Prizes awarded in Muscatine garden contest
At the Muscatine Garden club event held yesterday at the high school Carl Toborg won champion gardener and earned ten dollars and a silver trophy cup. Prof. Smith spoke on garden insect and disease control while J W Merrill compared city and county pupil garden work and noted Iowa’s 20 000+ war garden participants. Awards ranged from a ten dollar prize to one dollar for several winners with honorable mentions and a bronze medal for the largest school district garden total.
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Carl Toborg
Gardner
Muscatine
J. W. Merrill
Iowa
T. F. Beveridge
Elizabeth Trudgon
Ira H. Meintke
Carl Torors
Clifford Paul
Curt Anli
Donald Latta
Chester King
Irene Ketchum
Lydia Meyers
Eunice George
William Kaiser
George Hillier
Lyte Wmsher
Ronald Conklin
Lloyd Hedges
Mabel Christian
Leona George
Chester Kresse
Alice ‘Appel
Kenneth Tlenikau
Samuel Stein
Archie Downey
Fred Hoopes
Verna Bierman
Clifford Bierman
Jtda Mecum
Clarence Pfeiffer
William Mecum
Cornelia King
Town ‘Truck Growers Association
McKinley School
Christmas Program at United Brethren Church Cranston Ia
The Cranston Sun special reports a Christmas program by the United Brethren church Sunday school on December 24. Readings and dialogues include A Christmas Welcome, The Christmas Surprise, Is There a Santa Claus, Inasmuch, and What a Boy Thinks, with performances by Leota Shaffer Ruth Meeker Vida Washington Frank Shellabarger Lillian Hafner Clinton Hafner Russell Hafner Floyd Jones Violet Edgington Harold Meeker Geralding Meeker Ralph Meeker and others. Music interspersed and a Christmas tree to follow.
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Cranston
The
United Brethren Church
Leota Shaffer
Ruth Meeker
Santa Claus
Vida Wagington
Frank Shellabarger
Lillian, Clinton
Russell Hafner
Texercise
Floyd Jones
Violet Edgington
Harold Meeker
Geralding Meeker
Santa
Ralph Meeker
Lewis Witness in Gun Probe Continues Testimony
In extended testimony Colonel Lewis discusses European deals and tests for his gun. He claims Belgian and British tests used the same four original models rejected by the American government in 1918 and accuses opposition of trying to kill the gun’s renown. He defends 1913 tests as premature, notes Browning as a rival, and criticizes generals for adopting other designs and spending on French weapons.
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Tinued
VTS
Birmingham
England
Chamberlain
Arsenal
Lewis
Senator Litchcock
Hoagland
Hitchcock
Geneval Crozier
Department
Crozier
Benet-Mercier
Ballson
Armour interest in plants across Texas Arkansas and Tennessee
Armour and Company faces questions about its interests in numerous plants listed under Louis Ehie from 1877 to 1917 including rail yards in Louisville Denver Fort Worth Jacksonville Jersey City Pittsburgh Sioux City St. Louis Portland and Toronto. The Ar mour ledgers were cited as showing all firms the company was involved in. A Canisius College seismograph recorded a major earthquake shock in Buffalo on December 22 with tremors beginning at 1 01 p m and a main event at 1 19 p m lasting until 1 37 p m the epicenter distance cited as 3500 miles.
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Chicago Junction Railways
Union Stock Yards Co
Croll
Armour
Armour and Company
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Louis Ehie
Mr. Heaney
Heney
Louisville
Denver
Port Worth
Jacksonville
Jersey City
Pittsburgh
Sioux City
St. Paul St. Louis
Portland
Toronto
Canada
Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Canisius College
Red Cross volunteers urged to boost Muscatine quota
Muscatine falls short of the national Christmas Red Cross membership goal. Women rowed house to house with strong results in some city areas but other districts lag. A meeting at 2 PM Sunday in the Laurel building aims to form flying squadrons and enlist men for three hours of service.
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Muscatine
Red Cross
Laurel
Liberty Loan
Army Y
Government's Lewis gun reluctance cited in wartime tests
W W Boris of Savage Arms told the Senate military committee that the government hesitated to adopt the Lewis machine gun. He recounted offers of Lewis guns to the War Department before and during early war days, noting Navy orders after a separate test. The Navy placed a rapid buy, ordering 3,500 guns in three weeks, while the War Department delayed awaiting tests. April 19 and 20 dates mark key testing and orders.
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W. W. Boris
Savage Arms Company
Senate Military Committee
Borie
War Department
United States
Wos
Navy Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Earle
Barnett
Yarle
Barnatt
Scrofula and Humors Treated by Hood's Sarsaparilla
Older readers learn scrofula eczema boils and eruptions are best treated with Hood's Sarsaparilla a blood purifying tonic of roots barks and herbs. The ad claims the medicine has stood the test of forty years and urges readers to buy a bottle from the drug store.
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Hood
Delay Costs 10000 Guns In Early War Firepower Loss
Mr Borie explains that delaying the official test and delaying adoption of the Browning gun cost the U S ten thousand machine guns. He notes the government could have funded a factory to produce the Browning and saved time for early war supply. The ordnance bureau shifted orders from the Browning to Lewis guns, keeping Savage Arms’ plant busy.
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War Department
Borie
Ordnance Bureau
United States
Christmas dinner at Hotel Muscatine ad
An advance advertisement invites readers to save time by enjoying a Christmas dinner at Hotel Muscatine. The notice highlights a festive meal option and encourages reservations.
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Hotel
Court action involves 1500 in promissory notes
A district court suit by Bh. K. Allbes against Co. R. Slaughter and Charles Fryer seeks judgment on two promissory notes totaling 1500. Welix Hirsch and F. A. Bakar claim a lien on the property. The first note for 750.56 dated May 1915 was secured by a mortgage on Muscatine property.
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District Court
Bh. K. Allbes
Co. R. Slaughter
Charles Fryer
Welix
Mr. Albes
Couple Brushed by An Awning In Muscatine
A man and a woman strolling along Second street narrowly escaped injury when an awning at Schmidt Music store tore loose. A brick torn from the wall struck the man’s shoulder as the couple moved away. They vanished into the crowd and the awning was later repaired.
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Muscatine
Second Street
Schmidt Music
Special meeting of Washington Chapter at 7:30 p.m.
R A M members invited to a Washington Chapter special meeting tonight on the work in mark degree at 7 30 p m led by the high priest message from Washington Chapter officials and attendees expected.
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Washington
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Ogle
Nichols Opera House
Iste
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Brown
Fis
Fiev
Browns Business College
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