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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
10
A local real estate listing promotes multiple properties for sale in Mu, with installment options and no showing charge. It highlights two story seven room houses, three room cottages, six and seven room homes, and other farms or outbuildings. Prices range from about 1,060 to 4,000 dollars, with city water, gas, and near car lines. Open Saturdays at the Journal office.
New York announces that leap year marriages are fewer than in Chicago this year. The New York marriage news bureau notes an excess of about two thousand marriages here, compared with an increase of over three thousand in Chicago, based on dispatches from that city.
Local brief lists residents traveling and visiting over holidays include Mrs P J Fahey heading to Davenport for a few days, Mrs W H Koenping of Moline visiting in the city, Mrs Harry Crozer returning home, and many others from Cedar Street Lone Tree Gramsview and Letts. The item also notes holiday guests at several homes and visitors by train and firefly streetcar.
The year’s total reaches 45 264 with marriage licenses and clerks noting continued leap year impact on matrimony. Records show annual totals kept by the department, reflecting ongoing trends in marriage registrations and related activity.
Representatives from major button makers met in Davenport to discuss a possible consolidation that would control about 40 percent of U S output. No agreement was reached as yet though optimism for a future merger persists, with key figures from McKee Bliven Automatic Button and other firms attending along with prominent attorneys.
An American explorer Alyt Lang and Admiral Joseph Carvalho depart for Para to join a Brazilian crew and a Johns Hopkins scientist on a three year expedition aboard the yacht Pennsylvania. Backed by the University of Pennsylvania with about 106000 dollars, the team aims to study upper Amazon tributaries, collect specimens, and investigate cannibal tribes in Andean foothills alongside Captain J. H. Rowan and Sandy McNab.
Visitors downtown this morning found a faux fort on Cedar Street with an American flag, two black stove pipes as cannons, and railroad ties forming a barricade. The setup drew laughter but no fear, as the only apparent force was the Salvation Army nearby.
A Friday evening cantata titled Santa Claus Advice was presented by the Firat Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school at the jéhyreh auditorium. A large crowd of about seventy five children and adults participated, praised as one of the week's most successful city events. The program credited the committee that directed the affair and a post-show treat for the audience downstairs.
John W. Shreke, meat market operator at 122 West Second Street, writes in praise of the Knights and Ladies of Security. L. F. Button of Davenport reports his enthusiasm after membership examinations, stating the order offers unique benefits and strong reliability. He regrets not affording a larger policy but recommends the group to others. Over $1000 in this city already members of the association.
Mr Button cites steady policy since organization, denying rate changes and noting large investment returns. He challenges other societies to match Knights and Ladies of Security in prudent management and reserve sufficiency, urging contact at 217 Cedar Street.
In Des Moines and towns, temperance workers push repeal of the mulct law amid talk of Shankland bill replacing petition methods. The possible repeal could restore statutory prohibition in the state and affect tax and ballot actions for temperance reform.
The Muscatine county board of supervisors will hold two sessions this week. On Monday they finish year business and adjourn for the year, while on Thursday the new board assembles and selects officers for the coming year as required by law. The Soldier's Relief Commission also meets Monday for its final session of 1912.
Secretary Fisher estimates that 772000 dollars are needed in addition to 228000 granted by Congress to develop the national parks in the west and provide roads and trails for the expected visitors during the Panama Pacific Exposition. He says the parks are ideal recreation grounds for thousands of people and must be developed and used.
In Kansas City Missouri on December 28 Mack Kinley Morris, 13, was fatally shot by his 15 year old brother Lawrence at their home. The mother said the shooting was accidental after a wrestling match, when Lawrence playfully picked up a rifle and it discharged in the yard. A warrant for Lawrence’s arrest was issued as he fled across the Missouri line.
Your bank promotes check payments as receipts for expenses and urges opening an account. It highlights a Safe Deposit Vault for jewelry and papers, a private drawer at two dollars a year, and a Savings Department with one dollar to open and four percent interest.
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