Re reenactment of Christmas story draws Bethlehem crowds
Bethlehem Judea on December 24 AP reports a Christmas Eve pageant in the town of about 500 inhabitants. Worshippers crowd the narrow roads linking the birth and death sites, now an asphalt highway busy with cars and donkeys as pilgrims travel to the Church of the Nativity.
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Bethlehem
Judea
Palestine
Jerusalem
Jesus Christ
United States
Ruth
Herod
Galilee
Mary
Ahaucer
Ons
Church of the Nativity
Christmas Holidays Dot Muscatine News Roundup
Harold H Carpenter of Amarillo Texas visits his Muscatine parents during the holidays. A fog blamed collision on the Iowa City road damages two cars but injures none. Schools, civic events, and local residents travel for Christmas with multiple brief notices and a business incorporation filing for the Printers Supply Company.
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William Bdhburn
George Swank
Nebraska Street
Iowa City Road
County to serve chicken dinners with trimmings
Muscatine county inmates at the county home and jail will receive chicken dinners with all the trimmings tomorrow. The county farm menu includes baked chicken with dressing mashed potatoes gravy celery coleslaw cranberry sauce raisin pie and coffee. Jail diners will also get the trimmings with their chicken dinners.
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Muscatine County
A Muse U Theater Set to Open After Expansive Upgrades
A Muse U Theater will open Sunday at 2 30 pm after renovations costing 5000 dollars. Jackie Coogan presents But Tons in eastern Iowa for the first time. Upgrades include new seating by Lady Boston with ebony frames and red Russian leather, foyer redecoration, and improved lighting. Cliff Reckow leads the orchestra with new arrangements for the reopening.
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A-Muse-U
Jackie Coogan
Iowa
Lady Boston
Moving Picture Theater
Picture House
Mr. Reckon
Christmas visitors and local notes from Muscatine
A church sermon will be given in the morning by the appropriate minister. Siou x City residents arrived in Muscatine to spend Christmas with Mr Hines and family. Hog receipts at the stockyards numbered 240 with two carload shipments from Gladwin and Keota. Arthur Walton of Des Moines visited his mother Mrs George Wise. Raymond and Clarence Schoemaker, formerly of Muscatine, visited relatives. George Wittich rests easily after hospital treatment. Marriages licensed for Madeline Atkins Rex Benz and Hazel Kornemann Peter Sick. Webb Maeglin and Everett Johnson returned home for the holidays.
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Harold H. Carpenter
Muscatine
Santa Fe Railroad
Amarillo
Tex
Will Carpenter
East Second Street
E. F. Whitney
Des Moines
Ily
Sioux City
Mr. Hine
W. D. Hine
Walnut Street
W. W. Hine
Fourth. Street
Arthur Walton
George Wise
Sycamore Street
Raymond
Clarence Shoemaker
Detroit
Mich
Raymond Schoemaker
Clarence Schoemaker
Webb Maeglin
Everett Johnson
Wilton
Iowa State College
Ames
Seal Sale Fund Total Reaches $832
Funds from the Christmas seal sale totaled $832.52 at noon today, per Public Health Bureau officials. The amount tops last year as reports continue to arrive. Officials urge using health seals on all mail through January 1.
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Public Health Bureau
Health
Des Moines Man Sentenced in Patrolman Thomas Death
Des Moines reports William Osgood received eight years at Ft. Madison penitentiary ending a two year probe into Patrolman Ollie D. Thomas's death. Osgood, returned from a New Hampshire logging camp, confessed to shooting the officer and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
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Des Moines
William Osgood
Ft. Madison
Ollie D. Thomas
Ottumwa
Thomas
Osgood
New Hampshire
Park Findley
Rich Anderson
Santa Claus robber gangs bank in Cisco with child abduction
A bandit dressed as Santa Claus led four companions in a bank robbery in Cisco Texas. The raid resulted in the death of Police Chief G. E. Bedford and multiple injuries among officers and bystanders. Two schoolgirls were abducted and used as shields as the bandits fled in two cars. one bandit was wounded and captured. Louis Davis identified as a wounded robber.
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Cisco, Tex
Santa Claus
First National Bank
Alex Spears
Spears
G. E. Bedford
Marian Olson
Harvard
George Carmichael
R. L. Day
Brady Boggs
Louis Davis
Brush
Mrs Ivan Toyne Hosts Birthday Party for Husband
Mrs. Ivan Toyne of Lake township entertained at a Friday birthday party with Christmas color decorations. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Pat Taylor Miss Irene Walker R I Pressler and Wallace Steward. Miss Ruth Toyne of Moline attended as an out of town guest.
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Ivan Toyne
Lake Township
Pat Taylor
Irene Walker
R. I. Pressler
Wallace Steward
Ruth Toyne
Moline
Lady Eagles Lodge No 7 Attend Christmas Party
Members of the Lady Eagles lodge No 7 were guests at a Christmas party held by the order at the National Fraternal Society home Friday evening. Children of the members offered a program with 38 participants including readings dialogues and music. Gifts were exchanged at the close of the program.
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Lady Eagles Lodge
National Fraternal Society
Surprise Dinner Party for Mrs Fisher at Mulberry Home
A group of friends hosted a surprise birthday dinner for Mrs. Neal Fisher at her residence 509 Mulberry Avenue on Friday. The Fisher home was festively decorated in Christmas colors and a musical program provided entertainment.
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Fisher
Neal Fisher
Mulberry Avenue
Christmas party reservations for Ladies of the Elks
Reservations for the Ladies of the Elks club Christmas party and luncheon on Thursday December 29 will be accepted until Tuesday evening by Mrs W O Harris.
Bowman Attacks Hammill Road Bond Stance
Des Moines Iowa December 24 AP former state senator M L Bowman republican candidate for governor attacked Governor Hammills road bond position calling him a political contortionist after a switch from pay as you go to supporting a 100 million bond issue He opposes the bonding bill saying it would make the state look like a scrap of paper and argues bonds cannot be retired from the primary road fund the constitution requires retirement of bonded debt by a general tax levy
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Des Moines
Hammill
M. L. Bowman
Bowman
Four Escape After Robbery as Comer Child Mis-Sacks Loot
Dren Comer, 12, Laverne Comer, 12, and Emma May Robinson, 10, were unharmed as four men fled into the brush after a car robbery sequence. Authorities recovered about 12,000 in cash and 150,000 in non negotiable securities when the Comer child mistakenly handed the fugitives the wrong sack.
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Dren
Laverne Comer
Emma May Robinson
Comer
Postal Rush Is Handled Swiftly at Muscatine Office
Postmaster W W McKee reports a brisk holiday rush with only a small portion of parcels and letters remaining. An augmented clerical staff handled most receipts at the Muscatine office, with one city delivery Monday morning and rural routes continuing as normal. Between December 16 and 23 about 165000 letters and cards passed the automatic cancelling machine, compared with 161000 a year ago.
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Posta
McKee
Pristieaite
Muscatine
Legler Moves toStrike Clinic Answer in $55,000 Suit
W W Legler files motion to strike Muscatine Clinic's answer for not being verified as required by law in a suit seeking more than 55 000 damages over injuries from X ray treatments. The clinic denies all material allegations. Attorneys listed for both sides.
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Clinic
Muscatine
W. W. Legler
C. R. Stafford
J.G. Kammerer
Legler
Matthew Westrate
Dutcher
Walker & Ries
Iowa City
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