Island Church Christmas Program Listed
Island Methodist Episcopal Church will present a Christmas memories program Wednesday at 7 30 PM featuring opening songs recitations solos duets and choruses by mixed church classes and individual performers including Jackie Butcher Mary Fowler Dean Fietcher and Ruth Fowler with a Santa Claus visit and offertory by Anna Krueger.
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Island Methodist Episcopal Church
W. H. Slack
Santa
Jackie Butcher
Mary Fowler
Marporie DeFosse
Shirley Thompson
Doll
Doris Greiner
Dorothy Strouse
Santa Claus
Merle Foster
Clyde Raynolds
Lois Fowler
God
Lysle Thompson
Allen DeFosse
Ralph Reynolds
Donna Long
Myrtle Greiner
Dorothy Folk
Marjorie Corwin
Crime Board On Final Lap In Prohibition Report
Washington reporters note members of the law enforcement commission expect a decision on their prohibition report in coming days. They hope to submit recommendations to the president by January 1 and aim for a unanimous result. The panel reportedly plans to bypass the Clark decision invalidating the eighteenth amendment and has appealed the issue to the Supreme Court. The full eleven members met today, with Judge William S. Kenyon back after three weeks away.
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Washington
Law Enforcement Commission
Supreme Court
William S. Kenyon
Commission
Huge 100 Foot Girders Placed on Atalissa Piers
Hundred foot steel girders weighing 23 tons each were positioned on piers for the overhead crossing on highway No. 32 at Atalissa. Crews assemble remaining steelwork and formwork for the concrete floor as weather allows. A Rock Island wrecking crane, the largest in its shops and new to the line, handled the lift.
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Atalissa
Rock Island
Man Beaten by Friend Hospitalized After Beer Bottle Attack
In a disturbing incident, a man learning a card trick called the gentle art of trumping was struck on the head with a beer bottle by one of his friends. He was rushed to a hospital in serious condition for treatment.
Thompson Beats Rabedeaux by Point in Golf
Frank Thompson defeated Merle Rabedeaux 49 to 50 in a dramatic indoor miniature golf final at Oak Lawn course on Saturday night. Thompson had a hole in one on No. 15 to edge Rabedeaux.
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Frank Thompson
Merle Rabedeaux
Oak Lawn Course
Thompson
Rabedeaux
Dace
van Nice
Francis Rabedeaux
Wynn Applegate
Eloise Sharer
Luck Lester
E. J. Althalter
L. C. Howe
Leonard Weber
Kieth Fowler
William Hoopes
Harold Weber
Dade Wright
Edward Weber
Urban population grows to 68 million in 1930 census
The Census Bureau reports the urban population of the United States at 68,955,521 and rural at 53,819,525. Urban share rose to 56.2 percent of 122,775,046 total, up from 51.4 percent in 1920. Urban areas include all cities and incorporated places with 2,500 or more.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Planes Used to Stop Crow Invasion in Nebraska State
Nebraska farmers faced a heavy crow problem with thousands of birds harming fields. Planes circled over cornfields to scare the crows, forcing them to stay in place where gunmen could shoot them.
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Nebraska City
Tuberculosis Counts Across Iowa Counties
Muscatine county averages 175 cases of tuberculosis and Iowa reports show a five year decline in overall prevalence. Polk leads with 1,087 cases, Linn 515, Scott 414, Pottawattamie 411, while Cedar 98 and Louisa 67. Only pulmonary TB is reported in Iowa.
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Muscatine County
Iowa
Jasper
Polk County
Linn County
Scott County
Pottawatta
Cedar
Public Health Drive Funded by Penny Christmas Seals
The fight against the disease relies mainly on the public health bureau. Revenue for the work comes largely from selling penny Christmas seals.
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Public Health Bureau
Kids Write to Santa From Muscatine and Nearby
A collage of children from Muscatine and Columbus Junction send Christmas wish lists to Santa. Requests include a piano, icebox, bicycles, dolls, trains, toy knives and forks, a cradle, a new coat, dresses, a lamp, bells, a bridge model, a fire truck, an electric train, a bird cage, candy, nuts, and various stockings and toys for siblings. Names and streets cited include Jeanne J East Sixth Street, Minnie B Orange Street, and Homer Schmelzer 817 East Fifth Street.
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New York
Jeanne J
East Sixth Street
Santa Claus
Santa
Amye
Plese
Derrick
Minnie B
Orange Street
Homer Schmelzer
East Fifth Street
Evelyn
Archie Brown
Oak Street
Smith Brothers Syrup Stops Cough Quickly
Anna Briscoe of Chicago recalls how Smith Brothers Syrup cured her terrible cold and cough in one afternoon. She says she lost no work time and saved money by using the remedy.
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Smith Brothers
Anna Briscoe
North
Clark Street
Chicago
Ill
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Island Church Lists Program
Hoover Commission On Prohibition
Montreal
Philip Sydorker
Spain
Alcala Zamora
Zamora
West
East Second St
T. B
Muscatine
Daddy
Miss Hitler
Mother
Robert de Lap
Brothers Triple Action
Batterson Store
Needle Books
Sonny and
Buddy L
South Africa
OAK Lawn
Phoenix
Phoenix Hose
By the
Box
IM Eerdin K
Clyoutring
East Second ST. Muscatine
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