Local News Night Out Sparks City Buzz
Mrs Normal Hall of Witon spent yesterday visiting friends and enjoying a local night event. Andy Mundt urges residents to buy new items rather than hand me downs during a city social at Nichol4 Xmag night.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
12
Mrs Normal Hall of Witon spent yesterday visiting friends and enjoying a local night event. Andy Mundt urges residents to buy new items rather than hand me downs during a city social at Nichol4 Xmag night.
Nichols social notes recount Xmas night events with Ady notices. Local residents including Mrs J Noland and Miss Rosetta Hertel visited Nichols shops and called on friends. Listings promote folding go cart for sale and a $1.85 offer, with other city visits and shopping updates.
Miss Adelaide Bromace, once the companion of Melvin H Couch, was released from Sullivan county jail after three years of voluntary confinement. She sought to forget the scandal and hoped to move to Jessen with Mrs Couch and her daughter, detailing a life of isolation, provisions, and secrecy in a locked room connected to Dr Curlette’s home. The couple’s deaths and the widow’s confrontation with the attorney’s widow wove a tale of confession, deception, and legal intrigue.
In Chicago Illinois on March 23 1924 Hanish a Mazdaznan high priest was freed from a municipal court charge for sending objectionable literature by express. He had been sentenced to pay 215004 and six months workhouse but the case was dismissed as prosecutors failed to appear. He has appealed a federal sentence.
The coroner’s verdict states the death was accidental after an autopsy. The body was moved to the late home by request of the widow Mrs. Couch who refused to discuss the case.
Berlin Dec 23 German engineers will construct two railroads in China using pure German materials and capital. The agreement was signed by the Chinese foreign minister and the German minister to China of Peking. The first line runs from Kaomi near Kisechow on the Shantung Railway south to Han Chwan where the Tientsin Pukou line crosses the Grand Canal. The second line will extend the Shantung network.
Cambridge Massachusetts December 23 Observations from Cordoba Argentina and Washington naval observatory show the Delavan comet increasing in brilliancy and now visible through a small telescope It has a northerly movement of six minutes and 15 seconds if its rate continues.
The proposed projects extend from its terminus at Tsinan to Shuntel on the Hankow railway. The estimated cost for both undertakings ranges from 17.8 million to 20 million dollars.
In Louisville Ohio? two men identified as Robert Le Gallatin of Fork, Pa, and Louis Wakefield of Shelbyville Ky, were found in mud near a creek edge after a bridge railing collapse sent their car over the edge. Gallatin was a salesman for a flour mill. The accident occurred last night with occupants trapped beneath the wreckage. The Journal reported details.
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