Grand to Feature The Yankee Doodle Boy Performers
The Grand presents The Yankee Doodle Boy a one night engagement and matinee Saturday with Halton Powell’s book and lyrics and Dario Portello’s music for ten big song hits. The production boasts strong dramatic and vocal talent and novel electrical effects. Mary Tudor and Lady Jane Grey history is touched in a Grace Merritt portrayal in When Knighthood was in Flower, with music revived from sixteenth century sources. The show and incidental music highlight period songs and dances, including a first act dance to a popular early Tudor air.
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Bud Hicks
Halton Powell
Dario Portello
Mary Tudor
Duchess of Suffolk
Jane Grey
England
Charles Brandon
Suffolk
Henry the Eighth
Duke of Suffolk
Frances
Henry Grey
Earl of
Dorset
Jane
Brandon
Grace Merritt
Ernest Shipman
Miss Merritt
France
Rock Island Tests Steam Motor Car on Muscatine Wilton Run
The Rock Island system tested a steam motor car on the Muscatine to Wilton run, with Supt Beacom and engineer W J Hartman aboard. The car carried 52 passengers and featured a compact boiler, acetylene lighting, and low operating costs, drawing hundreds at the Wilton depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Muscatine
Wilton
Supt
T. H. Beacom
W. J. Hartman
Chicago
Summit
Markets Report from Miner & Co Chicago Jan 4
Chicago markets summary with Wheat Corn Oats futures and cash prices at Miner Co. Wheat May 1.0714 to 1.0784 with close 1.085. Corn May 61% and 60% ranges, Oats May 54% to 55. Pork and Lard figures plus hogs and rib prices. Chicago live stock receipts and New York poultry and butter markets noted.
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Jly
Chicago
Chicago Poultry Market Outlook Report
Chicago market report notes steady poultry prices with turkeys at 8 to 11 cents per pound, chickens at 9 to 10 1/2 cents, and springs around 9 cents, reflecting a steady start to the week in the Chicago market.
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Chicago
Bank Statement Shows Mixed Five Day Bank Changes
The five day bank statement reports banks hold 11,510,000 under the 25 percent reserve rule. Loans declined 14,823,000 deposits fell 2,459,600 reserve rose 8,046,000 deficits dropped 8,661,000 surplus up 8,016,000.
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New York
Muscatine Market Prices and Livestock Report
The Muscatine market lists corn at 60 cents, oats 40 to 45 cents, wheat 80 to 90 cents retail, and various feeds priced per cwt or bushel. Livestock and poultry values range from choice heavy cattle at 4.45 to veal calves 4 to 5, lambs 5 to 6, and hens 5 cents per pound, with produce and eggs noted by retail unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheen
Muscatine Produce Co
Muscatine Lads Fall to Indianapolis Athletics in Close Battle
In a brilliants contest the Muscatine boys lost 39 to 34 at the Y M C A gym. Kautz led Muscatine with 12 points while McCullough and Fuller sparked the Athletics. Referee Guede called 14 fouls on Muscatine early in the second half, aiding Indianapolis to pull ahead and clinch victory.
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Muscatine
Indianapolis Athletics
Indianapolis Star
Dame Fortune
Star
Muscatine Ja
Guede
Indianapolis
Athletics
Kautz
Muscatines
Bus” McCullough
Fuller
McCullough
Reed
Strong
Meteor Garics Great Crowd Attends City Games
George Volger returned to the city to oversee Meteor games as Muscatine battles the Chicago Meteors in a two game series at the Armory. Seat sales opened at Swan Jewelry with strong demand and most reserved seats quickly sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Volger
City
Yes
Muscatine
Chicago Meteors
Armory Hall
Swan Jewelry
Market Price List for Fresh Produce Meats and Fish
A stocker style rundown lists prices for vegetables fruits and meats. Carrots two cents per peck pickles sour twenty four percent per dozen or twenty five cents per dozen. head lettuce ten cents per head. Meats include beefsteak ten and a quarter to twelve and a half cents per pound, beef boiling seven to eight cents per pound, roast twelve and a half cents per pound, lard ten cents per pound, canned ham twelve and a half to twenty cents per pound, sausage twelve and a half per pound, mutton ten cents per pound, veal twelve and a fourth cents per pound, bacon seventeen and a half to twenty cents per pound, pork twelve and a half to fifteen cents per pound, ham two to two and a fifth cents per pound. Miscellaneous retail notes sugar twelve pounds for one dollar, flour one dollar twenty to one dollar sixty per bag, cheese twenty cents per pound, spring chickens ten cents per pound, ducks twelve and a half per pound, berries etc. Fresh fish retail includes catfish one cent per pound, black bass one cent per pound, striped bass ten cents per pound, buffalo six to eight cents per pound, croppies ten cents per pound, perch five to six cents per pound, salmon twelve and a half cents per pound, pickerel ten cents per pound, sunfish seven cents per pound, smoked sturgeon twelve and a half cents per pound.
