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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
10
Local notices list theater events at A-Muse-U featuring The Shanghraun with Miss Gee Ganundler and Sidney Olcott, and Irish plays. Birth announced for a son at Fitch and Linn streets. Lost fountain pen foundry noted. Shoppers urged to attend Great White sale offering 10 to 40 percent off towels fabrics and dress goods at Lillye-Ady corner.
West Iowa City blazes ravage the children’s house annex to the university hospital and threaten a larger disaster. Firefighters extinguish flames after skylight shatters and attic floods. two women avert serious damage. Police hunt a student fraud suspect Eyre Rogers who sold magazine subs before vanishing, amid repeated swindles. A Des Moines mother travels to the capital,急, with hospital transport. Iowa scientists form Hawkeye physics association led by Prof Spinney. Marinus Teewven suffers injuries from a buzzsaw. Prof Paul Pierce named chair of Iowa child labor committee.
State hunters push a bill to pay a bounty for killing crows. Once mocked as a joke bill, supporters argue crows ruin prairie chicken eggs. The measure, funded by the hunters license fund, moves through agriculture and other committees for consideration.
The Muscatine Water Works, led by Superintendent William Molis, reports 430,181,150 gallons pumped in 1912 with 25,848,429 monthly average and 1,178,578 daily. Population served 12,680. per capita use 106 gallons. Pipe length rose to 34 miles 1,800 feet. hydrants total 867. pumps 6 million gallon capacity. reservoir 1.5 million gallons. pressure 0-90 psi, fire pressure 90-150 psi. Alarms 69. engine hours 98. new improvements include a tower and tank, a new 234 million gallon reservoir, eight miles of new mains planned, and petitions for additional mains.
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