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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1927
Page
5
A local appeal urges buying at home to ensure prompt service, avoid mail delays, and support community prosperity. It emphasizes local merchants as friends who circulate money locally, improving town conditions like schools and streets.
A collection of handwritten Christmas requests from young children in Muscatine area towns such as Letts and West Liberty. The letters ask for toys, clothes, books, candy, and practical items like galoshes, gloves, hats, and shoes, with many children mentioning school and family.
Final preparations for cantatas and children's programs highlight Sunday's Christmas services across Muscatine churches. The First Congregational church hosts a staged program with George M. Cohan reading and a full musical lineup, while Trinity Episcopal presents the cantata The Story of Christmas at 4 PM. Annual reports and officer elections follow at 2 PM at the First Christian church.
Lange and Shellabarger announce discontinuation of the Star car line after Durant Motor Co shifts local distribution to Rock Island. They will still provide service and sell the cars on hand, following the distributor contract cancellation received Thursday.
Wilton Iowa 66 17 advanced class in home Economics entertained the board of education and wives with a three course dinner at 6 36 in the science room. Miss Clelite Cole é tah heads the department. Elect New Officers. Sewing society of St Marys church held a quilting session with officers elected for the coming year. Raymond Claussen cut two fingers on his right hand while using a wood saw. Katherine Raynor returned from Chicago for a wedding and left for Yale business trip.
Charles Kern, director of Christmas giving, opened a gift room in the assessor's office at city hall as donations arrive for a city program. Clothing for 80 children and canned foods were gathered for distribution next Saturday afternoon, with admission to a theater program counting as a clothing or food donation.
A brief item notes a home floor score of 30 to 20 involving Satan, with unclear context and fragmented text. The readable portion centers on a score and location phrase Satan Home Floor. No further identifiable entities or event details are available.
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