Davenport Committee Plans for Muscatine Battery Men
A Davenport committee prepared to host Muscatine battery men arriving for Christmas furlough. Plans include heated quarters, dinners at Davenport’s city expense, and a brick barracks with $16,000 construction to endure their stay. The group aims to secure two days’ furlough and arrange town support for home time with families and festive meals.
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Journal
Spedel Narvica
Davenport
Tatteries i
Murcatine
Muscatine
Tewin
T Han
Bueleogh
Phink
Scene From Sunday A Museu Offering
Fragmented text describes city team laws and a hearing led by Harry J Holz mayor, a malt carrier. He will be given a bearing before Police Judge J C Coster this afternoon.
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Harry J. Holz
J. ¢. Coster
Plan Abandonment Of Fire Station In Town
City council discussed abandoning the current two-firehouse system after alderman J M Broony reported to Kentiment. The plan proposes selling the outlying alarm boxes and property to fund a new fire pump and partial city hall renovations. A rodent of the department remains proposed to be quartered at the new facility with six firemen including the chief.
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Steve
Rother
Antire
Distric t Court Notes and Maritime Incident Report
District court notes indicate adjournment at noon after hearing in the matter of J B H with Edmunda aKolhat D C Ward, while a separate maritime report details a motor ship Daylis ashore at Halibut Stay, Halibut Straits, near Cundo, with the crew safe. Presbyterian tent and church events are listed for December 14 including paneywork, home baking and supper from 5 to 7.
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Distrous
Casdoutatad
Daylis
Toledo
Ohio
New York
Halibut
Cundo
River Freezes Across Spillway as Harsh Cold Arrives
The river near Muscatine froze overnight marking the earliest closure in a century, with water rising to the 6.8 foot mark. A long list of past freeze dates shows the unusual early winter, the cold lingering through late winter and early spring, and the river remaining shut from shore to shore for months in several extreme years.
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Missionspot
Pass Point
Cow Cambar
Muscatine
Anrit
Marvel
JTRRI
Opan River
Clorad
iMarch
River facility dates from 1903 to 1914 data
Fragmentary OCR lists numerous opening and closing dates for river facilities from 1903 through 1914. Entries mix years such as 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1905 1910 1912 1914 with marks like opened closed opened again and inconsistent day/month punctuation.
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Pobrusry
Farmers Oppose Imported Birds In Town Debate
A town meeting adopted a resolution urging conservation of native game birds and less focus on imported Chinese fowl. The highway committee proposed prohibiting road races and tighter controls on highway use. Reports include a fatal shooting in Otumwa, a schooner driven ashore at Cape Lookout, a Greek ship sunk by a German submarine, and the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wilson of Hershey Avenue.
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Yin
Dee
Reid Ag
Bogufort
N.C
Minnesota
John A. Becklay
Chicago
Cape Lookout Bight
Cape Lookout
Pariu
Salamis
Ja_& Havas
Madrid
Elmer Wilson
Hershey Avenue
Health Week Work Continues Across City Programs
Health Week activities persist with ministers and churches supporting the campaign. Talks on longevity and health work will be delivered in several churches while physicians supply lectures for Young Men’s Christian Association groups. A citywide effort continues through tonight and into tomorrow with outreach by Public Welfare and related organizations.
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Maroaw
Newton Moore
Mulford
Mike Minofer
Chria
From Office Boy to Firm Head in 23 Years
Fass rises from office boy at the Public Utilities Company of Evansville Indiana to the post of general manager after twenty three years of service. He has just been appointed to lead the firm.
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Fass
Public Utilities
Company of
Evansville
Ind
Wanorel Manainar
Music Program 18 Announced at Trinity Church
An all new music service will be held tomorrow evening at Trinity Episcopal Church. The organ work under choirmaster Robert G. Jones includes Saint Spens Sonata Bravia and other selections. The augmented choir will perform Magnificat and several solos and an offertory.
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Trinity Episcopal Charch
Muala
Robert G. Jonas
Saint-Spens
Arthur Davie
J*ryninger
Tugne
Ralph Kindler
Robt
G. Jones
Dimittri
G Jones
Gounod
Matias
Woodman Mias Elva
A. B. Clapp
Chotr
Des Moines Plans Christmas Dinner for 1100 Infantry
Des Moines Iowa, Dec 16. Citizens will host 1,100 First Infantry guards returning from border duty around Dec 24 with a large Christmas dinner in private homes. A committee led by H. H. Polk, George Mercer and Tom Fairweather arranged the plan to have families invite soldiers to share their Christmas meal. A recruitment bureau at the Chamber of Commerce will list families willing to host and readers may call or mail their details to offer accommodations.
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Des Moines
Lerty
First Infantry
Guarda
Eltixens Arguexty
H. H. Polk
George Mercer
Fom Fairweather
Iowa
Real Estate Transfers Transcribed by Vitus Loan & Investment Co
Real estate transfers show parcels in Muscatine and surrounding areas. Transactions include maps, lot details, and nominal sums like 1.00 or 1,900,010. Names include Bruhow Hormann, Chris D., Snowden Agnet T., Charles N. Nickelson, Homer Ny, Uarry P. Munday, Mary A. Harker, Agatha Rehbehn, Joseph M. Batehader, Carl Rudd, Henry H. Schlutz, J. B. Mark, J. W. Mark, and Louis D. Hinman with various lots and fractions in Park Pines and other additions.
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Vitus Loan & Investmond Coy
Real Tatate Dealers
Town Avenue
Bruhow
Hormann
F. A
Bruthow
Atlas
Noyons
Chris d
Titus Loan & Inveatment Co
Muscatine
Snowden
Agnet T
Charles N. Nickelson
Homer
Uarry
Real estate transfers and notices from Muscatine area
A garbled record lists several property transfers in Muscatine including parcels in Oakland Add Moscow and Krasworth area with amounts around 1 to 20 thousand dollars. Also noted is an estate inventory for Max Lienander and a hospital update on Fred Tittle returning home after surgery. Local notices include a Presbyterian Ladies Supper on December 5, with price and ad notes.
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Morris
Sarah
Gav. Crees
N. B
Adams
James
Belle Crist
Moscow
Nauman
Harry
Et Ux
Oirs
Blanche Elingon
Cecil
Oakark
We. Lidarty
Connell
John
Corneliua D. Connell
S. B
Woltendorf
Andreaa
D. MM. Kerkler
Krasworth& Lilittridge
la Muscatine
Maurice Whitaker
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Dmistrics Court Notes
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