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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1909
Page
4
Local notices promote cooling eats at Slaughter's Candy Store and the Y W C A Cafeteria. Readers are invited to enjoy plain cream soda and milk sherbet with noon and evening meals and see Dr. A B Clapp at Hershey Building.
Dr. B E Eversmeyer relocates from Iowa Avenue to the fourth floor of the German American Bank building.
The Roach and Musser Hose Company calls a meeting at 8 o clock to arrange the State Tournament. Full attendance is requested per order of the president.
Chicago announces Ella Flagg Young as the first female superintendent of the public school system. The 64 year old educator, previously Chicago district superintendent and University of Chicago professor, will lead with John D. Shoop as assistant superintendent.
Eugene Gazell known as Cap faces a board of insanity commission hearing at 4 PM to assess his mental condition for possible treatment. Authorities expect placement at the county farm if needed to avoid state hospital care. Police were called yesterday and again last night as Gazell showed marked derangement believed linked to religious fervor.
Fragmentary text references a night event with unclear hour. No concrete names, places, or organizations readable. Summary notes missing essential details to identify event, participants, or venue.
In the fourth game of today’s slate Clothier appears to win the second series as Roach’s team builds a larger advantage.
Spencer Cattell, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cattell of 1214 Oak street, fell from a street car near the Roach home on Mulberry avenue. He was knocked unconscious, bruised on the head and arms, treated by Dr. W. S. Norton, and later rested at home after regaining consciousness late at night.
Mrs. Hattie Nierel Kline died at 2 p.m. at 407 East Front Street after a nearly two year illness from complications of diseases. She was born February 28, 1871 in Muscatine and married Louis Kline here. Survived by husband two brothers and one sister Mrs Mark Quinn Norbert Nierel and B J Nierel. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Page shows an evening concert schedule with Pauchet and Bohumir Kryl bands and readings by Miss Mary Agnes Doyle and Miss Mabel Rilling. The event features four artist company readings and a rag time program with eight operatic singers amid a July 31 timetable including morning children's work and a lecture on Animal Myths.
County Superintendent M. F. Cronin set Saturday as the day to receive applications for renewals of second grade uniform county teachers certificates. This marks the first renewal under the new legislation. Today ends regular exams for teachers certificates with six applicants taking the first grade tests at the examination room in the new courthouse.
In Havana on July 30 the Cuban cabinet and the presidential secretary resigned together. The move aimed to show loyalty to President Gomez and spare him the burden of dismissals amid a growing government crisis.
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Mrs. Florence Maybrick spoke to a crowd of several thousand at the Muscatine Chautauqua Association about her fifteen years unjustly confined in an English prison. Her account contrasted with public efforts for her release and eventual royal pardon.
Fragmented timetable lists arrival and departure times for Muscatine, Roundhouse, Fruitland, Garden City, Grandview, Wapello, Elrick Junction, and Wilton routes. It shows northbound and eastbound connections with Iowa Central and CRI&P at various junctions and mentions transfer points and weekend connectivity.
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