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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
4
The Muscatine Salvation Army plans to provide more than 100 Christmas dinners for the poor and asks for groceries vegetables meats and clothing. Donors may leave gifts at the Salvation Army barracks at Walnut and Third streets to aid those in need this holiday.
A group gathered unannounced at Mr. and Mrs. John C. Nietzel's 205 West Fifth Street home for a progressive cinch evening. Mrs. Frank Smalley won the ladies first prize, an olive dish, while Edward Hartman earned an ash tray for his game skill. Mrs. H. E. McKay and Frank Smalley received consolation prizes of a picture and a dummy policeman respectively after not winning. An oyster supper ended the pleasant event with guests including H. E. McKay, Edward Hartman, Elmer McBride, M. J. Welch, William Priester, Henry J. Fuller, Frank Sales, and Frank Smalley.
Four nanny goats from the Kemble Brothers herd were shipped yesterday to destinations in Canada. The sale and shipment reflect the farm’s livestock trade reaching distant points.
The quartet of goats sold for 100 dollars from the Aztec headed herd acclaimed as the world’s finest. Two nannies were bought by J. W. Widdifield of Ontario Canada and two by J. P. Bahnsen of Helena Montana. Also announced is the dissolution of F C Vetter’s business relation with Leo H Hirsch & Co dated December 16 1903.
A reflective line on how sacrifice gains meaning only when blended with love across cultural boundaries, suggesting universal moral growth.
Boston voters gave Mayor Patrick A. Collins a record re election landslide. The Democratic sweep topped 27 000 votes, the largest majority ever for a Boston candidate.
Public notice states that the author will assume his father's grocery business on January 1 and will run a strictly cash operation. The remark about weather and friendship appears as aside with no further business impact.
Mrs. E C Dailey left on the Western this morning for Cedar Rapids to visit for a few days, as Christmas gifts and shopping notes fill the local pages.
Bloomington residents are invited to a Christmas entertainment at the Sunday school on Wednesday evening December 23. The town notes several local happenings including Wood improving and Willits spending winter in Louisiana. John Fritchman sells Cedar county farm for just over $100 an acre and plans Oklahoma move.
Notice by F. Giesenhaus states all debts are due and will be settled as he retires from business on January 1.
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