Muscatine Crescents Suffer First Defeat In Hard Fought Victory
Muscatine Crescents lose 25 to 22 to Junction after extra time ending a nine game win streak. Key players include Cummins Van Horn Butcher Overholt Arrington Williams Nolan and Arrington with field goals and free throws contributing to the final score. Referee Robinson officiated the game.
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Muscatine Cresccents
Columbus Inction
Pearl City
Crescents
Junction Lads
Muscatine
Junction
iVan Horn
Nolan Cummins
Arrington Butcher
Overholt Ood Occar
Endsley Williams
Anes of
Ks Oakts
Cummins
van Horn
Butcher and Woods
Nolan
Overholt
Arrington
van Horne&, Cummins
Robinson
Wilton Defeats Tipton by 66 Point Basketball Triumph
Wilton high school crushed Tipton 68 to 2 in a basketball game. The score was 43 to 0 at halftime and Tipton could not score a field goal in the second half. Abbott led Wilton with multiple field goals and 10 makes on free throws while Keller and others contributed for Tipton.
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Wilton
Wilton High School
Tipton High School
Tipton
Tipton Boys
Wilton. Keller
Ringgenberg Wilson
Looney Boneh
Saaz
Abbott
Aes Ok
Bacon
Jacobsen Foher
Guanes
Acs
Looney
Ringgenberg
Dornseif
Keller
Local Produce Prices Timed by Market Listings
Market roundup lists carp six cents per pound bananas from seventy cents to twenty cents per dozen dates ten to fifteen cents per pound oranges fifteen to thirty five cents per dozen apples forty to sixty cents per peck lemons twenty five to twenty cents per dozen catawba grapes twenty five cents per basket malaga grapes one cent per pound.
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Malaga
Fruit and Flower Market Prices in Basin Area
Price list for produce and flowers includes Concord grapes 20c to 4c per B, Basin grapes 1lodc per fb, grapefruit 7c to 12c each, figs 10c to 2c per lb. Flower items show carnations 50 to 75c per dozen, roses 1.00 to 1.50 per dozen, chrysanthemums varied from 0.50 to 3.00 per dozen, American Beauty roses 2 to 3 per dozen, violets 10c per dozen, daffodils 50c, hyacinths and marigolds listed with 5c to 11c ranges.
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Concord
Basin
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Wade
Hartman
Missouri
L. A. Richardson
F. H. Weeks
Mr. Curry
Beacom
Trenton
W. S
Underdonk
J. G. van Lent
News-Tribune
Frank D. Throop
Journal
Eureka
W. G Block CO
Iowa Avenue
Miner & Co
Chicago Board of Trade
H. J. Frenze
Timothy
Dearle
Muscatine Markets
Muscatine Five
Daily Star
Kantz Churchill
Fuller Kingsbury
Lillibridge
Gusta
Hayes
Dixie Css
Morgan
Churchill
Kingsbury
Guedels
Williams
Timer—Paton
Bates
Meteor Garics
Vic
Tories
Literary Society of
Ida Miller
Carnegie Foundation
Vesta Wilkerson
Hulda Schroeder
Robert Hickey
Frank Abbott
Blanch Beard
Walter Herr
James Bacon
Emma Wacker
Elizabeth Cronin
Maude Marshall
Irma Wildasin
Albert Marolf
Harry Nicolaus
Carrie Kaufman
Philip Dornseff
Lillie Franklin
Lysle Brumbaugh
The
Mississippi
Elmer Maurer
Penman Seip
Muscatine Business CiHege
Pacific Monthly
McClure’s Or Cosmopolitan
Seiler Bros
Br. Penizer
East Second Street
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