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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1926
Page
4
Fort Madison Iowa December reports the Good Roads Movement gaining momentum with roots traced to Lee County in the early 1880s. Bicycle enthusiasts funded a 19 mile cinder track from Fort Madison to Burlington and held a single mass meeting and parade to spur early road building leading to later paving and public works.
A 1926 crop survey notes total US production above 1925 and above the five year average, yet composite quality lags five percent behind the ten year average. Purchasing power of farm products drops to 81 percent of prewar level. Cotton markets ease and cottonseed products push prices down while dairy rations improve. Domestic demand remains strong with low cotton stocks and steady exports. An item hints at a separated couple married in 1920 and separated in 1926.
The Rainbow school pupils in Sweetland township will stage a program this Thursday evening December 16 under teacher Miss Evelyn Wagner. An admission charge covers a later lunch and the students perform recitations dialogues plays and songs including The Big Welcome The Announcer Grandmother Will Decide Catching the Train to Trask Christmas Sherlock Holmes Mamma s Boy Mandy Jane It Isn t My Dolly The Candy Tree Gifts and Gifts Christmas Visions and Johnnie Counts Ten led by a lineup of teachers and pupils.
The coal strike in Great Britain prompts a rubber factory in Edinburgh employing 5,000 workers to convert its boiler houses to burn either coal or oil.
Pleasant Prairie Iowa December 13 all day Unity club meeting at Pleasant Prairie church parlor featured election of officers and a social pot luck lunch. New officers include President Clara Nettleton Vice President Mary Wathan Secretary Treasurer Elizabeth Grimm and Pianist Blanche Paul. A committee to organize monthly programs was chosen.
Adele G. Gray seeks divorce from Allen A. Gray on cruelty grounds in district court filing Saturday. She requests restoration of her maiden name Adele G. Bates. The petition was filed by Thompson and Thompson and lists grounds and relief sought.
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