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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1915
Page
10
Summer season opens at Geneva Golf and Country Club with committees and catering chief Mrs W O Gaston expanding offerings for members and families. Efforts focus on attractive options at reasonable prices to meet guests desires.
Mrs. Gaston will host a table d hote dinner at party tables next Sunday evening June 20th. Fried spring chicken will be the meat course. Reservations must be made by 1 oclock Saturday morning for those wishing to be served.
Four young members of the Society of Friends will sail from New York on Saturday for France and Belgium where they will serve with the English Friends ambulance unit in the war zone.
Mississippi Senator James K. Vardaman defends William Jennings Bryan's cabinet resignation as a move to curb wartime sentiment in America. He argues Bryan acted from conviction, not political gain, to protest war drift and awaken the nation while supporting President Wilson's international stance. Strong praise for Wilson if war avoided.
An advertisement extols Brownatone as the leading universal hair stain. It claims instant gray coverage and a range from light to deep brown or black, with pre mixed formula. Sold in two sizes, 25cc and $1.00, with two shade options and sample booklet available for 10 cents. Prepared by The Kelinton Pharmaceutical Co. Covington Kentucky. Sold via Henderson Drug Co. Muscatine.
A destitute seven member family from Burlington arrived seeking work. In Weed Park they ate bread and bologna with less than a dollar to their name. The Welfare Association placed them in a Cypress Street home, funded groceries and rent, and arranged work for the father on Heinz farms. The mother and eldest son walked fourteen miles to Muscatine due to lack of funds for transport.
A young man who flourished a knife and robbed William Minder of $5.62 was convicted and sentenced to ten years at the state reformatory in Anamosa. The guilty plea to robbery allowed no alternative under indeterminate sentence law. The incident occurred as Minder was robbed in town and the offender tried to flee by boarding a freight train.
Police report multiple burglaries linked to Arthur Parker and a female accomplice Flora Parker. Parker confessed to ransacking the S. G. Shamit residence on Iowa avenue and other homes. Mrs. Thompson, wife of Constable F. T. Thompson, alerted police, prompting examination of the burglars' suitcases and Parker’s detention.
Announcement in the postal bulletin notes rate reductions effective July 1. Letters mailed from the United States to Dutch West Indies drop from five to two cents per ounce, and the same reduced rate applies for letters from the Dutch West Indies to the United States.
Constable Thompson learns Flora Parker is suspected in burglaries and, with Officer Faulhaber, visits the Carr home at noon to take Parker into custody. The sequence shows a swift police action following the suspicion and the arrest of Parker at the residence.
A fragment notes the individual partaking of a regular repast and reports no trouble in removing the negro to the station, according to statements from the scene.
Des Moines will host a grand review of Battery C as part of a summer training finish with infantry cavalry artillery and auxiliary corps. Adjutant General Guy E E Logan said plans call for all troops to be sent to the capital for a one hour parade and the first Iowa military spectacle since the Civil War. Tomorrow and Saturday our June Sales will be in full blast. Spring and Summer merchandise at special sale prices. McColm Dry Goods company.
Attendants at hangars at Hempstead Plains Long Island report Charles F Niles of Rochester set a new American record today in aviation The claim comes from observers at the New York base during June and notes the location and participant without detailing the achievement or exact figures
Niles piloted a new monoplane at Hempstead with passenger Stephen Magordon of New York and Chicago. The craft carried 585 pounds including aviator, oil, and gas. They flew upside down four times and looped the loop twice. The article notes sales events for Friday and Saturday at McColm Dry Goods Company with advertised bargains across departments.
American workers are urged to combine brains with hands to gain headway over other nations. The ad promotes saving earnings in a Savings Account earning 4 percent interest, with many already saving. It invites readers to start with one dollar and visit on Saturday night.
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