after moving to Colorado five years ago. Thomas Richardson and kin are ill and unable to work. a son maimed in an accident and a daughter gravely crippled. A Modern Brotherhood of America benefit concert is planned at MB.A Hall in neighboring Ventland on December 14 to aid them, with a box social and readings by local speakers.
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al Rine
Colorado
Thomas Richardson
Mr. Richardson
Teconte Ny
Sweetland
Richardson
Modern
Brotherhood of Amarics
Mb.a
Ventland
Special Evening Sermon on Hill at Park Avenue Church
Rev Stodahill delivered a late evening sermon at Park Avenue Methodist using Literature Good and Bad as his text. He urged cultivating good books and placing church magazines on reading tables for children, arguing parental reading brings great good. L F Merely the Epworth journal service added a brief talk to many members.
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Stodahill
Park Avenue Methodist Church
Stodghll
L. Ft. Mere Ly
Epworth Jourine
Iarga
Ladies Aid Meeting at Mrs Taunt Schreurs Home
The Ladies Aid Society of Park Avenue Methodist Church will hold a weekly meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs Taunt Schreurs on East Front Street. A large attendance is expected as several important business matters will be discussed. Refreshments will be served by the hostess.
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Ladies' Aid Society
Park Avenue
Taunt Schreurs
East Fronth Street
Edith Ratt
Sycamore Street
Anna Proster
East Elehth Street
Webster City man confesses to Channel drug store robbery
Cecil Fuchard Morrison confesses to robbing the Channel drug store in Webster City and implicates Lege Beal and CHR Roberts. Morrison was caught red handed by night police at the store. Police believe the same gang is tied to other burglaries and the statement names associates.
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Webster City
Cecil Fuchard Morrison
Channel Drug
Bank General Story
Vincent
Lege Beal
CHR Roberts
G Stri
Morrison
Fire alarm hose company adds new apparatus on Park Avenue
East Hill residents welcome a new hose cart named the Alerts as it is stationed at the recently built firehouse on Park Avenue. The unit carries five hundred feet of hose and features a high pressure shutoff as firefighters rehearse in the coming weeks to acquaint older members with the apparatus and hydrants.
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Park Avenue
Reds
Misa Addig Main
Bart Erwin
East Hill
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Joseph J Blaha Dies After Brief Illness
Joseph J Blaha prominent in lodge and union circles and longtime Clear company worker died at 1824 Sherman street on May Day tuberculosis ending his thirty first year He was a member of Woodmen and Haglo lodges and survived by wife Lena Miller parents Mr and Mrs Frank Blaha LaCrosse sister Agnes LaCrosse and brothers Frank Everett Wis James Blaha St Paul Minn Funeral plans awaited arrival of his parents
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Joseph. Blaha
Lodge
Union
East Hill
Sherman Street
Bluba
Woodmen and
Haglo
Clearmakers Union
Ampoya
Fichenaney Clear Company
Bis City
Joseph G. Binha
Musca
Moe
Prank Blaha
LaCrosse
Mias Agnes
Prank
Evyerpreen
Wis
James Blaha
St. Paul
Minn
Aged Woman Robbed Slain and Home Burned in Leavenworth
Inquest into Abs. Benjamin Grey death reveals robbery motive with skull fractured and body burned. Prosecutor Gresham says 25 arrests may follow. Similar past crimes include Mary Belatlez and Joseph Skagsby cases, with robbers targeting elderly residents.
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Leavenworth
Kansuga
Abs
Benjamin Grey
Gresham
Mary Belatlez
Inddey Lidden
Joseph Skagsby
Plan for Honeymoon Ends in Murder in Bradford
Police hunt for Rassani Annissetti after Grace Cable and her fiancé Anthony Kohnen were shot during a wedding planning discussion at the Cable home in Bradford Pennsylvania. Edith Worlenan and Glen Rogers witnessed the attack as the alleged jealous Italian fled.
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Bradford
Trin
Grace Cable
Anthony Kohnen
Syoman
Rassani Annissetti
Edith Worlenan
Tuna
Cable
Glen Rosers
Gotch’s Final Visit Promises Fans Exhibition Spotlight
Ground theatre manager Charles Salisbury announces Gotch will headline a Thursday evening exhibition at Grand theatre with Yusxit Mahmout. The world champion Frank A. Gotch faces a farewell tour after debates with Hackenschmidt and slated matches include Bull McCleary and Mahmout in Muscatine.
