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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1914
Page
2
Simon Sieln a Uxetar student spends holidays with his imarents in this city. Adv Dr W S Norton visits relatives in Topeka Kansas. Prices cut on Fancy Rings Swan's Diamonds.
Traffic delays persist on Rock Island and Milwaukee lines with trains in the city running one to four hours late. Local residents Headley and Long depart for Los Angeles for an extended visit. Regular Review of Magnetine Hive No 12 L O T M urges ample attendance tonight. Miss Hunsicker and Miss Shields are home for holidays from Illinois Holness University. Baker returns home after absence. Oscar Brandt visits from the Military Academy at Mexico Missouri during holidays.
An old advertisement asserts Dundee Evaporated Milk is always safe milk through a sterilizing process that kills germs. It promotes quality guarantees and says grocers sell it with premium labels for various uses of milk or cream.
A Muscatine charity ball drew severe church critique when Rev J W Graves condemned dancing at the event calling it a wholesale digging match in the name of charity. He cited reports from New York and Chicago proving dances fail to regulate lurid activity and urged parents to beware. The sermon connected the celebration to broader vice concerns and questioned the charity ball's moral value.
A vessel stranded on North Caicos during the night of December 19 is likely a total loss, but its general cargo is being salvaged. The crew of the Anila and all members aboard were saved.
Allied forces report continued advances along the Western Front including northeast of Beausejour with 1200 yards of enemy trenches captured. In the Argonne and Meuse regions gains are claimed near Varennes Brabant and Brabant's vicinity with progress in forested sectors and near Covent.
The article reports on German and Austro German forces claiming gains against Russia across Galicia and southern East Prussia as they threaten Cracow and possibly relieve the siege of Praemysl. It also notes Emperor William II returning to the front for Christmas amid ongoing front conditions.
News from the western front centers on trench gains and minimal offensive action as official communiques report inches gained. A neutral traveler arriving in London from Berlin says Germany does not fear Zeppelin raids and views English precautions as a joke. Black Mantle clacks, $3.50 Swan's.
A Christmas program titled Down the Chimney With Santa Claus will be presented by the U S church youth on Friday evening December 6 at the United Brethren church. The program includes a family group recitations by scholars and various roles such as mother father big sister uncle and grandma.
The text records a school pageant assignment with Fairies twenty girls and Brownies twenty boys plus roles for Holly mistletoe evergreen poin t setite Fair girls four Christmas messengers group of boys Santa Claus two young men and Miss Jessie Kopp the pianist.
President Wilson was invited to attend the annual dinner of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York next April. He doubted acceptance due to a planned Panama and San Francisco trip. Tierbert L Bridgeman of New York extended the invitation.
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