Glad Christmas Week in Muscatine Promises Big Events
Muscatine anticipates a festive week with the Grand Opera House opening and Blue Jeans premiere at the Grand Theatre. Concerts, Christmas trees for poor children, church services, and music programs dominate the schedule as churches and societies announce seasonal plans and entertainments across the city.
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Grand Opera House
Armory Hall
Mechanics Band
Blue Jeans
Muscatine
Salvation Army
Congregational Church
Christmas Progress and the Santa Tale Across Time
A reflective piece contrasts Christmas abundance today with a century past, noting census figures, urban growth, and wealth while sharing a playful folk verse about a boy and Santa. Horace H. Herr signs off with a personal anecdote on saving and giving.
For Christmas and Canary Dogs in a Boy's Voice
A humorous narrative follows Willie or Bill through pre Christmas antics with family terms from different relatives. It contrasts festive expectations with boyish mischief including Sport the dog and a mischievous cat, ending with a homely moral about being good before Christmas. A second piece lampoons a rich Baltimore family of four sons who treat their father as a brother, detailing their jokes, mischief, and a nose-snap incident at table.
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Bill
Hern
Willie
C. C. Chester
Baltimore
Hotel Victoria
New York Tribune
Grape-Nuts A Ready Breakfast For All Types Of Work
Grape-Nuts is described as a convenient breakfast food made from grape-sugar from prepared starches. It claims immediate assimilation into blood and tissue, requires no cooking, and is suitable for athletes brain workers and invalids. Manufactured by Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and sold by grocers.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
McCoy to wed French singer Marguerite Comeille tomorrow
London on December 24 reports that boxer McCoy will marry tomorrow at the Trivoli Music Hall in a ceremony he calls his best Christmas present. The bride, Marguerite Comeille, is a French singer and dancer who has drawn public attention as Jim Corbett's former sweetheart and as a fashionable figure among admirers.
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Columbia Card Club
Cora Daut
Isa Greeley
Leigh Lewis
London
Attendance thin at Park Place school session
A small turnout gathered at Park Place this morning for a school session and organizers hope for a larger crowd tomorrow.
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Park Place
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E.S. Batterson
Journal
Cora C. Weed
Mattie Garrison
Cypress
H. T. Clark
West Liberty
Harry Hess
East Front St
Davenport
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Journal Office
Mackey Model Clothing House
Muscatine Tailors
Muscatine County
Barnard Laundry
Moter Barber College
Chicago
The
Standard Lamp Co
Michigan St
Second Street
Rex
S. G. Stein
E. A. Brandenburg & Co
3Rd and Mulberry St
Muscatine, Iowa
Teichmiller Brothers
Hanover St
S. Mus
W. H.* Leibbrand
Ladies’ and Gentlemen
J. Fisch & Sotis
West Hill
First Congregational Church
Edna Davidson
Jim
Libbie Keating
Weinachts
Gabe
Willie Lamprecht
Edwin Fulhiam
Santa Claus
Harold Hanson
Helen Lezotte
Mamie Keating
Katie Keating
Holy Trinity Church
Schnecker
Hopkins
Angels
Tours
Shepherds
Ceccon
Buck
Neidlinger DE Gis
Civ
Paceee
Tates
Benedictus
Cere Hee Tours
Ellwanger
S. F. Sawyer
Chas. F. Gray
Messrs
Musical Union Orchestra
Gounod
Apollo Club
Fred Pentzer
Wilton
U. B
Sabbath School
St. Mary’s Church
Mechanics’ Band
Prof
Schaab
Gram
Helen Braun
Mary Neff
Carl
Sly Little Fritzchen
Jesus
Hix
Cnour
Ninth Street Mission
Park Avenue M. E. Church
Elliott
Christ
First Methodist
German Baptist Sunday School
Corner Sixth
Walnut
Elizabeth Lilly
John W. McKee
B. E. Lilly
Iowa Avenue
F. W. Swan
Cornelius Cadle
Lada Smalley
Gretchen Legler
Card Club
Jennie Sawyer
Locust Street
Armory Halls
Edward A. Schmidt
Muscatine City
Hotel Grand
First Baptist Church
Presbyterian Sunday School
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Fauntleroy
Sport
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Ceylon Isle
Daniel Boone
Buffle Bill
Neufchatel
Adam Hild
McCoy’s
Oriental
St. Nicholas Kersey
Yale
Anson Clothing Company
East 2Nd Street
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