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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
8
The Journal calls for Christmas help as nearly a hundred Muscatine children still lack gifts. Readers are asked to submit or volunteer, with the paper offering to shop and deliver. A care of The Journal letter to Santa Claus is suggested, including a prompt response and discretion about publicity.
A sorrowful family in Jackson with a sick mother and three children hopes for Christmas cheer as Santa visits the town. Jackson school presents a large Christmas program with songs recitations and tableaux, highlighting community effort amid hardship.
A collage of names and titles from a school Christmas program listing verses songs recitations and dialogues by students and teachers including The Best Pudding Secrets A Slelzb Ride Christmas Joys and The Christmas Story with numerous pupils from various grades performing songs like Hi Ho For Santa Claus and opening numbers along with solos duets and dialogues reflecting a festive school event program.
At the theatre, the lineup shows Muscatine high stars likely to start Liebers Knecht Jeffries and Lee as forwards, R Grigsby at center, with Abbott and Healey as guards. Wilton counters with Bannick Atwill as forwards, Griffith Mockmoore at center, Abbott Reed and Latchaw as guards.
The Wilton and Muscatine high teams clash at the M G A tonight with Wilton aiming to defend past glory as a strong state rival. Muscatine counters with a tough but capable squad as fans anticipate a hard tussle for supremacy.
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