The Joyful Season by Helen Weiershauser
The Joyful Season celebrates Christmas as a family time marked by love and warmth. The piece highlights the first Christmas of young Bret McKee, born seven months earlier to Mr. and Mrs. McKee at 1729 Devitt, and how a baby’s smile becomes the season’s true gift.
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Bret McKee
Harrye
L. McKee
1729 Devitt
Helen Weiershauser
America
Earth
Harry L. McKee
1729
Devitt
New Early Departure Time Added to Mail Schedule
Muscatine post office expands mail service to Rock Island and vicinity with a 4:43 pm dispatch for connections at Rock Island center, plus 1:30 pm 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm runs, and 6:15 pm Saturdays and Sundays. Mail should be in the office 30 minutes before dispatch. Arrival times from Rock Island are 4:15 am 6:20 am and 11:45 am. A 4:45 am dispatch carries late-evening mail.
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Rock Island
Bil
Muscatine
John H. Bendrcks
Dispatch Times
Hendriks
Pam
Hale Ozemek Sends Holiday Greetings Here
Hale Ozemek, the Turkish girl who studied in Muscatine in 1962 63, sends Christmas and New Year greetings to Judy Schafenacker and her parents in a two letter. The note wishes Merry Christmas to the people of Muscatine.
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Hale Ozemek
Muscatine
Judy Schafenacker
W. F. Schafenacker
Hale Czemyk
Muscatine Journal Publisher Note and Copyright Information
The Muscatine Journal published daily except Sunday by a publishing company in Muscatine Iowa. It states copyright and licensing terms with Associated Press content and local news dispatches. The notice identifies printing rights under a March 1879 act and confirms AP news usage.
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Muscatine Journal
Muxtating Datmat
Lee Enterpriser
Eard St
Muscoquine
Town
Muscating
Iowa
Associated Prose
Focal
Ba AP
Subscriptions and ad notice from Muscatine paper
Daily and mail subscription rates are listed with 9 weeks at forty cents and annual mail options based on distance from Muscatine. Office hours, delivery details, and advance payment terms are given along with a note about missed papers. An advertising item promotes EQ plus tablets from Grimm Drug Store with dosing instructions.
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Muscatine
Grimm Drug Store
Phosphate Tests Continue For Water Wells
The board heard updates on phosphate treatment of water from wells and ongoing tests with three materials reducing iron content. Chlorination remains active but a consistent chlorine residual is not yet achieved. Discolored water complaints are declining but a decision on removal equipment is delayed for further USGS studies. A new well may meet peak summer needs, with bids to be opened January 19 for the well and related mains installation.
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Thomas and Bright
Thorns
Bright
Us. Geological Survey
Thomas
Trustees Award $129,317 Contract For Water Work
The board awarded a contract for a pressure reducing station and pumphouse along with electrical work and piping in Muscatine. G. C Construction Co of Ft-1 was chosen with a low bid of $120,307 after four bids. Kenneth Bright of Stanley Engineering aided the selection. Project completion set for Sept 10 1985.
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R Wadnest Bult
Truit Avenue
Dry Fight
G. & C. Construction Co
Wayné Inds
Kenneth Bright
Stafley Engineering Co
Muscatine Municipal Wiles Department
Wadnes Prii
Lights Taken From Display on West Fifth Street
Eliade Steinmetz reported the removal of two decorated Christmas trees and 88 colored lights from his outdoor display at 119 West Fifth Street. Police were notified at 11:20 p.m. Wednesday. the trees were later found nearby, though the lights had vanished.
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Grandview Avenue
Musser Street
Claude Dean
Nebraska Street
Grandview
Glen Dusenberry
Lucas Street
Dean
Dusenberry
Eliade Stéinmetz
West Fifth Street
Itil Ib
Ten Year Old Cashes In on Seasonal Kiss Prank
In Atlanta, Bobby McLver aged 10 greets Christmas with mischievous acts. He shoots mistletoe from tires at a local place and hangs signs like Missin Your Kissin. He rings doorbells with friends. authorities note the youths gathered more than 40 galeg entries.
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Atlanta
Mail Foreman Walter R Knetsch Retiring After Long Service
Postmaster John H Hendriks announced Walter R Knetsch Foreman of Mails at the Muscatine post office will retire effective December 36 He has 36 years and five months in postal service and 88 years six months in government service Since joining in March 1921 as a temporary railway mail clerk in Chicago he held various roles including substitute carrier in 1928 regular carrier in 1933 and Foreman of Mails from March 28 1957
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John H. Hendriks
Walter R. Knetsch
Muscatine Post Office
Knetsch
Chicago
Muscatine
Jaycees to Use Discarded Christmas Trees for Wildlife Cover
Muscatine Junior Chamber of Commerce will collect discarded Christmas trees on January 2 at the Civic Center to convert them into wildlife brush piles and shelters. The effort aims to reduce holiday fires and provide durable cover for wildlife during winter, with residents asked to place trees at curbside and contributions accepted in envelopes tied to the trees.
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Muscatine
Civic
Atic
Christmas Food Baskets Delivered by Muscatine Journal
Twenty six adults and 71 children in Muscatine will have a Christmas dinner thanks to food baskets delivered Wednesday by The Muscatine Journal. Thirty three baskets served 15 families and two individuals living alone. names were provided by the Public Health Nursing Association.
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Journal
Muscatine
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Two Men Hurt In Accident Near Grandview
Two Quad-City men were taken to Muscatine General Hospital at 10:49 am after a highway 61 collision near Grandview. K C Stangé of Davenport and Wasala Kosric of Moline were not reported seriously injured. Louisa county sheriff's department investigated. The article also notes unrelated demographic facts about life expectancy and Hokkaido.
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Muscatine General Hospital
K. C. Stangé
Davenport
Wasala Kosric
Moline
Ayavuia Aresae
Grandview Corner
Louisa County Sheriff's Department
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