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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
10
Open every evening until Christmas at McColm's a wide Christmas store for young and old. Find best selections by shopping early with varied affordable gifts. Deciding now helps secure popular items and practical presents at small sums.
Elaborate creations and entirely exclusive designs are being shown here with fetching and artistic party and evening waists representing the acme of perfection in style and finish. Tailored waists in satin net and linen offered in various styles and prices. Ville Department features rich silk offerings for Christmas.
A local store advertises a limited time sale in the West Room offering winter suits and dresses below regular price. The shop claims to have acquired fresh lines at low cost and invites customers to choose from the best available, urging attendance tomorrow and Tuesday for substantial price concessions.
A local store promotes furs emphasizing style and elegance with heavy reductions for quick selling this week in the West Room. They advertise Munsing Underwear in a full range for all ages and sizes, claiming comfort, fit, and reliability, with agents for the line and a seasonal display of fancy styles for Christmas gifts.
Holiday Carpets Rugs Linoleums and oil cloths advertised with seasonal discounts direct from mills. Wide selection includes Axminster Velvet Brussels and tapestry Brussels rugs, all wool or cotton backed carpets, linoleum and oil cloth in multiple sizes. Also leather handbags and leather goods offered as delightful Christmas gifts with very low prices.
A second floor show displays bedspreads in plain and fringe designs for Christmas sales, plus novelties for holiday sittings and hats. Holiday umbrellas with detachable handles, economical and convenient. Exquisite art pieces, fine blankets at low prices from cotton to full-size wool. Laces and sacques offer varied designs. Holiday handkerchiefs galore with pure linen, Swiss embroidered and silk options at lower prices.
The Rev Meigs speaks at the First Baptist Church on the three common vices wine women and cards and the dangers they pose. Forty seven new members joined the Baraca class with hopes of similar gains in the Waterloo church as campaigns near completion. Various residents announce births and travel plans with lists of names and destinations including Davenport Fairport Rock Island and Davenport.
Irving B. Richman leaves for Boston to attend the annual meeting of the American Historian association from December 28 to 31. He will be joined by his daughter Miss Grace Richman who attends Wellesley College in Wellesley Massachusetts.
Meniella accused of attack upon Pel Joy Countryman held to seed county grand jury Davenport Iowa December. Special Joseph Zwilling secretary treasurer of Schick Expressing Transfer Line shot himself through the heart. His useless body found in bed at the dormitory of the YO CG A building. Health assigned as cause of act. Raymond Careia Mexican accused of attempted slaying of Frank Ponce and fellow workman held over to the Stott county grand jury on assault with intent to commit murder. Ponce stabbed several times and in serious condition. Mrs Cloud dies Mrs Arthur Cloud passed away 25 Chicago Ill. husband son of Mrs F D Sisson of Davenport who was daughter of Myr and Wes George MM Flaynes.
The Solicitor General filed with the Supreme Court a brief seeking reversal of a Massachusetts federal court ruling that dismissed four of five counts in the United Shoe Machinery indictments under the Sherman act. The high court will hear arguments in June, marking the start of a criminal trust case showdown.
Carl Riedelbach known as the "human bomb" had a habeas corpus petition rejected by Judge Willis. He remains jailed awaiting trial for threats to blow up the police station. The case was decided in Los Angeles California on December 23. Waterways and Policies article preview notes in Century magazine discuss American waterways funding and graft.
Los Angeles authorities move to dissolve the exchange and its price fixing activities as the government acts against Elgin butter interests. The action aims to curb quot ing and stabilize markets for dairy products in California.
A man who received 509 dollars and who exchanged positions with another carrier faces a one day sentence in jail. The incident arose from a trade among letter carriers in Los Angeles with details filed in local records.
Coroner A F Walters today held Pennsylvania Railroad officials responsible for the Dresden wreck on the Dowden train route of the Cleveland Akron and Columbus division. The ruling cites the collision as the cause of the incident near Vanesville Ohio on December 23.
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