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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
2
A promotional claim urges readers to take Root Juice Compound before meals to ease back pain and regulate urinary symptoms. Testimonials from L M Stevens and John Listanberger praise rapid relief and improved appetite, with the product sold at Havercamp's Drug Store and other outlets, warning to beware imitations.
Muscatine Lighting company will stop laying new gas mains this winter in the downtown district. The Oak street to Townsvenue main on East Second Street has been completed and houses north of Second Street are supplied from the new mains. Work on Mulberry extension pipes is paused until spring due to cold weather and earlier delays.
Des Moines December 1 8 Special Jows report credit for founding the first school at Cenwood for deaf children who are feeble minded. Dr George Mogridze superintendent of the state institution for feeble minded started the project in Glenwood. An articulation teacher aided speech improvement and a dedicated room grew into an integral part of the institution. Six boys and girls presently attend and some have begun to speak though all are deaf.
Partner of Santa Claus found a 12 year old girl caring for four girls and two boys, all under twelve, in a cold, bare room. The eldest child played the mother role while the factory worker mother sought wages. The children, tidy yet hungry, asked for a doll, candy, and clothes for the sister. the girl said she preferred clothes to help her siblings.
Students range nine to 24 learn sign language and arithmetic two hours daily while advanced pupils begin geography of Iowa. Superintendent Mogridge attends conference and notes progress. Teaching deaf children is slow but yields greater happiness and usefulness.
Sioux Falls notices a testimonial from Mini Paosy Hutching describing a severe facial skin rash that lasted years. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with hot water baths, the inflammation and rash largely cleared in days and left the face clear in weeks. The ad promotes Cuticura products and free samples by postcard request.
Des Moines reports a progressive social service plan for the state outlined by Sherman G. Elliott of Kansas. He urges public confidence, civil service laws for charity work, and a national department of public charities, while calling for state homes for the aged, voluntary hospital commitments, and early treatment for mental illness to reduce accidents and aid families.
In Muscatine county a local jail was designated an exclusive hostelry after police and Chief Hoff man described George Williams as a professional vag. Williams, arrested for intoxication and vagrancy, asked to be committed to the jail for rehabilitation but was sent to Vanatta Institution for several days by Judge Rowan citing humanitarian reasons.
Milwaukee copper country wreck leaves fireman Antone Schemick of Green Bay dead and engineer Matthew Foley of Milwaukee fatally injured after passenger train No.2 on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway collides with a freight at Kiel. Nonex passengers suffer serious injuries.
University of Town choir to perform Friday at First Presbyterian Church as part of a lengthy southern tour. Twenty-one or sixteen members chosen from 1800 applicants will deliver two hours of varied entertainment including college songs, old favorites, solos, and specialties led by Director Professor Robert Fullerton. Verne Walay, a noted reader and impersonator, returns with vibrant performances and a dramatic Mother Hubbard recital.
Exceptional offering announced by manager J C Bon for Friday and Saturday night showings of Sarah Bernhardt in Queen Elizabeth produced by Famous Players Film company. Bargain 5 and 10 cent prices replace typical city rates. engagement lasts one week including matinees. Mrs Henry Wiesse of Long Tree visited Tuesday.
Shelby Norman Post of the Grand Army of the Republic heard a detailed address on post welfare and good works for old soldiers orphans and widows by Icln Koehler. Mrs Longstreet's communication urged reappointment as postmatron in Gainville Ga and a W R C installation invitation was accepted. A committee was elected to care for the sick in each ward with four ward officers named and one new member added.
The Melpine Presbyterian Sunday School plans a cantata titled Around the Manger on Saturday evening December 1 at the church near the Melpine Interurban crossing. A large crowd from the surrounding area is expected to attend this annual Christmas event.
Arrangements are under way at St Matthias Catholic School for a Friday afternoon program. The event will showcase the class of the current year with grades and the high school department performing. The program features Christmas readings dialogues and instrumental music by students from the music department.
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