Food Gamblers Fight U S Food Control Effort
A Washington report details opposition to President Wilson's food control bill. Senators Kenyon and Hoke Smith spar over regulatory power, while food and grain interests including packers, brewers, and middlemen mobilize to block measures. Hoover plans to cut middlemen and improve storage rules to curb speculation.
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Journal
Washington, D. C
Senate
Kenyon
Wil de ArAge Ura
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Committee On Agriculture
Herbert Hoover
Lualr
Xoo
Thosa Ture
Wenata
Tusa
Department of Agriculture
McKellar
Tennessee
Sherman
Iaola
Iowa
Farmore
Corpporative Association of Farmers
Local Admen To St Louis Large Delegation Heads West
A large Muscatine delegation of ad club members and guests sails on the Morning Star to attend the annual convention of the Associated Advertisers of the World in St. Louis. Davenport and Cedar Rapids groups join, with a hotel dinner in Muscatine before departure. The voyage delays cause a late start, but the St. Louis gathering is billed as one of the era’s great advertising meetings with top business leaders expected to speak.
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Wascatine Ad Club
Godar Ranlds
Admex
Washington
Iowa
Morning Star Horn
St. Louis
Associated Advertisers of
Towa
Muscatine
Davenport
Cedarnaulds
Ateamar
Hotel Muscatine
Hanver
Spantera
Parta
Burinosa
New York Army Recruits Break Records in May
New York reported a record surge in enlistments with 3 210 men joining for May, 2 207 in April. The total recruits rose to 4 417, over fifty percent of the district quota, as the war effort mobilized.
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New York
Wilton Alumni Banquet Honors Past and Future Leaders
Wilton high school alumni held an ornate banquet in the high school auditorium with red white and black decorations. Officers elected for the ensuing year include Louise Maurer as president Curtix Crispin as first vice president Arminda Frederick von Ficken as second vice president Nellie Henderson Whitmore as secretary and Will Mullen as treasurer. Out of town alumni and various class members attended, with speeches, readings, music, and a closing rendition of the national anthem America.
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Wilton
Wilton High School
Ivan
Wm. D. Metniyra
Rock Inland
Louise Maurer
Clink ‘Ies
Elias
Ida Maral Jones
Sioux City
Clana of
Ralph Potter
Traor
Lows
Maude Marabalt Bond
Rovertr
Dorothy Sullivan
Muscatine
Clasa
Ide Mer
New Sharon
Iowa
Atabasa
Amarlea
Cranston Church Sets Special Service Program
Cranston's United Brethren Church plans a Sunday evening program on June 3 featuring a sequence of songs recitations and readings led by Andrew Brown Vita Edgington and others. The event includes an appeal to the state supreme court regarding a Kansas City case on army registration rules.
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Cranston
United Brethren Church
Fonz
Andrew Brown
Vita Edgington
Railway Denies Charge in Suit
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway company and partners filed an answer in district court denying the petition by W B Downey. The suit accuses negligence in delay shipping a catload of hogs to China. The Milwaukee firm contends hogs were delivered in due time and law, with Hoffman Hoffman and Hughes Sutherland and O'Brien representing the defense.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
Muscatine, Burlington and Southerm Railway
W. B. Downey
Hoffman
Hughes
Sutherland
O'Brien
Milwaukee
Rank of Page Initiations At Knights of Pythias Meeting
At last evening’s lodge meeting one man was initiated into the Rank of Page. Next Friday evening another meeting will see two men initiated into the second rank of the Rank of Esquire.
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Knights of Pythias Lodge
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Smiley
Edith Tomfield
Drill
Sony—Choir
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Muscatine, Iowa
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Philadelphia
Harvard University
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