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Charles Salisbury
Ground Theatre
Frank A. Gotch
Grand Theatre
George Hackenschmidt
Rusela
Gotch
Frank
Muscating
Hi l Own Acres
Eric Klank
Gotch Destines
Yusalt Mahmout
Tise
Mahmout
Governors Begin Busy Visit to New York City
Western governors arrived from Philadelphia to a warm city welcome. The program includes a Grant's Tomb visit, a water tour on a municipal steamer, and an exhibition by local firms. A dinner hosted by John A. Sleicher is planned for tonight.
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New York
New York City
Philadelphia
Grant
Municipal Department
John A. Sleicher
Bomb Explodes at Liege Cinema Killing Two and Wounding Sixty
A bomb exploded during a Cinematograph exhibition in Liege Belgium injuring 63 people and killing two. Eight victims lost legs and a terror panic followed as workers filled the crowded theatre. Authorities believe an insane assailant threw the device, not an employee acting with revenge.
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Liege
Belxinia
Balglum
One Thing Worth Having Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
A fragment quotes Theodore Roosevelt on the only worthwhile possession the ability and chance to perform work of vital societal importance, urging value in noble effort.
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Theodora Roosevelt
Forwarders Plan Convention Here
Ja M Flanagan Cedar Rapids executive secretary to meet local committees Wednesday. Eastern Iowa division aims to organize a big Forwarders convention to run through January February and early March with social service missions Bible study and publicity committees arranging sessions. Muscatine previously planned but no date set. Secretary McNiel will inform chairs as plans proceed.
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J. M. Planagan
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
J. B. McNier
Social Service
Flanagan
Muscatine
McNiel
Cailing Lout
Children’s Party and Local Social Highlights
Saturday featured a ninth milestone party for Miss Margaret Bast at 309 Ninth Street with Cedar Street School third graders among the guests. Acme club members heard Mrs. Sarah M. Johnson recount her Europe trip, then enjoyed dainty refreshments. Various society events followed, including church Missionary Society, bridge clubs, and lodge nominations, with notes on date corrections for a St Matthias bazaar and upcoming meetings at multiple homes.
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Margaret Bast
John Bast
Case Ninth Street
Cedar Street
Marian Ixler
de Ett Plynn
Mildred McBride
Minnie Thompson
Vivian Vetter
Velma Connell
Margaret Miller
Mildred Agatst Craft
Genevieve Vwoderal
Helen Warner
Lillie Griffith
Ruch Vetter
Nellie Lavewell
Georgine Wilson
Mildred Collins
Goldie Hathaway
Vern Houser
Meda Webb
Helen Dollman
Edna Leu
Acme Club
Sarah M. Johnson
Pine Street
Johnson
Vivian Johnson
Eurone
Vienna
Powell Johnson
Europe
Dinner and session at the favorite treme
W H Grafe of 108 West Sixth street hosted a routine dinner at the usual hour. The evening was spent in a pleasant session at the favorite treme with no plans made for the next regular fortnightly meeting.
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W. L. Mull
Saturday Evening Bridge Club
West Sixth Street
Bridge
W. H. Grafe
Mothers Learn Antidotes for Child Health Safety
A mother in early life training memorized antidotes for common poisons and learned drowning aid and first aid rules. The text praises mothers adopting such preparedness as a vital plan for child safety per Good Housekeeping Magazine.
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Good Housekeeping Magazine
Test for Diamond Uses Card and Needle Method
The test describes making a hole in a card with a needle and viewing through a diamond whether a single hole appears. It claims a genuine stone shows one hole while an imitation yields no hole. It also suggests judging imitations by placing the object on the finger and looking through a magnifying glass to see if finger grain is visible.
Providence In Human Affairs Declared by Burke
A fragmentary quote from Edmund Burke argues that a great change in human affairs is driven by public minds and prevailing opinions. Those who resist such a current are seen as opposing not men but Providence, reflecting 18th century political thought.
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Eduund Burke
Language quirks spark telephone debate across tongues
A Yonkers columnist jokes that French is better for telephone use than English after London and Paris were allegedly linked by a call. Patrice counters by recalling a French caller he could not understand, highlighting comic language misfires.
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London
Parle
Patrice
Yonkers Stal¢umen
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