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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
10
One of the finest pair offered in this city this week, with notable feature and value highlighted for local buyers. The description emphasizes quality and opportunity, inviting interest from residents seeking superior options this period.
Local notes report Norm Richardson at air shows on Fourth Street and several residents visiting Davenport and Letts. July pre inventory sale runs to Saturday July 12 with ads for Trinity excursion and grand Muscatine county gala. Several residents depart Davenport for Chicago Cedar Rapids and Washington with mentions of excursions and purchases.
Bays warn against powdering delicate hosiery before wearing shoes. Many sprinkle shoe fans with Allen's Foot-Ennac to protect shoes and prevent costly damage. The column urges caution to avoid swelling feet and other issues from poorly fitted attire.
Penta Association meets with more than 2,000 delegates in Kansas City Missouri as Frank C Ferriex of Ottawa Kansas calls the seventeenth annual convention to order. The four day session features a public clinic day with 65 chairs installed, touted as likely the largest clinic ever held.
In Washington today police search for a man who in broad daylight snatched Mrs May Jorgensen sister in law of Senator Poindexter and Brig General Morton US Army retired near the senator's residence. Several negro suspects are arrested but crowd cannot identify the assailant. The motive remains unclear as the woman was seized from behind in a fashionable section.
Wittle invites customers to visit his shop in Muscatine room 109 W second formerly Volger the jeweler to learn how every suit is strictly hand tailored.
The weekly crop bulletin from Director Channel at Neg Moines notes unusually favorable weather for haying and harvesting. Corn and oats are near or above average. winters and spring grains show strong standings. Rainfall was sparse in much of the south, with northern areas seeing heavy showers and wind. Overall crop conditions remain strong though some regions need rain as cholera appears in western counties.
John Z. Hogan of Taylorville Illinois says the first test of the new woman suffrage law will be held next Tuesday in Mt Auburn Christian County. A special election will choose a successor to Mayor Windsor who was mortally wounded by editor Slater. Hogan says downstate politicians want constitutional validity tested before the April elections. He plans to challenge the vote through a woman ally to bring the case before the state supreme court by October for a December decision.
Charley Bryson, foreman of a wood cutting gang, drowned while swimming near Burlinston while awaiting a launch to take him to work on nearby land. Cramped, he went under before rescue could come. the body was recovered.
Town police plan to flood the state with telephone and postcard calls to locate Rowson, the suspect in a fatal attack on Lews Smith, a crippled man. Smith lies gravely injured as officers consider requisitioning papers from Texas authorities and intensify the hunt.
A car backed over a three-foot obstacle in Los Angeles during the past week, injuring a companion. Mrs Miles was paralyzed and is in hospital but expected to recover, according to wires.
Brooklyn Navy Yard project to lay the keel of the latest U S battleship, numbered No 32, with a $16,000,000 appropriation. The vessel will rank among the largest warships, displacing about 31,400 tons, 808 feet long, 72 feet beam, and 28 feet 10 inches draft. It will be launched on the former dreadnought New York’s ways, now in basin for finishing touches.
Lewretics Snell, held since last Saturday, appeared before Judge J A Rowan and entered a not guilty plea. The court set Monday July 14 as the hearing date. Snell is charged with forging Henry Wall's name on general checks passed here July 4. Two suspects held since Saturday were released this morning.
County Crop Advisor Kirk Patrick reports potato crop blight threatens yields in Muscatine County with some north farms seeing 30 to 40 percent losses. Blight is more severe in Scott County. Hog cholera cases remain unchanged with affected hogs on the Frizzell farm and herd inoculation planned midweek.
Walthill Nebraska July 8 Mrs Wm Denshass of Lake Park Iowa and her daughter Ethel age 23 were instantly killed when a Burlington passenger train struck their automobile at a grade crossing a mile south of here last evening. Mrs Denshass and another daughter Hazel were badly injured Hazel skull was fractured
Neighbors broke in yesterday at a Pioneer Asa Stephens home in West Point Iowa and found the body. The aged resident had been dead several days, according to local reports from July 8.
Work on the East Hill sidetracking for the Muscatine Lumber and Box Company progresses with grading nearly finished by next week and track laying to commence. The old Mississippi Box Company docks near Mad Creek are being torn down and lumber salvaged as the project moves forward. A crew starts repairs on East Second Street crossings and gates, while local residents Mrs. Thomas Menwie and her children remain noted in the east hill area.
Mr and Mrs Perry Duncan and Migs Vada Duncan of 1218 East Seventh Street and Migs Vara Schroeder of 1707 Gobble Street left this morning for Wisconsin to join their husband and father for the summer. They will also visit Riverside for a few days.
Daredevil Rodman Law of Hackensack New Jersey survived a brutal sequence of stunts including cannon launches balloon drops and motorcycle acts before a three foot wagon fall caused a bad shoulder sprain and a severely lacerated finger requiring amputation. The injuries, though not life threatening, are the worst he has suffered.
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