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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
5
Company C basketball team heads to Wheaton College for a scheduled game tonight. The matchup features a regional clash with both teams seeking a win, and the result could impact late-season standings.
The article highlights a major Wheaton College vs Lewis Institute basketball clash with notes on past meetings and referee Brown. It also covers a string of transport tales including 5000 miles of new railroad in 1905, a successful Alton motor car test, a Cuban Special ship arrival, a Pennsylvania 11 mile record run at 101 mph, and a long Good Roads trip across eight western states with 38 conventions and seven railways involved.
The article recalls four White House weddings led by Nellie Grant and Frances Cleveland, previews Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s February nuptials, and recounts peculiar intrusions by a boys’ baseball club at past ceremonies. It notes President Cleveland as the only president married in office and mentions Hayes’s silver wedding celebration with detailed decorations.
Washington December 29 The government will not deposit funds in national banks to aid Wall Street. Officials say merchant credit is not strained and no change since previous statement. The rise in call loan rates to 125 percent has not forced action. Also mentions a cheap used doctor’s cab for sale by Frank Bowman.
Paris dispatches report December 29 that the French Foreign Office has issued no ultimatum to Venezuela and dismisses circulating rumors as stemming from talks between Secretary Root and Ambassador Josser about instructions for Minister Russell at Caracas.
Manager C H Salisbury at the Grand Opera House introduces a door to the ladies cloak room with a guarding maid and locked entry during performances. Free wrap checking remains, while a groom will assist on stormy nights at the entrance. Patronage grows as shows improve and standards rise post holidays.
On December 23 24 25 30 31 and January 1 the Iowa Central railway will sell round trip excursion tickets at one and one third fare limited for return to January 4 1906. For particulars and folders call agents.
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