Local Muscatine Notes and Holiday Shopping Plugs
Local brief items noting residents traveling to Fairport Davenport Chicago Rock Island and Newark New Jersey for shopping business or visiting friends. Advertisements include piano sales Edison phonographs and a $1,000 Weber Pianola trade in at Hirt and Fesler.
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Weber
Hirt & Fesler
Hershey Bldg
Charles Walker
Muscatine
Newark
N. J
Chicago
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Snyder's Livery Sees Big Saving on Buggies
Local ad notes discounts on buggies with Flowers and plants on display. Mentions Geo. Kranz & Son two piano players bargains from Hirt & Fesler Piano Co. Also lists visitors H. Johnson Wilton and Maude Marshall Wilton. Multiple hometowns appear among Muscatine shoppers.
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Snyder’s
Hirt & Fesler Piano Co
Hershey
Hershey Bldz
Oyster Supper Highlights Elk Lodge Banquet
Elks gathered for last evenings meeting and banquet with an oyster supper. Dr F H Little acted as toastmaster delivering eulogistic remarks on the order’s work. Exalted Ruler Edward Erb formerly of Muscatine now resident in Burlington attended the event.
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Elks
F. H. Little
Little
Edward Erb
Muscatine
Burlington
Senate Rejects Sherman Quorum Ruling Amid Protest
The Senate, by 37 to 17, refused to accept Vice President Sherman’s counting rule that a senator paired with another could form a quorum. The clash followed earlier protests and occurred while debating the omnibus claims bill. Bristow intensified his filibuster as Christmas recess approached. Piano benches and scarves offered as gifts by Hirt & Fesler in the Hershey Building.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
Sherman
Hale
House
Bristow
Oskaloosa Pythians Close Contest for New Lodge
In a Pythian lodge contest at Oskaloosa 101 new members were added and $500 in dues collected. The order plans a new home next year with a campaign for funds. A total of $1200 was raised last night.
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Oskaloosa Pythians
Iowa Evening Press
Oskaloosa
Pythian Lodge
Tuning and repair orders at Hirt & Fes ler Piano Co
Leave your orders at Hirt and Fes ler Piano Co for tuning and repairing. Phone 586 X.
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Hirt & Fesler Piano Co
East Hill Sunday School Christmas Program Listed
Park Avenue church hosts the East Hill Sunday school Christmas program on Saturday at 7 30 p m with songs recitations solos and dialogues by many students including Vera Grace Williams Alfred Rittenhouse Lillie Deter Jessie Howell and more, featuring themes of Christmas Eve at the North Pole and Santa Claus stories.
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Park Avenue
Miss Shepard
Vera Grace Williams
Ralph Rittenhouse
Beulah Baker
Lillie Koepping
Jessie Howell
Belle Hurlbut
Alfred Rittenhouse
Lillie Deter
Oral Pratt
Frances Berry
Robert Kendig
Leona George
Roy Berry
Santa Claus
Pa -Rush
Duncan
Mary Phelps
North Pole
Gladys Whitmer
Eunice George
Frances Mann
Cayla Chandler
Little Keepping
Harry Berg
Susie Millett
Ruth Martin
Long
Shepherds
Hannah Holmes
Pearl Brownlee
Susie Schmidt
Exercise and Recital Titles List
A school program features Exercise by boys, Recitation When Santa Claus Comes by Genes Brenner, Exercise What Do You Do At Your House by four girls, Song Angels Chorus by Mrs. Martin's Class, Address by Pastor, and Chorus Old Santa is Coming.
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Santa Claus
Genes Brenner
Probe of Roosevelt R R Expenses by House Committee
A congressional resolution by Rep Rainey directs a five member Rules Committee to investigate Theodore Roosevelt presidential railroad transport costs. The inquiry covers payments by Roosevelt or agents, contracts with railroads notably the Pennsylvania line, transport furnished and its value, and whether any payment was made. It extends to similar railroad arrangements.
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Washington, D. C
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Representative Rainey
Illinois
Committee
House
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wilson to Campaign for Martine in New Jersey
Governor elect Woodrow Wilson plans to campaign in New Jersey counties to rally support for James E. Martine’s U.S. Senate bid. The plan, decided at a conference, aims to arouse public sentiment though Wilson did not discuss the move publicly.
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New Jersey
Martine
Trenton
N. J
Woodrow Wilson
James E. Martine
United States Senate
Schaefer Nox the Spots Or Money Refunded
Schaefer's Laundry offers cleaning repair and dyeing to make garments look new. They guarantee handling grease tears and fabric wear and invite customers to let them care for clothes. Located at 215 Iowa Avenue.
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Schaefer
Iowa Avenue
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Player
Victor
Edison
Hirt & Fesler Piano Comp’y’s
Apollo
Fischer Piano
Crown
Concord Piano
Ano
Kurtzmann Piano
Victor and Edison Machines
Hershey Building
Iowa
J. W. Gardner
Fairport
Robert LaGrille
West Second Street
Tri-Cities
Loyal Order of Moose
William Hunn
A. Latham
Hershey Avenue
Davenport
Alex. Walker
Frank Bowman
Tessie Fuller
East Seventh Street
Myrtle Venner
East Third Street
Rock Island
Geo. Kranz & Son
Col. Griff Johnson and Son
H. H. Johnson
Wilton
W. B. Gorham
East
Iowa Ave
Maude Marshall
J. N. Edge
A. R. Whitmer
Brainworth
Sunny South
Grandma
D. J. Dwyer
Joseph Marchant
Frank Delaney
ELK Lodge
Hirt & Fesler, Hershey Bldg
Wittich Brothers
East Second Street
Gordon
Muscatirfe
Panama
New York
Gordon’s Cloak House
W. 2Nd St
East Hill
Park Ave
E. A
Stodghill
T. R
S R. R
Luellen & Freeman
aCe
Colt
Muscatine State Bank Capital
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