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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1914
Page
5
Chief Hoffman clarifies reports on Detective Pickett injury and a manhunt, stating the initial sensational tale was overstated. The door of a baggage car may have caused Pickett’s arm injury, with doctors confirming the damage, while police suspect a river launch gunfire as the source of any shooting.
Real estate transfers show numerous entries including David M Roth widower to Carl H Schwandke and others, lot descriptions Kemble and Fuller's addition to Muscatine, and multiple figures such as $700.00 and $7.00 for parcels in sections 18 T7-2 W and 2-Th4 W.
About a dozen members of a local motorcycle club traveled with nine motorcycles to a motor race meet in Iowa City on Saturday. The group left early morning and arrived near noon. A rider, Robert Crogler, was badly injured in a spill eight miles from home, tearing ligaments in his left ankle, though the injury was not considered serious.
June 1 at the opera house Nichols seniors presented The Varsity Coach to a gathered audience. Cast included Robert Selby Chag Kirchosr Mousie Kent Clair Trautman and others with Miss Winifred Cronin and Elmer Ziceler assisting the Muscatine High School orchestra providing music.
Oakville residents record a flurry of visits and returns with relatives in Wapello Burlington and Kineston. Nellie Batley stays with sister Milo Easter at Ele rick, John Duncan hosts Harlan Duncan and Wo Keating from Seaton, and many neighbors travel for visits, concerts, and contracts while Eldon Wilson undergoes treatment in Galesburg.
The district wide term ends this week with school programs and picnics at many institutions including Union No. 3 Prosneat Lucas Grove and Green Valley. Superintendent Bradley attends a planing event with Prospect WalE nur and Lucas Grove as Sweetland Center also holds a picnic.
Saturday visitors from Davenport Muscatine West Liberty and Moscow attended events and visited relatives in Wilton. Residents including Albert Sessler Delilah Lenker Esther Kaufmann and Mrs Elizabeth Koetting greeted kin from Davenport Davenport and Muscatine while others traveled to Davenport and Burlington for short stays and business matters.
An arson group of Militant suffragettes destroyed St Mary Wargrave parish church near Henley, dating to 1538. Firemen found a hammer and suffrage literature outside the ruins, with a placard urging women’s rights. only a few items within the church were saved.
June 1 near Windsor England a mansion previously home to the Duchess of Sutherland was destroyed by fire police say arson by gastrepettes started the blaze Reverend Basil S Batty rushed into the flames to rescue church treasures many priceless items perished including bells four centuries old and a monument to Thomas Day author of Sandford and Merton the vicar saved some artifacts before the mansion burned.
A spectacular Sunday blaze in Danville Illinois damaged the Illinois Printing Company block and other mercantile buildings, with losses over 75000. Much state printing including work for the Illinois Historical Society was destroyed. Two firemen were rescued unconscious from an upper floor and were reported on the road to recovery.
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