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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1930
Page
12
The Duino club elected Miss Esther Benninger president and Mrs Mildred Benninger Crow representative to the inter club council. They planned the Y W charity party for tonight with Fidelis and Zenith clubs assisting.
Mrs. Pearl Connor and Mrs. Lawrence Carter hosted the Lucky Seven club at 1221 West Second Street Monday night. An informal evening featured a Christmas tree gift exchange and miniature Santa Claus souvenirs. The next meeting is January 5 with Mrs. Carter as hostess.
The Banner lodge of the Degree of Honor will gather Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Minnie Walker at 1203 East Front Street for a Christmas party followed by an oyster supper.
The Jefferson Jackson Grant Parent-Teachers association will meet Wednesday night at the Jefferson school playroom to discuss Christmas relief work and name committees. A $2 prize will be awarded to the room with the most parent representation, and teachers will hold open house to show Christmas decorations.
Ziegler will head the chapter as examination results show locals passing tests on re examination. Junior Red Cross work continues in grade schools and Zion Lutheran with Miss Mary B. Rumsey reporting. Franklin school friends send a friendship chest to the Philippines and hand painted eggs for hospital trays.
A list of fruit and nut based sweets includes stuffed prunes and dates with chopped fruit and nut fillings. Instructions cover mixing with orange juice, rolling in granulated sugar, and shaping a fruit roll with figs dates raisins and almonds.
Senate debates maternity legislation and considers nominations to the power commission while Indian affairs hearings continue. The House reviews the agriculture department supply bill and approves a deficiency appropriation of 91 million dollars. A special committee closes its investigation into communism.
In Newark Charles Curcio placed a revolver to his head and prepared to fire but sneezed at the moment of pulling the trigger. The bullet lodged in a wall inches from an approaching cap, saving Curcio's life. Separately, Spanish and French interests plan to dam the Malaya River along the boundary of Spanish and French Morocco for power and irrigation.
This piece urges women to prevent and improve crepey necks through daily neck workouts, nourishment, and massage. It outlines specific movements to tense and stretch neck muscles, plus chin and base-of-head massage to boost circulation and mood.
The bill outlines duties for the county assessor including preparing assessment records, submitting rolls by June, notifying the state board of assessable property, and hearing taxpayer complaints before the third Monday in May. Appeals go to the county board of review, with further appeals to district court or the state board, and timelines involve the first Monday in June and August hearings.
In Ryan Iowa Mayor W J Magirl fined his son Carl Magirl twenty five dollars and costs for possessing a pheasant illegally. Five other hunters in the party were arrested by deputy warden J C Jago with two pheasants seized. Fines and costs totaled one hundred eighty six dollars.
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