Dr Adams Addresses Y M C A Meeting In Muscatine
Dr. Geo D Adams former Des Moines college president spoke to a large Muscatine Y M C A gathering at the First M E church Sunday. He urged enthusiasm to fund and operate a Y M C A building, warned that buildings alone do not save souls, and emphasized daily use of religion. He will speak again next Sunday. There were weddings and social notes following, including a Danville marriage and a quiet Muscatine wedding, with local figures named and a novel corn shower.
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M. E
Geo. D. Adams
Des Moines College
Muscatine
Pr. Adams
A. H. Klepper
Muscatine County
S. A. Crull
Sweetland
Wedding Bells At Seventy-Six Township On Christmas Day
At the bride Eva E Chapman daughter of W A Chapman Seventy-Six township married Arthur Abbott of Conesville with Rev D N Scott officiating. Mrs E H Chapman presided at the organ and a dinner followed. The couple went to Conesville that evening to set up a home already furnished. Christmas dinner honored Mrs Chas Davis of Chicago with extended family attendance.
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W. A. Chapman
Eva E
Arthur Abbott
Conesville
D. N. Scott
United Brethren Church
E. H. Chapman
Mr. Abbott
A. G. Beahams
Chas. Davis
Chicago
Thomas Hodson
John Beaham
Florence Page
Amelia Davis
Scott's Emulsion Promoted as Cure for Scrofula
The ad warns that sores on children’s necks may be scrofula and stresses Scott's Emulsion as a preventive measure against consumption. It portrays scrofula as a serious danger and frames the medicine as an essential safeguard for kids.
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Scott
Literary Women Present Essays at Eyrie Fortnightly
Friday featured English Literature exercises with Mrs John Van Lent presenting a paper on Sejanus as a proxy for Liberius Caesar 41 B C. Mrs Giesler spoke on Oriental Art and Miss Elsa Stocker on the Madonnas of Art showing cultured study and thoughtful sentiment.
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Eyrie
John van Lent
Sejanus
Liberius Caesar
Ben Johnson
Mmes. Eversmeyer
Stapleton
West End
Henry Giesler
Giesler
Griffiths Return Home From City Visit
Mr and Mrs Will Griffith who have been visiting in this city with Mr and Mrs Harry Griffith have returned home to Wilton.
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Will Griffith
Harry Griffith
Wilton
Y M C A May Choose Pressed Brick for Facade
Y M C A building committee seeks member opinions on switching to red pressed brick for facing walls to replace local brick and terra cotta. An $1900 extra may yield a more durable, handsomer structure. fund-raising will be needed and many subscribers weigh in with support or opposition. The architect has sent terra cotta drawings and will need brick choice soon. the existing brick house on the lot will be removed before construction.
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Wetherell
Fred Beach
J. W. Rice
E.S. Batterson
R. M. Chase
J. E. Hoopes
C. FF. Nevins
Friends of the Association
Catholic healer nun still delivers miracles at prayer meetings
After 17 years of standing, a Catholic nun reports healing multiple diseases and invites all to attend her gatherings. She urges attendees to bring the sick, promising that those who come aright will find Christ the Lord remains mighty to deliver and that the virtue of His name is as great as ever.
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Christ
Local arrests over Christmas weekend at Huttig's drying house
Officer Cooper arrested Mrs. Clarence Custer and W C Houk after a Saturday night at the Huttig drying house. Mrs Custer received 30 days in the county jail while Houk faced similar treatment. Two older men based near 55 to 60, who slept at the police station, left city with thanks. Several residents, after a week long Christmas celebration, were locked up overnight as part of the dawn release.
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Cooper
Huttig
Clarence Custer
Mudcat” Custer
Happy Holler
Mt. Pleasant
Pillar
George Bros
FEW UNION MEN IDLE
State Labor Commissioner McMacklin reports sustained high business activity through the year aside from the anthracite coal strike. The share of idle union workers in July to September is 1.9 percent, the lowest on record. Wages rose with quarterly averages, building trades workers earning 239 and iron and steel trades 195, up from prior periods.
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Albany
N. Y
McMacklin
New York
Evangelist Mrs Woodworth Etter to Lead Meetings
Mrs Woodworth Etter, noted evangelist, will start a series of meetings Friday in the old Maccabee hall above Jacob Fisch's hardware store. She has recently held day and night services in Moline where over 1,800 attendees bowed at the altar and many were converted or healed, including Catholics and Jews.
The Providential Mule Delights a Southern Family
A poor rural family adopts a stray mule seen as a Providence gift. The mule misbehaves yet amuses the children and Baby Joe, hindering farm work. A circus advert in the county paper offers a reward, and the animal is returned to its rightful owners for payment. Aunt Rachel proclaims Providence saved them with the mule.
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Jonas
Rachel
Joe
Lydia F. Perkins
Two Girl Skaters Die in Mississippi River Incident
In St Louis on December 29 two young women drowned after a skating accident on the Mississippi River. Victims were Mary Galleano, 16, of 13 South Third Street and Angie Cafferata, 17, of 1007 North Twenty Third Street. The second girl died en route to a hospital in an ambulance.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Mary Galleano
South Third Street
Angie Cafferata
North Twenty-Third Street
Rescue and near tragedy at river ice skates
Miss Theresa Lagomassino refused to skate on the ice and watched the danger from shore as a companion and others fell into the river. The city dispensary was later rescued from the water after the incident, with Lagomassino narrowly avoiding the same fate due to her timidity.
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Theresa Lagomassino
Eight per cent best class of secured investments for sale by Kemble Bros
City items note a sale of secured investments by Kemble Bros. Several residents depart for Creston Letts Bayfield Memphis and West Union while others visit family and friends. Miss Blanch Shellabarger and Miss Rachel Magee are among those traveling for holidays and schooling.
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Kemble Bros
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Bcutine
Ernest Schermer
Margaretha Frohberg
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Justice of the Peace
F. W. Eversmeyer
Vada Duncan
Geo. W. Dixon
Danville
Iowa
Fred Klepper
Edith Crull
Maple Lane Cottage
Sweetland Center
Athenian Society
Wesley Boiler
Bismark Street
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T. C. McClure
Smith
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Umscheid & Seiler’s
East Second Street
H. F. Barnard
R. J
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The
Mira Hershey Lumber Co
East Second St
F. A. Neidig
S City
Oocom
Miss Blanch Shellabarger
Letts
Tobias Toben
Creston
Dave Ewing
Memphis
Tenn
Rachel Magee
Bayfield
E. H. Hershey
O. M. Hershey
West Union
Harry Hutchinson
Z. W. Hutchinson
Mulberry Street
Oskaloosa
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J. G. Gunzenhauser
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