Christmas Basket Distribution Delights Muscatine Homes
The Muscatine Welfare Association partnered with Santa Claus to deliver Christmas dinners and gifts to 87 homes and more than 800 children. Automobiles ferried baskets, clothing, and toys across the city as local fraternal groups assisted. Volunteers led committees to ensure every family in need received a basket, with 982 sacks of candy handed out at a city celebration.
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Mugcntine
Imuscatine
Muscatine Welfare Association
Santa Claus
Weolfare
Charles Kern
Muscatine
D. V. Jackson
Rosetta Wagner
Linda Musser
Lee Loomis
Tom Brannan
L. Loomis
P. J. Barry
Salaried Vienna Pearl Button staff get yearend bonuses
Salaried workers at the Vienna Pearl Button Company received yearend cash bonuses yesterday totaling about 6000 dollars. The practice of distributing bonuses to salaried employees has been a longtime custom at the Vienna factory, with a small staff yielding substantial per person bonuses.
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Vienna Pearl Button Company
Vienna
Red Cross Seals Sale Doubled in Muscatine
The Red Cross Christmas seals campaign in Muscatine doubled prior records with more than seventy thousand seals sold. The campaign closed with receipts totaling 793.59 dollars, driven by a Public Health Bureau plan and disciplined organization. Funds support tuberculosis fight and local nurse Elettie Seifurt’s work amid rising cases.
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Red Cross
Muscatine
Public Health Bureau
Elettie Seifurt
Muscatine observes military Christmas in memory of war era
Muscatine marks its first real military Christmas amid war year somberness. Church services and private homes echo the Bethlehem message with midnight masses at Trinity Episcopal and Christ mass at Catholic churches. Schools and churches plan programs including Christ the Hope of the World at Presbyterian and a German Methodist Eve event, while Park Avenue and Zion churches host concerts and trees.
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Muscatine
Muscatine Way
Bethlehem
Presbyterian Sunday School
German Methodist Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal Church
St. Mathias
St. Mary's
Lutheran Zion Church
Park Avenue
Holiday Spirit Gladdens Heart of Muscatine
Muscatine woke to holiday festivity with closed stores and deserted public buildings then a busier afternoon as throngs filled streets and interurban cars headed to scenes of pleasure. Police reported few arrests, suggesting good behavior amid sunlit Yuletide joy and planned evening dances, parties, and theater as the day’s climax.
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Muscatine
Arrests in Davenport as trio released on bond
Davenport December 25. Dris ner, Carl Wohrke and Fred Schuster of Muscatine were arrested yesterday by Deputy U S Marshal Fetersen after flashing a whiskey bottle on an interurban car. They were released on bond and will face a hearing before Commissioner Bushh later. Mason's Notice. Town Lodge No 2 A F and A M holds a special meeting tomorrow at 7 20 for the funeral of late Brother R W George. Members urged to attend.
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Davenport
Drisner
Carl
Wohrke
Red Schuster
Muscatine
U. S
Fetersen
Bushh
SAMMIES BRING AMERICAN Christmas TO FRENCH SOLDIERS
Soldiers of the division hosted a Christmas celebration for French children with gifts from the troops and Red Cross. Santa helpers handed out presents, candy, fruit and toys as unit funds and tobacco money supplied treats amid a turkey famine. The army, aided by relatives and newspapers, ensured a cheerful holiday in France.
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J*rance
Santa Claus
Red Cross
Tobacco Fund
U. S
France
Mumps Measles Strike One Hundred Forty-eighth Artillery
A Muscatine reader reports the One Hundred Forty-eighth Meld Artillery in quarantine with many hospitalized due to mumps and measles. Chief bugler Bitzer, formerly of Muscatine, writes from Camp Merritt noting winter conditions, his long military service, and hopes for promotion after the voyage.
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Muscatine
Bitzer
Muscatina
Harper Released After Liquor Charge Arraignment
Bill Harper was arrested for bringing liquor into a dry state and arraigned in Davenport before U S Commissioner A 7 Busch. He was placed under bonds of 500 dollars for the next federal grand jury appearance after a riverfront home raid by police.
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F Harper
Bill Harper
Davenport
United States
A. 7. Busch
U Harper
River Front
Wedding Nuptials for Dr Shirley Folsom and Lola Levitt
Society note reports the marriage of Dr Shirley D Folsom of South Dakota state hospital Wergus Falls to Lola I Levitt of Rock Island at Arlington Dakota. The ceremony is set for Christmas evening at 7 with post nuptial visits planned to Muscatine and tri city friends during holidays. Dr Folsom formerly advertised for The Daily Union and studied medicine in Chicago before interning in New York and joining the South Dakota hospital staff.
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Shirley D. Folsom
H. D. Volsom
Rock Island Union
Lola I. Levitt
Joseph T. Levitt
Rock Island
Dr. Folsom
Mrs. Folsom
Muscatine
Tri-City
Folsom
Daily Union
Chicago
Hanneman School
New York
South Dakota
Tri-Cities
Baroness Zollner Held Without Bail in Espionage Case
Baroness Zollner of Chattanooga Tennessee is held without bail for the federal grand jury on espionage charges. Nearby, Victor Rentner an alien enemy who was summoned by the district attorney after his wife’s address appeared in Zollner’s effects collapsed and died in Knoxville.
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Feld
Chathanooga
Tenn
Return of Corporal Holmes and 41 Soldiers
Corporal W. C. Holmes, son of Mr and Mrs T W Holmes of 13447 Oregon Street, arrived home from Camp Dodge where he commanded 41 men in training. The unit was moved from the cantainment to Moline in five Velie trucks to spend Christmas with their families. Holmes reports the barracks at Camp Dodge are comfortable despite cold weather.
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W. C. Holmes
T. W. Holmes
Oregon
Street
Camp Dodge
Moline
Holmes
Mrs Metz Hurt by Fall at Home
Mrs B A Metz fell from a chair while standing at her home 115 East Third this morning and fractured her left arm. Dr A D Weaver attended. By noon she was as comfortable as possible. Schweitzer, a Minnesota law practicer, is visiting his mother in South Muscatine. he is a Tennessee graduate formerly with Roach and Musser.
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3. A. Mety Gell
East Third
A. d. Weaver
Lid, Schweitzer
Montana
South Muscatine
Mr. Sweitzer
University of Tennessee
Roach and Musser Company
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Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Trig
NOW AT Liberty
Sammies
Monarch OF
Toyland
Logal Lad
Mills
L. L
Camp Merritt
N. Z
Iowa National Guard
Camp Davarage
United States Navy
Tf. D. Folsom
Mr. Folsom
M. . Parker Company
Musecatine
Batterson
Herwig & Company
Hershey Ave Grocer
Butterfly Pictures
Harry Carey
the Secret Man
Edythe Sterling
Bluebird
Myrtle Gonzales
Thursdag
William Wox
Wiliam Farnum
Ralph Connor
the Doctor
William Farnum
Julian Eltinge
Glatstein
B. A. Metz
Travel Festival
Atlante
US Naval Academy
Real Wild West
Wak
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle
Fatty Coney Stand
Paramount Arbuckle Comeoy
Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle
Fatty
Coney Island
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