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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1915
Page
6
Keokuk plans to drop Central Association baseball with chances about 100 to 1 at the January 12 league meeting. A booster gathering drew about fifteen attendees and discussed adding Galesburg Oskaloosa Ottumwa or Ft Madison to the circuit.
In the 1915 season American League teams played over 5,500 innings with only three triple plays. Cleveland executed two and St. Louis the other. The era’s fielding statistics show Cleveland and St. Louis posting strong errors and double plays metrics amid overall team performance in 1915.
Attendance rose as tempers flared over Keokuk’s 1915 season. A proposed league would be two classes below the Central Association with towns such as Fort Madison Galesburg Monmouth Osceola Ottumwa and Oskaloosa. The meeting was seen as the final chance for Keokuk promoters to salvage baseball with President Justice possibly leaving with the town.
Washington and Columbus Junction high school athletic associations shared a net profit of 542.86 from the Thanksgiving football game between Washington Junction. Receipts totaled 632.33 with 89.47 in express charges, and the profit was split evenly. Principal Whitmer of Washington and Superintendent Huston of Columbus Junction announced the result after a conference at the Junction.
From midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday the last 24 hours before navigation closed, no fewer than thirty big freighters were loaded with grain and cleared for the east. These vessels carried away 1,600,000 bushels of grain. Lismore Collars at Bogard's.
New York dispatch notes the annual league meetings dominate the week. The International League conferences in New York on December 13, the National League on December 14, and the American League convening in Chicago on December 15. Boxing bids for the Freddie Welsh Charlie White lightweight title bout are also expected to draw interest.
Hugh Walters appeared before Judge Coster this morning and pleaded not guilty to a larceny charge. The case was continued until Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Walters is accused of stealing brass fixtures.
Fragments describe the power house of the Muscatine Lighting company from last summer. The notes reference infrastructure work and staff activity, but details are incomplete and names and dates are unclear. Further readable bits hint at maintenance and daily routines within the facility.
Major General Guy E. Logan reported a officers school for the Iowa Battalion of Field Artillery will be held at Davenport Commercial club rooms Sunday morning December 19. Local officers Lt. Col. Lange and Lieuts Mull Barnard Husted and Roach will attend, under Lieut L K Daugherty US Army. No drill tonight by Battery C due to the Muscatine Poultry Fanciers Association show in the Armory.
Francis Marion Cockrell, former U S senator from Missouri, died in Washington D C at age 81 after a long illness. A Democrat, he served five senate terms from 1875 to 1905, then joined the Interstate Commerce Commission until 1910 and later was U S commissioner to adjust the Texas New Mexico boundary. He was a Confederate officer in the Civil War and resided in Warrensburg, Missouri.
South End Rev Orcutt of Des Moines state Methodist Sunday schools spoke at Musserville M B S church on improving teaching quality. He urged teacher training and selection by capability, not willingness, noting a class is already being arranged. Aid meeting and choir Christmas cantata teased for December 28.
Four year old Howard Corbin of Muscatine Island spilled boiling water from a can on himself while it stood on a stove. He suffered neck and chest burns but doctors deem the injuries not serious.
John Will, 12, son of Mr and Mrs J D Will of Burlington road, was reported seriously burned while building a fire on Saturday.
A student involved in a gasoline related mishap on Saturday is reported to be only lightly injured. He was able to attend school as usual, showing little lasting impact from the incident.
Pittsburgh on December 13 reports that Caroline Flaccus Viehmier a 71 year old wealthy widow from a prominent family was found murdered at her home ten miles north of the city. The body was bound hand and foot and gagged the house ransacked and phone lines cut investigators suspect robbery as the motive. Viehmier sister to George J Flaccus and C L Flaccus noted glass manufacturers in Pittsburgh.
The AdMuse-U theatre launches an all-star Photoplay month with Dustin Farnum in The Gentlemen from Indiana on Monday and Richard Bennett in Damaged Goods for one day Tuesday. The management notes Damaged Goods costs 168.05, a record price for a feature in the city, proof of their commitment to patrons.
A cinema advertisement notes the vital importance of the Brieux play Damaged Goods about marriage and disease. It previews William Farnum in The Wonderful Adventure and Marguerite Clark in The Prince and the Pauper with show dates and sentiments for the audience.
Comrades announce the death of our member George Benedict and schedule a memorial gathering. A service will be held tomorrow afternoon at Memorial Hall at 1 90 o clock and the cemetery chapel at 2 o clock. Carl, Adjt.
Mr. and Mrs. M W Wheeler of Muscatine visited the California products exhibit in Los Angeles held by the Chamber of Commerce. They attended daily lectures and moving pictures. The couple were in the Southland during negotiations to extend the San Diego exposition through 1916.
London report from December 13 states the British steamer Pinegrove has sunk. The crew was saved.
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